Extreme Sports Week, Voss Norway
The Extreme Sport Week just took place in Voss Norway this past week. The athletes also call it ’Endurance Week’ for a good reason: 9 days of hard paddling and heavy drinking! I am finally back home for a rest, a huge smile still hanging on my face from the insane great creeking, the competitions and for the crazy people you meet from all disciplines of extreme sports…
The Burn was incredibly well represented there: in fact the majority of all creek boats were Pyranhas 
On thursday, the creek race took place on the Branseth river: short section of drops and slides in an easy access cristal clear water canyon. Team Pyranha had 4 boys in the finals: Allan Ellard -6th, Lars-Georg Paulsen -7th, Per Christian Pedersen -8th, Andy Philips -10th. In the ladies final, I took the 2nd place behind Mariann Saether. Follow this link to last year’s video to get an idea: http://www.ekstremsportveko.com/?page=3&show=62&filmdir=70
On Friday was the Team Race down the Upper-Lower Branseth. Team Pyranha boys Allan Ellard, Andy Philips and Mike Abbott won the honors, a respectable 21 sec in front of the second team!! Boys, you rock!! Finally but not the least, on Saturday was the Head to Head competition down the Strandelve. Again, Team Pyranha killing it, ladies side this time: Liz Bell took the 3rd and I came in 1st 
The rest of the week went to finding new stupid things to try… For ex: Pierre, UK paddler and a good friend, tried a flair down Money drop…
Now off to Canada to freestyle…
This entry was posted on Sunday, June 29th, 2008 at 10:38 pm and is filed under Competition Reports.
