How to Skate a pump track

[@ChrisGenau]

Hey Gang 🤙🏼, if this video was #helpful to you 🙏 - I'd love for you to support the channel and help me keep making videos like these 🙌🏼 head over to www.buymeacoffee.com/chrisgenau and support me with a cup of coffee ☕️ You can also join my "inner circle" and shape the future content as well as unlock exclusives 🤙🏼 I will see you there 👋

[@PedroTrueMX]

Thousandth Like right here! 🎉

[@ChrisGenau]

That is so awesome!! Thank you so much for watching and for the thousandth like 🫶

[@zoopkid1]

This is the best vid that i've watched about the pump track. Thank you! 💪

[@ChrisGenau]

Well, Thank you for the positive comment and vibes. Hope you're progress on the pump track is going well! Happy to have been part of your journey through this video.

[@laestherminator]

You're an excellent teacher! Going to my first pump track tomorrow--can't wait to try these tips out.

[@ChrisGenau]

Oh wow, thank you for your warm words and good vibes 🫶. I hope you’re going to have a blast at your first visit to a pump track! But I have the feeling you are going to kill it 🤙🏽

[@yuliiasmirnova9459]

thanks for explaining, it was really usefull

[@karatedave29]

You have a great way of explaining this. Thanks man!

[@ChrisGenau]

Thank you for leaving such a positive comment. Hope your progress is going well.

[@chuckberrysa]

BEST EXPLANATION EVER. THANKS

[@ChrisGenau]

Thank you so much 🙌🏼 If I can help you more or answer a question for you, feel free to ask away at all times =)

[@VirginieGrenard]

Thank you Chris for your explanation 👍

[@ChrisGenau]

Thank you for watching and leaving those kind words. I really appreciate you 🙏

[@adriabsolute8643]

How nice of you, now I have to go find myself a pumptrack :D that looks like amazing fun

[@ChrisGenau]

Haha that's what Rob Machado did to me as well :D

[@francois-xavier9976]

Nice, making some good progress on the local pump track after this!

[@ChrisGenau]

That’s the stuff I love to hear :) Happy you’re out there ripping it up 🤙🏽

[@felipelambertucci]

They just built a pumptrack close to my home. This video will help me a lot to enjoy the place! Thank you!

[@ChrisGenau]

Happy to hear that Felipe 🙌🏼 have fun and shred the place 🤙🏽 feel free to ask me anything in case you run into a problem

[@felipelambertucci]

@@ChrisGenau great! Thanks Chris! I will try and definitely will keep learning from your videos 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@theroadtocat2]

Great video. This got me around the frontside turns at my local pump track!

[@ChrisGenau]

So happy I was able to help with my video =) if I can ever be of any assistance please let me know and I will try my best to deliver

[@petter1519]

Good one! I would like to ad that if you compress and extend thru the turns you can actually pump them and get even more speed.

[@ChrisGenau]

very true 🤙🏽 while editing the video I also realized I forgot to mention and discuss that - so I’m pinning your comment to the top Petter

[@luissciba944]

thanks bro, from Brazil 🇧🇷✌🏼

[@ChrisGenau]

thanks man that’s so wild having a viewer in Brazil :)) I’m currently in Namibia 🇳🇦 so thanks from here 🙏🏼

[@stevenmepham799]

Nice video thanks. I am planning on visiting a pump track for the first time soon so will take your advise.

[@ChrisGenau]

Awesome man 🤙🏽 thanks for the feedback and I hope you’ll have a great time hitting that pumptrack - it really is a lot of fun 🤩

[@SurfskateLove]

Very helpful. Well done. And thank you!

[@ChrisGenau]

wow, thank you so much!! great getting some love from a fellow surf/surfskate youtuber Steve 🤙🏽 big fan of your videos as well - not too many people putting surfskate content out there consistently and you’re already huge!!! 🙌🏼

[@SurfskateLove]

@@ChrisGenau We need all we can get. You are 10 times the rider I am. You are so much more credible than me when it comes to testing boards to their full limits. Let me know how I can support you.

