A longer boat history video would be very rad. I’m a pretty big design nerd so definitely something I want to see

What a brilliant whistlestop tour of Pyranha history! Agree with many in the comments - more would be amazing, especially stuff about the early expeditions!

I’d love to see some more of the old pyranha kayaks. The firecracker looks like an amazing boat!

I will watch a one hour history video. Over and over again.

A full on documentary would be ace. I like the idea of a coffee table book with all the boats, specs, history, bio’s on paddlers.

When I started running trips on the Coruh in 1983 we had the 1st Freestyle kayaks out of the mould. Great not to have to fix boats in the evenings after a day on the river.

The Firecracker could be THE boat I've been holding out for. Can't wait to see you put one through its paces.

More history for sure! Also so stoked to see the Firecracker in action

Nice historical perspective! That firecracker looks amazing, can't wait to get one on the water!

History vids, yes.

Deffo want the longer history video

As a younger kayak nerd, with a lot of history to learn, I thoroughly enjoyed this vid! Great one Bren 🤙🏻

I remember my first pyranha boat was a pink mountain bat, took it across Europe and absolutely loved it.

Andy Butler, that tash mate. I remember seeing Cheesy in that prototype S6 when I was a teenager and thought is was pretty space age.

used to love going down to runcorn for a look... got my acrobat from there when used to paddle and straight into the hole at the botton of mile end mill with it :D

Enternainting watch for me Bren. I love old school film. You bringing up Tao was a blast from the past from watching the ol' VHS tapes!

I'd like to watch more about Piranha kayaks. Thank you for the video!

I‘d love to See more of the Pyranha history and the Evolution of Boats.

Sweet video. Nice to hear Dave mentioned. That was an epic trip.

The main takeaway here is Andy Butlers solid stache.

Im keen for a longer video charting the history of designing their boats...Yes please!

So cool to see the P&H Surfer in the Museum of kayaks. My mate had a red & black one and I had a yellow & blue P&H Stripper with its swallow tail back in the 70s. Amazing boats - the lines of the Surfer defined surf boats of the future way back then!

Hi Bren, So enjoyed your video on the history of Pyranha. I started off paddling Pyranha boats when there were located in Lythgoes Lane in Warrington and I was a proud owner of a new blue metallic Elite 65ss which my Mum and Dad bought for me. Thanks for the memories and I think your clip was of Nicky Wain not Richard Fox. Keep the info coming it's great.

It's awesome video and I had an S6 and loved it, not paddled for years but love your videos keep the great work going🤟🏻🤟🏻

Bren! This is amazing. These are the stories I want to be a part of as soon as they come along. Been paddling for coming close to a year now and I’ve been in an I:3 and wanting an S:6 forever. Thank you so much for sharing these stories of yours and of the boats. Love the stuff you’re doing. Thank you for sharing it with us! Sending the best from Columbus, Ga.

This was cool. I'm excited to see the firecracker side by side with the Antix and Rewind. If only you knew a guy with Jackson!

Most defo need more on this

Hey Bren, thanks man. I paddled a Sub 6 many years ago a little. Was a very interesting kayak. I would LOVE to see a few more models and a bit of a history. Keep up the great work.

I know how you feel I used to help out /work in the prijon wildwasser warehouse hear in Pennsylvania USA it was awesome I got to use old-school and the newest kayaks they made we also delt Eskimo awesome times ..... Also there is a shop. Starkmoon kayaks in southern pa . He has and older pyrahna composite freestyle boat don't remember the whole story but he is very proud to have it. Cool to see

Yes Bren. I want more. This is very cool and important history.

Yes please Bren I enjoyed this very much but I’m a little bit upset because that firecracker is going cost me but I think I’ll have to have one

Properly enjoyed this video! Thanks Bren 🙂 Not only the kayaking history, but also your persistence and effort figuring out how to loop that S6. I'm going to have to visit one day. It looks cool 🙂

It was Clay, Tracy, n Bj that inspired WV to get into Pyranna. I ran Spirit and surfed BZ in the Micro 230.. watching y'all run big nast drops in the Modern Kayaks blows my mind.

Thanks Bren, awesome snippet of history. Grab Graham and get more on film, there’s a hell of a lot people would love to see

More!!!!

I loved this video 📹 Thanks so much for putting this together. I'd definitely sit down for a multi episode series of kayak history.

I love seeing the old S6. The S6 was the first kayak I bought that wasn't second hand. I still have an S6F but it is relegated to paddling in the pool now. I've paddled the S6F in class 4+ and 5 rapids. I don't think I would do that anymore.

Great video mate Dave Manby is a g

MORE MORE MORE!!!! Would also love to see you trying out some of the older popular boats

awesome video

great video, loved seeing the evolution of design and hearing stories from the past

Excellent stuff thanks, love hearing (and seeing) how designs were tweaked and also about the progression of the materials used.

