Q. did you know that the new zealanders found a new use for sheep?

A. Wool

Sorry couldnt resist!

Actually, by kitesurfing law, you can only live here if you dowse your all blacks jumper in petrol and set it a light. You may no longer support the all blacks in any way. Until you do this you are merely an intruder and will be dropped in on in the surf, forced to the lumpy section of our most treasured locations and teased about the size and style of kite you use!

Perth is crap dude. The skys are always blue, the wind is strong and consistent .. not good for your skills because you get used to stable wind... go anywhere else where it's gusty and you don't know how to handle it! haha!!

send it up your a dick

That's not harsh. I've had a lot more **** thrown at me on kiteforum.co.nz. I will not live in the same country as a pack of wackos that have banned me TWICE from that forum. Hence the reason why i now post as "thrasher" on there. not all Kiwis are jerks, the guys out east that i kite with are an awesome buch of guys without the horrible attitude of the more experienced group up by Orewa. Unfortunately a lot of them are doin the same thing as me.... leaving NZ so i will be kiting solo if i stay.... and i hate kiting solo unless conditions are excellent (a rare thing out east auckland way). for me to get good conditions i have to battle horrible traffic to get to the west coast or Manukau Harbour. Manukau Harbour whilst the wind is good and steady is not a place you want to kite by yourself. These factors all combine to make auckland a pretty horrid place to kite..... I'm one in many people over here who say the same thing... infact I've stuck up for AK longer than most. Infact i got banned from kiteforum.co.nz for doing that very thing..... being patriotic. Infact NZ cops more crap from other kiwis than anyone else ... including Aussies. And now i've just learnt that there is no way i'm gonna afford to live here anymore so in a way i HAVE to move. Anywhere south of Auckland is ruled out during Winter time for kiting as it's too freakin cold.

to top this off the favourite place to kite for me out east auckland way during summer is in danger of being banned. It's the only place that works during summer without me having to trek all the way out to the Manukau Heads (half a day wasted battling traffic).

So no surprises why i've sorta grown to hate the place.... and now that guys from chch have started to diss me I have no remorse but to fully slag the place and it's kiters... if bans start appearing in NZ it's the kiter's fault... idiots from up north screwed it up and come down to our eastern spots and cause all sorts of problems... so yeah i bloody hate the kiters here in NZ. Auckland has only 2 spots out more than 100 that work in summer sea breezes... if those spots go... kiting in summer in Auckland is dead. Hence why i'm heading to a place that has lots and lots of beaches that allways get good wind.

I have no regrets.

Hope it's a true one way ticket - with no stops in Brisbane for example!

Reminds me of a joke (oh come on guys I have a few beers in!)

Whats the difference between a disaster and a catastrophe?

A disaster is a boat load of kiwis coming to Australia.
The catastrophe is they can swim!


But seriuosly, Kiwis are cool. Believe me, I used to live in Bondi in the 90's!

I think the ones we have to watch are those south africans, slowly seeping in and taking over - now they are a problem. Full of advice and themselves in my experience.
There must be good ones - I just haven't met any !

The people are worse than the conditions and the traffic is even worse than the people. In Auckland you need a 20m kite in the summer and a bigger board than normal. Sea Breezes are 10-15 knots in the good places... occasionally 20kt+ out by the heads... but it's gusty and the beach out there only works at high tide.... oh yes and another thing about AKs kiting that's worse than the wind... the tides.... terrible! most beaches have no water at low tide as the inner city spots (including the ones that i kite at out east) are all estuaries. The main east facing spots are the opposite.... ok outside of high tide but in summer they SUCK!!! 8-10 knots and no place to park... let alone kite... thank god the winds crap at that time of year. As for the much talked about "kitebeach" that is Orewa. That's the most ****tiest beach of the lot. It's great in a 25 knot NE wind but those are so bloody rare (about 10 times a year). In summer it's crowded and windless (8-10 knots). The meter may say 15 knots but it overreads by 5 knots. People continue to kite there and will eventually get kiting banned on the entire eastern sea board.. the area is rich, expensive and hence the residents are pretty stuck up.

