Longboard pumping

In my opinion just keep riding it and moving your feet in different spots. You have to find that sweet spot and only experience will do that. clearly move back for harder turns and move forward for speed but to find that spot only you will be able to find it. Once I moved my foot back a inch or two and it all clicked on my short board. Nobody online was going to be able to tell me that. keep riding the board and experimenting and it will come

 

Longboard pumping ----- Dewey Weber is rolling over in his grave.

 

You might be able to get 1-2 if you're in the right spot at the right time. Just expect to be much more deliberate and slow than your SB.

 

pretty much what he said

 

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Donald Takayama just rose from his like The Crow.

 

Brah long boarding is all about the glide... And the nose ride .. And style ... Thus said- no pumping...

Sure you can climb up and down the wave face to gain speed... But pumping??? Nah - not needed... I wouldn't worry about it

 

Do this.

[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O7f3yltQNyA[/video]

 

Ah.... thank you Clemson. I haven't surfed in a week but clips like that can keep the stoke alive.

Can't help but mention, seems like Alex Knost is pumping it up with that crouched arm throw from the nose...

 

watch the surf film the coconut technique, those guys can do what they want

 

why sure you can pump a lb. also helps w/respect to lb's to understand that EVERY SQUARE INCH of
the deck can/should be used. dif w/sb. also if you want to get it to really fly try high speed 'angle-in'
takeoffs. thats where your board is almost parallel to the beach and speed gains the wave.

 

Yeah man, to each their own. But to the original thought, yes, any board that we surf can be "pumped" and as much as some people don't want to admit it, even the most stylistic single fin throwback cats use some form of it. To me, its more of a foot shuffle than a traditional shortboard pump. Cross stepping your feet up a few inches each, then hopping them back again. So its more foot work, than ankle tweeking or pumping as it were. But with that being said, there was a handful of times in my last really good LB session on Tuesday, where I was in fact generating speed using traditional pumping. I actually followed most of these instances with a big floater or a hit off the approaching lip, all of which are maneuvers that some old retro guys probably think have no place in a 9'3" board... But that is just me. I will try and nose ride when the opportunity presents itself.

But my style is my style. I don't worry about the translation or influences of the board I am on, I let my mind and my style dictate what happens next, and if its a few pumps into a nice long floater on a 9'3, then that's what it is.

Free your mind. If you saw any of the throwback guys in Clemmy's post riding a more substantial beach break or a faster, longer point, they most CERTAINLY would display some pumping down the line. It's a little easier to hold your line and style in place when it's high tide at an incredible slow rolling reef pass, where the wave is not that of consequence and danger is insignificant.

Tell those dudes to drop in at 6-8 foot pipe on those single fin nose riders and I bet you would see some cats pumping their as$es off trying to get out of the barrel. But again, you may ask, why on earth would they ride those boards in that situation... I hear you there. I am just saying. With their rationale, they would just trade in the 9'6 noserider for the 7'0 single fin Gerry with a lightening bolt and head back out.

Sometimes nonconformity is actually the paramount of conformity itself.

 

The only time I pump on a longboard is when I want to speed up to get to another section of the wave for a longer ride.

 

I don't always pump, but when I do, I do it with my "long board"

 

Longboarding not all noseriding and glide. That's like saying shortboarding is all about the carve and ignoring the barrel. Go check out a Bonga Perkins video and see how performance longboarding is done.

 

The rail design will tell you if it should be pumped or not. Soft rails, rounded without an edge on the bottom will not release the way the a rail with a tucked or a pronounced edge will. Water will wrap and hold on to them. To gain speed on these type of boards requires positioning on the wall and on the board (find the trim speed spot)
Jim