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06-19-2021, 01:19 PM
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Re: Brazil - Young Biker Dying After Neck Sliced by Kite Line
Thank you.
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06-19-2021, 02:10 PM
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Re: Brazil - Young Biker Dying After Neck Sliced by Kite Line
Kites with those shart strings were very common in Rio. We usually use this on bikes to cut those strings  |
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06-19-2021, 03:59 PM
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Re: Brazil - Young Biker Dying After Neck Sliced by Kite Line
"Sorry dude, can't help, phone doesn't have stabilisation and I'd hate to have a shaky video!"
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06-20-2021, 10:44 PM
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Re: Brazil - Young Biker Dying After Neck Sliced by Kite Line
That's weirdly cool I guess. But you'd think after 1 person dies, especially a innocent bystander or pedestrian or a guy riding his bike. They'd say, as much as we all love our fighter kite wars, maybe we should tone it down a tad.
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06-21-2021, 12:21 AM
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Re: Brazil - Young Biker Dying After Neck Sliced by Kite Line
Maybe so, but when you consider that they have been doing it for thousands of years, it takes a LOT to change things. When I was in China in 2000, I met the man who was the grandson of the kite-maker to Pu-Yi, (The last Emperor of China). He is still in the kite business, and their family had been making kites for 8 generations when his grandfather worked for Pu Yi. His father was the ninth generation, and he himself was the 10th generation, so you are talking family history of 300 years, making kites. His business card even read that his family were kite-makers to the Emperors of China. I attended a lecture he gave on kites. I bought 2 of his kites, and they are magnificent. One went to a close friend of mine, who was in the Marines in WWII. He was a topographer who made the models of the Japanese islands they were going to invade next. At the end of the war, he was in Tienstin, China, and was at the surrender ceremony for all the Japanese forces in Manchukuo. I kept the other one for myself, and still have it. The Tibetans have flown man-carrying kites for a couple thousand years at least, and the Chinese probably longer. Like Bonsai trees and samurai swords, no one messes with tradition in the Asian countries. Personally, I would think they would restrict kite fighting to special fields or complexes, where the likelihood of innocents getting killed, or losing arms or legs, would be minimal. I don't know anything about the rules for kite-fighting, but I know it is an ancient activity with a lot of tradition behind it. Also, lawyers in Asia don't work like lawyers in the U.S and Europe. |
