......I enjoy making and flying my own kites...
When we lived in Japan we always entered the Kite competitions. (There's a lot)
Make you own kite and fly it in very stiff competiton. It's really so so popular.

Yep, always ends in drinking beer, eating food and karaoke.

There were some really terrific kites. Some really huge ones too.
In 2001 we actually got 4th place. I'm really so happy for that, simply because we were 'gaijin' with only a smallish (8ft across) homemade kite but managed to reach 4th place from over 50 entrants.
No prizes but great fun
By the way, the 'after-event' do was wonderful.

I think