From: Chris Mauro
After falling short of the cutoff in 2009 Hawaii's Alana Blanchard got her groove back in 2010 and is now headed back to the elite ASP world tour. Shall we celebrate with her?
Consider two representations of two very big waves, below. The first is a photograph of Mike Parsons at Cortes Bank. The second is a video of Garrett McNamara near Nazare, Portugal. Now take out some measuring tape and make the distance of one foot between your hands. That's the amount, according to the Billabong XXL committee, that McNamara's wave is bigger than Parsons's wave.