{"id":15016,"date":"2013-06-18T14:38:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?p=15016"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:38:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:38:15","slug":"fibark-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/fibark-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Fibark 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fibark 2013<\/p>\n<p>The worlds oldest white water celebrated it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 65<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary this weekend in Salida, Colorado,<\/p>\n<p>A small friendly mountain based city that is home to both an awesome creek race and a world class freestyle spot.<\/p>\n<p>Both kayaking venues are level dependent and high water levels this year made for a big volume challenging creek race and a small flushy freestyle spot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0177.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15020\" alt=\"IMG_0177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0177.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0177.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0177-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Creek race changed format this year from boater x to giant slalom, Dave Fusilli was fast and smooth throughout the race and managed to finish in second place, with Craig Kleckner and Matt Anger following closely behind. Unfortunately both myself and Mike Patterson didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t manage to make the second slalom gate and forfeited a 30 second time penalty, which put us firmly out of contention for the top spots \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 But on the bright side, whilst pushed of line during the creek race I managed to drop into the infamous pine creek hole and through three \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unintentional\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ends in the large Shiva \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Freestyle for life!<\/p>\n<p>The week leading up to the event we experienced some of the best levels for the freestyle spot and had some great training sessions with everyone looking solid, Unfortunately the levels rose in the last few days leading up to the competition which changed the spot from an incredible hole to a small flushy wave.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1009151_10201507544955837_1929901132_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15019\" alt=\"1009151_10201507544955837_1929901132_o\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1009151_10201507544955837_1929901132_o-683x1024.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1009151_10201507544955837_1929901132_o-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1009151_10201507544955837_1929901132_o-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1009151_10201507544955837_1929901132_o.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Craig Kleckner, Mike Patterson and myself all made it to semi finals, Craig through down some unbelievably quick air screws but unfortunately finished just outside of the top 5 in 6<sup>th<\/sup> place.\u00c2\u00a0Erin Clancy made it to the women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finals but couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite put her best rides together on the day \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 But she is hungry for success at the next event!<\/p>\n<p>In the juniors, Rowan Stuart threw down in the small jed and took the top spot in the junior Ladys, Brandon Hepburn had some awesome rides in the junior finals and took second place !<\/p>\n<p>Henry Hyde took top spot in the 14&amp;under slalom race as well as placing first in the ten mile downriver race, Everyone at Pyranha is expecting big things from this junior ripper!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/463770_4917092445121_952397504_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15021\" alt=\"463770_4917092445121_952397504_o\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/463770_4917092445121_952397504_o-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/463770_4917092445121_952397504_o-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/463770_4917092445121_952397504_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/463770_4917092445121_952397504_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall it was another succesfull event for team Pyranha, The final event takes place this coming weekend at Kellys white water park in Idaho.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"__mceDel\">See you on the water,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bren<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fibark 2013 The worlds oldest white water celebrated it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 65th anniversary this weekend in Salida, Colorado, A small friendly mountain based city that is home to both an awesome creek race and a world class freestyle spot. 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