From: The Detroit Street Gruelers
Carlson burns the Waterman, but he was going to blow it anyway. How come it is always the loudest ones that blow it when it counts?
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.