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Cardiac surgeons are occasionally faced with ascending aorta graft kinking following ascending aorta replacement. Although it may be difficult to precisely assess the correct length of the graft during aortic clamping, while performing proximal and distal graft anastomoses on an empty heart, the major reason for graft kinking is its excessive length. Haemolytic anaemia, graft thrombosis or even heart failure have been reported as a consequence of unrecognised and uncorrected kinking of the ascending aortic graft. This paper describes a modification and improvement of an old aortic graft non-clamping technique to solve the problem of kinked tubular graft without resuming cardiopulmonary bypass., (Copyright © 2021 Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)