Surfing Waves

Papa woolcombe why have you locked the jet sking thread? Just because finally some jet skiers have come along to answer your comments as they are entitled to do, you don't like it and you lock the thread!
Please unlock it so we can continue the deabate. I certainly for one do not wish to be tarred with the same brush as you for disrespecting the dead jet skier. This seems to me to be a clear abuse of your moderator position.

KS

My own experiences of jet skiers i must admit hasn't been great but they are only a few and have been when ive been kitesurfing not surfing. In both instances the skiers were ignoring the speed limit laws here in poole harbour and speeding past the beach repeatedly. Simple solution we called the harbour master and got them stopped.
These few experiences certainly aren't going to make me assume all jet skiers are idiots. As with any situation i judge it by what happens at the time not by what may have happened in other situations. It's down to the person not what they ride. Any idiot/numpty can get hold of a jetski, kitesurfing kite, surfboard, speed boat etc and casue all sorts of damage.

KS

Done

Aye deffo... called beach patrol a few times when there had been issues at Ceriad... (as they are not supposed to be in that area at all regardless of how well they may have been behaved.. which I never saw happen.

Makes me seem really calous... so be it.

KS I was contemplating last night the various people in every sport that tarnish/ruin things for others. I was wonderning about how things have been in the KiteSurfing world... I remeber a year or so back the turmoil of all the gear no idea problems that have arrisen... How are htings now?

while you are at it, how come kite surfing is banned at saunton (well most of the year)?

censorship on SW eh, who would believe

chris fixxy wrote:while you are at it, how come kite surfing is banned at saunton (well most of the year)?

Saunton is a privately owned beach and the owners the christies estate decided to ban it out right about 3 years ago and it has only been through the hard work of the local club and kitesurfers that it has been reopened. Good work and seeing as the 2 months that we have been asked not to kitesurf there are july and august the 2 windyless months of the year when saunton is at it's busiest with crockles, it seem sto be a good/workable comprimise.

KS

kitesurfer wrote:

chris fixxy wrote:while you are at it, how come kite surfing is banned at saunton (well most of the year)?

Saunton is a privately owned beach and the owners the christies estate decided to ban it out right about 3 years ago and it has only been through the hard work of the local club and kitesurfers that it has been reopened. Good work and seeing as the 2 months that we have been asked not to kitesurf there are july and august the 2 windyless months of the year when saunton is at it's busiest with crockles, it seem sto be a good/workable comprimise.

KS

whats the logic behind banning? is kite surfing more dangerous than surfing?

chris fixxy wrote:whats the logic behind banning? is kite surfing more dangerous than surfing?

ohhhhhhh yes the speed and airs that those guys can pull off is unreal!

chris fixxy wrote:

kitesurfer wrote:

chris fixxy wrote:while you are at it, how come kite surfing is banned at saunton (well most of the year)?

Saunton is a privately owned beach and the owners the christies estate decided to ban it out right about 3 years ago and it has only been through the hard work of the local club and kitesurfers that it has been reopened. Good work and seeing as the 2 months that we have been asked not to kitesurf there are july and august the 2 windyless months of the year when saunton is at it's busiest with crockles, it seem sto be a good/workable comprimise.

KS

whats the logic behind banning? is kite surfing more dangerous than surfing?

There is no logic in that particular ban when you consider the size of saunton and the numbers of kitesurfers being no more than a handfull. Stupidity! The ban was implemented when a land kiter had an incident on the beach.
Is kitesurfing more dangerous than surfing? Who to? Yourself or the public?
My own belief is you are more likely to get injured by someone else whilst surfing. But also there is more chance of an innocent bystander getting injured by a wayward kite than a wayward surfboard.
But overall i would agree with Jo, kitesurfing is more dangerous to yourself than surfing. Everytime you put your kite up in the air your in a potentially dangerous situation.

KS

Interesting reading.

I am still in shock that saunton is a privately owned beach. I dont know why, I just dont equate something that size, with being privately owned. Its bloody massive.