[happy]

okay, time for a new technique thread.
i'm definitely ready to start pumping my board so i can actually make it around sections and i've tried it a little but it doesn't feel right. i've been watching other people and i can't quite figure out what they're doing. do you weight and unweight your front foot? how? or i've also been told its a kind of side to side thing.
help.

[skSURF]

yes. Well atleast that is about as much as I have figured it out.

I have the same problem. When I have an open face I can make short moves up and down the face like a skateboard using my nees to pump. But I havent been able to figure out how to pump very well when your trying to get around a closed out section and there is no face to work with.

[Shacky]

Think lite and on your toes.   

[Psycho]

You do realize your setting your self up for a certain group of young men to gouge at & exploit the Title of this thread dontcha?

[BlueBerry]

read the Taj book, he has a whole chapter on it, its really good.

madonas sex book for what psycho is talking about.

[VenturaLocal]

All your weight should be on the front of your board - and stand as tall as you can...kidding -

It's all about speed, not just for making sections - but most all of your moves as well. You need to feel comfortable with your style - if you start wanting to obtain more speed, but still feel insecure about your balance - you are working backward. Really, the generation of speed is a push from the lower section of the wave, to upper- shifting your weight -as I write this, I realize I can not explain it..sorry...Good luck though -

Getting speed,

Brent

[Jake]

the way i learned how to pump a board was skating...  and we all know how u feel about skating...

its all about weight transfer... think of it like a swing... how do u get a swing moving?   

[happy]

thanks everyone. SB if you have the taj book can i borrow it?

nice avatar shacky 

[surfdawg]

On open faces, think of it as more of a rolling motion, front foot to back foot, and one rail to the next rail. On faster sections, get up higher on the wave face, crouch down more, and do smaller, quicker pumps to keep up with the lip. Drop down into the open flats when it looks like a section is going to close in front and try to draw a long turn around the whitewater.

Hope this helps and keep practicing

[happy]

ahhhh someone coherent!

[Bubbala]

On open faces, think of it as more of a rolling motion, front foot to back foot, and one rail to the next rail. On faster sections, get up higher on the wave face, crouch down more, and do smaller, quicker pumps to keep up with the lip. Drop down into the open flats when it looks like a section is going to close in front and try to draw a long turn around the whitewater.

Hope this helps and keep practicing

Precisely.  Also, NEVER pump a longboard.

[Thorium Longoboardi]

NEVER pump a longboard.

cmon, sure you can pump a longboard. its kind of a trampolining sort of motion....or tamping down dirt on a freshly fillied in grave....or trying to cave the roofof your best friends car in

or something like this:

[rockawaybum]

ya jake never pump on a log or bunny hop like u did alll day sunday

[nycwipeout]

thanks everyone. SB if you have the taj book can i borrow it?

nice avatar shacky 

you can borrow mine Happy....

[happy]

only if you didn't puke on it.
 
(hope you're feeling better)