Wow miken, seems like you should take your own advice. Your posts seem very negative.

neilw said...

Wow miken, seems like you should take your own advice. Your posts seem very negative.

As an occasional kiter at Scarborough, perhaps if kiters and poleys who don't kite/poledance at Scarborough could keep their opinions to themselves - just as WA kiters wouldn't want to stick their noses into Qld beach issues...just a thought???

neilw said...

Wow miken, seems like you should take your own advice. Your posts seem very negative.

MikeN doesn't post on here very often but when he does his comments always seem to me to be positive and well constructed, unlike a lot of other peoples comments.

I think you will find that Driftin deleted his comment because he realised after reading MikeN's post that it was not contributing anything positive to this thread.

oceanfire said...

I don't like what this could all potentially turn into.

I know there's always seemed to be a rivalry between kiters and windsurfers, but it always seemed to me to be mostly friendly spirited.
I just hate the possibility that I and all the other responsible kiters are potentially going to become the target of animosity from windsurfers all due to the fact that only a very small minority of d*ckhead kiters have ruined the harmony that has previously existed between all water users in particular areas.

Congratulations. Kitesurfers are now officially more despised than child rapists...

I have to totally agree with this statement. I demoed a kite last summer, first time kited at scabs for probably 8 years, and you are so right. It was the beginners screaming downwind, with looks of abject fear of their faces, in swarms - I wonder what the collective term would be for a group of learners screaming downwind.

Now I was consistently getting out of the way and had to use my years of kiting to avoid collision of kite, board and body (it was a particularly busy day), eventually put down kite and took it back to AKS and vowed never again to kite this place...and of course some will say good. I know it is not that bad all the time, it was a crazy day I picked, but I agree it is the learner.

I'm not going to call them retards or use some of the emotional language that has been used becuase we all have been there. When I learnt at scabs screaming downwind on a two line foil was okay as you just left the only two other guys on the water upwind...

Not sure of an answer hey, despite all our rage we are still just rats in a cage.



I kite with windsurfers all the time and we have no probs either.

Scabs is not the place to learn, repeat, scabs is not the place to learn. The traffic is too great

To the guy with the black and blue kite that was doing some light wind kiting about 5 this arvo, sunday 23rd.

Bad look trying to land relaunch in the middle of the amphitheatre at scarboro.

I know the wind dropped out, but ffs keep out of the most crowded part of the beach.

I was about 800m down the beach surfing, and praying for no pedestrians to get wiped out, and with it all our kite privileges for the summer, and forever.

Perhaps i should have stopped surfing, run up the beach and helped.

So happy i live in dongara 20kms of beach 6 kites max ,well until kitestock arrives, yep doesnt sound good down there and usually when one shire sets rules the others are soon to follow,the bksa are constantly delegating with local councils to allow kiting back on the beaches,ive heard of kiters rigging behind the dunes at my home beach in nw uk then outrunning the beach patrol to get their fix,also if someones being a bit of a dick with his kite we shouldnt be shy in telling them so,cant imagine the carnage on a packed beach in 25 knts with a beginner trying his new ,well 2003 wipika that he swapped for a carton digging a 200 yard trench with his chin,

any up todate maps