Great video Bren, it's sparked a few memories: I remember the Everest and K2 expeditions, and the shock of Mike's loss, TV coverage was pretty good considering the challenges. I highly recommend Dr Mike Jones' book if you haven't read it. Over 40 years ago I visted Pyranha to order my new Slalom Boat; Equipe with silver-blue-silver metallic fade. I attended Broadway School near Cheadle, which had a great reputation for Kayak & Canoe Slalom in the 70s & 80s, as a result we were invited to help out at both the pre and World Champs at Bala. Thanks for the memories 👍🏻

Do a full doco history of Pyhrannah, would be super cool

Would love to see more! Thanks Bren!

Great video Bren-I’ve seen a few of those boats in the shop and remember gawping at a yellow proto (probably an S6) on the roof of a black corsa back in the day. Loved hearing about your passion for the old days (my days!) too. Would love to see you and the team in a longer and more in depth video sometime too-get on it!!!🙂

I would love a longer video!

OK, I am a little biased.. but stories like this are really important to the sport. With many brands swapping hands and not investing in their history, so many moments have been lost. The Trix was one of many Boat Show Protos - the idea was not about travel, it was about swapping the ends from high volume to low volume (think H2 and Blade era). Now try to find the SBT... And that must be a S6 200 Proto - so 3rd gen prototype - if you remember the 190 was launched first (with all the ridges in the nose) - prior to that the proto was less aggressive with less rocker (actually with more volume) - that is the 'Precious' which Cheesy had (has?).

During the 90s I enjoyed the Creek 280 (great multi-day tripper in India, Nepal & Sikkim), Acrobat 270 (fun all-rounder but a challenge when loaded) and the Microbat 230 (awesome boat for damp cellar staircases and loadable too! Haven't been in a boat for ages and some of those new ones look very zexy!

Love to see more, very interesting, keep up the great work

The mentioned first descend of the Dudh Kosi was actually a second one. There was a 1973 succesful first descend by Czechoslovak expedition, documented in a movie and in a book "forgotten expeditions", also recently confirmed to me by Dave Manby, a member of the mentioned 1976 expedition. By that time the sportsmen from the global east had way less recognition and the British team lost control of the narrative after they got back from the expedition and handed the materials to the TVs and press. Also there was no way for the Czechoslovaks to spread their story in the global west for political reasons and lack of resources. I believe this is a very big story of the kayaking history and should be communicated truthfully now, when we can find out about achievements of people from somewhere else so much easier and when information travels and spreads way easier. Thank you.

Ausome to see the old designs my dad’s got a old prahna slalom kayak hanging around from when he was sponsored l got to take it for a spin some day

good optical illusion at 10:45 - it looks like the kayak is levitating - but I think the shadow alongside the kayak is from something else. Made me look twice though

Get the boss man in!!!!

great

I’d watch it for two hours

Great little vid bud. As a boater growing up in the 90’s and seeing the progression from the bigger ‘Bats’ to the Acros (the 270 was always hotly contested on sunday morning club sessions along with the prijon hurricane and for sone reson the reflex!), then the Razor and the Blade, for me the biggest leap was the Zone Series. I grabbed an Inazone 230 pretty much as soon as it was released and took it with me to NZ the summer of ‘99 long before unimportant things like a-level results came out! That boat did everything at the time, with its slicey (for the time ) ends i learnt to flatwater cartwheel in it and linked ends and splits in a hole, Cheesy won the C1 worlds in one that year the planing hull and rails opening up blunts/roundhouses. By moreover it was my only boat and as such my creeker too and really opened up harder west coast south Island heli runs with. Its manoeuvrability and stability and ease to boof and flare honestly you just learnt so much in that boat! If you look at all its descendents ever since and consider that it is still being made by pyranha that says a lot…. Keep up the good work buddy, in just gunna go and scour FB marketplace for a decent condition 230 to add to my collection!

At 6:30, is that a Struer K1 in the sock on the bottom rack? Now that's a beautify construction. Would smash into match sticks on white water, but they are so beautiful to see on flat water.

ahh wow, that History Boats Link is cool : i am Generation Prijon Taifun 1985 / Prijon Slalom/ Prijon Canyon/ Eskimo Gattino ( my last Boat )... we dumped down Waterfalls, Boofing was not inventied, we are submarining all the time, deep ;-)....i wonder how i would do in a modern Creeker ?? i am 58 now... and enjoy your VIDEOS very much ! thanks for that

Point of note, that video was Nicky Wain, not Richard Fox.

