Examples of a Korean (left), Indian (middle), and Japanese (right) traditional fighting kite.Andrew Hager
Kite fighting takes palace in many different forms all around the world from America to Thailand and almost everywhere in between. Kite fighting can be seen in large number in Germany, Korea, Japan, Brazil, America, Canada, Thailand, Cuba, Chile, India, and Afghanistan. In Korea kite fighting is still around in part due to Yu-sang in Chang-yon or the “master kite maker” he is know for organizing some of the first government sponsored contest. In Japan it is thought that the kite fighting art was brought by early English and Dutch traders from India, however, kite fighting is still an obsession in the city of Nagasaki where the entire month of March is dedicated to kite fighting.(csu) “The fighting kites of Japan are normally rectangular or hexagonal and can be big enough to require teams of up to 50 men to control them. It has been suggested that fighting kites developed in Japan as a method of solving disputes between neighboring villages, as a sort of aerial trial by combat.” (aka) “Thailand's sport of Kite fighting has been played and favored by the Kings of Thailand for centuries. These Kites have been enjoyed since the 13th and 14th-century Sukhothai period, and the sport was probably most popular during the reign of King Rama IV (1851-1868), when people were granted royal permission to fly kites at Bangkok's Phra Men Ground next to the Grand Palace.” (csun)
India is the largest place for kite fighting where “the largest, and oldest, kite festival in the world takes place in Ahmedabad on the 14th of January of every year. This festival is a free-for-all, with perhaps 100,000 kites in the sky at once, all trying to cut each other down. The festival has been celebrated for centuries, at the time that the winter solstice has passed and the sun has again climbed above the constellation of Capricorn.” (aka) “North America is developing its own kite fighting traditions, in which combatants maneuver to touch rather than cut each other's lines.” (drachen) The art of kite fighting is an ever growing sport which the Kite Runner book and movie have help to fuel around the world and in North America, where the sport is still not as developed as in many other countries.
http://www.csun.edu/~ghsiung/fighters4.html#Brazilian%20Fighters
http://www.drachen.org/
http://www.aka.org.au/kites_in_the_classroom/history.htm
Kite fighting takes palace in many different forms all around the world from America to Thailand and almost everywhere in between. Kite fighting can be seen in large number in Germany, Korea, Japan, Brazil, America, Canada, Thailand, Cuba, Chile, India, and Afghanistan. In Korea kite fighting is still around in part due to Yu-sang in Chang-yon or the “master kite maker” he is know for organizing some of the first government sponsored contest. In Japan it is thought that the kite fighting art was brought by early English and Dutch traders from India, however, kite fighting is still an obsession in the city of Nagasaki where the entire month of March is dedicated to kite fighting.(csu) “The fighting kites of Japan are normally rectangular or hexagonal and can be big enough to require teams of up to 50 men to control them. It has been suggested that fighting kites developed in Japan as a method of solving disputes between neighboring villages, as a sort of aerial trial by combat.” (aka) “Thailand's sport of Kite fighting has been played and favored by the Kings of Thailand for centuries. These Kites have been enjoyed since the 13th and 14th-century Sukhothai period, and the sport was probably most popular during the reign of King Rama IV (1851-1868), when people were granted royal permission to fly kites at Bangkok's Phra Men Ground next to the Grand Palace.” (csun)
India is the largest place for kite fighting where “the largest, and oldest, kite festival in the world takes place in Ahmedabad on the 14th of January of every year. This festival is a free-for-all, with perhaps 100,000 kites in the sky at once, all trying to cut each other down. The festival has been celebrated for centuries, at the time that the winter solstice has passed and the sun has again climbed above the constellation of Capricorn.” (aka) “North America is developing its own kite fighting traditions, in which combatants maneuver to touch rather than cut each other's lines.” (drachen) The art of kite fighting is an ever growing sport which the Kite Runner book and movie have help to fuel around the world and in North America, where the sport is still not as developed as in many other countries.
http://www.csun.edu/~ghsiung/fighters4.html#Brazilian%20Fighters
http://www.drachen.org/
http://www.aka.org.au/kites_in_the_classroom/history.htm
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