The jop was far form easy. "We took the prototype to our bank manager,hoping to get a loan, but he wasn't very enthusiastic," says Andrew. "His actual words were: 'That's a nice beach ball.' which didn't really give s much confidence." Luckily, they were not discouraged and each one drcided to design a sphere separately. "Dwane's sphere was too small and mine was too large. Each one was useless on its own, but we put one inside the other and the Zorb was born.