As many people requested a "how to" type of pumping
video, I'm extracting clips that focus on specific pumping
motions. Hopefully these latest video additions help toward
that direction. Nothing professional here yet, just trying
to get some raw footage out.
Pumping has always been far more experiential than academic
to me. After watching and riding with people who've got
it down, you attempt, adjust, flail, stop and think, then
try again, with small increments of personal discovery along
the way. Watch slalom vids and check out the different forms.
As you're learning, you've got to throw any reservations
about public embarrassment right out the window. Be the
clown on the trail, give everyone a laugh and a show. It's
a good time and it just gets gooderer as you progress.
Personally I find a wide spectrum of ways to pump, and
its important to tap into different styles depending on
whether you're tackling inclines, flats, or pumping a mellow
downhill. Just like a distance runner, you can't sprint
the whole thing. Shake it up and experiment. And if you're
progressing along and run into some specific incremental
block, it's always great
to hear whats going on, to compare notes and see if
that temporary hurdle is a common one. Every day on the
board is an amazing discovery, and riding with different
people, you will always learn a little or sometimes even
a LOT that you can work into your own game.
Cyber slalom is by regulation a 6-foot center, straight
line course. We sometimes mix it up, spacing the cones at
9 feet with 1 foot alternating off the center line.
This video is a mix of some of that, plus random LDP clips
out on the trail - and a little Xmas pumping through the
house when the family was out.
Gareth, Jackman, Stryker, Peters-- just goofin at the garage
where we partake in the insanity of shaving tenths and hundreths
of seconds on a Cyber slalom course through the wet winter
months.
Spring/Summer 2006. Switch pumps, zig zaggin, loose arms,
velodrome with Peters, Munson and Seth, cyber-mile footy
and general pumpin and goofin around.
Summer/Fall 2006. Short clips pumping around Burien, Port
Angeles, Shoreline parks. A local Burien ripper, Morgan,
James, and Sophie skating and doing some camera work!
Pumping and working the vert is a much different ballgame
than the traditional flatland pump. Watching people as smooth
in the parks as Morgan or Dan Hughes blows my mind and inspires.
This online version of racing a nearly-cyber length course
without the cones, has only been mildly popular. Making
it a head-to-head race is a whole new game.
Skateboards,
puppies, girls, and the Tijuana Brass. What more to life is
there?
A fast cruise around Green Lake one fine morning, weaving
through pedestrians, when a HUGE dog (much unlike the one
pictured) saw me as a T-bone steak pumping a skateboard
and decided to have a bite.
slalom
July 2007, Lakeland development, Sumner, WA with the CSA crew:
Jackman, Stryker, Moy, Alldred, Dan-o, Skip Marcotte, Steve
McElrath, Peters
Hobby Park, Winston-Salem. Photo:
Mr. Surly
nscc combo plate 2006
Slalom
Session in Cheney - Feb 2007. Photos - Corey Moy, Peters.
"Slalom Vancouver 2006 (start to finish in 10mins!)"
filmed by Hayato, a local BC ripper!! Race organized by Jeff Bonney
and Malcolm Stooke, this was the first time in 30 years slalom
was revived in BC, an epic event!
Hood River 2006. A full length ride down the GS course following
Gareth Roe. Before that, a couple fast pumpin' starts by Chaput
(in the famous sperm suit) and Schwippert, quick shots of Chapman
and Pirnack.
Runs were in the 80--130 second range, its a loooooooong hill!
Next year I'll pack a zoom lens and try keeping my finger out
of the shot.
Brad, Dan, Corey, Stryker and I found an in-progress subdivision
with perfect asphalt. Of course the place is well lived-in now,
but it was fun while it lasted!
One
short shot of Michael Dong rippin through a regulation cyber course,
no timer, just something on the side during one of the Ridgefield
slalom events in 2004.
Pumping the Auburn skatepark in the wee hours of the morning,
you won't see any Tony Hawk airs in this one.... we were scouting
out/testing the park with cones taped up on the walls in prep
for a possible outlaw Park Slalom!
From fastest to slow as a snail in this order... Dan Hughes,
Brad Jackman, James Peters.
A little
outlaw tight and hybrid. I actually sat this race out with a bad
heel injury and took video from the same vantage point.
Hood River slalom 2005. Giant GS course on the old highway, a
perfect combination of magic asphalt running through a long set
of tree-covered curves.
Followed up the next day with tight slalom on aggregate surface
in downtown Hood River, right in front of the Full Sail Brewery.
100-cone
challenge, in Salem, Oregon 2004. This short clip is Michael Dong
and Gareth Roe going at it. Gareth had 4 clean 100-cone runs and
Michael and Tay Hunt were the fastest, something just over 20 seconds
with cone penalties factored in. A true test of endurance!
Slalom Sessions, Seattle WA - Jan/Feb 2006.
Photos - Tim Eney, Peters.
dmoy
cmoy
roe
jjjackhammer!!!
michael
tim makin' a comeback!
stryker
Cap'n Dave's Winter Slalom, Vanc WA - Nov
2005. Photos - Dave Mitchell and Peters.
