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Ted, who posts on here, lives in Bristol and flys a Guerilla...he's on hol at the mo but mail him and I'm sure you'll get some good advice Ian
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write to the MP Nick Harvey at harveyn@parliament.uk
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ditto to that...Kite Ground Boarding is AWFUL!!! Keep it simple...it's KITEBOARDING!
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the hotel is 4-5 star and so £100 per night minimum...the chalets are £600 a week or so...there's lots of campsites but if you're feeling hard just walk some way along the beach when it gets dark and bivi in the dunes (great for very early morning sessions on a completely empty beach) to summarise...landboards yes, buggies banned, walk 500m up the beach from the Saunton entrance, going in from Braunton Burrows is a VERY long walk, you should only kite once past the red pole but it often seems to be missing/fallen over...just go far enough to be away from all the 'normal' punters...
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yep...all sold out...bugger...
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we were there this weekend...light winds on Saturday, slightly better on Sunday - OK for the 4.9 or the Frenzy, strong on Monday, great for kitesurfing but no-one out on land...I was managing to get towed on the board with a 1.5m sport kite! btw the red pole is back ...it used to be down on the beach but it's now at the top of one of the dunes...still some 4-500m down the beach from the northern car park
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the red post disappeared a couple of weeks ago...but if you go some 5-600m along the beach you should be beyond most of the other beach users...
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yeah there's no problems landboarding on the sand there (buggies are banned though)...just make sure you walk some way along the beach away from all lardarse sunbathers...
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might see you there then
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this Clay Lane place sounds interesting...safe from yobs in the evening you think? for a slightly longer weekend trip try Saunton Sands...much much better than Uphill, well worth the drive...
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and where is the shop? What's it called?
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but the fact that you've owned a lot of kites doesn't mean to say that you can fly them either well or responsibly... there's no way manufacturers or shops are going to restrict the number of kites they can sell... and I wouldn't want to see restrictions - yes you get some plonkers but that's better than the alternative of having lots of rules, restrictions, permits, licences, etc...keep this an easy-going, easy-access pastime...don't turn it into something for licence holders only...
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yes it is...very nice too...
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the Newquay beaches are probably too busy to fly kites safely, Perranporth would be OK at low tide along to the right hand side beyond the headland (looking out to sea), there are restrictions - do a search on here for them there was a thread a few weeks back - and if you break them the Life Guards will be sure to point out your error to you...Watergate will be fine and probably your best 'kite friendly' option, Gwithian is huge and worth the trip if the others are just *too* busy...
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Bristol to Saunton or Westward Ho! is two hours in the car... Saunton is a wonderful place...well worth the extra effort of getting there over Uphill...you can board even at high tide (except on spring high tides) and at half tide or less there is *lots* of space Make sure you go beyond the 'red pole' that you'll see at the top of the beach just below the dunes...it's some 500m beyond the entrance and only a metre high so maybe difficult to spot...basically go beyond any other people and you'll be OK remember that Saunton is boards (land or sea) only...no buggies allowed...don't know why this is but if this is messed up we could all lose the beach...
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I was there both days over the weekend...no worries re this guy damaging himself but there were sunbathers on the beach literally running from him as he came towards them with the kite low in the window fully powered up on his board completely out of control...it was scary to watch...respect to Ted for being diplomatic enough to approach them...it was really only down to luck that they didn't break themselves or any of the general public...we boarded with the guy pulling the 360s with the 3.0 LD and he'd rejected his 6.6 Blade on that day as too powerful... it doesn't take many idiots like this to get a beach banned on another note there are more and more buggies using Saunton when they are actually banned from it...if more buggies appear we will ALL get banned from the beach..don't spoil it for everyone else guys...
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see my thread from a few weeks ago called 'Newquay Beach Report' or something similar...basically Watergate Bay is brilliant at mid to low tides for landboarding (but watch out for the kite ignorant lifeguards), Gwithian (just north of Hayle) is great, Perranporth is OK but has restrictions which make it probably easier to travel to either of the above instead...the Newquay beaches are probably too busy to be worth trying... Ian
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Watergate Bay is a fab beach for either kitesurfing or kiteboarding...watch out for the kite ignorant life guards though...
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any thoughts on price??
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so what better excuse could you have to use your shiny new toy??
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Both Newquay (Watergate Bay) or Saunton Sands (near Croyde) are great beaches...Newquay has more nightlife if that's what you want...Saunton has more beach left at high tide...distance-wise Newquay is only an extra hour really so not much extra if you're coming from Northants...either would be brilliant...
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not so...it doesn't matter where they are on your feet, the pressure is still spread across the whole surface of your foot if you are standing on a flat surface...that's why cycling shoes have rigid bases so the pressure is spread out...the reason why they're attached to the ball of your foot for cycling is for ankle articulation purposes having bindings like that would actually allow you to lean back to heelside even more as you'd have more leverage across the board... better might be step-in snowboard type bindings...bigger plate to step onto as you say though getting out of either of them urgently would be a nightmare!
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Exactly
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Yeah we were at Watergate Bay those days...really light winds over the weekend though so could barely get moving on the board even with a 9.5 Frenzy...the Friday was good iirc (blame the Talisker if I don't...)
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Yeah we mentioned it to the Extreme Acadamy peeps but they said the lifeguards were nothing to do with them and there was nothing they could do - it was them that said we should complain to the RNLI