Kara, looks like you keep your body locked when you're in the air and upon landing. This is not criticism this is just observation. Try to compress your body upon Landing it will lessen the pressure on the suspension and make you land much smoother. And maybe transfer your body around a little bit while you're in the air forward to backwards loosen up a bit young lady. But excellent riding you are learning fast. Try and go with the flow of the Terrain. Try and relax a bit more. Just one person's observation and again not trying to criticize your doing very very good. Keep up the good work.

Love this vid Tom, it great to see the bangers but there must be so many newbies that follow you, it great that you are doing something for everyone, props for that!

This series of videos with Kara is awesome. Inspirational for us beginners! Great job both of you :)

Loving the videos, finding out about new places to go and ride with every new video. Kara progress is amazing!!

Thanks for doing this video - really helps to see someone at my own skill level practicing jumps and pushing through the apprehensions!

This is a superb video. The techniques are clearly demonstrated, but just as importantly, you’re showing the progression of a newbie. It’s awesome to watch her learn and sends a really positive message to other female mtb riders.

I’ve just started mtb after not riding for years and Kara is way ahead of where I am, it’s a confidence thing and practice of course . Good video 👍🏻

I started watching this channel around the time Kara first hit the Olympic mountain bike track. Regularly showing her progression since then (which has been really impressive) is a great way to differentiate this channel from all the other bike vlogs. It also seems to be having the bonus effect of getting rid of some of the more small minded KZfaq users. Win-win! Best wishes for your post-op recovery. Cheers.

You are doing so much better I started about the same time as you did and you are way ahead of me .way to to go Kara.

I find these tutorial videos really helpful, I really like how psyched she is to work on her skills but not go too far.

Solid progression session. Well done Kara, keep SENDING!!!

Loved this! Always stoked to see a fellow gal shredding!!

So happy to see you progress, just keep on practising and you will be a master in no time! :)) happy trails

What was said near the end about crashing being detrimental to your progress is huge. Most of us hurt our pride when we crash, but some of us get really put off by the pain of crashing and the fear of trying again. When I was really ambitious about getting my act together and doing slopestyle jumps, I watched barry nobles' jump class vid and then literally just began launching off 1 inch high kerbs. Then I went to 1 foot pump rollers, and so on. I only ever attempted what I actually felt confident I could do. By the time I made it to a 6 foot tabletop, I hadn't crashed once.

Kara’s getting hella good, keep this coming and great work!

So amazing how you explain the stuff and avoid fear.

What a great place to try out things Tom your such a good teacher Kara is progressing well 👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Great idea for keeping the content coming whilst healing. I was wondering why you guys did not use any of this footage in Kara's video of this day- makes sense now...

Nice to see someone learning, their challenges and how they progress

She has progressed so fast it's mental keep up the work Kara 🔥🤘

Gobsmacked at how good Kara is riding in such a small time. Legend!

I am sooo stoked for our season to start here in Canada!! For now I get to enjoy snowboarding. 😎

Haven't rode a bike in 32yrs. Just bought a Trek MTB with full suspension and I swear to God that I was faster on my BMX bike. Keep the videos coming, I'm learning again!!!

I can't believe Kara is making great progress. Good work! I am highly motivated and I must practice harder and quicker. ;)

Top work! Small steps, just need that *POP* well done!

That bike park looks amazing and in your intro the backflip crash looks so painful 😖

Well done she Made a real improvement

Your videos are perfect since generally, we see experts making the move. In your case, you are giving a lesson to someone who is not an expert and that gives the assurance that we can do it too. In my case specifically, I see the mistakes I make and I understand faster how to correct them. Example: until now, nobody had explained that it was necessary to put your body in the middle of the MTB to lighten the front wheel to perform the drop-offs. Indeed, an expert does it automatically and does not think that a novice does not know this.

Wow kara u are absolutely nailing them well done 👍

Big fan since beginning. Keep up great work

These videos are great, seeing good progression helps inspire to get better. It's at a level where a lot of people can relate....flip next week please.😁

Twisted Oaks looks sick for a technique day. Awesome series ... I wish someone had done this when I was learning.

She's getting good so quick! Those bikeparks in the uk look so amazing. All the bikeparks i've been to here in switzerland have no really good drop learning zones and the one in Lemzerheide is just above the bar next to the gondola, so definitely not comfortable to learn drops on for someone with little confidence in jumping and dropping...

Awesome Kara. And a great teaching vid.

Great instructional video thanks guys ☮️❤️

educational and overall great video, u all have great chemistry

She is getting better fast. Im 48 and new to mtb, im doing blue trails a bit of red, and trying small jumps and drops, this is helping a lot . Thank you

Epic session guys!! That line with the gap and the big table was amazing!!! Great job Kara, keep it up!!🤘🏻

Great video. That’s a awesome park! Wish I had one of those near me.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge

She needs to be pushing the bars forwards and her weight back. She's basically doing a dead sailor off the drop. Still ripping though. A thumbs up from me.

Watched a few of your vids now and this girl is amazing, natural talent and such a great attitude to it all, and bigger balls than me, lol. I think it's great that females do stuff like this now, when I was young this would not have happened and such talents went wasted. Such a shame.

