If you believe there are too many kitesurfers on the water......
what do you think would make the sport less appealing to the gumbies ?
hopefully it will fade like windsurfing did after its initial popularity, and just leave a core of dedicated riders.
or maybe something even easier to learn will come along.....
Make it so that their first lesson is in 30kt+ winds...and the rest of the class have to watch...that should do it!
Otherwise, send them over here to Vic. Either offshore/gusty winds, or none at all!
[edit] As I've said before, it's rare to see a kite here, we have no 'overcrowding' issues, if anything, there's not enough watersports persons (politically-correct) besides fishermen & yachties...it soulds like even you kiters are getting sick of the influx of cowboys?
Like most things, a few idiots will manage to ruin it for the majority with their stupidity leading to restrictions at popular spots
We could make all the kites in a rainbow 'gay pride' pattern, but that may not make much difference to the crowd attracted by this activity
No more regulations !! For f@#ks sake !! The day we have to pay rego on windsurfers, surf boards, kayaks, kite boards, what ever, is the day I launch a rocket attack against the government !!! COMMON SENSE is all thats required.
Richie I 100% agree. You can hardly do anything these days without having to follow some sort of bloody regulation. The last 10 years it has just been getting worse and worse....unfortunately I don't see it improving.
I'll go halves on the rocket/s 
Youll have to make your kites look really boring and sedate.
A month ago the kids and were driving along the coast and saw a mass of kites sailing? nth of Hillaries, we got drawn like mossies to a UV lamp.
It just looked amazing.
If it attracts normal 40+ year old kids like myself, how are you going to stop the really youngBoguns who've actually got the money to do it?
I wouldn't worry about it. The problem will take care of itself kiters are gay so will just breed themselves out
The universe will unfold as it should, but will take a long time.
Here in N.A., most traditional W/S shops have switched big time to kiting, it's the mercantile void to fill. Same with all the "kiting schools" and other self-learners.
A shop here actually tries hard to discourage windsurfers: "kiting is the thing in now", and all that crap. Same guy who was promoting "the 2008 version is quarter-ounce lighter, therefore you will plane .02 knot earlier." The guy would promote wanking if he could make money out of it.
The kiting fad will probably last 10 years that way, forever appealing to more people looking for easiness.
I think the way to go would be have Pauline Hanson official ambassador of Kite surfers.
Then tell all the missionaries and born again Christians to hang around kite surfers as they really need rescuing from god. If that doesn’t work, give the missionaries kite lessons so they can preach while they kite! 
Another way is give every kiter’s ex girlfriends kite lessons. That’ll get ‘em into another sport quick smart. Why not get the ex’s mothers on the beach as well. Give them a good ear bashing as their struggling with their kite on land. 
Make K Rudd give everyone but kiters the stimulus package on the grounds that they’re stimulated enough.
Stop the manufacturers from making it so 'easy'.
Remove everything except the early 4 line C kites that used to rip your backside out through your navel via the harness when they powered up. (I've still got a couple of those in the back of the shed somewhere)
Or, (and this worked really well for the windsurfing industry), get rid of those highly visible coloured canopies, and get them to make clear ones that nobody really notices.
Make it gay(er) so that the 'cool' crowd take up road cycling or something less gay..
It's not so much that there are too many kitesurfers on the water, just that there are too many gumbies on the water in general. Kiters, poleys, goat-boats, SUPs, stink boats, and surfers all have their share of complete nobs.
At least us windsurfers prefer conditions where most gumbies stay at home out of the wind.
Make kite colours similar to the dull colours put out by certain sail manufacturers plus make the kites transparent as 555 suggests. So a clear kite with brown & grey trim. That will turn people off.
just hack it oldies. 
your all soo jealous of the attention the kiters get. i know how you feel; like the teddy bear that is ignored once the kid grows up.
maybe you should give up windsailing and take up jetski wave jumping. that gets the crowd watching.
ps. i dont kite either.
Simple. Introduce them to a couple of kitesurfers. That should do the trick nicely...
Regulation and licensing was talked about for a while in the early days of the teabaggers, when they were busy smacking themselves into anything solid/electrified/pointy around the beach. The worry was that windsurfing would be caught in the same noose. Now that things have calmed down a bit, and the ambulances are a little less popular on the beach, it seems to gone away. 
Interestingly though, without a licensing scheme, councils cannot allocate "gazette" windsurfing/kiting areas for exclusion of other motor boats/jetskis and the like. Found this out when some d*ck in a tinnie dragged a 5 ft high fishing line in front of a sailing fleet at Pelican Point. My sail and hands ended up getting garrotted by the line. Reported to Water Cops but was basically legal.
