This beginner wakeboard tutorial teaches how to land blind consistently at a cable wakeboarding park. To land blind, keep the rope tight to your body and try to land with more weight on your toes than your heels. Get your shoulders over the toeside edge of your board and pass the handle after you’ve landed firmly.
To master blind landings, practice backside 180s, which are one of the most important building blocks in wakeboarding. In this how-to video, learn how to land a CWB S-bend to Blind, Wakeboard, an S-bend with an extra backside 180° turn and landing with your back forwards.
Prerequisties for landing blind include having a strong wake-to-wake Tantrum and being able to do a Backside 180 where you land wrapped. Landing blind is essential to progressing your wakeboarding, so start on smaller features with smaller spins and work your way up. Hold the grab as long as possible and don’t start to turn until you start to drop.
The Blind 180 or 180-to-Blind is an Ollie, a small jump on the water where you rotate backwards by 180°. To get a solid blind landing on a wakeboard, let go with your back hand, look straight back, twist the handle, thumb down, and bring your shoulders down to the water.
📹 LAND BLIND CONSISTENTLY – WAKEBOARDING – CABLE
JB ONeill teaches you how to land blind consistently at the cable wakeboarding park.
📹 HOW TO LAND BLIND! – WAKEBOARDING
JB ONeill teaches you to land blind wakeboarding behind the boat on a wakeboard. INSTAGRAM – @jb_oneill.
Those are 2 imho good tips from me, collected from many of “coachs” and concluded those, which I didn’t hear in your tut. 1. Don’t forget about your head while landing in blind. It’s much easier landing and looking forward rather than keeping head looking at back binding or past way. (like you do) 2. It’s easier to land blind if the handle is nearer the hips and / or if you keep the handle as long as you can with both hands and loose the back hand in the latest moment of rotating/landing. Those are for begginers. Sure thing is that those ^ for pros are little details that are not confusing as much as in learning phase.
This is one of the things that i wanna improve the most and i did as you said. Taking the handle behind the back and try to ride blind as long as i can. I realy dont know how to improve this because i thought i was doing something wrong but i’m glad to hear you say practice for muscles is key! I was searching a long time for something like this article because noone is talking about this or did a good article about landing blind. Thx mate 🙂
Hey man, Watched the article because I really want to learn how to do surface and air backside 180’s and ofc progress into 360’s. Yesterday I did ride blind for the first time and did switch from side to side blind because of this article! I will keep perusal this vid as a project to master this year. Thanks so much for the clear instuctions on how to get better and I hope I’ll land it soon of a box!
You r the best. Very interesting, definitely I will try it tomorrow ! but for the most times (for me) after I watch your vid It’s looks so right and easy, but then on the water I discover how hard it is 🙂 But my problem is that I’m not going to wakeboard to often and do not have the right sequence in order to stick it. hope to be more on the water this year and to use all your advices !!!
I cant ride in the blind position! I can cross the wakes in the cuffed position no worries but as soon as I take the front hand off I will tic tock. I have tried to max edging, hinging, rear leg weight and reaching around fully. I have tried leaning at slightly different angles. knuckles are tight to my back. Ive looked to the shore and to my tail. Seems impossible. I think it might be due to my thick physique and shorter unflexible arms. Will larger fins help me? I use 0.8″ fins on a 150 murray pro. 230 pounds.
Checkpoint note: it’s been a while now that I can land blinds in a very consistent way, and I lately learn to throw them during transferts to land blind in inclines / banks. It’s harder but after a couple of tries you get the hang of it. However, I think a tutorial is really needed on how to land blind after a big kicker jump. I swear to dog this is the most challenging thing I have been doing in my wakeboarding life. I can land them if I don’t push a lot, but as soon as I push, landing them becomes very inconsistent (and they are a requirements for tricks like trantrum to blind, crowmobe or BS 5). I have yet to find a method because they are different beasts as soon as you get a lot of pop.
Thanks for the tutorial ! I still struggle with the kicker 180 blind although I have no problems to land blind out of other obstacles.No matter how many times I try, I never manage to land blind when hitting the kicker ! Is the way to do it any different than on obstacles? Any advice would be welcome !
Whenever i do blind 3 90% of the time i go to 540 and wrapped up and lose it then makes it into a osmosis, what can i do stop doing this. Also whenever I do 180s I land it but the handle gets away from me and I can’t grab it and land backwards boardslide and go back to the way i started. Any tips on how to land perfectly or able to ride away