Pump foil tutorials from scratch

Manual to learn how to pump with the foil jumping from a dock (dock start) from zero, to a basic pumping level:

• Introduction of the basic manual
  • Learning to pump foil is not easy
  • Requirements for a person to learn pumpfoiling
  • General tips to stay motivated and move forward
• Necessary equipment
  • Pumpfoil equipment is not as expensive as it seems
  • Choosing the foil to buy
    • Front wing
      • Comparative gong allvator rise XXL vs gong allvator X-Over XL
      • Takoon pump review
    • The mast
  • Buying the foil board
    • Comparison of handmade board and surf foil
    • Comparison of surf foil board and kite foil board
    • Comparison Gong pumpfoil boards
  • Safety equipment
• Find a good spot to learn pumpfoiling
  • Solutions if you can’t find a good spot
• Getting ready for the first session
  • Footwear for pumping
  • Safety measures
  • Position of the mast
  • Time and frequency of each session
• Practical course
  • Muscle memory
  • Goals:
    1. Practice with the foil without jumping
    2. Jumping on the board
       • Are you afraid of hitting yourself with the foil?
    3. Getting the feel of sliding on the board
    4. Basic pumping like on skateboarding
    5. Jump pumping to raise the foil
    6. Pumping down the bow to gain speed
    7. Correcting course
    8. Correcting the position of the feet on the board
    9. Turning to return to the dock
  • Common mistakes when starting out
  • What to do if you get stuck and don’t progress

Pump foil manual starting from a basic level to an intermediate level:

• Introduction to the intermediate manual
• Make test changes to your pump foil equipment
  • Comparatives front wings
    • Gong Allvator rise XXL vs gong allvator X-Over XL
    • Gong Allvator rise XXL vs gong fluid XXL-t
    • Gong Veloce XXL vs Gong Fluid XXL-t
    • Gong Veloce XXL vs Gong Sirus L
    • AFS Enduro 1600 GLT
  • Comparative stabs
    • Gong Allvator Rise vs Gong X-Over
    • Gong X-Over L vs gong kite (fast stab)
• Adaptation from low aspect foil to mid/high aspect
• New advanced ways to start pumping:
  • Dock start in two steps
  • Reverse start
  • Frog start
  • High dock start
  • Dock start without placing your hands on the board
  • Dead start/Rock start
  • Working ladder start
  • Basic Drop start
  • Drop start holding the board with a hand
  • Mini tomahawk
  • Twister
  • Tomahawk
  • Knee start
  • Flooded dock jump start
  • Beach start
• Optimization of the pumpfoiling performance
  • Optimization of the hop
  • Optimize the descent
  • Arm movement
  • Optimize body and feet position
  • Other ways to optimize pumping
• Practice tricks and exercises (Coming soon)
  • Touching the water with your hand
  • Catch a ball floating in the water
• Freestyle tricks
  • Touching the water with your foot
  • Sitting on the board
  • Kneeling on the board
  • Getting the tip of the foil out of the water
  • Superman (Coming soon)
  • Taking the foil out of the water (Coming soon)
  • Changing the front foot (Coming soon)

Supfoil/ surf foil / waves

• Introduction to foiling in waves
  • Wakethieving . Surfing the waves created by boats.
  • Surf foiling, starting with a pumping start, dock start, rock start, or drop start.
  • Introduction to prone foiling. Surf foiling, starting lying on the board. (Coming soon)
• SUP foil
  • Supfoil flat water start