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And the best thing is the nice weather here, sunshine, and the best outing for the family, you know,\" said Yizdani in-between tying a kite string to a newly assembled fluorescent kite assembled by his 10-year-old son.  \u003cbr/\u003e\"And we used to do this kiting back home, we used to do a lot of kiting back home, but here, it is not very common you know. This is the first chance we did it here in Dubai. So really this festival brought us here.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile Amir Hussein has come to the festival with a group of friends and family - bringing dozens of handmade kites with them.\u003cbr/\u003e\"In fact, we have called a few more friends they are coming, so there will be a competition with them,\" he says.\u003cbr/\u003eFor the not so experienced in kite flying, Rajesh Nair - a master flyer from Kerala in India - is on hand to train dozens of eager children, some sending kites into the sky for the first time. \u003cbr/\u003eHe's taking the young fliers through the construction process.\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the kite workshop we teach team them how to make kites, how to fly kites, and what are the requirements that you require put in to making a kite,\" says Nair.\u003cbr/\u003e\"There are kites can be made in five minutes, there are kites can be made in seven months or six months.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBrothers Ali and Amar Bu Hamad, from Kuwait, are pulling the strings of the huge squid kite. \u003cbr/\u003eThey've been kite fliers since an early age. \u003cbr/\u003e\"We like to see smiles on the, what can I say, on the faces of the children. That's why we travel all around the world from Europe to Asia to here, to fly kites and enjoy it. It's our hobby from our childhood days,\" says Ali Bu Hamad.\u003cbr/\u003eThe one-day kite festival was held on Friday 17 January 2014.\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eDubai, UAE - 17 January 2014\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of spectators watching large squid-style kite rising into air at festival \u003cbr/\u003e2. Close-up of bear-themed kite\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of kites in sky\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid of black kite in sky\u003cbr/\u003e5. Tracking shot of kite with tail falling to ground\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of kites \u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of Omar Yizdani, Pakistani engineer working in Dubai, preparing kite for flight with son \u003cbr/\u003e8. Close-up of Yizdani's son preparing kite\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Omar Yizdani, Pakistani engineer working in Dubai:\u003cbr/\u003e\"This festival is the only (one) of its kind here in Dubai, this international festival. And the best thing is the nice weather here, sunshine, and the best outing for the family, you know. And we used to do this kiting back home, we used to do a lot of kiting back home, but here, it is not very common you know. This is the first chance we did it here in Dubai. So really this festival brought us here.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid of Yizdani's son flying kite\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of Asim Hussein, Pakistani businessman working in Dubai, with his family preparing kites for flight\u003cbr/\u003e12. Various of kite spool being wound in preparation for flight\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Asim Hussein, Pakistani businessman working in Dubai:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are all cousins, from the same family, and we got some friends and we get together and we plan to spend out some day and have some fun (cheers in background). You can, you can hear the sounds that we started enjoying. In fact, we have called a few more friends they are coming, so there will be a competition with them.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of relative of Hussein looking through bag of kites\u003cbr/\u003e15. Various of children learning how to assemble a kite during workshop\u003cbr/\u003e16. Tilt up of woman writing on her daughter's kite\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of Rajesh Nair, Member of Kerala, India-based kite flying team\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rajesh Nair, Member of Kerala, India-based kite flying team:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the kite workshop we teach team them how to make kites, how to fly kites, and what are the requirements that you require put in to making a kite. Now, you also have dimensions into it because the kite in which you make we have the 'spars,' we call sticks, we call spars in the kite. When it comes to the stick, when the stick comes to the kite it will become a 'spar,' so we need bamboo sticks, we need paper or we need polythene, then we also have fabrics, now once they make the kites they realise how effectively that one can make it. There are kites can be made in five minutes, there are kites can be made in seven months or six months.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close tracking shot of Nair assembling kite\u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid of Nair assembling kite with others\u003cbr/\u003e21. Over-shoulder shot of Nair unreeling kite before launching it\u003cbr/\u003e22. Close of kite design\u003cbr/\u003e23. Low tracking shot of Nair attempting to launch kite\u003cbr/\u003e24. Mid of kite owned by Kuwaiti-based kite flying team \"Bu Hamad Kites\"\u003cbr/\u003e25. Wide of Ali Bu Hamad, from \"Bu Hamad Kites,\" attempting to launch kite\u003cbr/\u003e26. Tilt up of large squid-style kite in air\u003cbr/\u003e27. Mid of Hamad and his brother sitting on sand\u003cbr/\u003e28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ali Bu Hamad, Member of Kuwaiti based kite team \"Bu Hamad:\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"We like to see smiles on the, what can I say, on the faces of the children. That's why we travel all around the world from Europe to Asia to here, to fly kites and enjoy it. It's our hobby from our childhood days.\"\u003cbr/\u003e29. Wide of squid-style kite falling to ground\u003cbr/\u003e30. 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