{"id":12219,"date":"2012-04-19T09:23:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T09:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?p=12219"},"modified":"2012-04-19T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T09:24:07","slug":"bronze-medal-for-the-jed-at-the-dutch-nationals-and-easter-tides-at-the-bitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/bronze-medal-for-the-jed-at-the-dutch-nationals-and-easter-tides-at-the-bitches\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronze medal for the JED at the Dutch Nationals and Easter tides at the Bitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12220\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12220\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_3987.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_3987.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/IMG_3987-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite some unseasonably dry times here in the UK, the Easter bank holiday proved to be a kayakers dream.\u00c2\u00a0There big tides of 7m+ at the Bitches, a tidal race in the south west of Wales near St David&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0(see above, photo by Matt Tidy) as well as brilliant sunshine. We even saw a few seals who popped their heads up just metres away from us while we were sitting in the eddy. The Bitches is a long boaters paradise for front surfing on a glassy steep forever wave&#8230;. I went half way and took a Varun. What a beautiful place I certainly recommend a visit!! To make a perfect weekend all the better, it rained all night on\u00c2\u00a0Sunday night which meant that we got to do a sneaky run on the way home on the famed Mellte river in the Brecon Beacons which has a couple of good sized waterfalls on it.<\/p>\n<p>The following weekend saw us leave one dry country for another. A road trip to the mighty Netherlands for the Dutch Nationals. Despite a flushy\u00c2\u00a0feature there were some great moves pulled by the great and good. I managed to take home the bronze medal in the Freestyle event, which was a good consolation as my car was sacrificed to the car breakdown gods and is still in the Netherlands!! We had quite an adventure getting home!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=12221\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12221\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12221\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0953-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0953-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0953-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0953.jpg 2003w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite some unseasonably dry times here in the UK, the Easter bank holiday proved to be a kayakers dream.\u00c2\u00a0There big tides of 7m+ at the Bitches, a tidal race in the south west of Wales near St David&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0(see above, photo by Matt Tidy) as well as brilliant sunshine. We even saw a few seals who &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/bronze-medal-for-the-jed-at-the-dutch-nationals-and-easter-tides-at-the-bitches\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5,6],"tags":[301,89,171,179,267,302],"class_list":["post-12219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competition-reports","category-paddler-lifestyle-articles","category-playboating-articles","tag-dutch-nationals","tag-freestyle-kayaking","tag-paula-volkmer","tag-pyranha","tag-pyranha-jed","tag-the-bitches"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tk9G-3b5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12219"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12234,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12219\/revisions\/12234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}