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Why are there still skateboard parks, hang gliding parks, surfing zones on public beaches, snowboarding, designated hobie cat & sailing corridors on public beaches, sky diving LZ's, american football ... this could go on for a long time.
ALL these activities were confronted by bans in their day. Why do they still exist? Largely because people didn't blow off keeping them around as being hopeless due to the dumber, self-destructive side of human nature. If people get together for effect, this can be done and has been done many times before. Saying it's hopeless absolves responsibility or the need to try. Many of the problem kiters (often well experienced guys too) seem to be driven by ego, appearances. Hit them where it hurts to work for reasonable change. Or, blow it off ... your choice.
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Exactly Rick. Proactive behavior is always better than reactive behavior when dealing with problems like these. But I seem to be outnumbered here, not only by the surfers but also by others who don't want to work toward getting the area regulated.
Scott, the regulation is easy. Wear the tags yourself and lead by example as one of the guys who is more experienced without protest. If you see someone on the beach without a tag, point out the sign that explains the rules and regulations of our launch as well as the tagging and skills testing. Let the instructors posess and hand out the tags and do the testing for newbs and out of towners. Problem solved. If someone refuses to wear a tag or do a skills test, a group of local more experienced riders approach them and insist that they put their kite down. Heck, you could even include Jim Wilson in this for Ft. DeSoto if you wanted, I am sure he would be all for safer kiting practices at Ft. DeSoto as he has seen some accidents there with some experienced guys getting hurt... Or if any of you think you have a better approach to regulate, present it but staying passive is just like holding a ticking time bomb. Eventually it will explode and if you don't get rid of it, you'll go up in smoke with it. Stop bitching about others if you aren't willing to change yourself... Quote:
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We LOST OUR FAVORITE SKATING SPOTS. The parks are all we have left. How is that a proactive win? It was a reactive "damn we can't skate anywhere anymore". And WTF Toby, last I checked you were one of the people riding in the swim area at PAG right after the "Stay out of the swim zone" thread along with a dozen other guys. So what exactly are you doing to help if you can't even stay out of the swim area? Oh a tag would have made a difference right. I do my part. I try to stay outside the swim area and stay the F@#$ away from the surfers. Every surfer on the gulf coast is looking at that website now thinking kite surfers are total kooks. They are totally 100% right. |
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I like Kent's idea of using the STICK rather than the nice CARROT approach we've been using Does anybody realy believe that us kitesurfers are unaware of the common sense rules of kitesurfing? There are people that just refuse to follow them, that's where our efforts should be, IMO
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I think a big reason for no action with this sign and these tags and stuff is the fact that the percentage of kiters using and reading this forum regularly is about 7%, in the end its going to take some beach promotion when we are all out there riding. Does anyone remember the tbksa, where it was about 35 of us and we were being reactive after olga's kite went into the skyway(from gear failure). forum talk is forum talk and it should be taken seriously but it isnt. we need to have face to face conversations. Do you guys know how many people showed up to the pre race party at WSW? A sh!t load. If we can get them to hold something like that again in reference to the recent ban talk, then we could get some stuff done hands on. promote the "kite night" on the beaches and advocate all riders to try to attend, because you arent going to be attending for "us" but rather for "you" because a beach ban is everyones problem. I'm sure there are a bunch of people with good ideas as well as people who would be able to put them into action. blabbing around on the forum, will just make this case go around in circles.
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and seriously the ridiculous forum callouts need to end. everyone has at once done something "wrong". ive done my fair share, but calling out toby, when he is trying to help, for one thing he did wrong a couple of months ago is absurd. plus that kind of negativity is going to steer alot of people away from trying to help.
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All this is going nowhere.....if some of you havent already noticed...
If we dont come together on this somehow...we might as well find a new sport..imo |
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Amen! Alex, saw you in the new Ecplise ad in Kiteboarder!!!!!! Freaking sweet!
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<jason, i believe i offered up a pretty good way of "coming together"
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Maybe we should have a new tag. The "i know better but it's ok today" tag.
We could wear it every time we ride. Ok, seriously, Alex you are almost right, BUT kiters follow by example right there on the spot. Go out and set an example. A newb for example would not want to be the only one riding by himself like a kook in the swim area while the pros are out throwing 30ft jumps and handle passes beyond the buoys off the big swells. It's all about perception. If it's perceived to be "cool" to ride in the swim area, everyone will do it, if it's not, they won't. Surfers and skateboarders don't learn by sitting around talking about rules. They learn by example from watching the veterans. If the veterans would set an example I really think it would make a huge difference. |
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