Pump downstroke and "woosh"

[Matt]

Not quite sure if it’s the same, but when pumping out and it’s lumpy, if you time it so that you only pump on the Up slope, and not the Down, then you get much better glides and height.

Made a picture here

Advanced pumping - aka how the pros pump

Something to add to this (from this image from Matt Costa), when you pump into waves, you must make sure to put the most effort into pumping at the peak of each wave, where there is maximum lift. You need to glide down the back of each wave. I noticed I was doing this, but didn’t really realise what was going on until looking at this image. Watch someone good pumping out, and you’ll see they sometimes double pump, to get the peak of two bumps close together, and then otherwise do a steady pump …