Spring however is not bad... lots of wind but you have to travel out west as this stuff will kill ya in the gusty inner city spots. No amount of wind will take away the fact that you have to sit in traffic for over an hour to get to a beach... it puts me off even on a day off from work.... i feel for the poor sod who wants to head out for an afterwork sesh and has to battle Auckland's overburdened infrastructure. The kiters are horrible. The beginners are ok but they soon become jackasses as they get better... this is probably due to the fact that they get abused by asshole experts when starting out... a vicious cycle of abuse reigns supreme in Auckland's kiting culture.

Oh by the way i did mention that the sea breezes are 10-15 knots in the good places.... there are 2 good places in Auckland for sea breezes, one is 10-15 knots, the other is 15-25kt but involes a 1hr drive through traffic. The 10-15kt spot is on the ban list..

The rest of the country is no better. You can forget kiteboarding in Wellington. Sure it's windy... infact it's too windy. 3 out of every 7 days are too windy to kite in the city. 3 days are what you'd call ok to kite and the remaining day has no wind. That's ok Welly is a poleboarding spot and allways is... and a damn good one at that. The beaches are too small to kite in and the Airport is a huge factor down there. The east coast of the NI is a joke... just like Auckland... no wind during summer... offshore during the rest of the year. Northland has some great beaches and it's probably NZs best attempt at producing a world class kiting spot but there is no way i'm living up there.

Nelson is another option but not as good as OZ. Remember Cindy mosey does none of her kiting in NZ.. her boat is based in Fiji... another place people like to slag.

Christchuch is fast becoming like Auckland. no traffic (there is no motorway down there and they don't need one either) but the kiters are right idiots. The best wind spot down there is not suitable for kiting. The other main spot is the giant tiolet called the estuary.... this is NZs best kiting location!! Yet the summer wind is still crap compared to OZ (far batter than Auckland though). The main beaches in chch are as windless as auckland's main spots (well maybe not quite THAT bad). Oh yes no kiting during winter here either.. it's windless and cold (Auckland at least has ok wind during winter and it's warm enough to kite). People in chch mountainboard, buggy and snowkite.. that water temp is a scorching 5 degrees!!

Dunedin is not suited at all to kiting. It's either blowing insanely hard from the west/south or there is no wind at all. In summer the sea breezes are good (over 90% of the days are 4bt or more) but there is no decent beaches and those stats include 70 knots offshore SW winds as well.. not just the 25 knot thermals.. a poleboarding spot like wellington. Oh yes it's cold AND there are big sharks (at least it has something in common with OZ).

Colac Bay has wind in the entire summer (Sep to March).... blows insane but often over 30 knots... bloody windy.. 50kt not uncommon too much for me. Winter is cold and less wind than summer... and i hate kiting alone.... and there are Sharks there too. Dangerous wind and more rain than in Auckland too (but much less gusty). SW cape is one of the windiest places in the world... too windy for kiting


Of all the places that have access to sea NZ is the most dangerous place to kite... the fact that only one person has been killed here is a bloody miracle (He was hooked in and had no saftey leash so he sorta had it coming)

I'm not gonna miss NZ one little bit... I'd have to take up windsurfing if i lived here for any longer... and even then i'd get the hell outa auckland, back to Wellington where i wouldn't have to deal with any more loser NZ kiters and i'd have more wind than i could shake a baby at.

I'm not as tough as what i used to be... i can't handle the cold anymore. As you know NZ is the coldest place in the world for it's latitude. I know i'm gonna become a wuss once in OZ and less Laurie i think my ability to handle gusty conditions may be severely compromised by the freemantle doctor.. but winter has normal real conmditions with gusts rain squalls etc that will hopefully keep me able to handle gusty stuff.;.. but your beaches are much better over there than they are here so i doubt even your winter stuff will be as gusty as what we get.

yes blown away , mate you need to pull your head in ( so does set it up)
im a kiwi & i love nz ,
im from wellington & you cant kite what a load of ****e
you have petone on a southerly,you have the kapiti coast 45mins north from wellington .
all kiters i know kite at waikane about 45mins north of wellington-waikane is always 10-15 knots lighter ther wellington
ps blown away i have never heard so much negaitve crap in my life
do you want me to give you arazor to cut your wrists or a tow rope to hang your self
mate pull your head in

