Really detailed video, you are definitely helping the whole community going next level! In the very last clip it's really interesting to see how his lower back is staying stationary height wise and his body is compressing and expanding around it... Keep up the good work! Cheers from France! 🇫🇷 🤙
Dominic, Awesome! Thank you so much, I'm incredibly grateful! Excellent analysis, I'm applying your videos daily. (at the risk of making you more jealous) My house is in the Keahi clip, you can see it right when you voice over with, "beautiful location!." I actually prone there. Got countless doubles, triples and a four-sies this morning, thanks to your excellent teachings, best day yet! I can't wait to try out the height pump/glide when going over some of the "big" ones rolling in here! (Lift 170 HA, Armstrong 1050, 1550 {for winging})
Now why would I be jealous about that 🤣🤣🤣. I'm stoked that you're finding my videos helpful. This is such an awesome sport and part of that is how helpful everyone is. I'm learning from others all the time so the least I can do is pass on what I've learnt to others. If you have any videos of foiling action on your local breaks I'd love to see them🤙
Really informative! You've done exceptionally well done with breaking down & explaining the techniques & especially the shifting the weight distribution front foot to back foot.
Really really love your video. You broke down the full mecanism. I was looking for this advanced tutorial for sooooo long. Thanks a lot from France !!!
Something I have noticed (not sure if it is just me) but pointing my back foot out and be in a "duck" stance helps opening my hips and allows for independent movement of front vs. back leg. With parallel feet I fell like I can't really get anything out of my back leg, like it is locked. I have experience this mostly when winging as it give plenty opportunities to try different placements (pumping down the wave not powered by the wind), but will definitely try it next time I surf foil.
Hi Nico. Everyone has their own foot placement preferences. Personally I am constantly making micro-adjustments to my foot positions on the fly - wider for carving/surfing, closer for pumping, more side on for flat water pumping, and even a more 'duck' stance occasionally depending on what foil I'm using and what I'm doing
Thanks, Dominic! Love the voice-over commentary and the details. Could you comment on how the technique would change with a Slingshot i99 front wing? Thanks! I have a Mike Pedigo custom board. It's a beauty.
Great explanation. Been playing around with foot positioning following your last video and really noticing the difference. Whats your preferred mast position? Im guessing that is another way of changing where your feet are relative to the mast too.
You're right - you can change the mast position OR your foot position. My mast position is 1cm from the back of the US tracks in the Sunova 4.0 prone board, which allows my feet to be at the right position for footstraps - not that I use foot straps, but I figure that Sunova have placed the inserts in the right place so the board is balanced when you use them. It feels right to me anyway.
What's the advantage of the taller people on pumping to generate more speed compared to shorter guys? On pumping technique, will taller will benefit due to longer legs/limbs and leverage?
It depends on the conditions. In flat water is obviously my fitness that limits me, to date my best times have been about 2.5 minutes but that that was before I broke my ankle and I've lost a lot of fitness since then and I'm about at the 1.5 minute mark now with no particular despite to push that further in the summer heat of Oman 🥵🤣 Downwinding I can pump pretty much forever because there's always a bit of a push from the wind and swell and you get breaks from pumping as you ride the good sections of swell
I have practiced foil surfing for 10 months, (in Malaga, Spain, that means 15/20 sessions) and currently my situation is: good take off, good glide, but when I get off the wave I am not able to keep the foil up. So I can't go back to the break point.
Try coming off the wave early to keep your speed up. As you come of the wave try to keep high on the mast and glide for a long as possible, and when you start pumping it's important to find a calm rhythm - if you pump too quickly you end up choking your speed which will make it really difficult to keep on foil. Make sure you compress your body as much as you can and then spring up to straighten your body as you push your legs down with each pump. Really exaggerate this to begin with, it really helps to keep high on the mast and to maintain speed
Yes it's similar but tbh i think those who say it's very back footed to pump are pumping it with a wide (surf) stance. I don't use footstraps because I like to adjust the distance between my feet when riding - when pumping I narrow my stance by bringing my front foot backwards so I guess this is why I don't find it particularly back footed
I'd like to see more discussion about the ability to pump different wings. It's really hard to know if the problem is skill or having the right equipment. Although I'm old (68), I'm a decent wakeboarder and have become very comfortable riding the foil. But the pumping escapes me. I can pump away from the boat for 10-15 secs and then nothing. About 1 1/2 ago I bought the Slingshot FPUMP package assuming that it would be ideal for pumping. The Quantum 100 is huge and sluggish. I didn't see it as being pumping foil. Fortunately, it enabled me to drop the rope and ride continuously, which was my immediate goal at the time. This is me on the foil. ua-cam.com/video/wUhyuTcTZzo/v-deo.htmlsi=rLHzXe5jWuW6nGQL
I’m afraid I have no experience with slingshot so I don’t know what their foils are like for pumping. From that video it looks likeyou are moving the board (and foil) up and down in the water too much (a porpoising action). Focus on keeping the board more parallel to the water with each pump. You have to have a bit of down/up movement, but not that much or you kill your speed.
Really detailed video, you are definitely helping the whole community going next level!
In the very last clip it's really interesting to see how his lower back is staying stationary height wise and his body is compressing and expanding around it...
Keep up the good work!
