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Day 2 - Update

Madison Williams (Diggers beach/Coffs Harbour) was a little unlucky in his round two heat today, placing 4th but only scoring one high scoring ride when he required two! � Madison was eliminated by Michael Campbell (Port Macquarie) and Sydney surfer Matt Bemrose. Better news later for Coff�s surfers with Shaun Cansdell successfully through to round three when he placed 2nd in his 4 man heat behind Hawaiian Gavin Gillette.

Day two of the Arrive alive Central Coast Pro heralded the uprising of the tournament's top seeds.

With Soldiers Beach producing some very contestable one metre peaks, the bar was raised considerably by the draw-card contestants.

None was more impressive than former world number two and current ASP world touring surfer Michael Campbell (Port Macquarie), who was his usual dominating best.

"There are some really fun waves out there. I'm just stoked to be out amongst it," he said.

"This contest is really important for me as it gives me good heat practice going into Bells, after a slight hiccup in the first WCT (World Championship Tour) event of the year.

"It's also really important to be out here supporting the Central Coast and their local competition," he said.

Beau Atchison (Copacabanna/Central Coast/NSW) took out the heat of the day with an awesome display of aerial surfing

Also in outstanding form was his WCT counterpart, Roy Powers (Hawaii) who like Campbell is looking at building his competitive edge before Bells Beach.

"Doing this competition is about building my confidence and time in the water," he said.

"I could've free-surfed for the two weeks between now and Bells, but I need to keep focused and build-up my competitive state of mind."

Local Central Coast surfer Beau Atchison (Copacabana) took out the heat of the day, progressing to the round of 48 with some stylish, forehand surfing. Beau, along with fellow Copacabana resident and 2006 Arrive alive Central Coast Pro champion Matt Wilkinson, got his 2008 campaign off to a flourishing start.

"I'm so stoked to have got through that heat. It's even better that Matty scraped through in the dying stages with me," he said.

New Zealand surfer Bobby Hansen also went through to the next round with a commanding display in a very tightly contested second round heat, narrowly edging Blake Wilson.

Michael Spencer (Lake Munmorah/Newcastle/Central CoastNSW), super impressive today, surfing a high scoring round two heat and progressing to round three of the Arrive alive Pro in second place behind highly rated ASP World Tour surfer Roy Powers

For Hansen, the hotly contested Arrive alive Central Coast Pro is about building consistency for the year.

"It's my first event of the year so I'm looking toward getting back into a rhythm. It's a really tough event, any one of 20 guys could end up taking it out."

With a move to the contests northern bank, surfers were rewarded with some high scores, Stuart Kennedy (Lennox Head) threw down the highest competition wave score of the event with a blistering 9.0 (out of a possible 10). Continuing on from his red-hot junior series form, Kennedy is leading the young Australian contingent.

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