Fair comments Iti. I love New Zealand too. Full credit to West Aussie kiters... they are generally laid back, but still find other foreigners, Europeans, South Africans, etc the most friendly. I have been in WA for 9 years and kited here for 3. I had an incredible amount of fun at Raglan harbour last summer when I was there for three weeks (parents live there). What a playground! Flat water, joggles from 6 kt outgoing tide and rather large sand bar breakers to dangle your balls popping off the top of them. A place is what you make of it. I have kited on a lake 2 hours inland from Rockhampton,Qld (Emerald). Wasn't the best session, but made the most of it! I reckon Taranaki (I grew up there) would be pretty awesome too.
If I went to Tariffa, Spain or the likes I would hope the locals are as friendly as West Aussie kiters

SO SEND IT UP IS PAUL'VB MAN'. TWO USER NAMES. SPRUNG MATE....

so middy is this the last we will hear from send it up. . he he

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Originally posted by straighttalk

As a kiwi kiter, I apologise in advance for the export to your fair land of our most annoying, insecure, and psychologically damaged 'kiter'. Blownaway, aka thrasher, aka osama bin kiting, and christ knows how many other nom de plumes, has almost single handedly rendered the NZ kiting forum worthless with his aimless babble. It has not been unknown for him to have an online argument with himself using several ID's. I understand he is a schizophrenic - the online evidence certainly supports the case. To top it all off, he does f@#$-all kiting. I predict it wont be long before you want to send him back (although there is some doubt in my mind as to whether he will make it over there in the first place. He is generally just full of sh$t).

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hmmmm, hey straight talk, how do we know its reallllly you and not whats-his-name?

i'm sure Laurie can figure out who is who on this forum as the forum software enables you to trace a users id... I know toby can do this on kiteforum.com. I don't know Laurie but by looking at this forum he's a darn site better moderator than the boss of kiteforum.co.nz who either doesn't know what to do, how to do it or just doesn't care and just likes playing on suspense and blaming everything that sounds a tad dodgy or aggro on a few people who happen to piss him off (not a hard thing to do by the way). Yes i also go by the name thrasher but only because trigger happy Shaan (who i reckon is straighttalk) wanted to know what it was like to ban someone. I am not Osama Been Kiting despite delightful conversations with him about his camel. All this bullcrap on that forum is evidence of ****ty conditions and typicial ****ty NZ attitude towards everything. You Aussies will understand what i'm talking about.

Now putting that unpleasentry behind us. After all this IS an Aussie forum.... the less the New Zealand is mentioned the better. I am not in Aussie yet. To sort a few things out it will take me about 3 months. As for me not making it in Australia... i made it in Auckland ok.. infact i lasted 4 years in Auckland kitesurfing and i haven't shot myself or attempted suicide once... nor have i quit kitesurfing during that time. Auckland's no easy place to kite... lot's of people will agree with me on that one. So straighttalk what do you think is gonna be my undoing in OZ? Do you think the locals are gonna lynch me and send me back on the next plane? Not likely cos even if they wanted to they don't even know who the hell i am

Nice try

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Originally posted by BLOWN AWAY

I am not in Aussie yet. To sort a few things out it will take me about 3 months.

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Wait till you try to get the phone on...

I stand corrected... i just checked straighttalk's profile.. it wasn't Shaan. But I know of a Brad who has a major problem with me over this side of the ditch (NZ not OZ by the way). He still has yet to gimme a piece of his mind like he promised to... well he'd better hurry up because I'm leaving NZ in 3 months time... and ain't going back... ever.

Gettin laid sounds like a great idea. Infact i'm gonna head down to the Waikato today and raid the nearest paddock. They've got some sexy ewes down there. I just hope the rams understand or a i mite be in a for a bit of beating. i'll crank up my medication a tad and see if that stops me from goin insane. as for pissin the WA kiting scene... sounds like i'm only pissing the ex Kiwi kiters off that are over there... although that does make up the bulk of the WA kiting scene so come to think of it you are probably right.