The Peter Lynn Kiteboarding designer visited team rider Ced Vandenschrik in Cannon Rocks, South Africa. The mission was to test some new prototypes.
Pep and Ced collaborate all year round sending ideas back and forth and sharing experiences and giving each other valuable feedback. Being on the beach together means that changes could be applied immediately and new ideas can be tried out with direct feedback. Also having someone on the beach observing the kite’s behaviour is great as sometimes, when attached to the kite, you miss some valuable things.
Perseverance and passion are fundamental ingredients to achieve good results.
Cannon Rocks in January offers a variety of conditions ideal for testing.
From waves to flat water conditions, with variable wind speeds, the team was able to perform bridle tests on some of the new profiles and put all the sizes through their wind range.
Testing new kites is a time consuming exercise with small incremental changes made that need to be tried and evaluated.Of course one has to take into account changing conditions and personal preferences to achieve settings that are usable in the marketplace.
Back to back testing with some current market kites is also key to keeping a perspective on changes.
Peter Lynn has other team riders around  of course testing the kites in different locations and conditions. This is necessary to give an overall picture of performance and usability for the market out there.
There are some exciting things coming from the Peter Lynn Team, time will tell.
Ced