wow, from the amount of ***** appearing in hers posts, seems miss jessie has quite the trash mouth happening..
... and typical of an emotional woman in an argument... she makes absolutely no bloody sense..
i think i would have taken photos too, what else could you do...? its not a life threatening situation, and if it was, then the photos' would be worth money!
how many of us watch that funny video show?
seriously, from the photos', there is a three foot white wash mark, the swell could not have been that big...
suck it up, the 'look at me, look at me' factor of kitesurfing, just totally backfired,
at least its just on here and not national tele like the bondi incident
F*ck me, to all those taking some sort of sick pleasure in this guys misfortune, you are all deadset w@nkers...
Hindsight has 100% accuracy in every single case. Its always easy to look back and analyse your mistakes and say what you should have done, or what you would have done if it was you, but making a decision on the spot in conditions where you are tired, have just spent the last couple of minutes swimming or trying to launch your kite, etc is much harder. Can you be 100% sure you all would have packed down your kite in the water? Personally I would never deflate my leading edge in the water if I was close to shore having been on the bad end of having it fill up with water and trying to get water out of the leading edge..
Its easy to sit at the top taking photos, analysing the situation and saying "wow, what an idiot, he shouldn't have done that", its even easier to put the boot in and call people names or laugh at them, but it doesn't make it right and it definitely doesn't make you a nice person so don't try to pretend you're doing the kiteboarding community a favour by posting photos that will "help" other people avoid doing the same because I'm pretty sure you weren't doing this for the greater glory of kiting humanity.
Hey 'slave,
I'm all for people killing themselves through their own stupidity and cleaning up the gene pool for the rest of us. Problem is, if the public get taken out, or the council take offense at decapitated corpses strewn over the rocks and decide to ban, I'll be pissed! I like riding at Cott even though it isn't my local.
People are essentially lazy and suffer from massive apathy. They grab their gear from the car, walk to the bottom of the steps, see the sign and can't be bothered walking the inhumanly long distance of 100m to do the right thing and then think, "Oh whatever, I'll probably just get told off anyways, no stress".
It sh1ts me to tears when people blatently do the wrong thing because they can't be bothered to do the righty, and risk losing the use of the site for sake of their own laziness.
WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!! Stop being such inconsiderate, self centred sh1ts. I hope the same fate as our friend awaits all those who rig at the Phone Box site. Don't want to sound mean but FFS
Good winds,
Kitehard, I'm still no wiser ?
All you told me was something about people getting their heads chopped-off.
lol.
And what's so bad about this phone-box anyway ?
.....other than most times it's probably un-useable due to vandalism.
So apparently you can kite opposite the phone-box.....that's ok
but no launch, no land ??
You need to spell it out for me, I'm a bit slow.
Because there is not much beach area, local beach users have complained, so the area in front of the phone box is not for launching and landing. To give the swimmers and sunbathers some peace from lines and kites who can just as easily set up 100m up the beachh.
For someone who has no idea, you sure have a lot to say.
Hey slave...i've always said the only difference between the "obvious" and The "oblivious" is a LI..E!
And "it doesn't take too many brains to be stupid"....my personal favorite!
And you guys can all suck on my six pack...the amount of F..ing bull Sp!t you can carry on with.....
Oh i forgot it's winter!
Stabb this one!
Dr WHO must get angry when he comes out of the Tardis AKA The PhoneBox, chased by Darleks and Cybermen only to fall over some dudes kite and get all darleked up his butt n all that.
**** I've done some time travel in my time and that'd sure piss me off.
Hence the sign.
GET A SENSE OF HUMOUR!
so where do you draw the line slave? how many people have to be on the beach before its deemed unsafe to rig/launch?
everybody will interpret 'keeping it real' differently.
like you say some people have no common sense or logic, hence the sign. its too late in the sport to expect kiters to behave rationally. there are too many gumby riders out there.
^welll.., i guess we could ask michael tsarion that one, and as for 'keeping it real', it seems to well the same connotations as the seabreeze perennial of 'harden the fnck up', or rather HTFU as prefered to save laurie's sensitive ears (and to keep his sniveling hall monitor on side)... one only has to view the marvelous social commentary of mr dave chappelle, to see just how much a mis-contexted attitude of keeping it real can turn severly for the worst...
i still love you Jess.
but i love this forum more...
but back to the point... this is not about a phone box... this is about a guy, a kite and a bad day out...
Qu.1) is the kite fixed?
Qu. 2) have you got back on the water?
Qu. 3) (if the answer is no to the above...) do ya wanna buy my 11m slingy
Qu 4.) will there be a CAGE FIGHT or are we just gonna keep kicking this guy whilst he's down...
*song comes to mind* wooo ooohoo oo cause ya had a bad day...
i miss Perth... see you in Feb
Pöskö
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Well sounds like a happy ending, sort of...Hope the kite wasnt sewn up in that passage way, or worse things may happen yet....
Sad part is, the effort here to trash a guy that allready got trashed.
We probably all have had sh!t happen to us, lucky no guy with a camera was around to document the missery.
Question for MARKASS, as a newbie having 1, 12m north kite with 5th line setup on north bar can you tell me how long it took for the lines to be in that condition? I am not interested in negative feedback on my choice of kite but constructive comments on how to remain safe and knowing my gear is safe. How long does it take to wear things out.Sorry about your loss. Excuse me as i am a little confused is it safer to roll a kite up when the---- hits the fan, or reel in the kite on the 5th line and carry overhead?
We have all ended up on the rocks with snapped masts and ripped sails.......
so be it.
No injury No Problems.
But i got to say its even better to see trashed kites and five x 200 meters OF MED string in a ball with hemeroides to go.
Something about the visual aspect and noise thats so appealing.
Richer to raggs / raggs to richers ?
As for the photographer in his cot Ugg boats ,mercadies bends, sipping on Mc Cafe hot chocalate with the heater running whilst being payed by seebreeze .
i would have only wound my window down enough to point the camera to. ????
over a month away from the forum and this story is still at the top...
keep kickin him... he's still breathing!
oh and you never rang about my 11m
love ya Perth
Pöskö