Hey Everyone!

I am here with a quik instructional on how to Clean Blunt. For those of you who have mastered the blunt and are looking for another move to work on, you are at the right place. Also, lucky for us, I was told the clean blunt is easier than the blunt once learned. I agree with that Statement.

Clean Blunt: A blunt done without ever touching your paddle throughout the entire trick.

Here is the step by step progression

1: You need to set up high on the wave, people do this in many ways. I like to carve side to side and slow myself down there fore you rise to the top of the wave.

2: As you feel yourself begin to fall down the wave again edge your boat as if you are going to do a normal blunt. The key here is to make sure you are holding your paddle up out of the water. Some people even hold it over their heads.

3: When you feel you bow start to rise off the water you have to throw your body forward and upstream. This Crunching and  Momentum will be what begins to rotate your boat.(you still need to have your hands in the air! Keep that paddle up off the water) A small thing that will help is to crunch the muscles on the side that will be most upstream, or in other words the side that you edged on in the first place. Also throw your paddle and your hands upstream, this will keep them off the water and keep your trick clean!

4: For the rest of the move you want to still be focused on keeping your body crunched forward for the landing. Keeping crunched will keep your stern from pearling when you land.

Good Luck!!!

Tino