{"id":19898,"date":"2018-01-04T15:40:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T15:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/?p=19898"},"modified":"2018-01-05T11:26:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T11:26:33","slug":"pyranha-ripper-initial-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/pyranha-ripper-initial-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyranha Ripper: Initial Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This boat has literally changed the way I look at the river.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To have the ability to dip the stern and either get vertical, or do a quick pivot turn, has transformed the river into an entirely different playground; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/kayaks.php?kayak=Ripper\">Ripper<\/a>&#8216;s design takes on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FastIsFun\">#FastIsFun<\/a> ethos of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/kayaks.php?kayak=9R\">9R<\/a>, with the lower stern rocker even boosting its speed so you can punch through features and tear up lines in search of that next, deep eddy line.<\/p>\n<p>The Ripper stays high and dry through features thanks to the full volume bow, and when you add in the extreme bow rocker you skip through features like you&#8217;ve been shot out of a canon; this makes for a kayak that can be enjoyed on all classes of whitewater. Recently, I found myself enjoying the heck out of a class 3 wave train with a good eddy line; surf across the wave, dip the stern, pirouette, set it down, and surf back.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/249497011\" width=\"590\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>I stand at 6 feet and 173lbs, and like the Medium Ripper for a little bit of everything; because all the sizes of this boat are right around 9 feet though, I can choose to drop to the Small Ripper if I want a boat that will be more playful. If I want to have more confidence for River Running and Surfing, I could even move up to the Large Ripper for a bit more volume and stability.<\/p>\n<p>As my Team-mate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/team.php?paddler=Kyle%20Hull\">Kyle Hull<\/a> says; &#8220;No matter if you&#8217;re in to chill laps down your local run, or getting recklessly vertical on some class 5, the Ripper is the boat for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Ripper Small and Medium are available now, with the Large coming soon&#8230; head to your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/dealers.php\">local Pyranha Dealer<\/a> today, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RipperUp?src=hash\">#RipperUp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This boat has literally changed the way I look at the river. To have the ability to dip the stern and either get vertical, or do a quick pivot turn, has transformed the river into an entirely different playground; the Ripper&#8216;s design takes on the #FastIsFun ethos of the 9R, with the lower stern rocker &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/pyranha-ripper-initial-thoughts\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":19920,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1008,1007,1006,486],"class_list":["post-19898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tests-and-reveiws","tag-downriver-freestyle","tag-freeride-kayaking","tag-pyranha-ripper","tag-river-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/pyr-shoot-5838.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tk9G-5aW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19898","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19898"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19933,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19898\/revisions\/19933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}