default
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00Hello my name is Konstantinos Ratsos. I'm coming from Greece. It's my third time
00:05here. I'm very very happy and I really really enjoyed this festival here. In
00:11Greece we do fly kites. Actually there is a national kite day and it's a
00:19holiday officially and people go outside and they fly classical single line
00:24kites. Here mostly I fly duo line stunt kites. So this one is one stunt
00:37kite and I use two lines which have exactly the same length so I can control
00:44the direction of the kite. I can do maneuvers. I can do even tricks in the
00:49sky. Also we can do team flying. This year we are four
00:59people from Greece and we are team and we do kite flying together and
01:07we do maneuvers in the sky which is very beautiful and very attractive for
01:12the crowd. As you can see this is amazing amazing place and we are very
01:18very happy to be here. So in India we are mostly flying the kites on the 14th of
01:24January. It is called Uttarayan where the Sun sets for the different zodiac sign
01:30in Hindu. So on what day you are flying kites in Greece? In Greece we fly 40
01:37days before Easter so in every every year it's a different date. It's not the
01:43same date every year. We are generally flying the kites of the paper you know
01:50the local people you know but what kind of the kite you are making of what
01:58material? Again paper and with wood not bamboo but a simple wood and actually
02:05there are some similarities between the Indian Patang and the
02:10Greek classic kite which is very interesting. It's like they have maybe
02:15some sort of origin which is probably the same and this is very interesting to
02:23find some similarities between the Indian Patang and the Greek classic
02:27kite.
02:29He is telling that there is a lot of similarity between the Indian Patang and the Greek Patang
02:34which repeats the similarities of the ancient civilizations.
02:38With cameraman Mukesh Choudhary, Parasdava ATV Bharat Ahmedabad.
02:43What kind of kites in Uttarayan?
02:48Hello, my name is Donatas. I am from Lithuania and I am kite designer.
03:02All kites are of my design, unique and in Lithuania traditionally there is no kites.
03:14Kites are new in Lithuania.
03:18So your kites are made from what material?
03:23Ripstop, modern materials. Ripstop and carbon tubes and ripstop, carbon sticks this one.
03:34So how do you experience when you are taking part in international kite flying festival?
03:40What? Drone hit my rope.
03:45Well, drone is away, but it hit my rope.
03:55So, what's the question?
04:00I am in this festival fourth time and I very like this festival because there is traditional kites in Gujarat.
04:18I like it and there are a lot of kites, so I like such events. Thank you.
04:48www.kite-life.com