First, why should you learn how to move one on flat water? Well, a lot of play boating is muscle memory and you get muscle memory from repetition. Like you always hear “the more you do it, the better you get”. With that in mind, if you only practiced a move in a surf you wouldn’t get as many reps as one who practices on flat water. Another thing is on flat water you have more control and less to think about on than on the wave so you can focus on the move and not when and where you should hit the move. That’s why you should learn to do a flat water blunt. Now, let's get to the how’s to.
Step one: Get some speed. Speed is your friend; it helps give you the feel of being on a wave. Step two: edge left or right depend on which way you are trying to blunt but for sake of explanation we are hitting a right blunt. So get some speed and edge to the left. Step three: do your initiation stroke (forward stroke on the side you are edging). Step four: do a quick edge transfer from your left edge to your right edge. Note when you hit a blunt you always want to be looking upstream, look where you want to go and on a wave, you want to go upstream.
**After you get some speed you edge to your left you do your initiation stroke do a quick edge transfer the **
Step five: do a backstroke to help pull you around and stick the blunt. Congrats! If you have successfully followed these five step you should have done a flat water blunt. With your new flat water blunt, you can really get your form down and know the motion so when your on a wave trying to hit a blunt the movement feels natural.
-thank you for reading I hope this was helpful and you are on your way to super sick air blunts
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