Three metre swells slowed surfing down on day two of the 2010 Billabong ISA World Surfing Games being held in Peru.

Nick white - stoked

Both female surfers, Paige Hareb Taranaki and Laura Rishworth Mount Maunganui progressed through to the last 16 surfers in the qualifying round of the Women's Division.
'Yeah, it was way harder than it looked out there,” says Paige. 'My biggest board is a 5'9" so I don't want it to get any bigger because it's already taking at least eight minutes to get out the back, and everyone is struggling to get two waves as it is.”

The swell is in fact expected to grow for day three before slowly easing back each day for the rest of the event which runs through until the Wednesday October 27.
Both Kiwi girls scored low in their heats with Paige posting 5.30 out of a possible 20 points to place second and Laura scoring 5.53 also placing second.
'The heats were only 20 minutes with four people in the water at a time - not really what I am used to, it was hard work,” says Paige. 'I think they are trying to make heats 25 minutes long for tomorrow though.”

If she places in the top two Paige will move through to the last eight surfers in the qualifying round.
Luke Hughes Raglan, and Nick White Mount Maunganui, moved through to the third round of the Open Men's Division.

Luke Hughes was the top scoring Kiwi surfer of the day posting 11.27 points out of a possible 20 to win his heat.

Luke now looks toward a Round 3 match up where progression will push him through to the final 16 surfers in the qualifying rounds.

'I now know that if I get the right waves, I can achieve the scores,” says Luke.

Nick White secured second place in his heat scoring 7.10 to hold out third and fourth placed surfers from Argentina and Mexico.

'It was a pretty tricky heat, the conditions were pretty tough but I am stoked to sneak through,” says Nick.
Taranaki's Keone Campbell and Gisborne's Morehu Roberts succumbed to the washing machine like conditions, placing third and fourth in their heats and are relegated to the repechage rounds.
After riding a massive set wave all the way through the line up Keone was rewarded a small of 3.67 out of ten. With massive waves washing through the break, it made it difficult for Campbell to get back out into the line up for the 3.17 point ride he needed to progress through the heat and he had to settle for third place.
'We can definitely make heaps of heats if we get the waves. We can surf better than a lot of these guys at the event,” says Keone.
'The sets were wash-throughs, and I duck-dived half the heat, then the in-between ones were good but getting to them was a mission, they were always 15 metres further in.”

Longboarders Thomas Kibblewhite Auckland, and Daniel Procter Gisborne, won their first round heats. Kibblewhite posted 10.13 to while Procter posted 10.17.
The Billabong ISA World Surfing Games run from the 19th - 27th of October, with over 200 competitors from 31 nations competing for their national colours.
The New Zealand team is looking to improve on the eleventh placing in Cost Rica in 2009.