The nominees have just been announced for the 2009 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards. Regarded as the Oscars of surfing, the Billabong XXL Awards recognize the athletes who ride the biggest and best waves over the last year everywhere in the world, based on the photographic evidence.

Künstliche Welle in Teneriffa!

Julian Wilson got some pretty nice waves in Indonesia!

In May, Nike 6.0 presents this latest film project, the film Leave A Message, starring only the new generation of woman athletes who want to create and innovative visions of the new limits of the category.

Check out the O'Neill girls surf team on the North Shore of Hawaii. Malia Manuel and Sage Erickson try out the new Spring 2011 swim collection and have some fun with the rest of the team in Hawaii.

Sunny Garcia and Kalani Robb get some serious shacks at Backdoor and Pipeline while testing the upcoming GoPro 3D.

Official music video for Jack Johnson's single "You And Your Heart" off his new album To The Sea (2010).

More footage from the great Kelly Slater...

See Dane Reynolds, Julian Wilson, Jeremy Flores and Kelly Slater in Quiksilvers Cypher Vision A Short Film. Shot at 1000 frames a second with a revolutionary camera that had never been used to shoot surfing or film in the ocean, you will trip out on the amazing high definition footage and super slo-mo sequences of the world's best surfers.