Hi all!

We are frantically packing to leave for the West today, but have stuck a quick report that Andria wrote about last week up on our website.

Go to www.RiverGypsies.com for the full report.

Andria styling Wonder Falls
Photo by Leland

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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Hey yinz! Dave Fusilli here, bloggin a couple videos myself and the demshitz Seiler brothers have put together. The first one, Click here for video, from Cheat Fest this past weekend, along with a couple fotos from two days on the Lower Big Sandy with a bunch of folks out shreddin in Ammos and Burns. Also, a video featuring the New REV the Seiler’s put together, click here for video, from a day at the Eternity hole in Western North Carolina a few weeks back. Enjoy!
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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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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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Sunday morning in the bakery, half asleep, aching body, we picked up the local newspaper, and were surprised to see us on the frontpage, almost bigger than soccer…

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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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With a “knee rest”, you can sit more relaxed and get better control.

read on for fitting instructions.
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Again I’ve been kayaking a little with the small REV. Every time I paddle de REV I feel better!!

Here are some photos from this wekend and last weekend as well.

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This weeken I went to paddle in la seu (Catalonia), where there’s an artificial slalom course. Some slalom world cups were celebrated there, and the olympics too in Barcelona 1992.

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Massive rains in the Eastern US mean massive waves on the New River Dries. I bee-lined it for West Virginia to put the Rev through it’s paces on a big wave.

New River Dries Rev video

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I’ve paddling with the small REV this weekend and I would descrive it as an amazing weekend. We went to Millau (France), where there’s an artificial slalom course, and of course, a small but cool hole.

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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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1st time in the NEW REV today. Out in the cold on the Delaware river at Scudders falls NJ. The REV was a lot of fun, and trying to loop without getting my head wet seemed like a good way to stay warm! (more…)

Over the past few weeks I’ve been busy paddling morning noon and night, testing one of the new Rev prototypes,  on and various features around the Thames valley.  The final boat will be a little different but here are a few words on were we are at the moment!                                                                                                                                                                                              

So we have a new play boat more an evolution than revolution the Rev takes the high performance of the 4 Twenty a step further.  I was always pleasantly surprised paddling the 4Twenty at just how fun and easy it was to paddle and also how user friendly it was to learn new moves in, not forgetting exceptional comfort.  Now with the new Rev You still have a boat that is great to sit in, the knee room has been slightly adjusted and still   provides plenty of foot room. However the performance has been turned right up!  The boat is considerably narrower than the 4Twenty; the vortex rails have been sharpened and elongated, this combined with the lower rocker makes for a much faster snappier involving boat to paddle.                                                                                                                                          

On a wave the Rev’s flat rocker and quick planning hull make’s it a very quick boat that loves to race down the line, but has still kept enough of the tail rocker for hassle free back surfing & for landing big blunts, pan am’s etc.  With   the reduced width, in a hole/pile of a wave the Rev isn’t  as stable as the 4Twenty and has taken a little longer to get used to, but the benefits you gain in acceleration, speed, looseness and bigger, easer air time out way any negative     points.  The volume distribution has also been tinkered with, and as a result the Rev is stable and controllable up on   its end, cartwheels, and split wheels and huge loops are a piece of cake. All in all this boat take’s a bit more thought to paddle than the 4Twenty but be patient on a big wave or a small hole or even just down at the local swimming     pool this boat give you a big smile!                                                                                                                        

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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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 second edition of the Thun River Jam was celebrated from the 31st of august to the 2nd of september in Thun, Switzerland. The event combined Freestyle Kayak and River Surfing in the centre of Thun. There was also a Big Air and a King of the Wave competition.

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