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Big Wave Surfing

XXL Big Wave Winner

Brazilian beauty, Maya Gabeira, won the Billabong XXL Big Wave title for the second year in a row. Maya was awarded the Women's Best Performance (the only award for female big wave surfers) on Friday, April 14, 2008. According to Billabong's official Web site, "The bomb she was towed into at Teahuppoo, Tahiti gave her the shot that got her nominated this year. This single ride claimed the attention of media across the globe recognizing Maya as the world's premiere female big wave surfer."

Watch women's overall performance clips of Maya Gabeira, Jamiah Star, and Jenny Useldiner.

Watch men's overall performance clips with Greg Long, Garrett McNamara, and Jamie Sterling and Shane Dorian's wave ride of the year.

Alltop: They've Got Extreme Sports Covered

Xtreme Sports List

The nature of extreme sports suggests that it would attract extreme personalities (no offense), so I'm offering my readers Alltop, a Web site aggregator (a techie word meaning "collector of") of all the top stories related to extreme sports.

Here's a partial sampling:

• Extreme sports athletes
• Extreme sports news
• EXPN.com wire news feed
• MMA predictions
• Surfing - worth a look just for the wave images
• Snowboarding
• Skateboarding

This may not list the Top 10 extreme sports, but I can guarantee you that Alltop provides you all the extreme sports clips, articles and news reports, from power sports to water sports, than any one human being can absorb, no matter how fanatic.

Knock yourself out! (Not literally ;-)