"Big Up" to all you guys kiting on metro beaches - NOT !!!!

Said it before and I'll say it again, if you don't exercise some common sense and stop kiting on suburban swimming beaches we'll all be banned.

I'd give a big up to the moron who gave the article that title, in direct contrast to the last paragraph stating that it wasn't a move to ban, just restrict access to ensure safe use of the beach by ALL beach users.

Where did that article come from?

au_rick said...


I know it's only a handful that draw attention and create bad publicity but that's all it seems to take.

and it doesn't help with that video of the wa wave comp thread , that video is exactly the sort of **** that isn't helping the cause

This article, along with other sensationalist articles coming from the population of mediocre journos around today (seriously, the general standard of today's news journos is abismal) - try this...

read the first paragraph, then skip to the last paragraph to read the only objective or relevant information contained within the article.

dunno if anyone has read the "exemption" for tow surfing, but it's hardly an amnesty.

Baiscally it's a whole bunch of rules and regulations that must be adhered to when tow - surfing adn when the "trial period" ran out earlier this year it was simply extended by another 12 months.

What I think we can expect to see is a whole raft of rules that will be applied to kiters and enfarced enforced by the transport department and / or shire rangers ?

Not kiting/rigging/landing from the banned area at cottesloe beach (bottom of deane street) would be a start! Why does the guy on the cabrinha nomad think it’s a good idea? He's been told but he won’t listen! Also crashing his kite in front of children in the same area is also a bad look!

Wen ever i go kiting there is always someone doing something wrong. 30 kiters and 1 person doing something wrong is all it takes. Lucky the article didnt mention banning the sport but just restricting it to certain parts of metro beaches. Very misleading. I think having designated areas is a good idea which could also be broken down again for beginners, intermediates and advanced kiters which keeps everyone safe.

Time to pull our collective heads in and play nice (nice and far away from swimmers/punters) to 100% avoid any chance of an incident (perceived or otherwise).

On Sunday I was on the booger with my 7 yr old in front of the Ampitheatre at Scarbs. It was a deluxe day and there were punters and swimmers (and middle-aged lard arses on boogers). I was stoked to see some kites out (and cursing that I had promised a booger sesh with the lad or I would have been out for sure) but unfortunately there was a goose amongst the flock of course.

Of the 10-20 kites out having a good time and generally staying to Brighton, about 300m south of the Ampitheatre, (where there were only a handful of crazies swimming in the icy water) one uber tool had to kite right up to and around in the middle of the ampitheatre section repeatedly!! WTF!?

Now I know it isn't easy to stay upwind in light fluky breeze like that but seriously WTF was the 12m Blue n White Kima/yellow surfboard guy thinking?? He was the only kiter who even came near that section in the hour i was in the water. If you know this bloke - watch him next time he is in the Brighton area and set him straight if he trespasses. BTW - I should add we weren't even in the break but inshore in the slop, yet uber tool had to milk every one of his prescious seconds on his self infatuation trip, by coming right into the shallows whilst barely keeping his kite in the air. [Double, no TRIPLE face palm behaviour]


I have not been in the water that close and downwind of a kite like that (when not kiting) in ages and it made me extremely uncomfortable, to the point I had to stop our activities (repeatedly) and be ready to bolt/untangle my kid and if the wind fluked, and we got a nice flogging from the lines (the kite would have fallen accross us or only just upwind on several occasions). We moved over, then agian (as did others - but some stayed right in harm's way - and uber tool seemed determined to enjoy his space.

This is exactly the sort of sh!t that will garauntee a banning from the entire area.

Everyone else managed to pull their heads in and stay upwind/away from the punters by doing the walk of shame when needed except one idiot. This idiot decided his enjoyment was far more important than abot 30-40 punters in the 100% swimming only area that anyone with a brain would adhere to.

BTW I looked around and the idiot was being watched closely (I was not the only one feeling very vulnerable, although the others probably didn't know how fickle the kite control/conditions were) by all those in the water and on the beach (the most populated area at the time) and there was no admiration for the idiot muscling into the swimming area and thrashing about in knee high slop i am sure. [}:)]





So anyway, I agree totally on the self policing and part of the 'pull our collective heads in' M.O. will have to be going out of our way to word idiots like that bloke up and get them out of the area ASAP (even if it means kiting out of posi or even landing to get in the fool's ear). It doesn't have to be a confrontation, but a firm 'this is the deal so move over here and we can all get back to kiting'.

It definately can't be assumed that all kiters view Seabreeze and/or subscribe to WAKSA so we absolutely need to sort the sh!t on the beach ourselves.

Top marks to WAKSA for already being onto this in the background. Now if we can manage to do the righty at the beach then we stand a chance of enjoying relative freedom in the area.

ADS - nothing wrong with kiting through there if it's a blown out miserable day and cranking, with no punters out. This wasn't near, this was right IN the ampi and it was a 14kt day at best with sun shining and obvious numbers of people in the ampi section.

Admitedly there were no flags there (but there were at times 2 beach patrol cars on the sand watching - and watching the tool) at the ampi. However it was obvious it was a sunny Sunday for punters to brave the elements and there were significant numbers of punters in the water. Most of the swimmers were right where i was, on a shallow sandbank.

Suffice to say it was obvious and common sense not to go anywhere near the spot to every other kiter and they didn't come within 200m of the ampi.

We are talking right through the ampi section BTW not just coming near the ampi. By the end of the fiasco my son and I (and other punters) were 'swept' out of uber tool's way and past the northern posts of the ampi.

Annoying - also that put us near a rip I had already told my son to avoid. "Why are we over here near the rip dad?" "Oh just to avoid being shreaded or flogged by a kn selfish w@nker son" or slightly more sedate words..

At least it gave me a chance to give him the drill on how to avoid kite lines and how it's important to always try to be upwind of a kite. "Why are close to him and downwind now dad?" "Pretty much coz the selfish w@nker wants everwhere to himself."

why be sorry GF . dickheads like that and the one in the wa wavecomp video are the ones that are going to ruin it for everyone .

hey get funky, check out topic conditions for wa wave titles.

Someone with half a brain should remove it

Alas, if so passionate about self policing why have repeated opportunities to say g’day and politely point out the error of his ways gone begging
I guess someone else will do it.
Ranting on a forum is a much better idea, rant away.

Im sure we have all made mistakes, its part of growing up.
After 10 years Ozzie would be beginning to know what he is doing. Obviously he didn't have enough power on his edge to pop a massive enough kitelooping aerialist Mutated S bending frontside 9 over his head

Its so crowded in the city areas. Must be frustrating for you guys living in it.
I suggest traffic offenders should be shot on site and immediate family sterilized.
We don't want those genes back in the city sh-t mixer.
That could be new interesting angle for Labour junk mail.

That looks like toby from kiteforum.....Very graceful toes...

Kima dude - Do not try to move people on by buzzing close to and attempting to intimidate them .

Deliberate behaviour like this (and it now appears to me that your behaviour is deliberate - not just stoopid) is the worst I have seen to date and begging for the attention of those that wish to put bans in place.

Just so ya know - next time I go to scarbs ampitheatre I will have my emrgency kite knife with me.

I would hate to feel vulnerable or intimidated by your selfish and dangerous actions. It may seem an emergency situation and I think you will find a set of lines quite expensive to buy. Try floating your kite over mine and my son's head in fluky (or any) winds and you better have your credit card handy.[}:)]

Or you could just do the right thing and stick to the kiting area, as everyone else manages to do, and we can all co-exist.

Up to you Ioz.