My final verdict - Sirus L for Pumpfoiling

[@luxmonday]

Please take this as a suggestion and not a critique! My feeling is that you need to calm your arms down, pull them in front of your body and lower the amount of energy your upper body is putting in... stand up a bit more straight... When you are holding the 360 camera your technique looks better!

[@FoilingPastor]

Thank you for your suggestions. May I ask how long you can pump? In my experience using my arms and upper body helps me greatly to lower the exhaustion of my legs. I understand that not moving the arms and being more straight, might look better, but I have never experienced to be more efficient. Maybe our different perception is coming from different setups. With smaller stabs and smaller frontwings, I need less strenght, my candece of pumping is smaller, I don`t need to use my arms that much. With bigger frontwings and stabs, I need more strenght to push the foil down and the candence is much slower. Therefore it helps to pump with my whole body. I might be mistaken, but this would be my best explanation of our difference in philosophy.

[@luxmonday]

@@FoilingPastor I got to about 50 seconds on an Axis 1150 before I moved more toward E-foiling and learning to wing... The times that I've pumped the larger 1310 I've felt that the overall pump vertical height needs to be less. When I try to pump it like the 1150, I just stall it. It's a weird foil for dock starting... It wants a faster, less deep pump. (I did change to an UltraShort fuselage too...) The specifics of the different foils is probably driving the difference in our styles...

[@FoilingPastor]

@@luxmonday I think so. I reached over 8 mins on the Gong Sirus. The fuselage is a bit longer and the gong pumping philosophy is a bit different from Axis and Indiana...