Learning to Wakethief - Swiss Edition

Session 97 - I went pumpfoiling at the Lake Lucerne to catch some wakes of the ferry!
Join me on the way to master the art of pumpfoiling. Maybe you are already a pro, started like me also as a bloody beginner or are playing with the idea to learn it, welcome to on board. Let us journey this together.
Gear
Gong Sirus XXL with 156cm
Gong Carbon High Modulus Mast with 72cm
Gong Stabilizer Fluid H-47 with 47cm
Gong Alu Pro Fuselage
Indiana Pumpfoilboard with 90cm
Music
The Impossible by Safvk

[@FabianFoehrenbach]

Sauber! Du machst ja mittlerweile echt Strecke. Das mit der Welle wird auch noch

[@FoilingPastor]

Dankeschön, ja der Sirus hat mich sehr voran gebracht. Was ist im Moment dein Lieblingsflügel?

[@FabianFoehrenbach]

@@FoilingPastor hab keinen klaren Favorit. Bin von Indiana ganz angetan

[@Dubistgenial]

also mein Tipp wäre halt das Geländer aber ja

[@FoilingPastor]

😂😂😂

[@mh3530]

Maybe not go for the first wake?

[@FoilingPastor]

Do you think that the others have more power? Usually the first is the strongest, at least from a wakeboard boat

[@mh3530]

@@FoilingPastor not necessarily stronger but cleaner. I’ve noticed the waves depend a lot on the boats. Are the steam boats better?

[@FoilingPastor]

@@mh3530 yes, the waves differ quite much. the small ones make quite small waves, the steamer make a strange wave that travels more behind them a wakeboat and is not so much going to the side. The MS Diamant has the best wake I would say!

[@yohann.roussel]

On all attempts of the video you look really far from the boat and the wake seems to have lost some power already. I'm no expert since I only managed 3-4 this summer, but I had to get quite close to catch enough power from the wakes.

[@FoilingPastor]

You might be right. The problem is that the ferries don’t like it and at some other lake even stop or call the police. So that’s why I want to keep some distance

[@FoilingPastor]

I wasn’t sure, if my angle is more the problem.

[@yohann.roussel]

@@FoilingPastor my impression was that the easiest angle was to go parallel to the boat to stay at the same relative position, but yeah not so easy to be sure because the wake is not going straight.

[@FoilingPastor]

@@yohann.roussel so you would go 45* degree to the wave and not 90* degree?

[@mh3530]

@@FoilingPastor 45° because you need to follow the boat ;-)