{"id":17670,"date":"2015-04-23T23:45:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T23:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?p=17670"},"modified":"2015-04-23T23:49:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T23:49:38","slug":"heading-to-the-icf-wildwater-junioru23-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/heading-to-the-icf-wildwater-junioru23-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading to the ICF Wildwater Junior\/U23 World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this one isn&#8217;t going to be about freestyle or slalom or creeking or any other craziness. It&#8217;s all about making the USA Wildwater Junior Team and going to the ICF Worlds. I don&#8217;t know how I got this slot, because the race conditions pretty much sucked. 34 degrees, snowing and raining and a wicked wind blowing upstream in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado. Most normal people would have gone back to bed or just sat in their car with the heat blasting. Not me, so I guess I failed the normal test.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wildwater racing is fun, hard, and the boats are massive at 4.5 m long. They&#8217;re also pretty unstable sitting still. It is a whole different technique in paddling them. You also cannot read and run with them and be successful. You have to plan your run, your turns, the flats where you&#8217;re going to pick up time. It is all about the time, the clock, the guy with the watch who is watching you. It comes in two parts; The Classic and the Sprints. You go full on in the classic for 3 to 4 miles. Sprints, you go more than just full on for about 350 to 400 m. The paddle is different and is what they call a wing paddle. The hardest part of a wildwater boat is rolling it. Something you&#8217;d better practice a lot and never forget how to do. The last thing you want is a race getting crushed. I think my Clipper holds maybe 300 gallons of water. Fun, huh?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0037.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-17668 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0037-300x255.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0037\" width=\"425\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0037-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0037-1024x870.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_0037.jpg 1941w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, Team Colorado will be sporting 5 racers into the worlds. We&#8217;ll have our hands full because the Euro kids are pretty good&#8230;. but so are we \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this one isn&#8217;t going to be about freestyle or slalom or creeking or any other craziness. It&#8217;s all about making the USA Wildwater Junior Team and going to the ICF Worlds. I don&#8217;t know how I got this slot, because the race conditions pretty much sucked. 34 degrees, snowing and raining and a wicked &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/heading-to-the-icf-wildwater-junioru23-world-championships\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8940,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competition-reports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tk9G-4B0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17670","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\/8940"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17670"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17674,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17670\/revisions\/17674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}