Read the article here http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a/-/article/16149436
From what I have heard through the grapevine it was only a matter of time before this was to happen!
There is a silver lining there. But I do feel sorry for the schools that have been there a while and have been doing the right thing.
I have kited down woodies for the past 5 years. It's not the schools that cause the problems. It's the dickheads that teach their mates after starting the sport and barely able to kite them self's. I would also be extremely surprised if we see a ranger on the beach. All rangers/security avoid that place as much as possible
So there is this......
The council last night voted unanimously to support a ban on dozens of operators who have crowded the foreshore, near Coogee, over the past two years, many without formal qualifications or insurance.
Then there is this
Caroline Bradley from Elemental Surf:
"We've been trying to get a permit there for eight years
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Whats wrong with this picture?
I'd be amazed to see a ranger down there enforcing this. So if an instructor just says "nah bra, I'm just showing my mate here how it's done" he's alright? Stupid.
So they've banned qualified instruction at woodies?
All other councils will see this example.
Get the house in order, "self govern" or someone will for you.
Inevitable I suppose.
I wished the schools would make an effort to contribute to the beach state rather than just take. I go out of my way to pick up any rubbish (always plenty) and dispose of in the bin at beach 1, though there's a smell from hell when you open the lid.
The kite beaches in Egypt the guys would even rake the sand to remove gnarly shells in the slack time.
Now what happens? Bedlam at Point Walter, Carnage at Melville, This does no good for anyone
Why stop at teaching? Why not ban kiting overall at beach1?
Now it will be plenty of beginners but no one there to help them out when they mess up.
This is a classic example for us to get behind WAKSA, and WAKSA assisting the sport to keep access open for kiters and professional instruction. That's half the reason tehy were formed. It's only going to get bigger, I've seen the sport go from nothing to gang busters over the last 10 years. The best thing is there are people in high up places who support the sport, which is helpful because many councils listen to the loudest voice, the complainers. Many valid points s, but there is always the minority who ruin it for the rest of us. Happens in all sports.
Hopefully this can be resolved professionally.
WA one of the most sparsely populated areas on earth. One of the most crowded kiting locations in the world.
Myeah I suppose that was a matter of time...
Sad for the licensed Kiteschools there.
Hopefully the unlicensed schools wont move their business to Safety Bay..
has a plan and the first stage to getting a permit is to get a total ban then council permit operator only Just a thought 
5 Years to go and this sport will be like JET skiing ONLY certain spots to go to and that's going to be the end of this sport on the SWAN RIVER.
Saw 2 ppl trying to teach their friends at PELI yesterday one was in the NO GO area the whole time and 2 girls were just off the launch area getting in the way where everyone likes to pose with their jumps!!
Only 5 years to go tops!!!
The "Point" is back ON.
Been missing the inside shore run since the schools took over..
Seriously, the writing was on the wall, is this a suprise for the kite schools?
way too many schools in a small area in
amongst local and tourist riders.
You guys should have worked things out together before it got to this.
Why werent the schools getting heavy with the "Rouge instructors".
Its way easy for you guys to spot the teacher intruders.
You guys should be out to protect your area.
Like other local riders I too spend time picking up rubbish and junk from
the ocean every time I kite there then put in the bin which helped lobby for., I have never seen the schools put anything back into that beach.
Its a huge wake up call, Beach1 would run fine with one or maybe 2 schools MAX!
Both located half way down the beach in one of the carprks half way down the beach. The amount of times ive knocked off work 4pm to have a quick sesh to find no carparking because F--ing Kite Schools has taken up X bays with trailers and gear, Lots of bays half way down where you were meant to be.
I dont feel sorry for the schools, brought it on by yourselfs...
I just hope that you help keep "The Point" OPEN for ALL now that youve f"d up
beach1..
No such thing as legitimate schools down there, one school stealing students from the next, why is anyone suprised.
Someone gets badly injured, and all the schools are pointing the fingers at the euros and saying 'well its cause of them'.
Wakey Wakey Jokers, you're all in the same boat, euros, drunkard school owners, mates teaching mates, you're all as dangerous as each other.
And now you're all crying into your jack daniels bottles.
Where's RPM when you need him for a proper rant, thumb away losers!!
So I would bet that at the council they first thought they could ban all kiting down there, but realised they could only ban the schools (ie the council can control/ban commercial activity within its bounds).
Indeed, does council jurisdiction extend into the water at all? If it doesn't then they can only ban commercial operations on land.... hence this outcome..
When I've been down at Woodies (my local), students have probably only made up ~25% of the traffic, so its not going to make a very big difference to the locals is it?
What is the definition of teaching in the ban?
Someone in the water with a harness but not a kite?
Commercial activity at the beach? (no more demo days...)
Or does it extend to all learners? (=all non IKO certified kiters)
This ban looks like what happened to the personal trainers in parks, as they were making money and using council land the council stepped in and hit the personal trainers with a fee to use the park. looks like this is going to happen to our industry too!
I thought the beaches were FREE, not anymore!!
[abuse removed] read my previous post and stop bleeting, council does nothing over night, it take months for them to even talk to each other let alone ban something, this has been planed for a while for whatever the reasons are 
Cockburn council are a bunch of incompetent ****en muppets. They should of acknowledged and given a permit to competent kite instructors long before now and imposed a management plan. To be honest alot of instructors would enforce/manage unsafe practices at and work for the council
Insted of dealing with the problem and managing it they have taken a were cop-out approach washed the hands of all liability leagally .Smart move by the pencil pushers but not a resolution to the problem.
They wont patrol it they dont need to . But if anyone injureds a second party the can be held negligent.They have put the emphasis back onto the puppet holding the strings.
Implementation and acknowledgement of competent insured instructors to facilitate training should of been done long ago. I also believe some kitesurfing instructors could work with local councils rangers to remove unsafe practices along the beach.
A ranger who is untrained/unskilled in kitesurfing is surely not competent to hand out fines to kitesurfers. . A trained kite-surfing instructor is.
I think a permit/liscencing type of system will probably be implemented in the shire of cockburn and other shires
