i almost failed english in school ,but don't care, you can understand what I'm writing, and i passed with minimal effort, don't have to do paperwork where i work now. (female body sun lotioner)

but , keep reading the books , and going to friday night bingo , see ya in about 20 years

I'm from perth I know it it all

hey dachopper does your moma walk like she's a cowboy.....

a. written under fictitious name.

Don't you just love winter !!!

Seems that ya old farts and baggy pants are all part of the same bunch of frustrated wackos...

thanks god there's a lot of kitesurfers in between these two generations!!!
and they are still full of load like the baggies and haven't lost their marbles yet like the oldies!!!


keep the argument goin'...and while you are here on the forum we'll have more space to kitesurf .....

I m outta here

whats the record for hits on a thread??? this ones up to over 1300. N E one have a clue?

its the baggy pant Vs the country road forum

Shiit has really hit the fan in WA. Im writin from the Cabarete and ive just read thru the whole thread and i cant believe it. I think that it is awesome to here that we have a slider at Woodies. it is probably the best spot in Aust to hav it maybe even rank in the world. Cant wait to hav a go. Good work Dale! Has there been any problems with it yet? Has ne1 yet heard of any probs with kitin at Woodies from CALM? Surely not cos i cant see any probs. I still think Woodies would've made a good spot for the NATS, especially with the slider. But all good.

somebody has buld a mobile slider here at wellington point. I don't know who built it or who owns it and i haven't had a go yet, but i am a bit frightened to try because i saw one guy slip off and bang his bum bone on it. Luckily the water is only knee deep because he looked in agony for a while and might have drowned. It has been there for a month or so now. It is in a spot where no one can use a boat because it is always very shallow, but like pseudo, i do get concerned that unless the council was apporached about it, we may be stirring the pot a bit. We already have a ban on rigging kites on the grass-foreshore in our spot here, and there is now a general negative aura that seems to have developed about the sport. I don't see too many beach goers pointing and smiling at us anymore, and I think we have become a general pain in the ass to most locals.

Rick

well , i think all the people out there who are genuinely concerned should just ask the f uncn councils, and tell calm, then maybe you could fu c it for the rest of us and bann kiting ompletely, and if your not gonna do that caus you old men, it ain't your slider , it aint your problem , and if it is still your problem and you wont talk to council or calm about it , are you suggesting for us to remove our slider , incase calm find it , so they don't tell us to move it..... no way,,, it's a free world , there is no FINE for placeing PVC in the water, ignorance is no excuse , but no court on earth would convict or take it serious.

, chillout dude, the pepl who put the slider put all their effort into gettn it there , they will get told off and thats all
if anything

so don't wet your country road pants, geriatric brigade, the baggy pant mob have it under control! We will cop the heat like real men we are

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it's a free world , there is no FINE for placeing PVC in the water, ignorance is no excuse , but no court on earth would convict or take it serious.

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could be prosecuted for disposing waste in the ocean, amongst half a dozen other laws it and kitesurfers in general break.

calm/council dont need to ban kiting, all they have to do is enforce existing rules

kites: Caution Spitfire 2004 16m+12m board: Caution Redline 132

hey ..jkeys 's got a point here...
ok the baggy pants might pvc slide and do other plumber tricks...
but when it comes to heavy riding in stormy big wave condition seems that the pants shrink big time and the old dudes are the only ones out..

but more factors come in the situation than just a kiter hurting themselves on it. There is the "what is that in our water" attitude that locals seem to have, "what if it washes up on the beach or into the boating channel" attitude, and so many more excuses that people find to complain about. They are things that seem so pissweak to us, but do influence the eventual outcomes of situations like bannings.

It sounds like bullshiite to some, but at least notifying councils is worth it in the long run.

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Originally posted by jkeys

Da chopper, you are one tough dude, "it's a free world", man.... you are so on it. All the **** about the old dudes is such alot of toss, I'm sure most of the old dudes could kick your arse in any kiting weather, havn't seen ya kiting the winter beaches, Oh.....woodies is so tough.....and my slider is so hard core. Mate I've never heard such a load of piss weak ****....
Just thought I'ld get the thread energized again, been waiting for a nice onshore beach session, I'm soooooooooooooo bored at work looking into this computer screen, I've got to get into this negitive kite girlie gossip thread, and give poor old Da chopper the ****s..........
Love you all.

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Piss weak, geez good comeback dude ,what a typical "grown up " respone , "baggy pant mob this", "slider that" ," I'm a real man, caus i go out in 1 metre waves", thats right 6 foot sets when it's blowing 30 kts, get real, you **** , but your scared! of going on a slider.., as some1 may get hurt, yeah only if their over 40 with fragile bones!
And as far as going out in big waves. I doub't you've ever seen waves as big as the ones over east which are cranking all summer, im talking 3 metre plus sets, 3 minute long rides, the Proppa ****.
but you can have your fun old man style sailing back and fourth, like a 1940's outrigger, in that slop that you get when it is blowing 30 kts.


The "winter beaches" oh yeah, you the man man, you must be for going out in that, like the dude who lost his half finger when he went out under the black clouds a few weeks ago. (no offense dude)
I go out in "winter weather" all the time, and i kite 1 legged on 15 - 20 foot sets


" when you can do a front mobe, back kite loop, board off, and land 1 footed " then i'll believe that old folks are as hard core, as the baggy pant mob who actually make the sport look good, and go out of their way to make a slider, to get sritisized by a load of grumpy old men"
littering in the water, are you seriuous? what mental institution did you escape from???

G'day Peoples,

Been interesting as a windsurfer reading this ongoing thread been some good discussion as well as having the holier than thou crew putting their two cents in.

I've a good mate who is a kiter who's dimm dark skateboarding past has been hanging for sliders and various other hard pieces of gear to bounce of in the water.

Knowing a few people in councils though I believe the people who rigged this should contact the relevant department, on the whole these people are generally fairly easy to get on with.

Take your design and some info about what you've done to them and if you've can get some names and rational comments together from the rest of your crew, they will most likely give official sanction to it. They may ask for a slight modification to it to make sure it is stable and unlikely to break.

The other alternative is that they are oblivious to it until someone complians about it or an accident happens.

Once the local council or CALM are aware of the existance of this item they have a "Duty of Care" to do something about it, else the are open to litigation if anything goes pairshaped.

Look at the Pillock who broke his neck at Cot then tryed suing the council, Didn't succeed (Just) but cost council money and probably hit them in their insurance premiums.

Also I don't know what the personal liability would be for the originaters of this equipment but I think they could also be sued should someone be injured or the device goes wandering during a storm and ends up creating havoc in some place it shouldn't be.

To save a lot more WAFTAM discussions re this matter, have a chat "with the Man", it's not as scary as you think.

Imagine how cool it would be to be able to legitamately expand on the idea and have it like a wet skate park with all sorts of wierd and wonderfull gear to test yourselves on

I'll just go back to being a Foge on my windsurfer.

Good luck to the dudes.

Alby


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