tomtom wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:28 pm
Yea but all monos are almost unpumpable right now.
Says who? ... Ok maybe it was me
, but learned a lesson ...
Monofoils are pumpable maybe actually for me not completely free hands and for half a minute but after the last experience I would not excluse that if not me somebody will do in the near future.
I started to learn pumping on a kite wing, which is in my eyes by far the best teacher you can have, don't try dock starts etc. it is all waste of time to me, you may do this if you really have learned pumping.
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Another posibility more close for most, not as good but still ok: Take the best drifting and smallest kite in higher winds you can start with (for me Peak4 in 3 and 5 m²) and ride it
unhooked only. I also tried to learn a bit pumping hooked, but also here my feeling is, it is nearly useless. Unhooked is not as good as a kitefoil but good enough to learn it. Additionally it is important to bring your foot stance to the boards center line.
I am myself on trial and not sure how far I actually would come just with pumping, but will invest more in training, trimming, testing.
I (63 kg) tested 3 wings till now and the mid size Moses Onda 633 (ca. 1200 cm²) was the best with and without stab aswell. The GONG L (ca. 1500 cm²) felt a bit slow when I was using it with moded low pitched stab and generaly a bit draggy and a bit harder to find the frequenzy as a mono. And the Levitaz Cruizer (1000 cm²) till now just as mono is good, but goes into the direction to be too fast, but should be doable.
tomtom wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:28 pm
Stab gives you drive through pump.
Not my impression, stabi just gives stability and its pitch influences pumping frequency at a given strut/pumping high/amplitude, that's all what the stabi does. And this means the stabi pretty much blocks your possiblities appart from creating useless drag. For sure you can do little high frequent pumps or higher amplitude low frequent pumps (if board nose is short and strut long enough to not touch down) but you can't variate as with the mono.
tomtom wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:28 pm
Something to push into. Pumping are very physical vs riding on monos which is super finesse. Mono wing had its appear from dawn of aviation but only couple of success.
Indeed the problem is you have to find and define a good feeling pumping frequency yourself, control it and pump with physical effort while aswell with physical effort keeping balance. But as long you do this with a unhooked kite or as I expect even better with a kitewing in your hands stabilizing you, this is doable.
But can't say if we ever will see somebody pumping longer with a mono than with a stabifoil, actualy would expect no, but to me the more important point is, that you can support wing foiling on a mono with pumping which could give this combination (monofoil with kitewing) a great future, which has to be shown aswell for sure.