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Originally posted by Spacemonkey!
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Originally posted by andyc
That's right! the WA kite surfing competition is going to be on! SOS is going to sponsor the event and giving prizes, we're thinking beer (maybe soft drink if a grommet wins).
It will be held on a Sunday. We'll announce if it's happening on the Thursday before the event. The announcement will be made here on this thread by me, JG, or JKeys.
All the people who rock up will be halved on the beach. Half will compete, half will judge. Then people will progress through further heats in a similar fashion.
No signing up, no set date, extremely casual, everyone welcome.
BTW, This is the brain child of John Geyer and Jonathon Keys, I'm just the messenger.
and no location mentioned.. good idea but probably wrong time of the year to do it. I'll still rock up though 
Actually,
Winter is a very good time of the year to stage a wavekiting event.
Especially if the timing can be flexible and short notice is acceptable to all involved.
Keep it casual and the Gods will deliver.
Back in the old days (before kiting),
the poleys would pencil-in the first three weekends for the month of August for their 'cold-front classic' wavesailing comp.
The venue was always at Gearies,
and it was just a case of getting lucky with jagging the passage of a front over one of the three allocated weekends.
Sometimes they pulled it off, and other years they weren't so lucky.
The weekend is only 2 days out of 7, so the odds can work against you sometimes.
And if you believe in the '7 day cycle' like I do,
cold fronts can avoid weekends for weeks and weeks.
For example, if a cold front crosses the coast on say a Tuesday on the first week,
there's a good chance the next front will cross on the following Tuesday or maybe Wednesday.
The '7 day cycle', a natural phenomenon, but not an exact science.
Frustratingly,
some of the best wavekiting conditions happen late on winter nights in my neck of the woods.
