±5 years ago I came up with an idea in my head and wanted to take it commercial. But with many of my projects, I printed prototypes and kept making different iterations and ultimately with my perfectionist mindset never settled firmly on a design and ultimately only got 90% of the way to a working prototype. I also didn’t patent anything or even pre-patent anything which in hindsight was very silly. Then eventually FD dropped their gen2 and boom there was my idea.
As soon as they released their idea, I knew I had to pivot to another idea and improve on what they had. Enter idea 2, a glass in assist where the tracks and assist unit were all in one with a battery that clipped in and out. Again, I hadn’t learnt from my mistakes and started away on designs and prototypes and fought my own mind trying to get it 100% perfect instead of just settling. This time I got halfway through filing a provisional patent, but got distracted and then never completed the patent. Enter 2 weeks ago and a new player pops up with idea 2 on Instagram.
Now I need to work on idea 3 if I actually ever want to do anything commercial or stop chasing that desire and potentially just enjoy foiling again.
For those that haven’t seen yet, here are some links to a very slick system from Riift:
