 Am I? What's that? That's life. Alright. Alright. And we gon' get it out tonight. You smoke? I smoke. I drink? I drink too. Well good. Cause we gon' get it out tonight. Got drugs? Got drugs. Got drugs. Got drugs. Alright. Cause we gon' take a ride tonight. So Mike. Alright guys. What is going on? Welcome back to another vlog. This vlog is titled My Current YouTube Vlogging Setup. So if you've come here to find out exactly what I use to make my YouTube videos we're actually gonna have to wait a few minutes because what this video is made with is my current YouTube vlogging setup. Not only camera, tripod, microphone but also laptop and well that's really all you need. So with that said I thought we'd take just before I do get to today's date I thought we'd go in chronological order and take a little bit of a walk down memory lane you know because reality is is that with the progression of my YouTube channel from zero subscribers to 100 to 1000 and now to nearly 10,000 along the way my equipment has improved as well. You know I was never gonna go and buy a camera like this when I had zero subscribers. I didn't even know about a camera like this. I didn't know about content creation. The amount I've learnt along the way is just unbelievable. I have and you know that's what I think when I'm sitting here some nights you know busting my ass on editing these videos and thinking fuck it is anyone even gonna view these you know does anyone really care but at the end of the day I think to myself you know what it doesn't matter it doesn't matter all of this that I'm doing all of this work all this hustle is all knowledge it's all expanding my knowledge base and it's only gonna help it's an investment in myself okay and the greatest investment you can ever make is in yourself so before I go on too much because I do have a habit of doing that when I first started watching YouTube I had no idea about the fitness community I had no idea even existed in fact when I first started YouTube it probably didn't exist so when I first started watching I had no thoughts of becoming a creator I had no thoughts of having my own YouTube channel so at that point I used it to basically just sit up late at night and watch random shit just like a lot of you guys do so I was watching top 10 worst plane crashes top 10 worst you know police chases for shit like that shit that would keep a teenager up at night watching videos you know entertaining stuff so before long I found the fitness community in my normal day-to-day life I was getting into the gym I was you know training more and YouTube seemed like the natural place to type in exactly what I wanted to find out and and watch some videos so that's what I did and I started seeing people like the hodge twins I started seeing people like Louis Marko Matt Ogis Chris Jones you know all of these people that have been around since like 2010-2011 I started watching them when they pretty much first started so I've seen I've seen the fitness community or especially the YouTube fitness community come along the way along the years and here we are today it's 2018 and I am in the fitness community myself you know so that's that's pretty cool anyways the first video I made was a rugby tutorial video I woke up one morning I thought you know what my phone's actually got a pretty decent camera why don't I go down to the field set it up no microphone no no fucking notes nothing like that just set it up and start talking to the camera I know I've got a message to give I just need to try and give it and it was so hard it is so hard to get yourself in front of that camera the first time and it's so hard to hear your voice over and over again it's hard to edit yourself and blah blah blah but once you get used to that once once you get over that first hurdle of putting out your first video and you actually get some views and you actually get some good feedback don't have paralysis by analysis what that is is basically knowing that you've got something you really want to do but you're never going to do it because it's not going to be perfect enough you're always thinking oh this person's done it like this oh it's not you know I didn't say the right thing there or the intro is not good enough or you know the camera is not good enough anything there's so many excuses guys and the beauty of YouTube is fuck the excuses you know anyone can put anything up there that they want if you're that concerned about the reaction turn off the comments turn off the like and dislike feature you know if you're that concerned but reality is guys if you're ever going to make it if you're ever going to make a good go of YouTube you need to bury any worries that you have about what anyone else thinks of it you really do I mean trolls come along trolls come along I've got a pretty decent like to dislike ratio on my channel but I still get the trolls and if I have put out a video that I've spent a shit load of time on and I really really think it's a good one and it should be received well to get a trolling comment it's fucking it it's annoying man it really it starts to bring you down and if you've got that day in and day out geez I don't know how some people get through it you know anyways once again I've actually rattled on way too much we're gonna go back to that day that fateful day back in 2012 where I woke up grabbed my phone went down to the field I actually sat it up against a shoe I believe just like this walked out in front of it and started talking so let's have a look at that step by step on how to do a drop kick now drop kicks can be used in rugby union and rugby league for various amount of points but basically they're a good skill to use good skill to know gameplay situations are a lot different than at practice tell you that much so it's really important to get the three fundamentals down and then hopefully it goes well so on that day I actually took two videos one I put out that day and it took me about three more months to put out the second one because I was just too scared I didn't want people to be negative I didn't want people to critique me I didn't know what I was doing at that point so it was scary and took me another three months to put out my second video and funnily enough guys it took over a year after that for me to put out my third video which was a fitness related video now at this point I had watched Louis Marco explode I'd watched Chris Jones explode I'd watched the Hodge Twins explode I watched all these guys do so well in the YouTube space and I thought you know what it's my turn so I started a cut I started my first ever proper cut to get lean to get shredded and that started in February of 2014 so right now I'm going to take you back to that what's up guys well as you can see by the title of the video and if you're lucky enough to have clicked on it this is the start of my fat loss journey weight loss journey whatever you want to call it cutting up getting shredded etc etc I've been personally thinking about you know I get inspiration daily from YouTube fitness community various different pages I could I could list them all here but you know there's probably too many to list I watch and subscribe to quite a few and you know what for a while now I've been thinking about sort of putting my face out there and seeing if I can inspire anyone or you know at least at least put something out there so that in time I can look back on it and see where I'm at see if I've achieved those goals that I wanted to achieve so basically this is the first video of I don't know how many it might be my first might be my last but yeah I'm going to put it out there for you guys to see now at that point I was still just using my phone just using the front facing camera that's all I had that's all I needed at that point I might have had 50 subscribers I didn't know who was going to watch I didn't know where I was going to end up who does know but that was at the start of 2014 and so four years later here we are today I've got 10,000 subscribers I've got a whole lot of camera equipment and I'm going to show you guys exactly what I got when and why so let's start the first thing was the phone okay that's what I started with anyone who is who is out there wanting to get the perfect shot the perfect video like I said don't be paralysis don't be paralyzed by don't be paralyzed by analyzing too much all right use this use whatever you've got it's going to be good enough as long as it's 720p you don't want to be under 720p because that's somewhat of HD you do want to give a high quality image if the person that's watching wants to watch it in that that's very important so I kept using my phone I kept using you know things to prop it up against the next purchase that I made was a tripod and the reason I did that was to give me give me some you know better angles especially with my rugby tutorial videos I was sick and tired of having to put my camera up against things or you know find a spot where I could sit my camera or sit my phone I was sick of it because it was really limiting where and when I could do these videos so I bought this tripod and I went smack bang in the middle of the field put my camera on it at that time I actually bought my first recorder voice recorder so my bright idea was to go to the shop buy the tripod buy the recorder have a microphone running up my top so it was here so that I could be far away from the camera and still have perfect sound well you know I gave my best shot this is how the sound turned out what is up what is up everyone we're down here at the field this is my local rugby union training field my rugby league training field is over that way but today is a Saturday and of course games are going on so I've just sneakily come down here in the morning and I'm going to make part three of my rugby skills tutorial video series so I actually started this series about three years ago man long long time ago this was my first ever youtube video it was a rugby skills tutorial one and you know I've come a long way since then physically mentally emotionally you know I've got over 200 videos on youtube now I'm proud of what I've achieved what I've what I've made but um I think it's about time to go back to my back to my roots back to my that's what I know best you know which is rugby so as you would expect I got trolled because of that and um that put a bit of a dampener on my youtube vision and my youtube uh you know determination and I took another break what's that let's slide all right all right and we gon' get it on tonight