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Day #7: Wednesday 13th: A deepeer understanding.

I'm not sure how long i can keep this up.I genuinely am running out of ideas to torment Peter with, maybe i should start a thread on the forum and each day i can enact the best suggestions..(No that's just asking for trouble!)

Bright and early this morning a parcel arrives for Peter. Being a gracious kind of guy he lets me open it and extract its rich bounty. Inside we have two brand new and shiny HP prototypes, additionally revised 10m and 9m kites, in red once again. Buried deep within the bags these kites are packed in are some of the lesser known parts of the kite designers trade. Working for the Best kite company in the world i'm party to some pretty neat stuff long before it hits the shelves or the pages of the worlds press and kiteforums. But, there are some things in here the like of which i have never seen before. It's like the scene from 'Toy Story' where the toys go next door and they find other toys with bits missing and limbs strategically removed.

I always considered that when you made a new part you just went straight ahead and integrated it into a kite design. EZ-pump, 'kerpow', add it straight in, test it, if it fails revert back. Canopy support, 'shazam' add it in and remove it if you need to. But that's not how it works,it's more subtle than that. If you want to test a evolution of your current EZ-pump system,then you make a little leading edge section, make a little strut, make two tiny bladders and stitch the whole thing together like some sort of dismembodied limb. These things look awesome, we have a bag full of them, Canopy framing samples, Ez-pump samples, Canopy support patches, even two foot sections of the new leading edge construction. Check it out...

Peter even has prototypes of every different material and seam that he uses made for testing before they go anywhere near a kite. Here's a different LE section with a new Kevlar ring reinforcement as part of our Solid Airframe Construction. This is awesome, it's like kitesurfing parts bin heaven. These would look so cool on display in a shop.

I grab the new 10m Hp, splash on the nearest sun-tan cream ,leaving Peter jumping up and down on a small section of leading edge as if he's just caught it trying to steal his wallet. "Don't get sunburnt, it looks real hot out there" says Peter as i leave.

To cut a long story short,it blew from the left,it blew from the right, it blew cross off, the sun shone, and i stayed out for five hours enjoying every minute of it. The newer rev' of the 10m HP is even better than the last, a little smoother and noticably faster once again. It kite loops right at the top of the window if you commit really hard, it you go hard core and ease off the bar a little it will spit you out brutally as it traverses the full window. Sweet. I ache all over.

I return from the days kitesurfing to find Peter still at his desk, hard at work. When i left this page was empty; when i returned it was full of crazy little sums and there are another three just like it in the bin. Peter has been busy.