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How could we reduce the popularity of Kiteboarding

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Created by bjw > 9 months ago, 25 Mar 2010
bjw
QLD, 3691 posts
25 Mar 2010 9:21PM
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Perhaps dump a kite into the airport at Botany Bay.
Then they will ban Kiting in Botany and there will be no place to learn.

sir ROWDY
WA, 5378 posts
25 Mar 2010 7:26PM
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Just get rid of all those freakin 100% depower abortions, so kooks like the ones that rule the sport now can't learn.

Saffer
VIC, 4501 posts
26 Mar 2010 10:37AM
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A license system that includes an IQ test with an exclusion for any women who are the perfect 10, or at least an exclusion that says they have to learn to body drag in a waist harness with a bikini bottom.

Automatic disqualification for anyone who owns a jetski or wants to own a jetski.

Seriously though, a license test that checks the persons understanding of the waterway laws would be a good start. I'd like to see it included as a subclass under a skippers so people don't have the excuse of not knowing any better when kite 5m from swimmers. Having to study and actually know basic rights of way along with a specialised test catering for kiteboarding specific knowledge would be great. I'd happily pay the annual fee to see the douche bags removed from the water.

deXtrous
NSW, 451 posts
26 Mar 2010 10:51AM
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I wouldn't mind a licencing system if it came down to them preventing bans at beaches.

Means the careless touro's will have a harder time to get on the water also.

superlizard
VIC, 702 posts
26 Mar 2010 11:41AM
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Saffer said...

A license system that includes an IQ test


That's gold... love it... - but they should set a minimum of 65 passing level...

sir Rowdy said...

get rid of all those freakin 100% depower abortions


Yeah... i like that too...

Other suggestions:
- stop telling your mates how good kiting is.
- get Richard to publicly proclaim how boring kiting is
- release farm bred sharks within popular kiting spots during busy times

au_rick
WA, 752 posts
26 Mar 2010 8:52AM
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Saffer said...

A license system that includes an IQ test with an exclusion for any women who are the perfect 10, or at least an exclusion that says they have to learn to body drag in a waist harness with a bikini bottom.

Automatic disqualification for anyone who owns a jetski or wants to own a jetski.

Seriously though, a license test that checks the persons understanding of the waterway laws would be a good start. I'd like to see it included as a subclass under a skippers so people don't have the excuse of not knowing any better when kite 5m from swimmers. Having to study and actually know basic rights of way along with a specialised test catering for kiteboarding specific knowledge would be great. I'd happily pay the annual fee to see the douche bags removed from the water.


You need a license to drive a car and a jetski, but that doesn't stop w@nkers on the roads and the water :)

loverboy
WA, 614 posts
26 Mar 2010 8:56AM
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how about kiting in budgie smugglers- if we all did it nobody would want to learn to kite....or call it windsurfing- nobody learns that anymore

superlizard
VIC, 702 posts
26 Mar 2010 12:10PM
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au_rick said...

You need a license to drive a car and a jetski, but that doesn't stop w@nkers on the roads and the water :)



true... but i have a feeling it significantly reduces their numbers... i.e. what would stop every 15 year old wanting to learn driving their dad's car around the neighbourhood if there weren't laws and licensing systems in place... so the licensing is by all means not an ultimate solution, but just one piece of the puzzle... just a filtering system...


loverboy said...
how about kiting in budgie smugglers-


nooo... that would attract all the euros then...

Taurus
VIC, 189 posts
26 Mar 2010 12:25PM
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Put a tax on it to make it expensive.

Saffer
VIC, 4501 posts
26 Mar 2010 1:01PM
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au_rick said...

Saffer said...

A license system that includes an IQ test with an exclusion for any women who are the perfect 10, or at least an exclusion that says they have to learn to body drag in a waist harness with a bikini bottom.

Automatic disqualification for anyone who owns a jetski or wants to own a jetski.

Seriously though, a license test that checks the persons understanding of the waterway laws would be a good start. I'd like to see it included as a subclass under a skippers so people don't have the excuse of not knowing any better when kite 5m from swimmers. Having to study and actually know basic rights of way along with a specialised test catering for kiteboarding specific knowledge would be great. I'd happily pay the annual fee to see the douche bags removed from the water.


You need a license to drive a car and a jetski, but that doesn't stop w@nkers on the roads and the water :)



Yup, but at least they can fine them legitimately and take away their licenses. Most first time drink drivers don't reoffend, we just hear about the multiple offenders in the newspaper.

Rad Lad
226 posts
26 Mar 2010 10:12AM
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Easy, you must first learn to Windsurf.

Capt Loopy
NSW, 276 posts
26 Mar 2010 1:18PM
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More of these lads at the local should do the trick.




Venomguy
154 posts
26 Mar 2010 10:41AM
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kite naked, that will stop the crowds.....

