This news seems to be slipping by without any comment.
Besides Andy winning PKRA I think this is the biggest news issue in Australian kiting this year.
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Kitesurfing/Australian-Kitesurfing-Association-AKSA/INSURANCE-INCREASE-join-now/
Me will be renewing before Dec 31 for sure.
I'm more interested in learning about the accidents that led to the increase in fees.
Considering kiters don't seem to be able to fart without a post being put on on here, I'm surprised I know nothing about them. Or did I miss some posts?
Believe it or not there's not that many kiters that post here.
It's probably not in the interests of the sport to publicise accidents anyway. Some people who read this forum aren't here because they like the sport.
If it goes to that price watch how many will renew next year . Can one get his own insurence (public liabilty cover) and with a little joining fee get aksa membership so you could still be alowed to play in comp stuff .
Puppet thanks for clearing my question i all ready pay for public lilablety with my work it has 20 mil and was just wondering .
My 2 cents
An issue raised in the past & one i think should be on AKSA's agenda if fees are to be increased is at least the option to have personal injury & death cover included as part of your membership.
To WAKSA we need clubrooms; there's a nice piece of vacant land next to the Swannie surf club but reallly it should be up by Brighton the bar would do a roaring trade from kiters finishing a down winder 
I find them uncontactable in qld, tags ?,last year didnt get one. Half pie organisation , we are trying to get a club formed on sunny coast, tryed main body and state, nothing ! trying to find out if you insure through a club do they give some of that money back to your club from the state association .
Skate Australia is the National Sporting Organisation (NSO) recognized by the Federal Governments, Australian Sports Commission (ASC) as the peak body administering the growth and development of six individual skating sports within Australia.
The ASC is the Australian Government agency that supports and invests in sport at all levels in Australia. The ASC works closely with NSO's to develop sport from community participation to high performance level.
The ASC supports a wide range of programs designed to develop sporting excellence and increase participation and achievement by all Australians. The notion of both social and elite pathways for athletes, coaches, officials and administrators lies at the heart of a sport's effective planning processes.
The ASC directs it's funding and services to ensure these pathways are in place and are effective in delivering increased participation and continued international sporting success.
For the financial year 2009-2010 Skate Australia will receive $186,000 in funding from the ASC of which $100,000 is specifically allocated for the development of skateboarding.
The ASC offers two types of funding to NSO's
Sports Grants - which support the high performance and/or sport development activities of the organization, as indicated in the organisation's strategic and operational plans
Specific ASC Program Grants - which relate to specific projects and initiatives aimed at developing specific priorities including coaching, officiating, talent identification, indigenous sport, sport for people with disability and sport for women.
Funding allocations are reviewed annually in light of the organisation's performance against objectives and performance measures listed in the organisation's annual operational plan, as well as compliance with the ASC requirements.
The Australian Sport Commission's focus is sport, not recreation or sub cultures or pastimes. The ASC only supports that component of the activity that is "sport" and can be developed.
The ASC do not fund individuals, corporations, major events or facilities, but support NSO programs that they believe have the capacity to achieve the outcomes that benefit the Australian sporting system.
There is no doubt over time and as resources become available Skateboarding Australia will continue to increase outcomes for the entire skateboarding community.
Links from the ASC-
ASC Recognitionhttp://www.ausport.gov.au/supporting/funding/asc_recognition
Funded NSO'S & Amounts
www.ausport.gov.au/supporting/funding/national_sporting_organisations
Sorry nothing to do with insurance but funding available for our sport. Asc are very supportive and have a large budget that maybe able to help somewhere someday.
Ray,
Personal attacks on me won't further your cause. ^^^
In what is essentially a WAKSA pimp-thread, abusing forum-members only makes the association look more try-hard and desperate.
Carry on.
Ray
who's the try hard and desperate on this forum?
It seems to me that WS is desperate in his attempts to mislead and confuse readers. Desperate in his attempts to further his oh so boring and repetitive anti Association diatribe.
For once WS, I agree. WAKSA is somewhat "desperate". Desperate to try and bring new and better events to our members (this new thing called the Wedge Wave Comp we did a couple of weeks back; getting the inaugural Lighthouse to Leighton event up & running to cite just a couple.) Pehaps the 300 or so crew who come up to Kitestock each year don't like what WAKSA does either?
We have over 400 members already this year - perhaps those 400 members have recognised that WAKSA has been trying hard to do new things - and
those members recognise the work that has been, and will continue to be done by the Association to improve the sport and it's profile in WA. Perhaps those 400 recognise the importance of something more than just events also - or perhaps they too are tired or bored of his message?
As for his latest rant that fees will be $650, he indicates that once again, for some one who doesn't like WAKSA, he shows all too much interest in what the Association does. For someone who has no knowledge of what's going on at a state or national level, it's a somewhat confused and desperate message don't you think?
If you care, why make such irrational statements??
Be grown up and be constructive.
I've always taken the view that if you want to accomplish something from within, it's best to be inside the tent so to speak.
With you history of negative comments, you now claim to care about WAKSA? If you care so much, please do us a favour...stop it now before you go blind.