[@ChrisGenau]

@@SurfskateLove no not at all, you are doing great!!! As a medical student I’m lacking the financial resources to buy and test a ton of boards - and unfortunately I haven’t found a shop yet that’s willing to walk that path with me :D maybe when I’m growing. I really like how in depth you do your reviews and board tests - and honestly a perspective from different levels of ability make reviews credible on the first place. Also you’re pumping teaching video was super awesome!! You showing how someone is learning is exactly what people need and want to see - and it’s great seeing you on Facebook expanding to skateparks and bowls lately!! I’m following along on your journey But yeah if we ever have an idea for a video, we should def find a way to make a collaboration together - I’m on the train right now to an artificial river wave and filiming a KZbin video, but I’ll be sending you a friends request on Facebook and we can link up through the messenger 🙌🏼

[@nori.cecilia]

Mega cool!!! muss ich gleich mal am Wochenende testen :-)

[@ChrisGenau]

Cool =) Ich wünsche dir viel erfolg dabei 🤙🏽

[@middleagedshred]

Kool man..I,m yet to try a pump track

[@ChrisGenau]

you should really give it a try!! it’s so much fun and a good cardio workout as well ;)

[@middleagedshred]

@@ChrisGenau Yea, just waiting for a dry day when its not full of young uns on scooters..)

[@ChrisGenau]

@@middleagedshred haha yeah tell me about them scooter kids and rain 🌧 I know the pain 😂 This video was filmed at 7:30am in the morning to evade those and it was only 4°C - the things we do 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@middleagedshred]

@@ChrisGenau Haha..yea I was gonna say you can see your breath....must have been cold.

[@fuchsbauer2072]

Sehr cool erklärt - weiter so!

[@ChrisGenau]

Danke dir 🙏

[@mac_khalifah]

Great Tutorial Video. keep it up

[@ChrisGenau]

thank you so much this really means a lot to me :)

[@lukewalthour472]

I need to try one of these.

[@ChrisGenau]

They are so much fun =) and a good practice for you starting your journey into surfing 🤙🏽

[@mikeschallo6669]

Amazing pumptrack , wish I had one of these in my city too. Keep up the great work Chris ! #leipzigneedmoreskatetraks #leipzigcommunity

[@ChrisGenau]

It’d be so cool if Leipzig had one of these too!! I got my fingers crossed for you Mike - and me (whenever I’m lounging on your couch) 🤙🏽 😂

[@lucakonig3686]

Good video 👌🏻

[@ChrisGenau]

Thank you Luca

[@rainham1]

excellent thanks!

[@ChrisGenau]

Thank you for watching :)

[@slt-recordings]

WOW!!! 👏 Such great videos & everything is very clearly explained! Have resolved to practice the techniques shown to improve my surfskating. Thanks a lot! 🙏 (I have another unusual question: Please... can you tell me exactly which The Northface jacket this is?) I would like to order the same / Really nice & practical with the breast pocket (for the car key)😃 !!! Thank you !!!

[@ChrisGenau]

Thank you so much for leaving this comment and positive energy!! I’m happy you found the video helpful. There’s nothing better than hearing this from someone who watched the video 🤙 Unfortunately I can’t tell you. I’m currently in Portugal but the jacket is at home in Berlin. Will look at the Tag when I get back home, but don’t get your hopes up. I bought this jacket all the way back in 2017 haha 😂

[@slt-recordings]

@@ChrisGenau Na dann kann ich ja auch auf deutsch schreiben ;) Danke, für deine Antwort & ganz viel Spaß in Portugal! Hey, das wäre echt spitze! eilt ja nicht. Vielleicht finde ich die Jacke ja noch iwo gebraucht ;) Viele Grüße aus Augsburg 👋Isabel

[@ChrisGenau]

@@slt-recordings wenn ich dir bis Ende nächster Woche nicht geantwortet haben sollte, dann feel free mir hier nochmal einen reminder zu geben. Liebe Grüße nach Augsburg :)

[@davidritter8321]

Nice video! Can you make a video about dropping in from coping on surfskate? I’m working on this but I keep losing balance even with front foot stacked.

[@ChrisGenau]

This might be in fact my most requested video - and I plan on recording that this week. I just need to find the best suited park to make this video. Can you explain to me what you think you struggle with most in more detail? Or better yet - would you send me a clip to yours trying to drop-in that I might even include in the video?

[@joebrito3192]

im gonna try my first pump track tomorrow thank you man i would've looked stupid trying to pedal

[@ChrisGenau]

No worries, I’m stoked for you that you get to go to a pumptrack!! I’m sure you’ll figure it out in no time!! Have fun and let me know how it went bro 🤙🏽

[@joebrito3192]

@@ChrisGenau thanks man ill definitely let you know

[@joebrito3192]

@@ChrisGenau oh man i been here for about 2 hours now and its amazing it was scary as first but i got half of the track down and im having a blast i wish there were ones by my house so i dont have to drive 2 hours

[@vasthepirate5673]

I have no problem with front side carves in the pump track but the backside give me problems...

