PUMPOLOGY
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, drop a line on the forum, 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.
-james
LDP Setup Tips – Odiwan from Australia shares the stoke, helping summarize the salient points of setting up an LDP board.
Skateboard pumping commute – a glimpse of the daily ride home, using a minimalist pump for about 1.5 hours.
Eric Lowell pumping UP hill – Eric on the GBomb Dark Matter deck, working his way uphill without a push!
Ian Groovin on the Flexdex Fat Daddy – Ian the Groove Worshipper busts out some sweet long pumps on a Florida trail.
LDP down the Monon trail – Jeff Vyain and friends on what was the earliest LBL Walkabout prototype. I sold it to Jeff and he gave it a TON of love.
Just Pumpin – Combines two of my favorite things: pumping along the trails and cranking some funk / jazz.
Girls on Film – Pump clips from over the years, plus a few cameos including John Holmes, haha!
Pumpin around Tokyo – Out solo on the trails, managed to grab a few clips. Music is by one of my favorite Japanese groups- United Future Organization.
Alki Beach on Go Skateboarding Day – Pumping up and down the boardwalk, freakin’ out the locals.
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.
Here’s a great contribution from Vlad Popov that’s been out there for years. He skates through the motions in universal mime-speak. Note that Vlad was just a quarter second behind Michael Dong in the Cyber Slalom challenge, the guy’s a phenomenal athlete.
CodePink PUMP from Longboy on Vimeo.
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.
Pupping! - Skateboards, puppies, girls, and the Tijuana Brass. What more to life is there?
