Somebody will give somebody the finger, no hard feelings?

It shows either ignorance, lack of situational awareness, or they just think their own tricks are so much more important than any one else's. Either way its just rude.

Chris_M said...
Somebody will give somebody the finger, no hard feelings?

nah dude if you had been there the last few weeks you would want to give this dude more than the bird ahhaha

Chris_M said...

ewan kite said...

Chris_M said...
Somebody will give somebody the finger, no hard feelings?

nah dude if you had been there the last few weeks you would want to give this dude more than the bird ahhaha

I don't mean the bird, I mean the finger, no lube. Works well but u gotta have a strong finger depending on how vigorously you work it.

let me know how it goes, yea?

Try kiting in a small lagoon with aprox 30 other kiters, people running lessons, world champs throwing it around, and the rest of us just enjoying some flat warm shallow water, short tack what ever, its amazing how even with all the traffic we all enjoyed ourselves and didnt have kite nazis going off about "dropping in", get over it dude and be thankfull you have a place to kite anyway! SEE and AVOID.

the euro tack

People that think short tacking, or cutting in doesn't matter are total kooks.
I'd like to see those same people that don't care, stand in a line for an ATM or a food store and get constantly cut in-front of, then when they get angry just be told "it doesn't matter, chill out"... I'm sure they would love it.

Lets be honest, the two biggest instigators at the pond this season are 2 french guys (one pictured) flying North. They obviously don't give a flying f#ck about others because they have been told several times by different people to pick up their game. Not only do they constantly short tack everyone, but they follow stupidly close behind others, effectively blocking them from doing a trick when they aren't even in-front... the point is, this behaviour is stupid, inconsiderate and dangerous to other riders. I have no tolerance for this.
I told one of these guys politely to F@#k off, after watching him repeatedly cut people off and nearly cause a serious accident the other day. If you witness some stupid behaviour like this I suggest you do the same thing.

It's sad that it's come to the point where riders almost need to "police" the place... but if you don't say anything no one will change or know the rules.

p.s.
I just feel bad for the few locals that are still left there, sorry if I got in your way at all!

So doughnuts in my car = kiteloops? And handbrake turns = landing blind?

After spending a while in Aus, I can safely conclude that kiters are without doubt the biggest whingers of anywhere else I've ever kited. Seriously. And this is from a "whinging", Pom(E)

"Noob", this and "Euro", that.....

e.g. Cape Town gets waaaaay more kiting traffic than anywhere in Aus, and I've rarely seen or heard of any of the locals take to the forums to wave their c0ck about or lambast the learners/ tourists. They'll just get on with it, sort out any differences on the water and leave the forums for the egotistic tools to have a cry.

If you're a decent enough kiter in the first place, you'll recognize and stay away from the hazards whether they be human, natural or man-made or at least be able to deal with them without bleating on a web forum.

Nor have I ever heard anyone bemoan a rider using his or her continental disposition for any reason

Sounds like we need to bring back BLOKEY's old trick with the two man tack. worked a treat last time we had a bunch of blow in ****s who continually ignored the rules and ignored our suggestions to follow the circuit.

two people tack together, one goes in front, flat out speed kite on the water. forces any on coming traffic to go down wind and gives a clear window for the rear rider to do their trick. turn around swap places and come back in. if annoyance is behind you then simply rear kiter drops kite to water level and slow right down. boom blocked out the short tacking ball bag

pomE said...
After spending a while in Aus, I can safely conclude that kiters are without doubt the biggest whingers of anywhere else I've ever kited. Seriously. And this is from a "whinging", Pom(E)

"Noob", this and "Euro", that.....

e.g. Cape Town gets waaaaay more kiting traffic than anywhere in Aus, and I've rarely seen or heard of any of the locals take to the forums to wave their c0ck about or lambast the learners/ tourists. They'll just get on with it, sort out any differences on the water and leave the forums for the egotistic tools to have a cry.

If you're a decent enough kiter in the first place, you'll recognize and stay away from the hazards whether they be human, natural or man-made or at least be able to deal with them without bleating on a web forum.

Nor have I ever heard anyone bemoan a rider using his or her continental disposition for any reason

If you haven't heard to locals complain about euros, you haven't been to the right forum. ikiteboarding.com used to be the main one, it's died a slow death now but there were regularly run in's with euros on the beach including a couple of punch ups. What you see here is nothing.

Similar to Surfing, Kitesurfing etiquette and rules are pretty loose and generally championed by those individuals that consider some of the following values:

Respect - Respecting your fellow rider regardless of their talent but of course respect begets respect right?

Awareness - Generally after surveying the spot, other riders and general flow of a spot you can join the 'flow' and do you part to keep things moving and communicate with others on the water. A nod of the head, a raise of the hand...

Attitude - This is where a lot of people fall down especially our main protagonist. This is fundamental on the water. With the wrong attitude you introduce stress, danger to others, anger and more...

Now i am not saying we should be the kite police or anything BUT a let people do what ever they like attitude will just not cut it.

Same in every sport! Without some mutual respect, awareness and a good attitude on the water we will digress and behave like animals. (Like our protagonist!) For those of you misinterpreting this post it is a discussion about kiting behaviour and how it affects other.

rphi6876 said...
I really dont see how this bothers you guys. The short tacker should ride in perform his trick and ride away long before the rider out the back gets there. How does that affect anybody. He is not cutting any queue - a queue suggests a bottle neck whereby the arrival rate is higher than the departure rate - this guy is going to an empty counter buying his goods and leaving well before any new customers arrives.

If he does prevent the rider out the back from doing a trick then I agree with all of you- but from the photo I just dont see it.

Lets say the rider who short tacks throws his trick and crashes out and drops his kite. The rider who was cut in front off now can't perform his trick in the flats and now has to do another 'lap' to line up his trick again.

.... drop in on a local at Pipeline, and the Wolfpack start a whistling, then it gets ugly. Result, not many locals get dropped in on at Pipeline.

NickT said...
So doughnuts in my car = kiteloops? And handbrake turns = landing blind?

I have a wobbly head what does that give ;)