It has been brought to my attention recently that it appears we need more structure at our local .
Like a club environment where kiters opinions, values, concerns about safety can be discussed , regulating current kiters , and newbys wanting to learn the sport at our location.
The reason for this post is the realisation that i am being "regulated" in the path i should take in my kiting by the people kite with.
At first because everyone is different it can appear as tension or my way is better than yours,or through a path of safety comes first for kiters and more importantly others who are unaware and know little or nothing about the dangers of our sport.

Due to the nature of this sport we like to kite when the winds up rather than talk about things we expect others to know.
The reality is people just wanna kite...and not complicate kiting their day trying to explain concerns or dangers that should be obvious to the unaware.

Its difficult to regulate safe kiting at times and you can only encourage others you kite with on a regular basis to be as safe as possible and minimise wrisks of any kind.
And then you get kiters from other locations or newbies turn up and have little knowledge or care of what is safe or where.

Like which is worse...
Someone launching safely in a semi crowded area mitigates a certain amount of danger.
Or
An experienced kiter watching that launch but later complaining that it was not the best thing to do at the time.
Yet not going over to help make it as safe as possible.

Improved club like structure were people can share their concerns add positive input and collectively improve moral is what im saying.. so future kiters can learn safely and feel included is more to the point.

Theres always going to be wrisks with what we do but education is what we should promote in a more advanced form than what we have right now.

A few locals cant control the masses but could initiate a positive begining to how our sport will grow in our part of the world.

Our location is stunning and within 15 yrs our population is on track to jump 20% from recent estimates.
Feel free to comment.
Cheers Dan.