The annual Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards will be held at the Grove Theater in Anaheim, California on April 29, 2011. While we wait, check out all the entries and start some banter as to who you think will win...

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 film or tape.

Airing Friday, May 7 at 9:00 pm Eastern Time (6:00 pm Pacific Time) and telecast three additional times, Greg Long, Grant “Twiggy” Baker and musical guest High on Fire will appear on “The Daily Habit.”

We may not be the best investigative journalists in the world, nor are we good at saying "no," but if there's one thing your bros at TransWorld SURF know how to do well its blow out parties like the Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards.

This winter, while studying for her Physics, Cellular Biology and Mammalian Endocrinology Physiology classes, Savannah Shaughnessy made time to ride some of the biggest waves of the year.

The Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards get a kick in the ass at the midway point courtesy El Nino. Check out the video and the latest news from the pursuit to ride the biggest waves the oceans can muster up.

Roger Ferreira of CarlosBurle.com sits down with tow-in partners Grant "Twiggy" Baker and Greg Long.

Newport Beach, California -- The Thanksgiving weekend at Maverick's produced an epic feast for many of the world's top big wave riders during two of the most perfect days ever seen at the legendary Northern California surf break.