Background
Every Friday during winter the skies in Bnaider are treated to a colorful, soaring spectacle with roaring dragons, flying fishes and all the colors of the rainbow. This fluttering festival is the creation of Abdurahman Al-Farsi, president of the Al-Farsi Kite Flying Team.
AL-Farsi Kite Team
It all started in 1995 when a small kite was dedicated to Mr. Faris Al Farsi from Mr. AbdulRazaq Al Khames, and that’s when Mr. Faris Al Farsi began on admiring this hobby. The love of this hobby started to grow in him and he began thinking of owning another kite, but bigger and with more complication which makes it more entertaining
Through the festivals Mr. Faris Al Farsi met Mr. Peter Lynn (Kites’ Maestro) and bought some of his unique kites. After the progression of this love to the kites, Mr. Abdurahman AL-Farsi and with the cooperation of Peter Lynn thought of breaking the World Record with the creation of a giant kite which was created successfully and was launched in Britain’s sky, thus, it was a smile on the sky’s gap.
We have been honored to lift our beloved country’s flag, Kuwait, however, we do not match the honor of those people who won their sacrifice defending this country, and based on this we dedicate this achievement to our martyrs whom sacrificed their souls to Kuwait.
Information about the kite;
Size 1050 square meters (42 * 25) 7 meters and a height of 750 meters lasted with 750 hours of work; Peter Lynn worked on it with the assistance of 8 people. It weights 180 kg – 100 kg weight ropes – It needed 2500 square meters of cloth, along the wires (inside – outside) 10 km
Balu and our family went there during Hala Feb holidays to see this wonderful spectacle. It was truly mind-blowing and awesome. The scale and size of this is really huge and not the traditional paper based kites which we are used to seeing and flying in our school days.
At least in the cities, I don’t even see anyone flying kites these days in India. It’s a lost tradition. While there are practical issues in flying kites where individual houses has given rise to apartments and apartments may not allow such activities. In addition, when people started using certain chemicals and broken bottles to mix and add in their thread so that when there is a kite fight, they can cut the other person’s kite. As a consequence, these kites sometimes used to hang around on poles etc. and cut people’s throats etc. when they are going in bikes and scooters. All this led to widespread condemnation of this activity. What was a poor man’s sport got killed due to some other social issues. Very unfortunate. Now other countries catch up on our local sport, improvise it with technology etc. and make it a world class sport. A national heritage like Hockey, this also becomes a foregone and forgotten sport.
As you can see, it is no common man’s dream…it has become a sport for the rich and endowed…who fancy….who is bigger and better than the best…
Beautiful Life 