Yeah I’ll share what I have and let you crack at it, it’s quite entertaining.
honestly, I’ve been amazed by Modal (.com), I’ve used $9 of the $30 free credits running it on A100. Worth getting your GPU running though.
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Has anyone played the game “Baby Steps”? This stick figure learning to pump reminds me of that 
Do you think he means the force required to jump up to the steps vertical height - or standing looking upstairs, then jumping up and forwards to land on the next one? Maybe I’m just over thinking it…
I think just the general idea of a jump with 2 feet vs 1 foot at a time, and jumping vs pushing down
Stand in a surf stance. (Sideways to steps) jump up steps. (Or a box jump) That’s the same as pumping. The more effort you use to jump the better.
I think this video makes it pretty clear, watch the second half and you can imagine someone neatly launching up stairs (imagine them jumping towards you, ie out the screen)
and then watch this which is probably the whackiest technique I came across, and you get the idea (respect for doing it in 2017 on the gear at the time)
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The second one very clearly shows … It’s not an ollie, it was never an ollie, stop referring to anything in foiling as an ollie!
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Can’t wait to check it! It can finally be the moment I get hands on with reinforcement learning hahaha
I revisited Yvon vite’s video that you linked, Matt, and found a huge unlock for me. It’s the forward hip thrust that he’s exaggerating in the thumbnail. I’m now easily generating speed and glide, and have also easily dropped down to my smallest KT Atlas 145 rear, whereas with the various hopping techniques I had to be extremely delicate when going smaller than the Nomad 190 rear. I’m now feeling the foil slide forward under my feet as my feet catch up with my hips, rather than hopping up to unweight it. There’s still an element of unweighting but nothing like beforehand. The cardio is also nothing like beforehand.
66 years old, 90kg plus a 4-3 wetsuit, Amos 55 litre 5’x18” Sultan Prone and 34 litre Nano 4’1”x19”. Testing has been on flat water with a homemade paddle assist, using KT Nomad 980, Atlas 1340 and 1130. Tails used were Nomad 190 and 155 and Atlas 145, using medium and short fuselages.
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that’s cool, for a long time I’ve been thinking that the hip movement from surfing applies to foiling with the arms going forward instead of back, but the idea translates. I wonder how you’d recreate this cardboard slide drill for foiling
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