Tony Armstrong said...
Employing the services of a local tourism office has proven to be a key to success in quite a few events I see around my area.
My 2 cents worth anyway.
Yes having somebody organise something where they can make some money or get something back in return for the effort is a good way to make something happen.
A lot of people jump up and down and get Jealous when somebody is making money but the cold hard facts are you can only achieve so much with volunteers and it is usually one or two doing the majority of the workload and it takes a special person with some spare time on their hands to take it on
And unfortunately with kitesurfing you can put in all that hard work but you cant organise the wind to turn up at the event
If the wind was more reliable I reckon we would have more success with events in our state with sponsors and organisers more willing to help out
Kite Racing has regular events going on in at least four states with the majority run by a commercial entity such as kitepower in Sydney or sailing clubs such as Brighton and Sandringham in Melbourne, but is also lucky they have a bigger wind range being able to use 17m kites and run in less than 12knots
Most other sports also have clubs that orgainse events with volunteers of the club pitching in, but kiting has no such structure at a local level and is a bunch of individuals doing their thing, perhaps if the freestylers could organise the wave event and the wave guys could return the favour and organise a freestyle event something might get off the ground
