Miss Jessie said...

Maybe Mark shouldn't have ....... yep phone box is a tricky spot to kite and not for the inexperienced

Hi Jess,

I was there that day too. I was the guy on the Ozone Kites and the surfboard further upwind. I have quoted u to highlight a small indiscretion.

YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO RIG LAUNCH OR LAND KITES AT THE PHONE BOX. It is not a beginner, intermediate or experienced rider location. IT IS BANNED! There is a bloody great sign on the beach at the bottom of the stair case to the beach. It explicitly says "no rigging closer than 100m South of the sign" and yet every windy day, kiters ignore the sign and do as they please.

You don't have to have the ranger come up to you to get everyone in the sh!t and lose the spot for all of us. The ranger and local residents don't come up to you personally, they take photos from the top of the hill and use it as evidence to council as they have done in the first place to shut it down ages ago.

Johnno Keys, WAKSA and a group of other dedicated kiters worked long and hard with council to re-open the Cottesloe area to kiting. PLEASE DO NOT RIG HERE AGAIN.

Rules are you can kite out the front of the phone box, but you CANNOT USE THE BEACH FOR RIGGING LAUNCHING OR LANDING.

I am not directing this at you personally, but to all the kiters who use this area. It is dangerous and Illegal to use the Phone Box. Please respect the rules so we can all enjoy the spot for years to come.


Sorry about your boyfriends kite and the crap he has got from the community but hey, if he wasn't at the phone box, it wouldn't have happened. Karma in action???? Maybe.

Good winds,

wow, from the amount of ***** appearing in hers posts, seems miss jessie has quite the trash mouth happening..

... and typical of an emotional woman in an argument... she makes absolutely no bloody sense..

i think i would have taken photos too, what else could you do...? its not a life threatening situation, and if it was, then the photos' would be worth money!

how many of us watch that funny video show?
seriously, from the photos', there is a three foot white wash mark, the swell could not have been that big...
suck it up, the 'look at me, look at me' factor of kitesurfing, just totally backfired,
at least its just on here and not national tele like the bondi incident

Miss Jessie said...

Maybe Mark shouldn't have gone out, but who hasn't had a day like that, I was on 7m and it kept floating so I would have thought that the 12 would have been fine,................

Hi Jessie,
Now you're thinking straight. ^^
You are beginning to get some clarity.
Some time after an event like this, you start to analyse your actions at the time.
You begin to question your thinking processes.....
which helps you plan for future situations.
Forum topics like this are good for the kiting community.
These pictures and words simply teach us how to save our sorry arses.
If the victims (yourself and Mark) are given a bit of stick on a forum like this....
just take your medicine in good humour.
No one died, right.
It's only a ripped kite, suck it up Miss.

Maybe you should have taken out the 12m instead of the floaty 7.
Maybe Mark should have remained on dry land and fixed you a nice picnic lunch and cold beverage.
It's funny, kitesurfing.
Sometimes you want to kite so bad that it hurts...
So bad that your brain stops working.
Even when there's pus wind.....
some desperate will pump up his kite and grab some chump to foolishly launch his kite.
But you've got to listen to your kite.
Your faithful kite will always tell you if the wind is ok.
It's like one of those loyal seeing-eye dogs on four strings.
Well anyway,
it always tells me cause I always self-launch.....
and if the kite is unwilling to fly off the beach....
well, that's a pretty good indicator that I shouldn't bother.
DON'T GO OUT !
^ *that's my kite talking to me.
lol.

Kitehard said...

YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO RIG LAUNCH OR LAND KITES AT THE PHONE BOX. It is not a beginner, intermediate or experienced rider location. IT IS BANNED! There is a bloody great sign on the beach at the bottom of the stair case to the beach. It explicitly says "no rigging closer than 100m South of the sign" and yet every windy day, kiters ignore the sign and do as they please.

Johnno Keys, WAKSA and a group of other dedicated kiters worked long and hard with council to re-open the Cottesloe area to kiting. PLEASE DO NOT RIG HERE AGAIN.

