Good or bad or has its place
If gnarloo had real locals would it be spread all over the internet.
If it wasn't all over the net would you still be able to go out there without fighting off every tom dick and harry. Where the vibes good and everyone just takes it in turns. I know the Carnarvon locals would have loved to have kept it like that.(very distant memories).
The other question is should kiters learn from this.
Surf mags don't name waves neither should we.
I can imagine even in flat water there will be kiters who wish their local spots hadn't been plastered all over the net as the place for euroes to go.
Personally I like having others enjoy it with me especially after doing it on my own for so long but I understand we are looked at like jetskies in the surf and there is never enough waves for everyone when looking at it from a surfers point of view.
Always bad. Always.
Localism:
The method employed by the desperate and feeble minded who think somehow they have a claim to mother ocean in their vicinity. The same tools are happy to globetrot to exotic destinations to sample the wares there, but expect water-lovers to fk right off from their local sh!tty knee high closeouts (Perf specific here).
Strictly for those underpacked in the family jewels dept. 
BTW, not advertsinig your local spot makes sense, but it's not the same as hassling or getting biffo-keen if someone paddles into your fav line-up.
localism is ugly, but in some spots its the only way the locals can get a wave. its all well and good to share but sometimes there are just too many people in the water and it only takes one to ignore the rules for the whole system to collapse.
personally i prefer to ride a poorer wave with fewer crew than get involved in the agro at the more well known spots
^^^^ yeah funny
That would be localism
I agree everyone has the right to enjoy the ocean(or supermarket) just don't spoil it for others.
aren't the locals paying council rates for the municipality within which they live, which includes the local beaches, parks etc... hence they are paying for the maintenance and tax for such area... they may have also paid the higher price to be able to live closer to the beach...
i reckon, whilst hardcore localism is bad, and whilst everyone is entitled to go to any public beach, the locals should be respected in some way...
how about if locals are the ones carefuly protecting their local spot by playing it safe and careful, and then you get some outsider idiots who come with no respect, and then ignite the old ban campaigns (which seems to be occuring more and more)... and then those idiots will go to another spot to kite, whilst locals (who still pay local taxes) are left without their favourite local spot to utilise... i reckon, bring on localism to any idiots who lack respect and comon sense !!!
I agree with superlizard.
A little bit of local respect, common sense and a g'day on the beach does't go astray.
We are the ones who have to live here all year round.
Localism has its place. There is nothing worse than hanging out all week watching the calm ocean only to have people turn up from out of town and overcrowd the beach as soon as the wind arrives.
It's ok when there are just a few blowins and they share and don't do 100m runs back and forth through the best spots and respect common sense safety.
Locals will generally obey the rules and be safer with bystanders and other water users because they will ultimately suffer the most if their spot is banned. Some spots have a limit on how many kiters can kite at the same time.
When I turn up to a beach for a surf and it's crowded I go somewhere else. Blowins should do the same.
I can see why some locals get upset, especially with threats of kite bans etc. It could take just one visitor doing the wrong thing to get there spot shut down. They expect us to self regulate and enforce to keep our ridding spots so what do you?
Even if you do own land right down to the water, i dont think you can stop people from accessing the beach. There are a lot of farmers who have land going right to the water and they have to provide public access. But ideally how good would it be to have your own beach with a good surf break
Your council deliberately spends your rates to attract bunches of blowins to spend money at your local deli :P
Yet another reason to distrust the pollies ;)
self regulation can only be done with fair or respectful localism. I am not saying bash someone for riding at your local but at the end of the day its the local riders who have to enforce the rules so every one can enjoy.
Yeh Turtle - I guess that would be better termed being locally pro-active. (PC boolocks sounding tho).
The term localism is loaded - and to most means selfish orshools dominating a break(s) with no rhyme or reason, just coz they orshools. [}:)]
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Please see Trigg Point for examples on a decent swell day.
Nuttin wrong with being locally proactive BTW, but localism is only a thin application of zinc away from redneck. "Fk orf - the break is full!" (of rednecks )
