My Diary of a Steam to Forward Karl

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OK. That sounded inappropriate for a family friendly forum

seriously though, That is awesome. Tell me that that progress didnt happen in just one day. please?

Since I started flat, my left forearm is absolutely on fire at the end of a ride. Its so bad that there are times I cannot lift my arm above my shoulder and I can't make a fist. I can go longer before that point and it seems to be getting better, but hot damn I have no strength in my left arm.

Yeah that was the first day I actually put any work into it, but I'm sure knowing how to do Hang 5's and Regular Karl Cruisers have a lot to do with the somewhat speedy progression with it.
I'll be out there this week and hopfully I'll have a new video by this weekend, I really want to nail this down and move on to spinning it in circles. 

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Is that the only place you can practice them?  Would you be able to try in your garage or any other small, flat space?

The reason I ask is bc this link and the karl is easier for me to do in smaller circles.  It's much harder for me to pull when traveling in a straight line, and even if I am going in a perfectly straight steam, as soon as I switch into karl, I immediately start carving to the right.  You almost got it down though.  Once you get the switch down it becomes natural pretty quickly & you can almost "snap" right into it from the steamroller. 

Sorry this older video is extremely horrible quality and very dark, but maybe it will help:

i will try to upload a better one soon.

Karl Kruiser

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Is that the only place you can practice them?  Would you be able to try in your garage or any other small, flat space?

The reason I ask is bc this link and the karl is easier for me to do in smaller circles.  It's much harder for me to pull when traveling in a straight line, and even if I am going in a perfectly straight steam, as soon as I switch into karl, I immediately start carving to the right.  You almost got it down though.  Once you get the switch down it becomes natural pretty quickly & you can almost "snap" right into it from the steamroller. 

Sorry this older video is extremely horrible quality and very dark, but maybe it will help:

i will try to upload a better one soon.

Karl Kruiser

thats the way i was trying to learn them, going clockwise in that position
i tried learning them before but couldn't get to that karl position

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Karl Kruiser

AWESOME Thanks for the video!
I like how your spinning them around to a regular Karl Cruiser. 
I might try that when I feel comfy doing them.

If anybody has videos of this link please post them up, and I'd really like to see if anybody can spin a forward Karl into tight circles (Right foot forward for momentum).

Thanks!