The WAKSA AGM will be held on Wednesday 21st July 2010 at the City of Perth Surf Life Saving Club, Challenger Drive City Beach. The bar will open at 6.30pm, pizzas will arrive at 7.00pm and the meeting itself will commence at 7.30pm.

Nominations for all positions on the committee are now open – President; Secretary; Treasurer and general committee positions. Nominations (seconded by a WAKSA member) should be sent to secretary@waksa.org.au.

All members interested in getting involved with the Association are encouraged to become involved in YOUR association.
 

WAKSA will be holding the 2010 WA State Wave Titles over 3 weekends commencing next Saturday 26th June 2010 and running for two days. Assuming we have the necessary wind and waves, the event will be held at Brighton Beach Scarborough, with Leighton Beach as the back up location.

The event will be open to Juniors; Amateurs; Open Men; Open Women; Masters and Grand Masters. The competition will be a freeride format and kiters will be judged on their performance in heats over the two days. Judging criteria will be made available closer to the event.

As members will be aware, WAKSA has been actively engaged in the public consultation process regarding Joondalup's draft Beach Management Plan. We are seriously concerned about the negative changes the plan is proposing for two of Perth's best kiting beaches.
We have been advised that the City of Joondalup received approximately 4600 submissions as part of the process.

The Association organised for a leaflet drop to approximately 7000 houses in the Mullaloo area prior to the consultation process closed and met with the Mayor to discuss our concerns with the draft Beach Management Plan. We also made a formal submission to Joondalup outlining our concerns and suggested a range of alternative outcomes for the City to consider. Copies of the leaflet and the formal submission can be found on our website: www.waksa.com/documents.

This is may well be the most important article you ever read from the WAKSA crew.

As WA kiters you have one week to assist WAKSA in its campaign to influence the City 
of Joondalup and the Draft Beach Management Plan. We need your assistance now – if our campaign is not successful we may be the facing serious kiting restrictions in Perth, and throughout WA, in the very near future. 



As part of our campaign we have met with the Mayor to express our significant concerns 
about the Draft Plan. We are also planning to meet with individual Councillors to discuss and explain what we believe are serious flaws in the Draft Plan and to encourage the City not to resort to designated kite zones as a management tool.



We advocated to the Mayor that the designated kite zones as outlined in the Draft Plan are 
the least safe and the least appropriate option for the management of kiting generally and that we have specific reservations about the location of the designated zone for North Mullaloo. We explained that whilst WAKSA does not object in principle to the proposed exclusion zones around the Mullaloo and Sorrento surf clubs the Association believes that smaller exclusion zones would be our preferred outcome. We explained that rather than 
having designated ‘kite zones’, it is our preference to have kite exclusion zones – for 
example, no kiting in or near flagged swimming zones. The formal WAKSA submission to 
the City of Joondalup will clearly outline these ideas. 



Thanks to the fact that your AKSA organisation is now run by a board of reps from each state WAKSA can bring you the news hot off the press.

Just in case you didn’t know, the AKSA National Freestyle Championships were held over the week end as a part of the Week of the Wind Festival; which in turn was also a part of the St. Kilda Festival in Melb. 
From all reports the titles event was a spectacular success with the wind cooperating to a degree beyond our most optimistic dreams. A full day of competition on Friday was followed by a few hours of wind on Sat to complete the finals. Normally you would have to be in WA to get that sort of cooperation  ;-)

Well known tourist to WA Toby Bromwich; of sliderjam & Core-Online fame;  was recruited by AKSA as head judge & event coordinator. With his years of experience as a professional PKRA judge and with his hand picked team of international riders working in the judging tent our national titles had a level of professionalism never before seen in Australian competition.