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won't somebody please think of the children

But Benny, without the safety topic, this will only leave the kooks to argue about rite of way rules

BennyB12 said..

Does anyone else here really enjoy the fact that kiting is dangerous and that's part of he allure? I've been kiting for near 10 years and I love a hot launch or flukey conditions or threading in between some rocky outcrops or watching shallow reef flash by under the board or kiting close to my mates or downwinders that are hastily organised with no real plan.. It's all part of the fun isn't it?
Before you safety nazis organise a lynching and a cup of tea, I do believe in teaching the noob the safety part first and helpin em out but after that then life is life....
Sometimes it's fun and 15, sunny and steady but sometimes your upside down in 30 plus getting water shoved everywhere you don't want it.... That's the game and I love it...

With you there mate. Well said!

Yeah man. I break every single kitesurfing rule on a regular basis. Risk is the reason we do it. if we wanted no risk then we would all be playing lawn bowls.!

I love blasting the shallows and smashing out a jump. surfing waves amongst boulders, solo high wind kiting.... kiting close to objects. onshore winds. all that stuff.

But its all relative to your perception of risk.

I also mountainbike. As I was blasting down a gnarly mountain track the other day smashing over roots the size of my teachers legs at school, shoulders brushing trees as I whistle past at high speed I think. one wrong move and its shoulder barg a tree....

I thought.

"man kitesurfing is so safe compared to this".....

And it is. You can be a complete goon on the water and the usual result is a splash down and hurt ego.

Be a goon with any land based sport and the result is pain.

I agree , totally,everything is up to the individual's attitude and skill and respect for others.Off the tangent now,on the news last night women's injuries from walking on stilletoes,broken ankles and falls are higher in numbers in casualty wards than kids injuries .

Kozzie you strike me as someone who has a keen sense of adventure and possibly good drugs.... I lived in Airlie for a year, how did I not meet you?

Of course!

Just don't wrap your lines around joe public or pester emergency services unduly.

Daavy said..

Of course!

Just don't wrap your lines around joe public or pester emergency services unduly.

i learnt pretty quick to let the volunteer coastguard know your intentions with any long distance en devour.
you just go in there introduce yourself explain all your thinking etc and that you have reliable waterproof uhf etc i never botherd with an epirb **** the 5k$ choppers off to be honest. just dont put yourself in a situation you cant back out of. its a feeling i get when diving and offtrack hiking you just KNOW its you and no one else out there. you can either survive or die. its a great feeling one ive been chaseing for years.

polykarb said..

I might try jumping the pier at Altona or maybe St kilda this summer.

You need some windmills, you do.

BennyB12 said...

kiterboy said...
Well derrrrrr.

You should have called this 'The Obvious Thread'

I actually wrote this cos I was hoping there was still kiters out there that are sick of topics like 'the safety thread'....which you started....

Yeah, no **** Einstein, I knew it was a piss take.

That thread isn't aimed at heroes like you.
It's meant to be a central source of easy to find info for people starting out.

You can go ahead and pretend you're being really dangerous and risky, taking those calculated risks while kiting cause you already are educated on the safety aspects of the sport.

Yeah well I ignored your swipe you were having by starting this thread, until you had to reiterate it halfway down.

Taken in it's own right, this thread is very valid and conveys the spirit of why we love this sport.

I just don't think it needed to be started as some sort of retaliation to a thread that was started as an effort to communicate safe practices to new kiters.


And yeah, we (those of us more experienced) know the safety aspects of the sport, so we take calculated risks based on our knowledge of our own abilities and understanding of the sport, it's adrenalin pumping stuff and bloody awesome all the ways we can throw it down.

But, it's only a dangerous sport if you're doing stupid things.

Kamikuza said..

polykarb said..

I might try jumping the pier at Altona or maybe St kilda this summer.

You need some windmills, you do.

That is rather silly!