{"id":40366,"date":"2013-03-04T17:11:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T01:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40366"},"modified":"2013-03-04T17:19:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T01:19:58","slug":"garrett-mcnamara-withdraws-from-xxls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40366","title":{"rendered":"Garrett McNamara Withdraws From XXLs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wYb0ov_b9jM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Boardistan readers <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=39666\" target=\"_blank\">may remember what we said the day (January 29, 2013) images appeared<\/a><\/strong> of <strong>Garrett McNamara<\/strong> riding what was at the time reported as a &#8220;100-foot wave&#8221; in Nazar\u00e9, Portugal. We mentioned that it seemed that the measuring sticks were getting shorter and shorter. <\/p>\n<p>Now, McNamara, who is a gifted, hardworking big wave surfer, has removed his wave from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabongxxl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong XXL Awards<\/a><\/strong> after images appeared that made the wave look much, much, smaller, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/xgames.espn.go.com\/surfing\/article\/9016957\/big-wave-surfer-garrett-mcnamara-removes-xxl-awards\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com\/Action<\/a><\/strong>. Here&#8217;s what McNamara told <b>Jake Howard<\/b>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We decided to pull my waves from Nazare out of Billabong XXL because I do not ride for Billabong and I did not go out that day and surf for a world record or to win any XXL prize money,&#8221; said McNamara via email. &#8220;I was out there because I live for big waves, it&#8217;s what I love to do!! It is not necessary to have a Billabong panel measure it. There have already been quite a few educated professionals who have measured it anywhere between 60-110 feet!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As always, we never argue with guys who ride waves that big. Respect to Mr. McNamara.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/xgames.espn.go.com\/surfing\/article\/9016957\/big-wave-surfer-garrett-mcnamara-removes-xxl-awards\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com\/Action<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boardistan readers may remember what we said the day (January 29, 2013) images appeared of Garrett McNamara riding what was at the time reported as a &#8220;100-foot wave&#8221; in Nazar\u00e9, Portugal. We mentioned that it seemed that the measuring sticks were getting shorter and shorter. Now, McNamara, who is a gifted, hardworking big wave surfer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40372,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40366\/revisions\/40372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}