How did I get the idea for the Indoor Pear Ball game?

In 2012, I was sitting on a bench at a Verdun playground, the one near to the Montreal Canadiens’ outdoor rink, courtesy of $ 1,000,000.

My 5 year old son comes to see me crying. Why are you crying, my poor boy? I asked him.

Girls don’t want me to play pear ball with them because I’m too small.

Indeed, there were 2 girls who had hung a pear ball around a bar on the play module and it was a bit high for my son.

It grabbed my heart and I said to him: “Listen daddy will make you one for the house and never again will you cry because of that ok!”

I am a handyman by nature, but that night I didn’t want to fall asleep too quickly and I stayed up thinking about how I was going to do it.

At first, I thought about hanging it in the corner of the fence outside, but in vain. Nothing simple came to mind.

The 2 girls in Verdun only had a belt as a ferrule to spin the ball so it was easy.

But yes! The adjustable exercise bars attach to the inside of the door frame, making it easy to hang a ball and a belt, as seen in Verdun.

Why limit yourself to the belt which is regularly off-center? When you can simply weld a ball bearing, like in schoolyards!

After a successful first attempt for my boy, I decided to take it a step further.

At that time, I was starting a project with more or less than 17 different prototypes. Now, I was testing several models of different “brackets”, to arrive at the product presented today.