With the peak window of high surf activity in the Northern Hemisphere just starting its annual roll, the 2011 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards presented by Monster Energy is already chock full of amazing entries from all around the planet. Unlike conventional surfing competitions which wait in one location until the waves come to them, the eleventh annual Billabong XXL Awards has the unique advantage of a window which runs all year long and is open to all the world’s best surfers at the all world’s best big waves -- whenever and wherever they come in – as long as they are caught on f
