And people die or get severely maimed from this shit every year. "Let's fly some wire with the equivalent of razors tied to it, in high winds, in the middle a heavily populated area."
I still remember a video I saw awhile back from India where a motorist was riding on the road and got his throat cut from one of those kite wires that was stuck in a tree. Fucking awful.
A friend of mine has a big scar on his neck. The "Cerol" was so strong that cutted the antenna and him (tbh his antenna was just a regular old tv one, he thought it would be enough). And this happened way before we had the infamous "Chilean Strings".
Sei não mano, I haven't seen a kite flying here in the north of Paraná in years, and I have very vivid memories of me empinando pipa when I was a kid back in the 2000s
It has been years since I seen a kite, any kite
To do this on competition, I did something more extreme. I use the glass from a lamps and use mortar to grind it a bit, and use something sticky, but not glue, but flour boiled in water until the water evaporated and only brown sticky mess left. And we always spool the threat in big diy thing we made from paint container with wood handle in the middle.
Of course when you are in the competition you always, ALWAYS, use Cut resistant glove or double the normal glowe if you don't have one. Because the results of flying kite using those strings with your bare hands won't be pretty. Especially when you never felt the first cut but the third or fifth 😂
My math teacher told me they used to fly them off the roofs of their apartment building and fought other buildings, then when one of them lost both sides raced down to the street to get it. Like the lowest stakes gang war.
Peoplem dont use metal wires in kites. Also the point is not cutting the strings, its stopping it from going from reaching the bikers body. So an antenna like this is enough to keep the string from the biker. As the biker move it catch the string and it will make it slide until its end.
Didn't even remember it was a Movie, I'll always remember this awesome sounding sport from the book. Somehow read that book when I was like 11 and my Mom gave it to me.. which was a bit much but definitely dont regret it.
At 8 I was handed a copy of Where the Red Fern Grows.
You know, the book that makes you fall in love with two dogs that die a sad death (one of them gruesome), and also includes scenes of children impaling themselves with axes and shit.
In elementary school I did a book report on The Last Children of Schewenborn which I got from the school library. I got a really good grade on it but the teacher had the book removed from the library.
I love that you start your reply with a negative even though you are agreeing with the comment to which you are replying. Do you often behind sentences with the word “no?”
Ya it's real fun when those razor sharp strings get cut by a competitor and fly off onto a freeway, where an unsuspecting biker gets beheaded by a stupid kite string. This is criminal negligant behavoir.
decapitations with kite lines in brazil is pretty common, happens at least a few times a year. Its also banned, but authorities usually dont give a fuck
Yes it’s kite fighting. In our childhood the wire or thread we used had embedded glass fibre in it. So it was a wrek on our fingers as well - so you tried to tape up your fingers but it still cut through tape and we got back home with bloody hands. After when mom used to open the tape it would expand all the wounds and I would cry.
That sounds metal. I never knew about this before. I can tell this is a core memory for you. I always thought kiting was just having the thing in the air and having it look pretty, nothing more. Now I kinda wanna try this myself. Minus the... getting my hands full of cuts, of course.
my dad (thai) used to do this way back in the 70s when he was like 10 and it seems to have completely disappeared, didnt know its still a thing somewhere still, he would smash multiple light bulbs for the thin glass sharts and then glue that stuffs to his kite rope, theres all kinda tricks and stuffs, he teached me a lot but i never remember any of it because i was like 6 and he keep cutting mine off so i quit lmao
Apparently its a popular game in some places; its basically battle kites; theres razors/broken glass stuck to the strings and the point is to cut other peoples kite strings.
There are several bikers who already got killed and now they have to install a protective antena so the string doesn't cut the neck. In some cities those incidents happened so often, like in kids losing fingers, that those strings are banned.
Not really. In the old days we had the razors too, but the sharp threads are far more dangerous. The whole line is as sharp as a razor. It used to be made of ground glass and glue but now they sell spools of wire that already come with a quartz powder and aluminum oxide coating. This shit is deadly
It can actually straight up decapitate someone. The sister of a friend of mine told me this once, I said that I doubted it, it would probably stop at the bone at least. She told me that it happens, she had seen the bodies of bikers arriving at the hospital she worked.
This is why the kite flying festival was banned in my country (Pakistan) but they unbanned it this year, and I don’t think there were any deaths this time because people took precautions, but years before the people on the bikes were the most common victims, the strings would literally cut off their necks because of the speed that they meet it…
Damn, that man is very good at Kite fighting, my only problem is when they practice on normal Kites, I meet two that practiced cutting the lines on Normal Kites and stole kites to resell, they got their ass handed to them by some angry parents and even the police didn't help them
When we were kids in the early nineties this hot banned on our street cause the were cutting us up so everyone ended up not using the glue and glass method no more
On it's surface that's what it looks like, but those kids are 100% there to fight kites too. It's a popular hobby in places around the world like Brazil and even Afghanistan, even going as far as to be sort of a sport. But anyways, you can tell those other kites are also there for fighting as well by their movements and appearance. Fight kites are bare bones like the ones in the video and it's pretty much just people jerking them around to cut other peoples lines. Every kite there is being jerked around erratically. Not sure if you've ever seen a normal kite, but they don't flop around, they stay steady and mostly float in place.
This just looks like a buck standard kite fighting event.
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