Corner wave is a perfect practice wave right below McCoy’s rapid. It’s a smooth glassy wave where lots of tricks can be landed. The wave is diagonal and constantly wants to push you off on surfers right, so it is key that you keep your bow pointed upstream and surfers left. Before you start trying tricks on corner wave, you should take a couple of surfs to warm up and figure out the wave. Once you know how to surf on the wave, tricks will come easier. My favourite trick on corner wave is a left spin. Spinning to the left prevents you from coming off and you are less likely to flush to the right. Right now I am working on a blunt. To blunt you need to get to the top of the wave, lean forwards to come back in, and on the first bounce you land and edge hard on your left edge, bounce, and switch to your other edge. Hopefully it looks like a blunt, and if you’re getting there it will look like a roundhouse. Some tips for the blunt are to keep your head and chin up stream while you rotate. It’s also important that when you rotate you put your paddle in vertical in the hip. Hopefully this helps you on your journey to landing a blunt. Whether you are trying a left spin all the way to trying an airscrew, corner wave is the perfect practice wave.
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