This is a major problem


I think we all need to talk to each other and discuss that is happening as this is a growing sport. the public on beaches/swimmers have the right of way over us kiters always. We must keep well clear of these people say 50meters minimum, maybe it needs to be 100m as a non kiters looking on from the beach it look very close and dangerous.

I keep seeing people learning or uneducated kiters doing silly thing close to the beach or swimmers where other people are. Kite surfing Teachers need to teach learners the rules and Kiting etiquette.

We all need to talk to these people, they should not get upset if they are in the wrong, we need to learn from these experiences and talk and help others including ourselves as we all can do silly things with out thinking about it every so offen........ If we don't all make an effort we not going to be able to kite all these fantastic spots around Auckland city and other beaches around the country, Chelts, Takapuna, Owera etc.

Give way and be polite and treat others with respect and lets all talk as most kiters do.

WE DO NOT WANT TO BE BAND FROM THESE BEACHES

"learning or uneducated"??

You would be surprised. At Orewa the culprits are usually very experienced kiters.

Well I think that goes both ways I guess, Ive been happily playing as I do in same spot of park most days just with kite if there are others on field or with buggy until its occupied by more than I and the problem that I get is out of 10 acres of park when some people turn up to kick a ball round, let there dog go to have a shit in the park or other forms of recreation the twats seem to set up what there doing just past my 25mtr lines downwind of my kite so is peter lynn including magnets in their kites??!!? or is it just brain dead twats who think I have the best spot?! (when I have approached them and asked them if they like brightly coloured objects they have seemed to click and bugger off to another part of the Gi-nor-mous park) so is it just kite people that need education!?! I think not but being diplomatic is getting harder to deal with as these people are obviously south islanders or from wellington or hav'nt had a kite wipe them out yet lol (my opinion only others may vary!)

surely someone overseas has already worked this out? without descending into a full beach kite ban? no?

well say you're at orewa for example. the clubbies have set up flags, everyone is swimming in the flags or maybe just north of the clubhouse. mostly everyone is kiting outside of the flags and mostly to the south. its blowing and eveyone is happy (but you're wishing you were at a really good kite spot).

two swimmers drop in south of the flags. bam, 50m radius no kiting / no launching. do you know what 50m radius looks like? i saw it the other day, its massive. two more swimmers drop in down the beach a bit further..yada yada. doesn't work. want to tell them to go swim in the flags? can't really ay

but how about movable swimming restrictions? say for example "if there's anyone kiting this part of the beach you can't swim in this bit / you can only swim over here / otherwise go for gold" or words to that effect. maybe we should offer something like this up now, reckon council would go for it? put some signs up for us? run up some flyers, put a sticker on your board, promote it. everyone would know what was going on, new kiters & swimmers alike would all see the signs. we'd police the kiters ourselves, or words to that effect.

get council to buy into it, put a sign up & build the understanding. it aint an unreasonable way to share the resource. trouble is now people don't know what the rules are AND anyway the rules don't work, so you've got anarchy...and we all no what happens when you get anarchy, you get the sex pistols...and somebody gets hurt.

or maybe not. make the most of it 'cause it aint gonna last