I started foiling two years ago, with the wing. I learned windsurfing as a kid, so winging felt natural. As I live inland Europe (2 hours from sea) I got a foil for pumping and I am learning that in parallel to everything else 😅. I do some flatwater sup practice and when I get some free time to go to the seaside I learn to freewing and downwind with the paddle. The paddle bit, which I enjoy most, is for me the hardest as I have no solid base in foiling :) As frustrating and hard as it is I come back and want more :D My main focus for now is getting as much foil time as possible, regardless if it is pump foiling, flatwater , winging or downwind floating ;) Just for entertainment I am sending a video of me the very first time pump foiling with my dw board :) Later I got a proper pump board..

As I am a beginner, I am on a big Gong Sirus XL at 136cm wingspan, 1700cm2 area and 10,9AR. It is a foil for pumping, quite thick 0,9 inch and slow. I ride it for winging and pumping and sup foil (learning). We have mainly windswell (short fetch) with short period and steep faces. It is my only foil so I make it work in all situations from pumping to 30kn winging 😅

@Edoardo Tanas great advice! It is very useful for me too as I am in a similar stage of my journey. I usually start to pump my legs too early aswell :) and run out of gass quick 😅

Thanks Edo! Will try the suggestions next time on the flat! In the bumps it's still too much survival mode for me to think about technique 😅