Jimmyz
NSW, 446 posts
26 Mar 2010 2:30PM
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sir ROWDY said...

Just get rid of all those freakin 100% depower abortions, so kooks like the ones that rule the sport now can't learn.


I thought the point of kooks was that that didn't care about safety...

I like the shark idea.

lostinlondon
VIC, 1159 posts
26 Mar 2010 2:53PM
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Make Waveslave the global ambassador for kiting to the UN....

theDoctor
NSW, 5786 posts
26 Mar 2010 3:20PM
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how about every kiter that whinges there be too many kiteboarders give up kiting themselves, thereby making room for the rest of us and saving us from having to hear how much better it was because you started a season before when there were fewer kiters than there are this season.

pi22api22a
WA, 150 posts
26 Mar 2010 12:39PM
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Kite-O-Dome

2 kiters enter,, 1 kiter leaves??

toppleover
QLD, 2070 posts
26 Mar 2010 2:44PM
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I am fairly sure if all kiters wore these for a while numbers would plummet.
[}:)]

sir ROWDY
WA, 5378 posts
26 Mar 2010 12:57PM
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free aids with every kite.

Lovely
QLD, 248 posts
26 Mar 2010 3:05PM
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Is that one of those super cool best kites? he looks comfortable



dusta
WA, 2940 posts
26 Mar 2010 1:15PM
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jacksemken said...

why is there so many jetski haters? is it because you cant afford one?


no because they are annoying little ****wits who think that a designated water ski area is a good place to tailgate skiers and jump wakes .

wal269
WA, 718 posts
26 Mar 2010 1:17PM
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OMG - One of the above photos is of me!

sbray
SA, 350 posts
26 Mar 2010 4:54PM
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Lovely said...






Is that one of those super cool best kites? he looks comfortable






I thought, for one brief paranoid moment, that Tony Abbott had taken up kiting as well as surfing & ironman

tightlines
WA, 3510 posts
26 Mar 2010 3:19PM
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jacksemken said...

why is there so many jetski haters? is it because you cant afford one?


Pffft a lot of kiters and windsurfers are well paid professionals or tradies that spend as much on there kit as a jetski cost, so I can assure you it is not that.

More likely because of the amount of times we have been out enjoying the elements of nature, kiting, surfing, swimming, diving, even having a peaceful picnic or whatever, enjoying the relaxing, chilled out vibe. Then along comes a noisy, smelly jetski whose rider feels he must ride right in front of everyone so he can show off his figjam, awesome riding skills in front of as big an audience as he can find which just kills "the vibe" completely, often when there is heaps of room with no-one around further up the beach.

Yes there may be a time and place for jetski's (in designated area's or for surf lifesaving and towing-in at offshore reefs etc) and some riders are careful and considerate but it appears the overwhelming majority don't give a tom tit about others.
Still if it keeps them off a kite it's probably a good thing.

GalahOnTheBay
NSW, 4188 posts
26 Mar 2010 6:45PM
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sir ROWDY said...

Just get rid of all those freakin 100% depower abortions, so kooks like the ones that rule the sport now can't learn.


Never a truer word was spoken. Current gear is encouraging too many soft kiters!

ok
NSW, 1089 posts
26 Mar 2010 9:09PM
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Pffft a lot of kiters and windsurfers are well paid professionals or tradies that spend as much on there kit as a jetski cost, so I can assure you it is not that.

More likely because of the amount of times we have been out enjoying the elements of nature, kiting, surfing, swimming, diving, even having a peaceful picnic or whatever, enjoying the relaxing, chilled out vibe. Then along comes a noisy, smelly jetski whose rider feels he must ride right in front of everyone so he can show off his figjam, awesome riding skills in front of as big an audience as he can find which just kills "the vibe" completely, often when there is heaps of room with no-one around further up the beach.

Yes there may be a time and place for jetski's (in designated area's or for surf lifesaving and towing-in at offshore reefs etc) and some riders are careful and considerate but it appears the overwhelming majority don't give a tom tit about others.
Still if it keeps them off a kite it's probably a good thing.






Is this not the reason for kiting being banned at some beaches? because the idoits who own kites come and jump right in front of you and annoy whilst your trying to have a PICNIC on the beach? it may just be me but maybe some kiters are a bit hypocrictical because they do the exact same thing as the jet ski riders.

bjw
QLD, 3691 posts
27 Mar 2010 9:58AM
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sir ROWDY said...

free aids with every kite.


The sport is gay enough already

sleek1
VIC, 672 posts
27 Mar 2010 1:34PM
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Ban kite forums.

Smedg
NSW, 836 posts
28 Mar 2010 1:29PM
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superimposing that repeated image over top of seabreeze and kite forum home page and the likes would have to turn off most. Particularly anyone who had just eaten.

jev7337
QLD, 460 posts
1 Apr 2010 9:21AM
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Thats the answer - or not?! vvv
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=64340



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