Pyranha Logo
facebook twitter vimeo

Bren Orton

Author's details

Date registered: January 3, 2012

Latest posts

  1. Which River Runner? — February 20, 2024
  2. California Dreaming 2 — July 17, 2023
  3. Firecracker goes to Turkey! — April 3, 2023
  4. Back to Mexico! — November 29, 2022
  5. A Few Words on the Ripper 2 — May 7, 2022

Author's posts listings

04
Mar

Village Life

Uganda, My predetermined winter boating destination for the past 3 years. A chance to kayak on some of the best white water in the world, forget about the stress of competitions and live cheaply and happily ad mist happy locals and passionate freestylers. This trip I was able to polish of some of the wave …

Continue reading »

30
Nov

Hurley Classic – A big weekend for team Pyranha

The highlight event for many U.k based freestyle paddlers took place last weekend, the annual Hurley classic ! The event started from humble beginnings, from a small local event that saw 20 – 30 enthusiastic paddlers from England taking part and grew into an event that now sees 100s of competitors from all areas of …

Continue reading »

24
Sep

The Youth Freestyle Series final

The youth freestyle series finale took place this weekend at the white water course in nottingham, Nearly 100 junior paddlers turn’t up to take part, The weather even cooperated with us at this event and a combination of sun, friends and great freestyle spots made for an awesome day for the junior boaters. Check out …

Continue reading »

15
Sep

Freestyle world cup 2012

The freestyle world cup is offically over. A series of great events took place  across america over the course of three weeks. Myself and Dave Wild flew out to take part in the series, we met some great people along the way and without the kindness and generosity shown by everyone we would most likely …

Continue reading »

09
Jul

Olympic torch visits Lee Valley

Shortly after getting back from the european championships in Lienz,Austria, I got the chance to head to lee valley and take part in an event to celebrate the arrival of the Olympic flame at the official site for the london 2012 slalom event. Lee Valley is host to by far one of the best white …

Continue reading »

04
Jul

Freestyle European Championships

Three weeks ago myself and Pringle travelled out to the site of the 2012 Freestyle European Championships in Austria. We arrived in the small but beautifully located town of Lienz, unfortunately whilst other regions in Austria had huge dumps of snow, it had missed Lienz and so rather than the deep powerful and flushy hole …

Continue reading »

31
May

Youth Freestyle series – The Nene

The second event in the Youth freestyle series took us the the Nene whitewater course, in Northampton . The nene is possibly the smallest course we have in the u.k running on just 2-3 cumecs it funnels it’s way down a series of small ledge holes untill it hits a wooden ramp and the excitement really begins …

Continue reading »

04
May

Youth Freestyle series 2012 – The Dee

The Youth Freestyle series has officially begun ! The first event saw a huge crowd of junior paddlers head to the river Dee in North Wales, The river Dee has always been one of my favourite places to paddle, it’s home to some of the best playspots in the u.k at the right levels, has a couple …

Continue reading »

28
Mar

Gladiator of the Sluice

The first ever Gladiator of the Sluice competition took place this past weekend at the National water sports centre in nottingham,the competiotn brought together a wide range of paddlers from various parts of the country. The event was run in the evening with prelims in the fading light of dusk and finals in complete darkness …

Continue reading »

15
Mar

Winter on the White Nile

Uganda was one of those far of destinations that captured my imagination from an early age, with warm water, big rapids and awesome play waves, it truly is the perfect way to escape the cold (and dry) British winter. The video of my trip is below, See you on the water, Bren  

Older posts «

» Newer posts