This is called the #pumpfoil.
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This is called the #pumpfoil. She is #pumpfoiling
You pump up and down with your legs and that motion alone is all that is necessary to translate via a hydrofoil under the water surface (like a wing) to give you lift and forward motion
You need good balance, endurance, and if you stop pumping you lose lift and sink rapidly
EDIT: this is Alina Kornelli. See @bruno 's comment below
EDITEDIT: https://youtube.com/@alinakornelli
@benroyce Wow.
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@JohnJBurnsIII have you done it? I want to try it. I should have had this desire in july not october
@benroyce @JohnJBurnsIII I should have had this desire in 1996, not 2026!
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@edgeofeurope doing pump foiling in a dress is certainly a flex, whatever her social or political views, that we have no clue of from this clip
@benroyce
Probably to make the point for the video that she stays dry..?
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This is called the #pumpfoil. She is #pumpfoiling
You pump up and down with your legs and that motion alone is all that is necessary to translate via a hydrofoil under the water surface (like a wing) to give you lift and forward motion
You need good balance, endurance, and if you stop pumping you lose lift and sink rapidly
EDIT: this is Alina Kornelli. See @bruno 's comment below
EDITEDIT: https://youtube.com/@alinakornelli
@benroyce I’m exhausted from watching the video!
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Definitely the kind of thing where once you're out there it's not so bad but launching yourself is a steep learning curve
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@edgeofeurope doing pump foiling in a dress is certainly a flex, whatever her social or political views, that we have no clue of from this clip
@benroyce@mastodon.social @edgeofeurope@mastodon.social This is Alina Kornelli. A well known athlete:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina_Kornelli
The dress is a german Dirndl. A traditional Bavarian outfit. Often worn at Oktoberfest in Munich. Or even while pumpfoiling, if it happens to be Oktoberfest season. -
@benroyce I’m exhausted from watching the video!
@horqua apparently (i don't know, i've never done it) you don't have to be strong but you have to have endurance. I suppose if you ran out of steam in the middle of the lake that would be no bueno
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@benroyce@mastodon.social @edgeofeurope@mastodon.social This is Alina Kornelli. A well known athlete:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina_Kornelli
The dress is a german Dirndl. A traditional Bavarian outfit. Often worn at Oktoberfest in Munich. Or even while pumpfoiling, if it happens to be Oktoberfest season.@bruno @edgeofeurope thank you!
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This is called the #pumpfoil. She is #pumpfoiling
You pump up and down with your legs and that motion alone is all that is necessary to translate via a hydrofoil under the water surface (like a wing) to give you lift and forward motion
You need good balance, endurance, and if you stop pumping you lose lift and sink rapidly
EDIT: this is Alina Kornelli. See @bruno 's comment below
EDITEDIT: https://youtube.com/@alinakornelli
Economies:
"You need good balance, endurance, and if you stop pumping you lose lift and sink rapidly"
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This is called the #pumpfoil. She is #pumpfoiling
You pump up and down with your legs and that motion alone is all that is necessary to translate via a hydrofoil under the water surface (like a wing) to give you lift and forward motion
You need good balance, endurance, and if you stop pumping you lose lift and sink rapidly
EDIT: this is Alina Kornelli. See @bruno 's comment below
EDITEDIT: https://youtube.com/@alinakornelli
We see a lot of these at a local big lake around here but electrified, quite impressive and very fast as the water resistance is minimal with these hydrofoils... mostly in wetsuites.
But apparently you don't need to get wet
Wearing a Bavarian dirndl in October in South Germany is indeed quite appropriate
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This is called the #pumpfoil. She is #pumpfoiling
You pump up and down with your legs and that motion alone is all that is necessary to translate via a hydrofoil under the water surface (like a wing) to give you lift and forward motion
You need good balance, endurance, and if you stop pumping you lose lift and sink rapidly
EDIT: this is Alina Kornelli. See @bruno 's comment below
EDITEDIT: https://youtube.com/@alinakornelli
@benroyce like gunwaling a canoe
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@JohnJBurnsIII the launch in the video above is quite calculated. I bet there are 100 wipeouts behind how effortlessly she did that. And for 90% of people it would be 100,000 wipeouts, if they could ever master it at all
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We see a lot of these at a local big lake around here but electrified, quite impressive and very fast as the water resistance is minimal with these hydrofoils... mostly in wetsuites.
But apparently you don't need to get wet
Wearing a Bavarian dirndl in October in South Germany is indeed quite appropriate
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This is called the #pumpfoil. She is #pumpfoiling
You pump up and down with your legs and that motion alone is all that is necessary to translate via a hydrofoil under the water surface (like a wing) to give you lift and forward motion
You need good balance, endurance, and if you stop pumping you lose lift and sink rapidly
EDIT: this is Alina Kornelli. See @bruno 's comment below
EDITEDIT: https://youtube.com/@alinakornelli
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@JohnJBurnsIII I wonder what starting out in the middle of the lake would be like. Could someone even do it? They'd need a paddle maybe. Or something with a very big hydrofoil. Imagine the effort to get it under your feet in the water then churn churn churn and lift yourself out of the water!
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Just, you know, get the board under your feet under the water and have abs and legs of solid iron and just lift yourself out of the water in the middle of the lake, easy
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@JohnJBurnsIII I wonder what starting out in the middle of the lake would be like. Could someone even do it? They'd need a paddle maybe. Or something with a very big hydrofoil. Imagine the effort to get it under your feet in the water then churn churn churn and lift yourself out of the water!
@benroyce @JohnJBurnsIII
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Just, you know, get the board under your feet under the water and have abs and legs of solid iron and just lift yourself out of the water in the middle of the lake, easy
Yes. Open water starts... how physical would you need to be.
The swim back could get depressing quite fast.