Sick video bren 🔥🔥🤙🤙

Loved Demshitz

I felt very similarly about my first boat - an Acrobat 270 - at the time, a cutting-edge freestyle design! I loved paddling that thing. Would be awesome to see more on the history and evolution of the boats. Probably not your thing, but given I spent most of my boating time on the sea, I'd love to learn something about the history of P&H too...

Legendary ! Makes a change from fibre glass rashes on your bottom and thighs ! Thanks for the plastic boys and girls 😊

The s:6 190 was an amazing boat especially for cartwheeling but sadly I went through 3 of them (one being the s6f) by putting holes in them, after that I moved to Jackson kayaks because I'd lost faith in pyranhas plastic....I'm sure the build quality has moved on since then but I'm sticking with Jackson for my playboats for now especially since I haven't seen a decent playboat come from pyranha in quite some time

Would be interested to see something on pyrahnas slicey boats. The prozone was amazing but even the 235 was too uncomfortable for me and I had to wait till the s8 came out, now on my second one. Also the acrobat was crazy popular when I started at the uni kayaking club in 95 it was the boat to have and far more popular than the rpm for a time.

That was a wonderful video, Bren. Thanks for making it. I'd definitely be interested in seeing more history and hearing from the man himself. Mmm, that Firecracker looks like it might tick some boxes for me.

actually bren.... could you loop the old plastic polo boat they brought out in the 1990s? or have a contest with Dane, who can redesign a rotobat into something resembling a playboat with just expanding foam, hot water and weights..

Show us all the boats in the warehouse! :)

Love the history piece, it's amazing the direction boat design has taken over the years. Lots of progress but arguably a lot of circling back to certain traits. How man sizes of the Firecracker are we likely to see ? Similar to Ripper S/M/L ?

Johnston’s still goes you just can’t paddle it or the rest of the run anymore due to banff parks closing off all off trail terrain making it impossible to access without risking a $15000 dollar fine.

did pyranha ever make a fibreglass sea/touring kayak, front and rear hatches, rudder, about 4.5m long?

Kayaked there Bren have dont the full length of the Bridgewater

Still use a H3 !!!

I'm local to Jhonston and the main world record falls has since changed and isn't runable.

I didn't see this one from 1976 in your playlist. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8yHq5yatZ2-eok.html A bit of beatering but I'm amazed they survived at all in those kayaks. Not my video but worthwhile history from my corner of the globe!

Hi Bren, just out of interest, what books are on your shelf? I'd love to know any good reads that have inspired you.

Please do

Can you review the pyranha i3

Love a microbat

I've tried so many Pyranha boats, never once have I been remotely comfortable, ive owned liquid logics, 15-20 jacksons, 4 daggers, the new nova is amazing but palm have made a total bodge on the build quality. Please make us a new full slice that 6ft blokes can fit in🙏

What was the small budget playboat that they made? I had one (won the ams a Hurley in it) but can’t remember the name of it.

Did @senders say pyranha history… I’d watch it please make sure it’s at least an hour

would loooove to see some actual quality comparison for the different manufacturers plastics. because in my humble opinion pyranha is far, very very far, from having the best plastic. personally i'm seeing too many of them bust way to early to support that notion. however it would be awesome to see return numbers for different brands boats. and comparative materials testing pls? abrasion, breaking, bending, snapping, cracking, impact, aging, aging by repeat bending and/or vibration. but whos gonna pay for that? gonna cost a couple thousand bucks + the testing....gues we'll never get an objective answer :/ or are the big boy retailers + manufacturers pony up and give us their numbers? despite all of that mumbling: great video. loving the little history trip.

My list of historic kayaking videos This is actually our current training course in munich kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ec-jncSp0cCtgGw.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l7Cqmdyp1LGUmqs.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qK6Yf8Jp3bSvlnk.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZZ_mJeCqL-8cWQ.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mdNddrGQz5eZoo0.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jb6ne6mF3czJknU.html

Where does the fire cracker fit in the pyranha lineup? It looks like a wider & slicey Z1. I'm kinda struggling in the ozone I think I may be too heavy for it even though I'm in the weight range

Hi Bren, not sure if you've seen this before. Filmed on a VHS dad cam over the winters of 89 & 90 at Boulters lock by my mate Tony Legg (RIP). I feature , paddling a Pyranha prem 3 (an all white and a red and white one), Lots of the Thames valley slalom crowd of the time from Windsor, Chalfont Park and Shpperton Canoe Clubs. Martin Hedges(RIP) - possibly the best C paddler the UK has ever seen, Richard Comer, Nick Barton, Dave Roland, Keith Parkin, Tony Legg, Tim Price. enjoy. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jNtgZ7Bpla6RZX0.html

1:22 Who?

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d8WZaMp_2J64lYk.html - Iceland Breakthrough. One for your playlist.

I think this one is not on the list: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rp2Weql_la7MhWg.html