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 better.

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.

-jp

LDP and offset Cyber - 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.

Different Pump Styles - 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.

Fast Pump Examples - From "The Cell" and Redmond Velodrome. Exaggerated styles using weighting/unweighting, relaxed arm motions.

Chomp - A fast cruise around Green Lake one fine morning, weaving through pedestrians, when a dog saw a T-bone steak pumping a skateboard and decided to have a bite.

Big Mama - More hill climbing, spring 2005, including tackling the biggest slope on the Burke Gilman Trail, which we call "Big Mama"

OTHER STUFF

Munson vs. Peters

Pump vs. Push !!

Dual version of NCDSA's "The Trap."

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.

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.