perhaps rather than a name and shame campaign for people who continuously do dumb things whilst kiting that could lead to bans, there could be a figjam comp.

Regional,state and national champs .Run by state kite associations .kind of like the bad movie comp and the choice magazine 'shonky" awards

on a more serious note perhaps aksa and state assns could implement a sail number campaign .This way riders are more accountable than 'the guy with the boardies over the wetties riding the brand x kite at such and such on sat that did a lit kiteloop move right next to a bunch of walkers up the beach and crashing their kite into the family playing on the beach"

this would also make the figjam comp easier brand x kite 1234 and so on and the offence .write in and list it on the site .

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sounds good in theory but the costs etc associated with maintaining the info would cause problems.

Morg said...

sounds good in theory but the costs etc associated with maintaining the info would cause problems.

If its just a database the cost would be pretty cheap. Simply posted on a website, a list of sail numbers and names.

pay registration and register our gear

It's probably coming, will make us like cars and boats with 3rd party insurance. Its a shame but the w#nkers f#ck it for everyone.

Might be good in the long run if it makes people think before they do.

Off topic but! Anyone been up to Wedge lately and tried to sit on the beach with the kids and dogs? That place is over run with Quads and bogans really dangerous just being on the beach as they think it is a race track. Same mentality.

I think the idea is all good and well, but you'll probably find that the dodgey w#nk$rs pulling these stunts are the 1 that won't register or blow-ins who can't give a flying f#ck. Preaching to the converted once again

But it is our Germany....zeig heil, bring on the numbers..........man it is late and once again no wind in WA.

Nah, I don't want a number on my kite....I want a big friggen pelican on white cloth.

geoffnotdead said...

Wait until they decide to make it like in Germany where You need a licence(for which You obviously have to take a series of tests) to go on the water...!!
Same for golf..! No playing licence, You´re not allowed on most courses...
Fishing !!!! Not allowed to fish unless You have your licence (or hunt) and the tests for that are really, really tough...
I´m waiting for them to bring in a licence with tests for using the bog here...
So .. be happy Australia is still so relaxed..! ps. lookin´forward to Jan. when I´m comin´to visit ..

settle petal What I am suggesting is a pre emptive initiative that will go a long way to fixing the problem(rather than waiting for the govment to give us draconian and more harsh rules ) ,not a conversion to a nazi kiting regime As you can see here Australia is not so relaxed ,in fact we have rules for just about everything and it sounds like a big part of the problem is this EURO view of things that they can come here and do whatever they like with no respect .(BTW I am not suggesting that EUROS are the problem ,plenny of Aussies contribute )

I and many others are getting a bit sick of this 'oh woe we are losing our freedoms " BS .I'd rather put a sticker on my kite than have to drive hours to go for a kite because kiting has been banned at my local.

And how do you suggest regulating that system Mr Float. Importing some redundant SS members?

nickloop said...

Trouble is who is going to regulate the kiters on the beach ie; checking stickers etc, if the council appoint someone guess who will have to pay the wages? yes the people with the stickers. Its really down to local riders to speak to these knobs when they arrive or come in from impressing all the girls on the beach. We get a few at my local beach and when confronted by 3-10 other p****ed off local kiters they either dont come back or behave.

Failing that kites do not react well to a small blowpipe and dart when sitting on the beach. That would stop them.

I was thinking of a sniper in the dunes but the blowpipe is far more environmental

so rather than capitulating to the naysayers here is an example of how self regualtion can work .Hang Gliding has had sites closed all over Australia yet in Newcastle you can hang glide right in the middle of the city .Why ? there is a strong and pro active hang gliding club who self regulate and don't cave into the naysayers an 'oh its too hard' brigade and have not left regulation to the council .

Councils actually see and like this kind of thing and don't always weild the iron rod .As the naysayers say the council has better things to do than catch hang glider pilots and kitesurfers and if the club keeps things in order they are happy

As part of the process of implementing this, the AKSA team have announced that an agreement has been reached on the adoption of minor changes to the current kiting language for the implementation of this kite registry system. As part of the negotiations, it was conceded that a standard has to be established for common spelling in AKSA and accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as AKSA lingo.

In the first year "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion but keyboards kan have one letter less.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like "foto" 20 per sent shorter.
In the third year publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Instructors will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " v".

During ze fifz year ze unesesary "o" kanbe dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al b speking German lik zey vunted in ze forst plas

windsurfers and yachts have sail numbers. Each dude has a number and it goes on all his sails.

Member of public can say to council/state kitemob "Number 8970" nearly killed me.
Number 8970 can be contacted and asked what happened, and options open up for remedy that doesn't involve all out bans.

It's just some bits of 6oz spinaker tape cut into numbers.