Rokkaku kites are quite forgiving to construct and fly. Well, perhaps not quite-I'm sure firearms would be against the rules -) Personally, I'm not so much into kite fighting and prefer to fly my rokkakus up to 400 feet in light wind and thermal conditions. I've seen a rok battle at a kite festival and have to say it's not a bad spectator sport! The competitors try to force all the other kites to the ground, in any way they can. ![]() However, they don't quite make the big three. Like the diamond and delta, the flying characteristics of rokkakus have a lot to do with the considerable popularity of this design! That's just in my humble opinion. There's always a few big roks floating around at our local kite festival each year. These types of kites are everywhere, from small ones turned out from children's kite-making workshops right through to large expensive air-brushed versions for sale in kite shops. The rokkaku kite, often abbreviated to just "rok," has to be the most copied Japanese kite in the West. In some corners of the world, you might hear a diamond referred to as an Eddy kite. There are a number of similarities! ![]() With accurately-made modern materials, diamond kites can have quite a good wind-range, although they don't necessarily fly at very steep line-angles. The larger ones which break down for transport are very quick to set up too. ![]() Interestingly, all our building and flying of simple diamonds has underscored the basic reliability and idiot-proof nature of these types of kites! Many other designs can have their quirks and give trouble when built from scratch by inexperienced flyers. Usually, the person taking an opportunity to fly a kite is hidden by the houses and trees of suburbia here in Adelaide. It seems that, in the West at least, the word "kite" is almost synonymous with the shape "diamond."Īs a family, we have often seen a diamond kite of some description floating on the breeze. It seems every second kid's show on TV and every second children's book has an image or three of this extremely well-known kite shape. I can't help noticing how often we are bombarded with images of this design in daily life.
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