Hey fellas, just a heads up.... If you rock up to Henley and you see 3 experiance kiters kiting powered up on 7m kites, clearly it blowing 25 knots plus. Think about your safety and the safety of other beach goers before pumping up your 12m. We want to keep Henley open to kiters and not be banned!!!

There are plenty of good seabreeze days not to risk anything...

Know your limits...

yo dude
I was riding my 12m rhino for 4hrs at largs yesterday with
no probs mind you i am quite a large unit.
Its great to be back........

tino said...

Hey fellas, just a heads up.... If you rock up to Henley and you see 3 experiance kiters kiting powered up on 7m kites, clearly it blowing 25 knots plus. Think about your safety and the safety of other beach goers before pumping up your 12m. We want to keep Henley open to kiters and not be banned!!!

There are plenty of good seabreeze days not to risk anything...

Know your limits...

Reminding people to be responsible and well behaved kiting citizens is commendable

but.....

giving voice to the nanny state mentality of wanting to ban (that word should be banned.. ha ha), on the basis of one or a few accidents only conditions otherwise reasonable people to become more comfortable with the ban option.

The idea of a ban is so disgusting it should not be talked of unnecessarily.

Talk of safety and responsible behaviour in the interests of the future of kitesurfing is good stuff.

goofy foot said...

Reminding people to be responsible and well behaved kiting citizens is commendable

but.....

giving voice to the nanny state mentality of wanting to ban (that word should be banned.. ha ha), on the basis of one or a few accidents only conditions otherwise reasonable people to become more comfortable with the ban option.

The idea of a ban is so disgusting it should not be talked of unnecessarily.

Talk of safety and responsible behaviour in the interests of the future of kitesurfing is good stuff.

The fact is that around two thirds of Adelaide's metro beaches are already banned to kitesufing. It would be more than that if it wasn't for a few dedicated kiters who have voluntered their time to talk to the councils. Unfortuantely goofy foot, banning is a reality facing all metro beaches. At the moment the behaviour of every kiter is responsible for our beaches staying open to us, beginnners through to experts.
You can talk about nanny state all you like, but it will not do us any good. It's were we live and thats the way things are, so we must play by those rules like it or not.
At the end of the day every kiter on the metro beach has to be careful about how they kite. Yesterday was 25 knots plus dead on shore, outside guys the size of Seamaster (who built like a brick s#%t house) and a few other 100 plus kg guys. Light weights shouldn't be thinking about putting up a 12m and learners should be waiting till it's cross on.
It's up to us if we still want to be riding the metro beaches in years to come!!!!

I was out at Tennyson on a 8m...had a great session kiting from tennyson to semaphore to grange...

So what happened down at Henley anyway?

one of the most dangerous sentences you can say in kiting is " Its the only kite I've got." Saying these 6 words could be your death. If you only have one kite then you only have one wind range.

Choices you have if you have one kite and its too windy.
1. Go out anyway and hurt your self or others.
2. Suck it up and buy another kite
3. Dont go.

Fair enough.

Keep safe.

rmn said...

kitecroc said...
It's up to us if we still want to be riding the metro beaches in years to come!!!!

I overlook Seacliff yacht club and on days when the beach has been crowded with people and yachts I have been appalled by some of the things I have seen. If there is a bad accident involving the public I fear that kiting will be banned, not just on the busy days but permanently. If the beach is busy we shouldn’t be kiting at all and definitely not among swimmers and running up wind on the beach through the public and the yachts. Kite schools should emphasise this to their students.

There was a bloke kitesurfing inshore of swimmers in choppy surf off Grange Rd/Sailing club yesterday (Australia Day, the beach was pretty busy). He obviously knew what we was doing (unlike me on my SUP in chop!) but he was getting some nervous looks from swimmers....
Stay safe dudes!