Was out in the arvo at Rickets with still heaps of beachgoers and swimmers on the beach. I noticed two guys, apparently mates, one of them with a yellow rashguard, blue boardies and Cabrinha kite. That guy kept coming all the way in to the shallows between families with children, jumped and looped right at the shore and was just totally ignoring any safety rule. He was not in total control but attempted unhooked jumps and loops with more or less success. Drifted over the large reefy area a couple of times.
My wife overheard a father on the beach warning his little daughter: "stay away, this guy is dangerous"
I went close to that guy and tried to tell him off repeatedly but he just totally ignored me and kept going.
That id**t just delivered a perfect demo of how to get kiting banned.

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tomvonoslo said..
Was out in the arvo at Rickets with still heaps of beachgoers and swimmers on the beach. I noticed two guys, apparently mates, one of them with a yellow rashguard, blue boardies and Cabrinha kite. That guy kept coming all the way in to the shallows between families with children, jumped and looped right at the shore and was just totally ignoring any safety rule. He was not in total control but attempted unhooked jumps and loops with more or less success. Drifted over the large reefy area a couple of times.
My wife overheard a father on the beach warning his little daughter: "stay away, this guy is dangerous"
I went close to that guy and tried to tell him off repeatedly but he just totally ignored me and kept going.
That id**t just delivered a perfect demo of how to get kiting banned.

Could you describe the kite a bit better, was it a chaos as he certainly was causing it? I remember him with great annoyance as he begrudgingly and very, very reluctantly landed my kite once at Hampton 30knots, and badly so that I had to run up to my kite to straighten it out.

Anyway when I was going out about 7pm, this guy with a chaos decided to jump over the lines of another 12m 2015 red switchblade which was being landed on the beach, regardless he missed the jump, got himself and his lines crossed and made himself look like a total d***head in front of the people on the beach. It was lucky for them the wind was not that strong.

Unfortunately it was one of those days where it was windy enough to kite but not too cold or windy to deter beachgoers, even the lifeguards were out well past their normal finish times.

Please note seabreezers kiting is actually BANNED at this beach, and its only because the local lifeguards are tolerant of it that we can sometimes kite there.

We don't need Mr Chaos showoff to ruin it for us. Go to St Kilda mate (you know who you are) if you want to showoff. If you are sponsored or work at a shop then you have just damaged the brand.

Only takes one person to wreck it for everyone....

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Please note seabreezers kiting is actually BANNED at this beach, and its only because the local lifeguards are tolerant of it that we can sometimes kite there.

Just out of interest, when you say its banned, is this documented? i was not aware that any beaches had actually legally banned the sport as such. Are you referring to the 'Swimming Only' zone?

So the rest of the area is ok if you play by the 5 Knots/200Mtr rule or is the whole marine sanctuary area off limits?

Coincidently we were just talking about kiting this area after the SE failed to kick in down on the Mornington Peninsular on Monday, good to have an alternative kiting spot for SE/E


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Please note seabreezers kiting is actually BANNED at this beach, and its only because the local lifeguards are tolerant of it that we can sometimes kite there.

Just out of interest, when you say its banned, is this documented? i was not aware that any beaches had actually legally banned the sport as such. Are you referring to the 'Swimming Only' zone?

So the rest of the area is ok if you play by the 5 Knots/200Mtr rule or is the whole marine sanctuary area off limits?

Coincidently we were just talking about kiting this area after the SE failed to kick in down on the Mornington Peninsular on Monday, good to have an alternative kiting spot for SE/E


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Its the swimming-only zone, so therefore all watercraft are banned from the area basically where there is any beach.

Not a recommended spot very shallow reefs even offshore, very narrow beach so difficult to launch/land, extremely gusty due to surrounding cliffs, even stingrays (a friend of mine got done by one recently he was out of the water for weeks).

Did I mention you can get fined for kiting there? There are much better and safer places to go in an E/SE.