Yesterday on the beach in Rockingham WA, I met the local "council" kiter police! I have heard from others that every beach tends to have one them!

Anyway, he was trying to run beginners out of town, and he exact words were "Don't f**k**g come back". To back him up, he kept quoting the local council and a sign board that doesn't state waht he was trying to enforce; No Beginner!

We were not doing anything stupid and stayed downwind of him and his mates filming each others. However, I found out that we were in the designated windsurfing area and vacated it immediately. In the spirit of pot calling kettle black... this guy and his mates were crashing kites doing tricks upwind of windsurfers.

Have you any such experience to share?

troll

Stop anonymous trolling!

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flipper4444 said...

whats with the pig noses in the video? the two shop keepers had pig noses? and the troll in the vid should of bashed em up they were giving him alot of crap

LMAO I guess you have to be in the "League of gentlemen" to understand this.

I generally stay away from this type of s#%t but after a sail this afternoon at my local Iam about to vent.

Tourist/Euro Kiter and his mates rock up. Whats the wind like?? He says. No how ya going mate, No name intro, No Asking where they should stay Nothing, but arogance.. but we are used to this from visitng kiters down here.
BUT
After walking down 100 meters of stairs carrying my kit, They bloody rig their kites at the bottom of the stairs. Strings and Kites everywhere. Oh well walk straight over i do. Why. Cause theirs no where else to walk. 800m of beach and they rig at the bottom of the only entrance to the beach.
Would of been hard for the mum with 4 young kids trying to get down to beach as well..
Rant over....[}:)]

Fecal said...

Someone who gets pleasure by typing annoying/controversial/offensive words at strangers on internet forums, for them to read

i thought that was called sh!t stiring

^^^plagiarism at its best how original

siwalker said...

Just to clear things up. I was never trying to run beginners out of town. I told you that local etiquette was to not teach in the "pond". But that it was perfectly fine to teach out the back of the sand bar, or around at pengos.
It was a busy day down at the pond and not a safe place to teach. especially as you were teaching him 30 metres off the beach with onshore winds. Not safe on any beach IMO.
I am not normally one for being aggressive, and only swore at the end after you continually told me that you would teach there regardless.

Every beach has its local etiquette, and it takes very little effort to ask around and make sure you are not doing the wrong thing. These rules are set up at the pond so that we can continue to share the spot with the windsurfers.

exactley right, pond is for free/wake style, advanced riders.
If you want to learn/teach, dont want to follow the route round the pond, don't want to share the pond with the poleys, kite at penguin island.
I learnt at penguin island in 2006 with west oz, am a competant kiter, do the occasional trick, but mostly boost and have fun, and i stay out of the pond when i venture south to safety.

They want to be seen, especially on 3sqm of butter flat. They take many pics to send back home. They are almost all really cool and colourful. Some only speak English if it is to their advantage. Most are friendly and nice, but need educating. I feel sorry for them, but there are too many of them...........people that is. They come from a dark crowded disneyland, the poor kn EFFEFL.

stoplocalism said...

Yesterday on the beach in Rockingham WA, I met the local "council" kiter police! I have heard from others that every beach tends to have one them!

Anyway, he was trying to run beginners out of town, and he exact words were "Don't f**k**g come back". To back him up, he kept quoting the local council and a sign board that doesn't state waht he was trying to enforce; No Beginner!

We were not doing anything stupid and stayed downwind of him and his mates filming each others. However, I found out that we were in the designated windsurfing area and vacated it immediately. In the spirit of pot calling kettle black... this guy and his mates were crashing kites doing tricks upwind of windsurfers.

Have you any such experience to share?

I would respond to this but i just dont give a f**k

barn said...

SandS said...


Can someone please discribe " troll " in this context .

sorry but this used to be a little rubber toy doll with no cloths and long black hair!!

I may have just crawled out from under my rock, but help!!!

Don't think its trolling, it's just an anonymous post, and considering the odds of the other party being online and explaining their side clearly, its a big fail...

But then again, it is still trolling, because all kiters are the sporting equivalent of internet trolls anyway.. amirite?

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Troll

That is magic , you have explained the meaning of the word to me. And then you have done some "trolling of your own "

You havent had a bite yet though!!

Thanks for all your feedback, some more passionate then others.

As a general response to posts, I did check in with the local shop about kiting in the area before going out and assessed the spot we used to be reasonably safe for the kiter's kite control skill level. We were trying board starting in water after a lot of work on more spacious beach elsewhere. We made a point to do short runs and back up as far as we can without getting into other kiters' way, also noted that most windsurfers didn't like dragging in the shallow part.

If theres a point to be made here, its not to expect first time visitors to know the rules you have made up, especially if it is not on any sign board, and not to be so offended if your rules are not followed as a result. I do understand the motivation just not the delivery.

Some of the posts suggest a lot of negative sentiment toward visitors. I don't want to fuel that nor do I want any beach banned for kiting so happy to respect any reasonable local rules if I know about them.

Seabreeze: If you don't already, could a section, perhaps a sticky forum, to allow dissemination of such information?

Doggie, what i say and what i do are often poles apart.
Just ask anyone who knows me
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