Some interesting points of view! .. let's remember to keep this topic on topic .. anybody abusing anybody simply will be immediatelly suspended!

...and I'll tell your mum on you, and you'll only be allowed to kite in crowded areas

We do downwinders - awesome way to avoid crowds & have an awesome day out.

kiterdan said...

Fair enough.

It is interesting to note that most of the negative/moronic replies are from relatively newer guys/newbies or forum tragics. The same guys that have brought this forum down. Goes to show you what sort of people kiting now attracts.

so let me get this right.

the guy who started this off with a big girly whinge is now whinging that other people are whinging along with him(and or)against him.

and this whinging is bringing the forum down?!?!

forum was fine last time i looked..............except for all the whinging!

Kitepower Australia said...

Nicely put (or was that questioned) Greenleader!

Perhaps the source of this issue can be traced back to the 7 BILLION odd souls that are overcrowding the round spinning thing we are all standing on??

My vote goes to Anti Hype though!!

Cya and

Goodwinds

steve

Good thinking Steve. We need to try making kiteboarding as uncool as possible.

One potential option to uncrowd your spot is to order a mankini from ebay and kite with it at the local beach. Provided you haven't waxed your ass, the site of a big hairy man wearing a boris style mankini while kiting should be enough to scare off even a desparate kiter and should definitely reduce the kewl factor if people are led to believe that is the standard dress code. May have some issues in Sydney though without some of the pink brigade starting to pay you more attention on the beach if you're not into that sort of thing but thats the price you have to pay for uncrowded beaches.

The alternative would be to position fake manequins holding fake cameras with long looking lenses at other beaches. That will result in the shows ponies frequenting these beaches to try pull their tricks right in front of the camera (I never understood that, why would you want some completely random unknown person taking pictures of you anyway?) and fighting for space and maybe they'll take each other out in the process.

I rekn it is best just to find good times to go kiting.

I'm still on holidays waiting for uni to start. Went out from 10am til 2pm on narrabeen today, I was the ONLY kiter out there, I had the entire beach to myself , so its much like the traffic; timing counts for a lot!

I find that if there are two windy days in a row, then it's also best to go out on the 2nd day, as everyone usually rushes in on the first day and are too tired to have looong sessions on the second day.

To be honest, I like it when there are least a few other kiters around, it makes me feel safer coz we can look out for one another

Anti-Hype probably would work. Also about the bowkites making it easier to get into then yes definantly, but most people haven't a clue what a bow kite is until they are ready to buy some gear anyway! I was contemplating kiting for around 3 years! I just wanted to finish my HSC first so I had the time.

It's all about courtesy to each other, learner or pro, busy or empty. I have kited a really busy spot one day when everyone gave way to each other and it was great fun to interact with each other, and another day, same spot, same numbers, with 1 or 2 dimwits/selfish b#stards and it was a horrible session.

License/rego seems a good idea, how to enforce it will be a challange- with diving you need your card to get tank fills, not sure how it would work with kiting. Even licensing cant create courtesy, look at the roads!!!

Saffer said...

One potential option to uncrowd your spot is to order a mankini from ebay and kite with it at the local beach.

Do you know how to stop the chafe with the mankini, it is really starting to become a problem and as I know I am so hot wearing it I just have to find a solution. I can picture myself doing the pooman wearing it now, it is soo hot.