Good explanation! I want this Parcour at Home 😜... Practice, practice, practice is the best too grow up skills

Awesome job keep it up!

Excellent form Kara 👍☝️

Proud of u ! 😊👍

Very good tutorial you too.😃👍🏻

She is doing lots of progress !!

Good place to practice, I wish my area have place like this.

thanks for the video.

You are a natural teacher #tomcardy. Great to see the progression it’s keeping me motivated to improve my riding

VERY COOL VIDEO.

Terrifyingly awesome!

Nice place to learne !

Yea cara you’ve actually improved so much. better get on the phone to haibike to sort out a dh bike for you. Buzzin to see you on the world cup circuit by next year

The bike park looks so good

Super Kara !

That looks like such a good riding spot.

Hi, thanks by your videos and information. A question, what model is your bike and model.-?

What's the music at the start of your videos? Love it!

We need some practice parks like this in NZ

Kara is rapidly becoming my favorite spectator sport.

What about the compressing arms close to the bars and pushing out as the front wheel leaves the lip technique? I've been trying that and it really helps avoid the front dropping first. In fact it feels much safer than the unweighting the front technique you recommend here.

Really jealous of Kara making such a big progress so fast. Couple of tips though. Do not practice drops and jumps alone, you might clear a feature 9/10 times, but that 1 time you can be fatigued or have a second of fear and faceplant knocking yourself out and being alone in this situation is really bad. I'm telling from experience. Also might wanna wear fullface when going of drops, I doubt enduro helmet will do much while faceplanting right into the dirt. Again, I know this from experience. Sadly. And yes, making a progress and then crashing will hurt your confidence and progress 100%. It's been 1.5 years since I broke my nose and had a concussion when I tried clearing a small drop (which I did 4 times previously), and I still can't bring myself upto continuing training. Anyways, these are just my tips.

From a fellow MB, she is cute! Accent, smile and she rides!

One thing the two of you may want to think about is what if there is a small kicker before the drop off. It is not to hard for a little kicker to naturally form on a drop off.

there was a drop off at the skatepark like that, build with round logs just like that, the dirt went down like 10cm, i didnt pop it get over it and it did it for me XD, almost backflipped, messed my shoulder up for 2 weeks

Get it Kara!

Really good to see another rookie learning this kind of stuff, i can relate better to her riding skills than yours 👍. Well i´m not really a rookie myself but coming back to the sport after a long break.

Great vid just have to show my wife to get her off the racingbike and go over to MTB

Where is this place at to learn drop offs and stuff thanks and keep it up your doing awesome

Brilliant Kara. Must be great visiting loads of the bike parks. Cool that you have such a decent riding buds aswell

Hi tom cardy and Kara Beal much love from CRAWLEY keep it u

Karas better than me at drop offs!! We’ll done. Now I must improve!! 🤙

Sending it 🤘

Me : who’s Tom Cardy Me : see his intro Me : ight imma subscribe

how do you unweight the front wheel if you dont pull up on the bars or do a manual?

DAMN, I been riding for almost 4 years and she is better than me already

hey i just started mountainbiking. do those kind of practice "parks" have a name and are common? if they arent may gonna search for one in my reach

Great

You guys are so wise -learn but stop whilst you're ahead instead of pushing it. Would love to find something like that place for my own tech learning. Especially gaps - I like how you have access to multiple lines with same type of feature but different sizes. Most of where I ride it is either A-line with a big feature or a B-line with no feature. Not confidence inspiring for learning. Well done Kara and you to Tom as a teacher.

If you watch world cup racers they tend to set up more forward with their chest low, so they can push the bike through the drop and absorb the "lip" with their legs. Perhaps that is a more advanced drop technique for minimising time spent in the air?

Could you please tell me where this Bike Park is, couldn't pick it out from what you said! The line with the progressively bigger jumps looks ideal for me and my girlfriend to visit sometime! Thanks and great video format with amazing progression!

The video of where she does a drop down stairs onto grass is tilgate golf club it is the 16 tee box she jumps off

What type and model of eMTB’s are y’all riding in this and other videos? Would like to have one. Awesomeness in your videos with Kara!

I jumped a curb today and I felt brave. Damn.

Woow,,, menakjubkan

Finally.............someone teaching to stay centred on the bike and not 'slide/throw the bike forward'

Yo tom do you reckon kara will ever flair ? Is that the end goal ?

For all those in the comments who wanted to know where this bike park is...I believe that it’s Twisted Oaks bike park in Ipswich. Gaetano

Is it harder to unweight an ebike with the extra weight?

Wish there were more parks like that around the world, a few hours there and I would be doing them drop offs.

Tom - whats the size of her bike. I got a 18inch frame and I am 5'6 I am not sure if its ok. Sometimes it feels ok but other timeswhen U try tricks I do not succeed. So what is the size of her frame? and her height please?

Epic

He forgot to mention Cara’s chest being impaled by the poorly placed go-pro. Look out Cara. Thanks for the video Tom.

Kara imporvement. every time

Kara rides better then me! And I been riding for over 25years.

Don't blame her for missing the big gap, stacked it there last weekend

Where are these practice drops please? They look perfect!

Her accent is awesome! Combined with her cute laugh.. AND she rides a mountain bike.. 😀