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Aug. 18th, 2015 10:02 pm>>It didn't matter the constant bleeding fingers and the 44ยบ C temperature, all I wanted was war. I remember times when there were about 50 to 100 kites in the sky battling at the same time. It was chaos.
Whenever you have way too many kites in the sky - at least that's the "popular" rule in Brazil -, even the ones really close, you have some "hints" that the guy just want to fly his kite, rather than fight. It's kind of complicated and not always the same for everyone, but most of the time, people prefer to have all of those kites in the sky and just chill.
Specially in the neighborhood I grew up, the rule was related to time. Around 4pm the "no contest" rule was out in the window and if you kite was still up, everyone would assume you were down for a fight. So, if you didn't want to fight, you just had to put it down before 4 pm. Sometimes way too many people still had their kites up and simply manage to "run away" if someone tried anything - which is easier to do with the Brazilian model, since they are build to cross the sky in a straight line really fast. I liked to fight, but I would always get one or two guys and then lose mine. It was just too many people.
Me and my family would stay on our roof and fly from there, so there were about 7 people in the same roof flying kites and they never tangled. If you can control them and know what you're doing is actually pretty hard to "accidentally" tangle it, unless you are walking around and not warning people that you are coming their way, so they can slide to the side or something.
The biggest problems really were the weather, that was ridiculously hot, and this thing we used - I don't know the name in English - that was basically glue and really tiny pieces of glass that we glued to the line, so it would cut the other lines easier, but also would cut our fingers sometimes to the bones.
The coolest thing was getting to catch a kite that was floating by because someone lost a battle. It was hard, but every time you got to do it, it was amazing how everyone like, respected you and nobody attacked you while you bringing it down. It was really its own culture, with its own rules.<< [src]
Whenever you have way too many kites in the sky - at least that's the "popular" rule in Brazil -, even the ones really close, you have some "hints" that the guy just want to fly his kite, rather than fight. It's kind of complicated and not always the same for everyone, but most of the time, people prefer to have all of those kites in the sky and just chill.
Specially in the neighborhood I grew up, the rule was related to time. Around 4pm the "no contest" rule was out in the window and if you kite was still up, everyone would assume you were down for a fight. So, if you didn't want to fight, you just had to put it down before 4 pm. Sometimes way too many people still had their kites up and simply manage to "run away" if someone tried anything - which is easier to do with the Brazilian model, since they are build to cross the sky in a straight line really fast. I liked to fight, but I would always get one or two guys and then lose mine. It was just too many people.
Me and my family would stay on our roof and fly from there, so there were about 7 people in the same roof flying kites and they never tangled. If you can control them and know what you're doing is actually pretty hard to "accidentally" tangle it, unless you are walking around and not warning people that you are coming their way, so they can slide to the side or something.
The biggest problems really were the weather, that was ridiculously hot, and this thing we used - I don't know the name in English - that was basically glue and really tiny pieces of glass that we glued to the line, so it would cut the other lines easier, but also would cut our fingers sometimes to the bones.
The coolest thing was getting to catch a kite that was floating by because someone lost a battle. It was hard, but every time you got to do it, it was amazing how everyone like, respected you and nobody attacked you while you bringing it down. It was really its own culture, with its own rules.<< [src]
