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03-31-2010, 08:57 PM
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I think we should start throwing up videos on a wall of shame or something!
 PS- Curious would the reason for the not so nice riders at Lauderdale be because of the school there, thought the school had problems when it was in Pompano ? 
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04-01-2010, 01:58 PM
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Sad to say but there is no school there anymore and it did not move to Pompano......
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04-01-2010, 02:03 PM
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Neil, I believe he is thinking about a school that was based in Pompano for a while and then moved to Lauderdale By-The-Sea. As far as I know, I don't think it ever worked out of Ft. Lauderdale.
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04-06-2010, 09:52 AM
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Here is the thread from previous trip 9-2008, I was also there in 11-2007:
http://www.fksa.org/showthread.php?t=6939&page=2 I emailed Rick at that time, the details and some pictures of the worst offenders, you recognized them. Just people riding amonst the swimmers, a few getting sprayed and yelling at the riders. Though at one point someone crashed with their kite just upwind of some swimming children. It didn't look like he going to relaunch his kite in time so I started running to grab his kite (it was in the break at this point), but he managed to get it up in the air before it was too late. It has actually slightly north of fort lauderdale, lauderdale by the sea. Almost one year later, in 8-2009 there was a thread about a ban in lauderdale by the sea http://www.fksa.org/showthread.php?t=8210&page=4 I emailed the mayor about it (don't worry, it was well written) with concerns of future visits by myself, since I choose her city based on kiteboarding destination. She called me to discuss the issue and seemed to appreciate the tourism aspect of it. I told her I would never visit her city again if they enacted any ban or registration, I would just go to Puerto Rico or some other kite friendly place. I suggested enforcement only against the people causing problems using existing rules (like endangerment), which she said she would look into. I used an example of a reckless surfer that rode into swimmers, treat it the same. I was pretty happy with the conversation at the end...but not sure what ended up happening there...
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04-07-2010, 07:51 AM
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OttoNP was staying at the hotel west of Weenie Beach (aka Damons). This area is over six miles north of the normal riding launch in Ft. Lauderdale. Here are his comments from August 2008.
"He was skilled, rode a brown 13 Fuel kite, but jumped at least 2 swimmers and sprayed around 3 people. One of the persons he sprayed yelled at him. This occured Saturday, August 30th around 1-3 pm. He was out again Sunday and sprayed some other swimmers around 2 pm., also got yelled at by them There were some others that rode around swimmers, but didn't jump or spray anyone." Let's leave names out of this. We have had a lot of complaints out of Lauderdale By-The-Sea and have had lot of responsible kiters spending quite a bit of their time there to try to preserve access for years. Small wonder. .
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FKA, Inc. transcribed by: Rick Iossi Last edited by ricki; 04-18-2010 at 07:52 PM.
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04-10-2010, 06:57 AM
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when i was a kid and i did stuff like this ...
an older kid usually kicked my ass ... real good
i'm not suggesting, i'm just saying, back in the day it just seemed to work kd
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04-11-2010, 08:58 AM
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being a visitor here and watching the ettiqute and launching/landing techniques it is no suprise that this ban happened. I bet there will be more in the future. I walked a half mile to avoid launching around hundreds of people when others did not and "tried" to launch there kites crashing them on people more than once. wow! This is a tough problem to deal with. good luck!
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