• Soft or flexible kite - this includes sleds, flowforms, parafoils or any variant of these styles of kites. This category also applies to those kites, which rely on ram air inflation to achieve some or all of its shape. The use of spars or bridling to hold a kite's shape to allow ram air inflation is permitted,
• Cellular or Box kite - any kite that presents multiple dimensional faces or multiple surfaces to the wind. This may include compound kites of an otherwise flat or bowed nature that have additional lifting or drag elements,
• Flat/plane surface or bowed kite - kites that present one surface to the wind. The surface does not have to be the same shape or size across the width and height of the kite and may contain multiple sail components. With the exception of keels, tails, windsocks or rotating elements all sails must lie in the same plane. Examples of these styles of kites would include edos, flares, rollers, genkis, serpent or dragon style kites.
• Deltas and Rokkakus - kites of a style that would be recognised as belonging to these generic categories including variations of these styles.
• Non rip-stop kite - this kite can be of any design or style but must not be made from rip-stop nylon, polyester or similar synthetic rip-stop style fabrics. Synthetic fabrics not incorporating rip stop features are permitted,
• Miscellaneous - innovative, trains, centipedes' etc. This class is for all kites that do not meet the above criteria. With the exception of safety criteria there are no limitations on types of material or construction methods used.

Each category will be separately judged. Each category winner will be recognized as being the winner of that category in presentation ceremonies.

The winners of each category will then be judged by a separately convened panel,
(which may have members from previous judging panels) to determine the
Winner of the Best Homemade Kite