An­drew Gioan­net­ti

Ryun Singh took flight at Williams Bay, Ch­aguara­mas and glid­ed a dis­tance of 52ft be­fore touch­ing the wa­ter at the in­au­gur­al Red Bull Flug­tag in T&T. He and his crew, "Obi Want­ed Red Bull" were quite clear­ly one of the most orig­i­nal of the 39 craft to take to the Red Bull ramp on Sun­day. Hav­ing to wait for all oth­er crews and craft to com­plete their per­for­mances and at­tempt­ed glides, Obi saved the best for last. Singh was al­ways con­fi­dent. "We thought we had a good chance but from the start I knew we were go­ing to win," Singh said. "The craft was well built... and yes, you can al­so say we won al­most by de­fault," he con­tin­ued with some laugh­ter. Most of the oth­er craft al­so had an orig­i­nal ap­peal to them and many of the teams spent months work­ing on the de­signs.

How­ev­er, most of the teams may have spent too much time on the craft's ap­peal to the eye and not it's abil­i­ty to trav­el in the air. De­spite win­ning, Singh ex­pect­ed to reach fur­ther. He said: "We need­ed more height to trav­el fur­ther." Con­struc­tion of Obi Want­ed Red Bull the craft be­gan in the fi­nal week of May, and ac­cord­ing to Singh, the ef­fort was tremen­dous, but in the end, worth it. He and his crew which con­sist­ed of Matthew Lee Hing, Varun Seenath, Kesh­tav Suresh Ram­di­al and Avinash Ram­be­har­ry start­ed work­ing be­fore most of the oth­er con­tes­tants and on the fi­nal week worked over­time, af­ter work to get the job done. "Since day one we were work­ing on it, look­ing at the back­ground in­for­ma­tion, com­ing up with a de­sign and go­ing for ma­te­ri­als.

Cap­tion: RIGHT: With a 48 ft dis­tance and a tal­ly of 117 points, the Tat­too Inc Flight Club crew pose af­ter claim­ing sec­ond place in the Red Bull Flug­tag on Sun­day. The team was award­ed an all ex­pense paid trip to Bar­ba­dos for an ul­ti­mate kite board­ing ex­pe­ri­ence. LEFT: Team Eman­ci­pa­tion placed third in the Red Bull Flug­tag on Sun­day and were re­ward­ed with a year's sup­ply of free Red Bull and a trip to To­ba­go. Eman­ci­pa­tion al­so took the "Peo­ple's Choice" award with 46,510 votes

The amount of ef­fort is in­de­scrib­able, we en­dured hot sun, rain, ar­gu­ments, lack of ma­te­ri­als, etcetera, but in the end, every­thing was worth it," not­ed Singh. The team and craft were spon­sored by Singh's em­ploy­ers, Dig­i­cel where he works as an en­gi­neer. Dig­i­cel cov­ered the cost of the craft which amount­ed to rough­ly $15,000, a lot of which was spent on cus­tom made poster tops which were sup­plied and print­ed by SIGN­POST Ltd. When asked if the team was ex­cit­ed about their trip to Pana­ma, Singh re­spond­ed: "Yes def­i­nite­ly, it's go­ing to be a while be­fore we go, but that's okay, we didn't do it for the prize, we did it for the fun."