This weekend was the Reno River Festival. Team Pyranha was there in full force to do some Freestyle and Boatercross, and get some creeking and partying in between it all.

Dave looping the Rev in Reno

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Pyranha tent set-up for a Demo with Whitewater Warehouse.

In the past 3 weeks I have been traveling around in the team van with Dave Fusilli and my brother Graham Seiler hitting up some on-water demo days.
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It’s almost time for me to head west for a couple months, but this weekend I had some events to attend to closer to home. A busy weekend for sure, but a lot of fun and some good results.

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We had an awesome weekend of racing on the LW. Sat was the down river portion of the event, and Sun was the first ever LVM Giant Slalom. I ended up finishing first place overall which was a great feeling on my home river. I feel like this type of racing is the way the sport should be heading and am stoked to do more of these events. Check out lvmtv for more full results and details. (more…)

Last weekend we went to paddle to Millau, France; however the river Tarn was little higher than normally due of some rains, so the slalom course was closed and it was forbbiden to paddle there. We looked for another spot around, but we didn’t found anything good enough. Next day we drove south and found a natural slalom course with a good hole, so we spent the whole day althought it was cold, windy and it rained. I don’t ahve any photo and not so much footage cause of the weather… will be better soon.
Here is a little video from last competition and this weekend, paddling with the REV.
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Last weekend I hit up the first annual Nortwest Creeking Competiton. I took down first place in the Huckfest over Sunset Falls on the East Fork of the Lewis River. It was a good time, lots of freewheels and whatnot. I went for a seal launch into the base of the falls for the crowd pleaser. The race was also sweet with a 80 racer turnout. I finished the race in 3rd place… but only 1/5th of a second off second. Here are some shots of the action. (more…)

This weekend we went to the catalan freestyle cup in Millau (France). We paddled and trained on saturday with an incredible clear and blue sky, and we did the competition on sunday.

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Once again it was that time of year to compete for a place on the GBR Freestyle Team. The purpose of the event was to select the team for the 2008 European Championships to be held in Galicia, Spain next July so as you can imagine, the competition was tough. The event was split into two events held over the two days at two different venues, Hurley weir on the River Thames and the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham. Having decided after that last European Championships to retire from OC1 competition I was only competing in the C1 category in the new Rev M.

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Graham racing the New Everest
Last weekend was the 12th annual Green River Narrows race. 124 racers made it out there Saturday at high noon to get fired up and race the Narrows home to the infamous Gorilla rapid(pictured above) in front of some 500 spectators. It was one of the best Green races to date with record times in almost every category. (more…)

The national watersports centre at Nottingham was the location for the British Freestyle Championships and the Alpkit Series Final. With everyone else on the Team out in Austria for the Sickline event, I was the lone Pyranha team member competing.

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Adidas Sickline Extreme Kayak World Championship 2007, Öetz, Tirol, Austria

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As Richard has already said, the weekend saw the third of the Plastic Fantastic Alpkit Kayak Series events of the year, at the Nene White Water Centre. Here’s some more from the event…

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The 29th and 30th saw the Alpkit Challenge which was held at Northampton white water centre, or the Nene to the ones who know.

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This weekend saw the next leg of the alpkit challenge series, it was held on the Tryweryn North Wales.  Not going to say much about it, apart from it was a good weekend. Jamie finished second in C1 and i finished 8th in the mens K1.

Next event will be held at the Northampton white water centre, 29th-30th September.

Freestyle Euro Cup Final in Galicia, Spain. The last of three events, one in Austria and the other one in Sweden.

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The Spanish Freestyle Championship was celebrated in Sort last weekend (14/15 of july).

The Worlds in 2001 and the European Champs in 2004 were celebrated there as well, however the spot is different every year because it is destroyed every spring with high river levels.

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Since our last post, we have spent the past month kayaking in Colorado.

Big East Falls aka.”Stupid Falls”

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Team Pyranha in Colorado

…after demonstrating great skills at the Freestyle World Championship in Canada where Ben White (UK) and Valerie Bertrand (Canada) took the gold in squirt and Jeremy Lauks (USA) took the bronze in OC1, our team was hitting the road hoping to showcase our plastic boat just as well… off to Colorado.  Paddling Life Pro-InvitationalThe Pro-Invitational has become an annual challenge where the best paddlers from each boat company are invited to defeat each other in creeking and freestyle. Steamboat Colorado has the area to make it happen; with Paddling Life as organiser (amongst other sponsors) and a wicked crew of local paddlers whiling to share their time. The day started with a downriver race on the Fish creek: a little stretch of small technical rapids, from a clean 8 foot boof to a lower head dam about 1km downstream. After a quick lunch, all paddlers were brought to the town wave for a good old style freestyle competition based on variety and style on scales of 1 to 10… Our team had 4 members at the event: Valerie took a respectful overall 4 ^th position as our guys Jared, Jeremy and Connor were holding on quite well with the top 15 men. (www.pladdlinglife.com )

Teva Mountain Games

The 6^th annual event in Vail Colorado was again a huge success, with many hundred international athletes competing in various disciplines such as biking, running, climbing (…) and of course paddling. The 5 day paddling competition included 2 boatercross races, a steep creek race and a rodeo. Again, Team Pyranha did a wicked job keeping up with many well known international paddlers. After high placings in the men steep creek race, our boys Jared, Dave and Jeremy put on an impressive show for the crowd in town and making the 4-20 look like a sky high looping machine! Josh Bechtel also did a wicked job on both boatercross races; with a no fear look on his face and strong pace through the courses. On the women sides, Shannon Carrol also took the podium in a boatercross race and finished high in the steep creek race. Valerie kept up really good until a misfortunate crash in finals on the steep creek made her bump into a none of the less 5 ^th place, allowing team paddler Katie Hilleke to take place on the podium. Katie, who’s recent battle against cancer brought her out on tour this summer and already she is doing incredibly well; your strength is a huge motivation for the team. Go girl J !!  www.tevamountaingames.com 

    Josh and Dave, Shannon

Val

With plenty of sunshine - quite untypical for Lofer - and a nice water level, the second Extreme Race in Lofer, Austria took part last weekend. Spontaneously I decided to go there and was quite surprised, when I realized that I was the only girl competing. There was a single race for qualification first, followed by the boatercross. As I was faster than some of the boys, I competed in the boatercross. I must admit it is a little bit strange to compete against men, but still lots of fun.

Anna in the Teufelsschlucht - Picture: Timo Köster