Hello and happy new year,

This will be the first of a few posts today with some various updates. Firstly here are some rough sketches of the range of helmets I am planning on developing. These are primarily aimed at watersports but if things take off can be modified later to cover various other sports.

So from the top down:Flash: You know, as in Gordon. This guy doen't want to be a hero but when it comes to it he's got the balls to put Brian Blessed and Pierce Brosnan on their knees with their eyes closed and their mouths open, and whats more he's never over dressed.

As I've said before (look down) this helmet has all the important bits covered; full frontal, temporal and occipital portection povided by the composite shell and a peak to keep the lovely Scottish weather out your face or to tuck and cower behind while getting the daddy of all spankings.

Chuck: Named after a guy who I met on my season away in france who literally used to throw 40kg ardecheoirs onto 10ft tall traillers; a true beast. But to help you visualise it you can think of Chuck Norris. If ever you were to be unfortunate enough to have accidentally insulted Mr. Norris' grandmother and find him coming at you with a roundhouse kick that would floor a cow, then you'd want to be wearing one of these.

This has all the coverage of the "Flash" (above) bat with added ear protection and some extra "comfort" coverage at the top end of the cheekbone, because, after all, perforated eardrums are no fun. This design will be sized slightly larger than the "Flash" to enable some more absorbtion of those big knocks and thus protect your jubbly bits.

You will feel near invincible, just don't let it go to you head.

Twitch: Last and very much least this one is a nut case. Designed for those park and play ventures where there is relative safety from large hits. With minimal coverage and a low profile this helmet will cause few problems for those who spend a lot of their time transiting the wet and dry phases. The peak will be more horizontal so as to not catch on jets of water and shift. It will also give you better vision for spotting that next end.

These helmets will all be made with full composite construction consisting of an outer carbon layer, kevlar jointing layer, two biaxial fibreglass weaves in opposing directions to give strength on major axies and finished off with an inner kevlar layer. Construction will be epoxy vac bag to optimise strength to weight characteristics.