 All was quiet in a deep dark wood. The mouse found a nut and the nut looked good. So we just thought we'd kick back and relax. It's becoming a little bit more wintery in the UK. We've got the fire on. We thought I'd just rejack a bedtime story. Took another log on drives, because actually I'm cold, I think, because I've got a vest on. Get some more clothes on, mate, it's winter. Anyway, that wasn't the Gruffalo. It was, that's the October graduates, the book of October graduates. I am actually looking forward to seeing the Gruffalo's muscle-up graduation, which I'm hoping you've got for me in this video role, Jack. Well, I can't promise the Gruffalo, but I can promise you some amazing students. And there's a particularly special one or two that you just might recognise to potentially redefine, don't leave me hanging. They're impossible this month. So with no more adieu or no further adieu. Over to the boys. You know how the graduates roll. This is a bit blue in here, look. It's naughty. Just photography boys, let's get that way. Let's watch the graduates. It was nice, wasn't it? What are you two blokes doing? Don't worry, there's no such thing as a Gruffalo. I can't believe Tim let you do that. We need to get two points. Oh, back in, just create a little bit of order. Yes, two of it, yeah. Things are getting wild. Yeah, yeah. So let's, as you said, no further ado, I got a very special one for you, Tim, to kick things off. Check this out. Right, who's that? Who is that? Now you stuck this one on. Tim, Stevenson. What a treat. You stuck this one on and I was not entirely ready for it to be shared. The official rules are if your graduation is relevant or passes, if you're happy with it, I took it upon myself to say that we're happy with it. Tim isn't fully with it, but this is something you've been working on. And it was, well, let me just play the whole thing. Someone's liking it. I was like, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Nailed it. It's a bad line. And then we could have just, there's your hands on the phone. We could have started the video there, but we were having a great little play session. Yeah, hands on push-ups come free these days, Jaco. I'll put up my belt and it's up. I've got to be excited. Wait, wait, that's exactly what you said. The reason I was hesitant on this one, don't pause Jaco, camera there, Jaco is a bit close. That's just why I understood I was back out of there. The reason it wasn't, I wasn't entirely sort of happy with it is because for me, the impossible of that is from the floor. However, that is somewhat of a step towards the floor. It's positive, but absolutely nothing with it since. Well, I might revisit it at some point. It just requires a fair amount of mobility work to begin with. But the strength is there, which is positive. Yes. The strength is there. And I thought it was nice. Well, there's two things that were a really nice show. One was you redefining your own possible, which is lovely for people and inspiring to see. And then, and bearing in mind, literally, we need to get some old videos out where you couldn't do a handstand at all. To just sort of show what the progress that's come from. And then the other thing was how the response afterwards, like us high-fiving, you laughing as you fall over. We were like, I remember that session we were having, we were genuinely having, it was a fun, it was a play session. And interesting that we define your impossible. You know, that was the first time you'd done that. That came out of one of those play sessions. So it reinforces that. Sometimes I just have to create some time. To be creative. To be creative, where you can have a play around and just see what happens. Exactly. Good. Thank you for that, Jaco. We'll get into the meaty stuff. There's a nice selection of different little stories and things going on. I know that you often like, you like a home gym set up. Is that a loft? Well, sometimes one of the difficult things that people have with a muscle up is either the ring or the pies, like they haven't got the roof space. Not a problem for Ryan. Ryan, and then you close it. Every time you do a muscle up, you can get up there and see how much cleaning out you need to do. That's my laugh. Exactly. But haven't got a loft ladder, which would get in the way. There's a couple of nice things on one. Obviously the ring muscle up, he ends up doing two. There's a number of checking of the... Just watch how he looks at the camera. I was checking the camera. And I'm pretty certain Ryan P, there's a Ryan P in the virtual classroom. So I'm assuming this is the same Ryan P. Checking the camera. Oh, he's got a loft ladder. I stand corrected. Checking the camera. There's a lot of eye contact on the camera. A little smile. Because he knows what's coming. He's like, you're gonna love this. Boom. Watch your head. I would have preferred that, Ryan, if he'd actually gone into the loft. Yeah. I think he is... And then the little celebration. He could probably adjust the ring slightly higher, so he does get into the loft. The same as another one, where you actually go into the loft and you can pop your head up and see where your Christmas decorations are. I actually said to my sister, was having a whole house redone and they took out the stairs at one point. And I said, why don't you just not put stairs back in and either put a rope or grips to climb? I've seen houses like that. Well, I just got a little boy, I was like, how good would he be if you never allowed... Yeah. And think of all the money to save on new stairs. Yeah, so what you're saying to me is I actually need to replace my loft ladder, so potentially... With a rope, yeah. Or some rings. Yeah, there could be difficulty when you've got to move stuff in and out. Yeah, and also getting off the rings into the loft. We'll figure that out. I'm not sure what it's gonna take off. We'll get in touch with your B&Q. We think all the money you'd save, you could probably buy, you could probably get. Say a set of ladders cost you, what, 500 quid? No, we're a loft ladder. I hope not, because mine's broken. I was thinking of like full stairs. All right, let's move on. Yeah, I was just thinking that we'll probably equate to a year in a virtual classroom, you'd say. Anyone wants to send me a loft ladder? Now, Robbie's been on a graduate's role. So one of the things I personally love about the graduate's video is not just the redefining of the impossible, but the final thing is a step along the way. So Robbie, member of the virtual classroom, he has been working on his frog tandem for a long time. And there was a period where it would have felt impossible for him to even do a frog stand at the beginning and certainly take one leg off. He's at the point now where he's taken two legs off and trying to get up into that chair. And this is the first, so this is the first time. So nice stacked high position, knees off, stays