Pump a Surfboard for Speed

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Mike Sanders and I'm going to tell you a little bit how to pump for speed when you're surfing. It's one of the things you really need to know how to do. Especially if you've got a peak coming at you, it's going to break, you're going to eat it if you don't get around it. You really can't pump any time. I see a lot of kids out in the water, they take off on a wave that's not really doing anything, and they're slamming the board up and down thinking it's giving them speed. Well it's really not. You're just kind of looking like an idiot standing in the same place. The key for pumping for speed is you got to be in the right position and you got to wait for the wave to stand up for you. And what it really is it's you stepping up to the top of the wave and dropping down and pushing off stepping up and dropping down. And you get it in a real fluid motion. You can get speed both off your top turn where you're coming up and going down in the wave, and also your bottom turns where you're pushing off of the water to get back to the top. And actually the key is keeping your speed up through the whole thing. That's what you're trying to do. You're trying to get down the line, ahead of a section over peak. That's how to pump for speed."