Krisiz1 said...
Well said KIT33R. You should be the Mayor of Kitesurfshire, and if your constituents shared the attitude you claim to have, it would be good for your sport. (...)
Well, it's true that his reply brought tears to the eyes.
Problem is that they all have the same discourse - every single last effing one of them. Talk to them - they always say the others are dangerous, those are a minority, etc.
Yet these nice words conflict sharply with observation: very many leaving lines around on the water and you have to sail around (or in my case, plough into). The fair number of them launching dangerously, and the absolute 100% of them taking all the room on the beach while laying the lines.
Nice discourse, same result in the end.
3 spots closed here because of them's dorks in a small area here in the last 2 years alone. One was a behaviour thing (a church parking lot that had been open to windsurfing for 20 years), 2 others for multiple incidents with non-windsurfing beachgoers. I had not heard of a spot closed because of windsurfers alone in the past 20 years. And 1-2 more at risk from local city councils.
Those places aren't closed because of a single individual, but the accumulation of very many of those people and their behaviour.
Again, great speech. I have no doubt he's the exception.
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