Surfing postponed again

Competition has been delayed for a second day at the women's world championship tour event in Taranaki.

Despite clean 0.75m waves on offer at the secondary site of Back Beach in New Plymouth, event organisers today opted to postpone the first round of heats until tomorrow, with the promise of forecast bigger surf.

Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) head judge Dave Shipley was confident competition would start tomorrow morning.

"We've got plenty of swell on tap and although the conditions might not be as nice as today, the world's best female surfers will handle it just fine in the juice," he said.

The world's leading women surfers were to conduct a light-hearted "expression session" at New Plymouth's Fitzroy Beach today.

The third stop on this year's ASP women's tour, and the first elite tour event to be held in New Zealand, is scheduled to finish on Friday.

- NZPA