Wow miken, seems like you should take your own advice. Your posts seem very negative.
Jeez, been told off by humphrey. As it's posted in general kiting, not WA kiting i don't see the problem. Was commenting on double standards of miken.
I have to totally agree with this statement. I demoed a kite last summer, first time kited at scabs for probably 8 years, and you are so right. It was the beginners screaming downwind, with looks of abject fear of their faces, in swarms - I wonder what the collective term would be for a group of learners screaming downwind.
Now I was consistently getting out of the way and had to use my years of kiting to avoid collision of kite, board and body (it was a particularly busy day), eventually put down kite and took it back to AKS and vowed never again to kite this place...and of course some will say good. I know it is not that bad all the time, it was a crazy day I picked, but I agree it is the learner.
I'm not going to call them retards or use some of the emotional language that has been used becuase we all have been there. When I learnt at scabs screaming downwind on a two line foil was okay as you just left the only two other guys on the water upwind...
Not sure of an answer hey, despite all our rage we are still just rats in a cage.
I kite with windsurfers all the time and we have no probs either.
Scabs is not the place to learn, repeat, scabs is not the place to learn. The traffic is too great
To the guy with the black and blue kite that was doing some light wind kiting about 5 this arvo, sunday 23rd.
Bad look trying to land relaunch in the middle of the amphitheatre at scarboro.
I know the wind dropped out, but ffs keep out of the most crowded part of the beach.
I was about 800m down the beach surfing, and praying for no pedestrians to get wiped out, and with it all our kite privileges for the summer, and forever.
Perhaps i should have stopped surfing, run up the beach and helped.
Why on earth any1 would have their kite up/down on the beach in the middle of the amphitheater is beyond me. Even if you'd never been there in your life you'd have to be brain dead not to work it out.
So happy i live in dongara 20kms of beach 6 kites max ,well until kitestock arrives, yep doesnt sound good down there and usually when one shire sets rules the others are soon to follow,the bksa are constantly delegating with local councils to allow kiting back on the beaches,ive heard of kiters rigging behind the dunes at my home beach in nw uk then outrunning the beach patrol to get their fix,also if someones being a bit of a dick with his kite we shouldnt be shy in telling them so,cant imagine the carnage on a packed beach in 25 knts with a beginner trying his new ,well 2003 wipika that he swapped for a carton digging a 200 yard trench with his chin,
An update taken from the pollies forum.
It seems my/their persistance with the southern exclusion boundary has paid off. Hopefully this will have a good knock on effect for the kitesurfing area at Brighton.
Now just have to get the Trigg zone southern boundary moved north to first or second carpark rather than 3rd...
