In my opinion I think this video shows about local’s culture and shows shirone’s folkway.
This culture was born from legend about the leader given kite turn in to competition.
But if we look closely this competition isn’t judge from the beauty of kites or how long it can fly. They’ll judge from the team whose the rope doesn’t tear apart. So it look like tug of war more than kite fighting because although your kite was destroy you still get a chance to win by the power of your team. Nowadays kite fighting becomes long-standing tradition in Shirone . It requires unity, weather and lucky to become the winner. Kite fighting is a great activity to promote literacy in the village moreover it can also maintain a tradition inherited culture to exist.