How did you get into designing kites?

In the second year of Slingshot when we were still pretty small, we (Jeff , Chris, Breff and I) each had a lot on our plates…each one of us wore a lot of hat's. I was R&D for bars lines, boards and kites. At the time we had Bill Hanson working on the Stealth Kite. It was the first true Hell Kite on the market. I worked with Bill on it for a year , You can learn a lot from a really bad kite. I learned everything that I don't want a kite to do pretty much that year. It was the true school of hard knocks! At the time I was really into the Foil kites. But Jeff and Chris wanted something water relaunchable and Bill wanted nothing to do with an inflatable kite, so It was back on my plate. I was chewing for a while, and now it's all I work on. John Doyle does all of the boards, and is doing a great job, so I can focus on other kites.