# How did you learn how to pump?

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**Created:** [September 24, 2023, 11:55pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/how-did-you-learn-how-to-pump/3310 "2023-09-24T23:55:47Z")\
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I still miss a lot but after 3 or 4 sessions I was doing ok.

The extremely hard part about dock starting is the first couple of pumps after landing on the board. You have a fraction of a second to transition between unbalanced recovery from the jump to pumping with cadence and if you slow down too much it’s over.

Then you go surfing and kick out of a wave with speed and everything feels 10x easier.

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