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Category Archive: Tests and Reviews

Feedback on kayaks from around the world

12
Nov

Loki vs the Inazone and Prozone on the Tallulah Gorge

The Tallulah River in north Georgia is a playground full of blunt and spin waves, cartwheel holes, rock spins, eddy lines, and splats on the vertical gorge walls. Its a great river for slicey playboats like the Loki, so the weekend Tyler Mayo, AJ Matthews, Matt Redmond and Myself took a quiver of boats including …

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25
Jun

Small Burn vs Shiva Review

When I heard that Pyranha was putting out a new creeker, I didn’t pay much attention because I’ve been so happy with my Burn, and I wasn’t looking to change boats.  Then when I saw the Shiva, I was intrigued.  My first thought was that it resembled an old Pyranha favorite of mine, the Creek …

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29
May

Shiva on the Green River Narrows

Chris Morelli checking in with an update here! I just headed back to the east coast from a winter of skiing in Utah. On the way home to New York, I decided to head to Asheville, to pick up my new Shiva and JED from Pyranha. I got the chance to take the Shiva out …

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10
May

The Varun Mystery

On first appearances the Varun might confuse, it’s a little bit of a freestyler, but you probably won’t see people seriously competing it, mixed up with a little bit of a river runner means its main niche is bigger volume rivers where you need some speed, but want to stop and throw down some big …

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02
May

Pyranha Shiva Review!

Photo below by Shannon MacMichael   When I first heard Robert Peerson was joining the design team at Pyranha I immediately texted a good friend of mine who paddles for Wave Sport to tell him the news.  All he said in reply was… “Shit”.  It is no secret that Robert Peerson is a talented designer …

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24
Apr

Happy Shiva Times

Thanks to quite a bit of rain here in southern Germany within the last weeks water levels are rising and I’m enjoying it a lot! It was therefore time to take my new Shiva out for a couple of more sessions on some of our classic runs in the Alps. The photos of the action pro …

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03
Apr

Demshitz can fly with JED on Big Buseater Wave!

JED Flies

Look out JED is coming !!!!  Dave Fusilli called me up on Sunday last week and said, ” I got JED and Bus is in, you in?”  I replied, “pick me up!!!” This was my first experience with Buseater and it was in its true form, cold water, cold weather, and cold beer.  We had …

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27
Mar

Shiva loves the Raven Fork

 Sending the Shiva off the Big Boy! Seconding the latest post from Clay… I also had the pleasure of testing the Shiva on one of the South East’s sickest steep creeks, The Raven Fork. I decided to fly to Asheville for my spring break and met up with Dave Fusilli in the Team Pyranha van. …

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01
Feb

Everest – Paddle raft first descent

My name is Sean Glaccum and I have travelled to the Himalayas almost every fall since 1997 in search of rivers that have never been kayaked or rafted.  Past Himalayan first descents include:  First kayak descents off Mt. Kanchenjunga (3rd highest peak), Mt. Cho Oyu (6th highest peak), Mt. Dhaulagiri (7th highest peak) and Mt. …

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29
Jan

Having Fun in the Small Varun

I’ve been paddling in the small Varun since last spring and have been loving it! I love to do downriver play and to do class IV creeking in my playboat, so it’s been a super fun boat. Here is some footage from some North Carolina goodness, the Nolichucky, a class III play run and the …

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