[@ChrisGenau]

@@vasthepirate5673 where do you think you biggest problem lies? If you could either send me a clip or try to describe I'm happy to analyze it with you:)

[@Boardrider3x1]

Thanks a lot! Which board and Trucks do you use? CX, C5, C7? Your videos are ver helpful!

[@ChrisGenau]

Sorry for the late answer, I was on a 3 week vacation to Thailand :) Thank you for your positive words 🙏🏼 I'm hapy to hear, that my videos are helpful to you. And as for your question: I'm skating the Carver CX Trucks :)

[@Boardrider3x1]

@@ChrisGenau wow, hope your vacation was great! Thanks! Yeah, your videos are extremly helpful!!!

[@cesarbadell9780]

Ist das den Pumptrack in Hagen NRW?

[@ChrisGenau]

Ja genau :) es ist der, der auf Google Maps Pumptrack "Bohne" Hagen benannt ist.

[@ronaldkelly2782]

Slow motion would be awesome!

[@ChrisGenau]

slow motion of what part exactly? I might do a follow up video =)

[@allodapos]

Cool video and very clear explanation. Now I'm ready to give this a try. But first I need a skateboard. What type of skateboard would you recommend a beginner like me (I'm 6'2"/1.85m tall)

[@ChrisGenau]

Since this is so much preference and what you like - I’d really go to a nice skate shop, tell them you’re looking for a surfskate - and let them put me on a few different ones to get a feeling - I’d then take the one I felt best on :)

[@shyannpryor7771]

Thx man

[@ChrisGenau]

Thank you for watching =)

[@BryanPortmann]

Nice video, thanks! Good luck in Namibia. One more thing, i think you got the turn labels the wrong way around? Frontside turn is normally off the toes, and backside turn is off the heels… at least, thats how i understand it. What do you think Chris?

[@ChrisGenau]

Thank you so much for the compliment :)) Well in surfing and skating a turn is called frontside when you’re facing the wave/obstacle/ramp/pipe and backside when the wave/pipe is on your backside. So even though your turning towards your backside it is called a frontside turn and vice versa - it’s the same in skating with ramp tricks. Like a frontside 180 Ollie is turning towards your backside but the ramp is on your frontside :) I hope that explanation is as at least kind of understandable :DD Let me know when somethings still unclear ^^

[@Hansmock1989]

Cool video. A pump track just opened up in our neighborhood. I really like to try it. Do you have any recommendations for a type of board shape which is good for some progress? I can do a little bit of skating but got no experience with ramps etc. Thanks

[@ChrisGenau]

Wow thats so cool, you should def hit that - a pump track will teach you many things 🙌🏼 as for board shape recommendations - it really doesn't matter too much, just make sure you're not taking a too small board with too small of a wheel base, as that makes the board very responsive and a little hard to control for a beginner

[@YourFault]

Take note: 2:06

[@ChrisGenau]

Small but important detail ;)

[@robertkomarek8615]

What is the best choice for pumptracks? Skateboard, Surfskate or Longboard?

[@ChrisGenau]

I would say surfskate for sure - as it has the best maneuverability out of the 3 for tighter turns =)

[@assafcohen6619]

so when i get into a bump i should get my knees lower getting on the bump my knees should compress, getting out of the bump my kness should extand back again?

[@ChrisGenau]

Yes that is a perfect explanation of exactly what I’m doing :)

[@assafcohen6619]

@@ChrisGenau thank you my friend )

[@ChrisGenau]

@@assafcohen6619 no worries I’ll always be here if you have any more questions 🙌🏼

[@Andrewandrew-en8mj]

What wheels are you using? Thanks

[@ChrisGenau]

Standard wheels that came default with my Carver CX4 trucks. I think these should be 70mm and 78a

[@MW-wt5vp]

Ich beginne gerade mit Pumptracks. Wäre ein Surfskate deine erste Wahl?

[@ChrisGenau]

für einen Pumptrack auf jeden Fall!!

[@MW-wt5vp]

Welches Board benutzt du?

[@ChrisGenau]

Das ist ein Carver CX4 Trucks surfskate - die Achsen (CX4) sind hierbei das wichtigste

[@chrisgenau925]

I find that video super helpful Chris. Keep it up!!!

[@ChrisGenau]

thank you so much Martin. this really means a lot 🙌🏼

[@rzin2007]

Cool. Thank you

[@ChrisGenau]

When I watch this video now - I have to cringe at myself for the way I’m delivering it It that how I was back then in the front of the Camera so it’s authentic :) Thanks for watching it and finding value in it I love you all 🫶

[@TheGerontechnologist]

Great video!

[@ChrisGenau]

thank you for watching 🙏🏼 let me know if I can ever hold you 🤙🏽