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pmaggie
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- Favorite Beaches: Lo Stagnone (Marsala, Sicily - Italy) - Soma Bay (Egipt) - Cabarete (Dom Rep.) - Kite beach (Maui)
- Style: Freeride
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Postby pmaggie » Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:20 am
Signed
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Haole_Built
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- Local Beach: Kite Beach, Maui
- Favorite Beaches: Kite Beach, Maui
Crissy Field, SFO
Sherman Island, CA
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Postby Haole_Built » Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:41 am
Signed! Banning a sport from the beach where the sport was born?
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Dave_5280
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- Kiting since: 1997
- Weight: 78 kg
- Favorite Beaches: Kanaha Beach Park, Maui, Hawaii, U.S.
- Style: Freeride
- Gear: Switchblades, Contras, CF Raptor TT. Ozone Frenzy foil kites with skis. Fixed bridle foil kites on handles with MBS landboard. Progression Sports videos.
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Postby Dave_5280 » Tue Nov 05, 2013 11:47 am
Signed. I think it was banned twice before.
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RickI
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Postby RickI » Tue Nov 05, 2013 12:51 pm
Thanks everyone, please talk about this, email it to friends and post on your local forums. Looking back over history this small stretch of beach has great importance in the development, media and recreation of kiting, kiters and culture of our sport. Plus, lots of us like to ride there on vacation.
Until kiters and others organized and cleaned the area up, it was full of junk, objects to cut yourself on, overgrown and was a largely disused section of beach by the sewage treatment plant. That is how it was in 1999 when I first visited to kite. We made an important change here from which many in the community both on and off the island benefited.
A large enough response from kiters, windsurfers and other sportsmen worldwide should compel authorities to take this problem seriously and not just simply ban us with an unenforced quarter century old law for convenience.
Yes, during the early bans years back, there were two efforts largely ending kiting over a substantial section of the North Shore. It happened before so it can happen again, please help to stop a ban from happening. Please sign the petition and ask people you know to do so as well.
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Kamikuza
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Postby Kamikuza » Tue Nov 05, 2013 1:03 pm
RickI wrote:Until kiters and others organized and cleaned the area up, it was full of junk, objects to cut yourself on, overgrown and was a largely disused section of beach by the sewage treatment plant. That is how it was in 1999 when I first visited to kite. We made an important change here from which many in the community both on and off the island benefited.
Perhaps, if it gets banned, you could return it to the swimmers in the condition that you found it...? I wonder if Feckless Gimp would put the effort in to doing something useful. I doubt it somehow...
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pj sofine
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Postby pj sofine » Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:18 pm
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sleepymexi
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Postby sleepymexi » Tue Nov 05, 2013 4:15 pm
signed.
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waynepjh
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Postby waynepjh » Tue Nov 05, 2013 4:16 pm
Signed but having problems sharing on Facebook.
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RickI
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Postby RickI » Tue Nov 05, 2013 4:20 pm
waynepjh wrote:Signed but having problems sharing on Facebook.
Thank you! You can try this link if it will help?
http://fksa.org/showthread.php?t=11982
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madmax7
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Postby madmax7 » Tue Nov 05, 2013 5:20 pm
Signed!
Need more signatures. What's the deadline?
I'm gonna sign up everyone I see!
I'm pissed off! That one SOB would be so self centered!
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