there. Yes. And he's fishing for that position. But that is, you know, anyone that's tried to do literally the frog stand and taking your knees off, taking one off or two, knows that that is a big leap forward in the process. Keep getting strong. The good times are coming. Nothing more to say. Good on Robbie. Right, dog star photography. Apologies for, I should have researched. He came to a workshop down in on the south coast and had a lot of issues with his shoulder. And he's had, that was over a year ago. So he's had like a ton of time out injured with shoulder pain, impingement, seen loads of physios, couldn't get it sorted. Doing his mobility work in Skystanks has taken him to the point where he's pain free now and his training all of a sudden starts to go off and then check out his back lever. Oh, he's straight in there, flan, flan, flan. Oh, right, look, there, bang. Look at the correction, the strength on the mat. That, that is a hole. That is a hole, that was a hole. And literally it's not, it's not, it's not easy, sorry, when someone, it's good to get those cues for someone, but it's not easy to make that readjustment. So midsection strength in that position, beautiful. And off the back of a hell of a lot of shoulder issues and pain, so it's great to see him pain free. And now redefining his impossible. Sounds like he's got a good pro bro there as well. Yeah, I'd have liked to see in his mate, like give him a bit of a flap, or a bit of like excitement to hit the line. It's a confident prompt, wasn't it? Too low. Yes. Weird, I mean, it's mate, just when you're trying to do bench press. See, he's just filming, mate, doing this. He's got it supportive. Very good. Next up, Samson, strong name. Yeah, it's fully, fully fledged, remember? Can you get them shorts when Cully moved? Yeah, never, he got those, where he got that best from. So it's, we, we taught him, you did actually, on his birthday, his first ring muscle per workshop. So now I think he does maybe four or five, is where the record is, that's just keeping the control on the way down to maintain full speed. I'm just gonna, I like the outdoor, warm-hearted pull-up bar. Few people have been speaking about those. This is strong. And it's not great for the winter. It's a strong set up. For the summer, a warm-hearted bar, which means you've got your head part for muscle ups, not sort of restricted indoors, super stable. I think it is a great chain option. And also, if you haven't got a load of space, feel to put a big rig outside. Yeah, we have those available from our partner, Gravity. Gravity Fitness on our website. So check them out if you do want a warm-hearted pull-up bar. Works, Samson, it's looking smooth. Penultimate one. Nosebleed. It's only a few years ago that I learned what penultimate meant, so I'm like, you put it in the breath can. It means a second to last. I was hoping you're gonna get that wrong, then. I used to, I don't know what, I think I used to just think it was another word for last. Anyway, nosebleed. He's been on before, and this is his first ever, and he was absolutely pumped. Loved the message that he sent. So, first ever handstand push-up. Ooh. Wow. Oh, hello. No, no, no, no, no, no. So he said that the frog to handstand still, so he's done some wicked work on his full handstand. He's now got a handstand press-up, and he probably just wants to keep working on that control. But he does want the frog to handstand it. It still just alludes him a little bit, that middle section. So there's some work to be done, just a time on the link piece, that inverted chair position. Spend some time there, make that nice stable position, and then you've got the three stages, your frog, that, and the full. You've done well to get a handstand push-up. Before. Before you can do a full- So I think it means you just hasn't done enough work on that middle section. And some, yeah, some starting strength. Do some pause reps in there, and your handstand push-up work against the wall, just to get you moving off the ground. Good, though. I like that. You do a bit better lighting in the gym. How much do you ever wear that? I think I'm missing some bulbs. I'm also that yellow paint. You're not like the yellow paint. It doesn't go with the blue. I know. Right, we'll move on, because that doesn't, I don't know, so much. Get a bigger mirror. And the final one! Oh, who's this? We recognize this guy. Ah, well, we found out recently, in a recent podcast, that you have to take your shirt off to be more natural. Wasn't it? Something about that? You might miss her. More than natural work? I think it's because it's going to be filmed, and you like having your shirt off when you're going to be filmed. Check this out. This isn't pretty, but... But you didn't smash it in the ground. Yeah, I finally got the kahoonas to go back into my backbridge. Yeah. Skip there, do you? Yeah, no, because I was well happy, because I was partly worried about, you know, this is... There's eight more seconds of celebrations coming, sure? Oh, yeah, no, actually, yeah, I come up and... Oh, right, so, yeah, this ab shot, is it? No, no, I make some pumps! LAUGHTER So, yeah, no, it was... The previous head injury victim, it's probably not... The last thing I wanted to do was land on my head, so... The interest I'm taking away from this, Jaco, is the slightly close-up shot you finished on the micro-in, and that picture of you, you've shown us in our best light in this video. And we can drop back out of this. So, we're graduates. So, there we have them. Water selection. That's my first time. I've been mine, I think. I've never been on before. Graduated myself. Who was your favourite, too? I'm joking, I'm joking. So, yeah, as Tim said, there's our October graduates. Thank you all for the hard work that you're doing for keeping us updated with how you're doing. If you need any help, you know where to find us on social, Instagram, we are on social, we're on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, emails, wherever you want us, we are here. And if you come to Jaco's house, if you want... This is it, this is the hot round. Kombucha. Yeah, kombucha. That's it. Last minute. Tell him something about the virtual classroom. If you want to go on and check out the virtual classroom, if you also want to enjoy everything that we've got going on in the School of Calisthenics, it's all in there. And you could also then be one of the graduates, because the classroom is a virtual classroom. We're going to show you exactly what you need for you to really find your possible, whether it be a muscle up back lever, human flag, or just classroom your own body weight. You can start over with the free beginners program, if you want, just be your first book. It's all in there, and you can go and find that at classroom.schoolofcalisthenics.com. Thank you, please. Until the next time. Thank you for your general story. Class does miss.