Cheers from France! 🇫🇷 🤙
Dominic, Awesome! Thank you so much, I'm incredibly grateful! Excellent analysis, I'm applying your videos daily. (at the risk of making you more jealous) My house is in the Keahi clip, you can see it right when you voice over with, "beautiful location!." I actually prone there. Got countless doubles, triples and a four-sies this morning, thanks to your excellent teachings, best day yet! I can't wait to try out the height pump/glide when going over some of the "big" ones rolling in here! (Lift 170 HA, Armstrong 1050, 1550 {for winging})
Now why would I be jealous about that 🤣🤣🤣. I'm stoked that you're finding my videos helpful. This is such an awesome sport and part of that is how helpful everyone is. I'm learning from others all the time so the least I can do is pass on what I've learnt to others. If you have any videos of foiling action on your local breaks I'd love to see them🤙
Really informative! You've done exceptionally well done with breaking down & explaining the techniques & especially the shifting the weight distribution front foot to back foot.
Thanks for the awesome feedback, that's really kind of you 😊😊😊😊
Detailed and clearly explained. Very refreshing to see quality videos like yours on the net these days. Keep it up man!
Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it!
Really really love your video. You broke down the full mecanism. I was looking for this advanced tutorial for sooooo long. Thanks a lot from France !!!
My pleasure.😊
impressive analysis!
Very helpful, i will keep practicing pumping!
great job, I finally understand something thanks to your explanations. thanks a lot
Awesome, that's great to hear. Thanks for letting me know 😊
Good one Dom, thanks for your efforts and sharing
Cheers Ben. Much appreciated👍
Great job. Really appreciate your work. Thanks !!
Thank you. This is excellent.
Something I have noticed (not sure if it is just me) but pointing my back foot out and be in a "duck" stance helps opening my hips and allows for independent movement of front vs. back leg. With parallel feet I fell like I can't really get anything out of my back leg, like it is locked. I have experience this mostly when winging as it give plenty opportunities to try different placements (pumping down the wave not powered by the wind), but will definitely try it next time I surf foil.
Hi Nico. Everyone has their own foot placement preferences. Personally I am constantly making micro-adjustments to my foot positions on the fly - wider for carving/surfing, closer for pumping, more side on for flat water pumping, and even a more 'duck' stance occasionally depending on what foil I'm using and what I'm doing
Thanks, Dominic! Love the voice-over commentary and the details. Could you comment on how the technique would change with a Slingshot i99 front wing? Thanks! I have a Mike Pedigo custom board. It's a beauty.
I'm afraid the only foils I've ever used at the moment are the GoFoils so I can't comment on any others. I hope to be trialling other brands soon
Great explanation. Been playing around with foot positioning following your last video and really noticing the difference. Whats your preferred mast position? Im guessing that is another way of changing where your feet are relative to the mast too.
You're right - you can change the mast position OR your foot position. My mast position is 1cm from the back of the US tracks in the Sunova 4.0 prone board, which allows my feet to be at the right position for footstraps - not that I use foot straps, but I figure that Sunova have placed the inserts in the right place so the board is balanced when you use them. It feels right to me anyway.
What's the advantage of the taller people on pumping to generate more speed compared to shorter guys? On pumping technique, will taller will benefit due to longer legs/limbs and leverage?
your maintenance pump looks the most efficient pumping technique I've seen to date. how long do you reckon you could foil using this technique?
It depends on the conditions. In flat water is obviously my fitness that limits me, to date my best times have been about 2.5 minutes but that that was before I broke my ankle and I've lost a lot of fitness since then and I'm about at the 1.5 minute mark now with no particular despite to push that further in the summer heat of Oman 🥵🤣
Downwinding I can pump pretty much forever because there's always a bit of a push from the wind and swell and you get breaks from pumping as you ride the good sections of swell
I have practiced foil surfing for 10 months, (in Malaga, Spain, that means 15/20 sessions) and currently my situation is: good take off, good glide, but when I get off the wave I am not able to keep the foil up. So I can't go back to the break point.
Try coming off the wave early to keep your speed up. As you come of the wave try to keep high on the mast and glide for a long as possible, and when you start pumping it's important to find a calm rhythm - if you pump too quickly you end up choking your speed which will make it really difficult to keep on foil. Make sure you compress your body as much as you can and then spring up to straighten your body as you push your legs down with each pump. Really exaggerate this to begin with, it really helps to keep high on the mast and to maintain speed
I’ve read many places that the 1095 has a back foot pump too, do you think the nl technique is similar to 1095?
Yes it's similar but tbh i think those who say it's very back footed to pump are pumping it with a wide (surf) stance. I don't use footstraps because I like to adjust the distance between my feet when riding - when pumping I narrow my stance by bringing my front foot backwards so I guess this is why I don't find it particularly back footed
@@dominichoskyns9091 that’s interesting, thanks!
I'd like to see more discussion about the ability to pump different wings. It's really hard to know if the problem is skill or having the right equipment. Although I'm old (68), I'm a decent wakeboarder and have become very comfortable riding the foil. But the pumping escapes me. I can pump away from the boat for 10-15 secs and then nothing.
About 1 1/2 ago I bought the Slingshot FPUMP package assuming that it would be ideal for pumping. The Quantum 100 is huge and sluggish. I didn't see it as being pumping foil. Fortunately, it enabled me to drop the rope and ride continuously, which was my immediate goal at the time. This is me on the foil.
ua-cam.com/video/wUhyuTcTZzo/v-deo.htmlsi=rLHzXe5jWuW6nGQL
I’m afraid I have no experience with slingshot so I don’t know what their foils are like for pumping. From that video it looks likeyou are moving the board (and foil) up and down in the water too much (a porpoising action). Focus on keeping the board more parallel to the water with each pump. You have to have a bit of down/up movement, but not that much or you kill your speed.
Sorry, here's the video I was referring to (this is a pumping vide not a winging video) -- ua-cam.com/video/LXE6MhwyC3c/v-deo.html
Yup, Oscar has awesome skills 👌
Couldn’t hear you well
Freddie the cat doesnt care much about foiling it seems