Is there an update regarding kiting at Leo?

[theq]

Traig makes some good points, and I don't believe that he was referring to Friday's incident when he spoke about "bullys". Perhaps I'm wrong.
It's true that the surfers made the same arguments about windsurfers being able to go outside and blast around, why did they have to get into the waves at all? I heard it many times from my surfing, non-windsurfing brother. So now we windsurfers are throwing the same stuff at the kiters. There is some hypocrisy in this, from myself included.
I, for one, have no problems with kiters per se, at all. It's just that the outstretched lines concern me a bit and make put me on edge when I go beneath them. Now Traig, Boaz, George C., and other experienced kiters are very good with their lines and I never worry about them. However, there are guys that show up who I don't recognize that bring them down a bit low while I'm passing beneath for my tastes. There's also the matter of a kiter's ability to make a quicker transition, thereby clogging up the slot and having as much potential for wave hogging as "bus-stopping". Personally, I make an effort to "clear" myself out of the lineup and go out pretty far before heading back in. I look it like a half-court basketball game, where you have to clear the ball past half-court before coming in for the score. At least I think that I remember that rule. Hmm....? Age. Anyway, similar rules for sailing the slot might be appropriate. I've seen Traig head to the outside before charging back in. Perhaps it's for the same reason? Something to consider should we ever have such a dialog about such things.
Common wave etiquette should also be in force and effect. Those with a non-surfing background may need a course. Those who may have forgotten may need a refresher.
True, I suppose we must police our own, or perhaps the powers will take the spot from all of us. However, casual enforcement through peers is not working very well and we may need to have something a bit more formal.
Kiters and windsurfers do share a common love of their ocean sports, and both want to keep doing them at Leo and surrounding areas. Should we open up a civil dialog on this, or should we just snipe, insult, gripe, and lose respect, ground, and friends, over this stuff?
This is getting a bit ugly lately. Hatfield and McCoy type stuff. No?
Somehow we need to chill out and formulate a peace/safety plan that everyone can live with. Otherwise someone else might plan it for us by taking the easiest way out, which could be a total ban.

(I edited out a suggestion to have some sort of informal meeting, as a wee hour reality check trumped late night delirium. It made sense at near midnight, but lost it at 3:30 A.M.)

[nealpar]

Indeed, the lifeguards at Leo are well familiar with Bard's history and character.

I am also familiar with the shifting alliances at Leo. They change by the week and the seasons. When the truth comes out, some will be truly ashamed of who they associated or allied with.

I hope those of Bard's allies with no kids or recentlty lost family members remember Bard's "I have a family and you don't" therefore you have no purpose in life rant.

I hope that those who made false statement to the police and therefore committed the crime of interfering with a criminal investigation sleep well at night. What goes around comes around.

I wonder if those who have decided to hate a person without ever having sat down face to face and have a conversation with them, or had the chance to get to know them, ever take the time to think about the real reason they dislike that person?

[stupop]

[MalibuGuru]

[MalibuGuru]

[koogzah]

[nealpar]

[boggsman1]

From the outside looking in, from my NorCal perch:
This whole thing is like a bad episode of Baywatch. Are you guys kidding? or is this real?

Boggsman

[jp5]

Sadly Boggs, it is real.

[tsokat]

Boggs, speaking of tv shows, if this isn't a case for Judge Judy, I don't know what is.