From: O'Neill
Timmy Reyes, Mark Mathews, Ratboy, Kyle Knox and Shaun Ward take advantage of the endless supply of NW swell in January. The entire CA coast has been on fire since 2010 began. Plenty more to come.
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.