Kite Fighting

Kite Fighting is the competitive hobby of flying fighter kites against other flyers, in which each competitor tries to cut down an opponent's kite line rather than merely keep their own kite aloft. Fighter kites are typically small, unstable, single-line flat kites controlled purely through line tension rather than any rigid frame or multiple lines, and the sport's key piece of equipment is the manja, a length of line, traditionally glass-coated cotton, whose abrasive coating lets a skilled flyer saw through a rival's line in mid-air. The sport is practiced across a wide band of nations, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, Chile and Brazil, each with its own local kite-fighting traditions and tournaments.