Yeah - freestyle dragging along the beach - freestyle lack of consideration for other water users and freestyle arrogance - too afraid to lose a bit of ground and stick to the rules of the surf!

There are a few good crew around but theres a s**tload that just seem to want to own the hundred metres around em.

I've had a few experiences at Kent reserve and seacliff with out of control kiters - - they seem to get out of control so easy and its me / windsurfers that has to drop my sail and drop in the water & hope that my heads not taken off by the lethal strings. What response - all smiles like hey I m good at this - who gives a rats I'm a tea bagger so I am cooler so I can do what I want.

That feels better now - I've been watching this thread for a while and just couldn't hold back any longer

user said...

I windsurfed for years,then got sick of watching kiters ripping it up in 12 knots. gave it a go and never looked back.

User,
Your pride is clouding your judgement.
Tell these poleys nothing....take them nowhere.
Pimping kites to polesurfers is pissing into the wind.
Poleys are scared rabbits caught in the headlights.
If by chance a few brave ones venture across the road....
to the darkside,
Is kiting any richer for it ?
A few extra kite-kooks in the break is a nett loss.

ok then you quit first

This is better than TV any day

For crying out loud, lets stop this crap, where's the Seabreeze humour we all love

And as for who's sport is better, I still can't work out why anyone would play golf

To quote a common line from Moe of the Three Stooges. SPREAD OUT!

T
:Edit as I hit the wrong key.

The problem with board kiting, as I have said before is the amount of space it takes up. Spatial inequality is a real issue on crowded beaches and the amount of space board kiting takes up is at the expense of other users of the beach.

Added to this is some kite boarders have a selfish attitude. If we have three beach users. The first, Bill, wants to go for a swim. The second, Jim, wants to go windsurfing. The third, Ian, wants to go kite boarding.

So Bill goes to the beach. He takes up the space his body occupies. He can be selfish and spread out his towel. He can act like an idiot and throw sand at people. However the amount of problems he can cause on his own is small unless he is criminally minded. Chances are he is not going to cause a problem and other beach users will not mind Bill being there.

Jim turns up at the beach. He needs some area to rig up, maybe 20 square meters. He goes out for a sail. He takes up a fair bit more room than Bill the swimmer, with his gear. If he acts like an idiot he might gybe in areas where people are swimming. He might go charging out through the break and back, pissing off people waiting for waves. At worst he will hit someone and cause injury or death. Despite this its probable Jim won't do these bad things and will go sailing responsibly. So Jim might piss some people off because his gear gets in their way on the beach or when he is rigging, but thats about it.

Finally Ian turns up. He gets his kite out. Ian needs a fair bit of room to setup his kite. Then he has to fly it, to get down to the beach. His board is small but his kite is huge. If Ian acts like an idiot he could start doing jumps close to people. Ian's kite might go horizontal, thereby taking up a large amount of space, and creating potential danger to many people on the beach. However chances are Ian will kite responsibly. Despite this some people will get pissed off as they have to get out of the way of Ian and his kite, which takes up so much room.

It doesn't matter how responsible a kite boarder is. The amount of room their kit takes up is the problem.

Richiefish said...

wind brothers unite against the common enemy...the JETSKIERS.............

Yeah[}:)]

Well i am into lawn bowls and i think your all ****s.

yawn

brady said...

CJW said...

kiterdan said...

And for the record...kiting has it over windsurfing for freestyle (without a doubt) but windsurfing owns the waves...but this is/will change!

I'd refute those claims. Kite freestyle whilst there are a lot of 'tricks' they are almost all the same or some small variation of another. There is a picture floating around on here which lists all the grabs, each one corresponding to a different trick. To be honest I thought it was a piss take but apparently it's not. Freestyle windsurfing whilst it probably doesn't have as many tricks, the variety and difference between a lot of the moves is massive requiring an incredibly wide skill set. It takes years and years to learn even some of the basic freestyle tricks in windsurfing (unless you live in bonair) you can't say the same about kiting. There's a bloke at my local break, been kiting 1.5 years and i'd class him incredibly advanced.

If it takes that many years to develop the skills for top freestyle pole-boarding, how good will the kiters be after that long?[}:)]

incredibly strung out!c'mon guys we're all wind driven so let's go after the irresponsible ones[}:)]

Mr. No-one said...

It seems to me that this thread represents the same thing as what's happening on the water. In both cases this is our little area to surf and express ourselves but a small handful of kiters just can't keep to their forum or patch of water and feel the need to intrude on our space to stir things up to make themselves feel good without giving a damn about the friction and dangers they cause.
I would like to thank the kiters who respect our space but their the ones who don't visit here as I don't belong there.

Mr No One you will always be a nobody !!

What a whiner!
Kiters "intruding on your little space"
Gimme a break !

I check this forum to catch up with the windsurfing news and what my old windsurfing buddies are up to,like the great shots from the Nats in Tassie. So,thank you very much for the welcome.

I like windsurfing. I like windsurfers (most of them)but I just kite now,and am happy to share the water and the Forum with Windsurfers.

Nothing!

Its cool !

Mr. No-one said...

User, your've changed man, you used to be cool.

Its all that looking up in the sun.

Richiefish said...

wind brothers unite against the common enemy...the JETSKIERS.............

Yup. They're loud and they stink! So do their jetskis!!