Rules are you can kite out the front of the phone box, but you CANNOT USE THE BEACH FOR RIGGING LAUNCHING OR LANDING.

I'm not too clued-up on this phone-box thing.
I can only guess that the Cottesloe area identified by a solitary phone-box....
must be too close to the road traffic and powerlines.....
so therefore it's too dangerous for launching and landing kites.
But apparently folks still launch and land there.
lol.
If this is the case ^^

Then that big f.u.c.k.-off sign is a waste of space, hey ?
Nor does that regulatory system of WAKSA tags hanging off harnesses amount to much.

You see, it all boils down to personal survival instinct.
Some folks naturally have it, others not.
Some people are oblivious to the obvious.
Stupid plastic tags won't magically teach you survival skills.
It's helpful if it's in your genes.
It needs to be intuitive.
When a situation is sketchy, it is best that you sense that it is.
Feel it.
Not read all about it on a big f.u.c.k-off sign.
Signs are for kooks.
Survivors can smell sketchyness.
lol.

Kitehard, I'm still no wiser ?
All you told me was something about people getting their heads chopped-off.
lol.
And what's so bad about this phone-box anyway ?
.....other than most times it's probably un-useable due to vandalism.
So apparently you can kite opposite the phone-box.....that's ok
but no launch, no land ??
You need to spell it out for me, I'm a bit slow.

Hey slave...i've always said the only difference between the "obvious" and The "oblivious" is a LI..E!

And "it doesn't take too many brains to be stupid"....my personal favorite!

And you guys can all suck on my six pack...the amount of F..ing bull Sp!t you can carry on with.....

Oh i forgot it's winter!

Stabb this one!

KITES, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE.... HAHA


I'M STILL STUCK ON CAPITALS

Dr WHO must get angry when he comes out of the Tardis AKA The PhoneBox, chased by Darleks and Cybermen only to fall over some dudes kite and get all darleked up his butt n all that.

**** I've done some time travel in my time and that'd sure piss me off.

Hence the sign.







GET A SENSE OF HUMOUR!

so where do you draw the line slave? how many people have to be on the beach before its deemed unsafe to rig/launch?
everybody will interpret 'keeping it real' differently.
like you say some people have no common sense or logic, hence the sign. its too late in the sport to expect kiters to behave rationally. there are too many gumby riders out there.

^welll.., i guess we could ask michael tsarion that one, and as for 'keeping it real', it seems to well the same connotations as the seabreeze perennial of 'harden the fnck up', or rather HTFU as prefered to save laurie's sensitive ears (and to keep his sniveling hall monitor on side)... one only has to view the marvelous social commentary of mr dave chappelle, to see just how much a mis-contexted attitude of keeping it real can turn severly for the worst...

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Well sounds like a happy ending, sort of...Hope the kite wasnt sewn up in that passage way, or worse things may happen yet....

Sad part is, the effort here to trash a guy that allready got trashed.
We probably all have had sh!t happen to us, lucky no guy with a camera was around to document the missery.

posko said...

i still love you Jess.

but i love this forum more...

but back to the point... this is not about a phone box... this is about a guy, a kite and a bad day out...

Qu.1) is the kite fixed?
Qu. 2) have you got back on the water?
Qu. 3) (if the answer is no to the above...) do ya wanna buy my 11m slingy
Qu 4.) will there be a CAGE FIGHT or are we just gonna keep kicking this guy whilst he's down...

*song comes to mind* wooo ooohoo oo cause ya had a bad day...


i miss Perth... see you in Feb
Pöskö

Typical Poss, sticking to his root as a sales rep.

NZ oysters - taste great. Kites love their wholesome taste too.

We have all ended up on the rocks with snapped masts and ripped sails.......

so be it.

No injury No Problems.

But i got to say its even better to see trashed kites and five x 200 meters OF MED string in a ball with hemeroides to go.

Something about the visual aspect and noise thats so appealing.

Richer to raggs / raggs to richers ?


As for the photographer in his cot Ugg boats ,mercadies bends, sipping on Mc Cafe hot chocalate with the heater running whilst being payed by seebreeze .
i would have only wound my window down enough to point the camera to. ????