 All right guys Geez that bed's looking pretty bloody orange, isn't it? It's meant to be brown not orange Anyways, we move on This was meant to be a serious video. I just started it with a joke But what we're about to talk about is no joke and I need to talk I need to talk to you guys. I need to talk to my audience. I need to run through a few things These are my options. We're talking about football. We're talking about putting myself in the best position possible to perform at my best at this Upcoming NFL Combine that is crazy for me to even think about Being in but it's the truth. I'm in it. Okay the NFL or the NFL International Combine you know group of people or group of companies or whoever's running it I think it's it might be a company called Pacific Sports Management. I'm not sure But anyways regardless of that my flights and my accommodation are going to be paid for I'm getting a Trip shouted to this Combine, which is the case for all of the athletes selected. So it really is the best athletes that are going to be going and Geez, lo and behold, I'm apparently one of them. Now Will I be one of them? We don't know yet But I need to put myself in the best position possible so that I can be because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity It really is, you know, I I truthfully feel that this success and this rise with my YouTube channel happened at this time for a reason You know and so here are my options, right? I've got three options They run in levels of You know Out there in this I guess you could say so the first one is for me to Reattempt my trip down to Melbourne If you guys have followed me for any length of time you might have seen that I tried to go to my first ever football training down in Melbourne That was about three or four weeks ago now. I missed my flight one. That's my flight. My flight was Delayed so I got down to Melbourne late couldn't make the training in which case I couldn't play it I couldn't play my first game which I was meant to that weekend and all went to shit But I did go to the game. I met a few people. I met the coaches and You know watched my first live down of Australian club football So that was great. I came back to Alice Springs and Lo and behold, I got this offer to go to this combine now I had only heard of it whilst I was down in Melbourne. So it took the NFL Two weeks to send me an email and invite me to the combine, which I said yes, sweet October the 5th You're gonna be in the Gold Coast. We're gonna fly you out. We're gonna accommodate you and Do your best So here I am little old Alice Springs never played football my life never put a helmet on my life Until yesterday actually I received a helmet from my from a subscriber But it's not a playing helmet. So look I could either go down to Melbourne do it again Try and train on the Wednesday playing on the Saturday come back to Alice having a little bit of experience and You know go to the combine with that or I could do that but also add in An assessment or a meeting with Pro Kick Australia now Pro Kick Australia is the agents or the you know that the Academy that Work with Australian punters who want to go and play college football They want to go and get a successful scholarship at a college and play football as a punter now I've been on the phone with Nathan this morning. I gave him a call, you know things getting serious All right, I'm not gonna be playing any games anymore. I need to know where I'm at athletics wise and Kicking as well. So I gave him a call. We're on the phone for half an hour this morning. He explained so much to me It was invaluable the conversation. I'm so glad I made it but I'm sitting here right now with an offer to Go and spend Friday Saturday and Sunday with the group with him and run through Their weekend of training. So I think on the Friday. They do a kicking session followed by a gym session on Saturday. It's a Another gym session. I think Sundays technique Whatever, it's three days of training Like they would be doing to become a kicker So I could go down there and see someone rattle off at 60 yard punt 60 yard perfect spiral and think fucking hell Yeah, so that's what you got to be like or they could be hitting 45 yard kicks and I could come along and match them straight away You know, I don't know and he doesn't know Nathan doesn't know he he gave me all the information I need to make a decision whether I wanted to go down and join in for a weekend. So With that being said what I could do is go down on Tuesday a day before I don't want to miss my flight again I don't want to miss the training Go to the Monash Warriors football training on the Wednesday on the Friday go to pro kick in the morning I think it's 6 30 in the morning. It starts on a Friday and go to their training 6 30 till 9 on Saturday Saturday morning go and train with them again in the gym and then Saturday afternoon play for Monash Barbarians in the Victorian Club American Football League and Then on Sunday go and train again with pro kick and then on Monday come back to Alice Springs. So leave on Tuesday Training Wednesday training Friday training Saturday game Saturday training Sunday back Monday and out of that I would have got my first proper football training under my belt my first proper football game under my belt my first Actual assessment with pro kick Australia, which is the leading You know the leading group that's going to get anyone in Australia to a college They have all the connections everything So I could get all of that out of six days and Then come back to Alice Springs prepare myself for another two weeks and then head off to Gold Coast So basically guys, I've been looking at flights the whole morning the whole day. I Have jet-star Qantas Virgin trying to get a good price Trying to go down on the right days trying to work it all out my head, you know, I'm gonna have to take time off work I'm gonna have to drop some money on on accommodation flights all that shit But it's worth it man because what did I just say? I just told you all that shit that I'm gonna get out of this six-day trip and you know I'm not mucking around. You know, you might have seen my football training day seven video That's whatever I do down there at the field. It's not gonna be good enough Whatever I do. It's gonna be it's gonna be the wrong thing I need to get to proper fucking football training with a proper fucking football coach You can see me run who can put me in a position and Give me you know what I need to hear is Can you play or can you not are you a joker or are you a fucking player? Are you a dreamer? Or are you a real player? I need to be told this man Shit, I'm 27. I'm not gonna be I'm not gonna be hurt. All right I'm gonna take it on the chin and if I think if I think I've got potential to come back next year. I might do that, but I'm 20 27 years old like I said to this guy Nathan on the on the phone You know, I'm not a fucking 18 19 year old. No no life experience. You know, I'm mature. I can take criticism constructive criticism and I felt like we got along on the phone So, you know what I've I've I have made my decision I just needed to pull this camera out and make this video because I will be going to Melbourne and It will be next week and I will be doing everything. I just told you and I will be vlogging the whole thing and I'll be telling you guys how it went So I better book some flights and in the meantime guys stay tuned Stay fucking tuned because the reality is even if I am shit even if I'm a lot worse than what I think because deep down guys You know, I don't make calls on my own play without believing that I can do that You know what I mean? I'm not a fucking. I'm not a dreamer. I know I'm not and there are a lot of dreamers out there and I'm just willing to pay a bit of money to put myself in a good position to Know what I'm doing at this combine. That's what I want. I want to know what I'm fucking doing slightly and There was a third option, which I wasn't gonna mention, but I may as well There's a guy Dave Rodriguez over in America. I don't know if you're watching this bra, but if you are This guy is an athlete he is a D1, you know scholarship type athlete and He is offered a week or two weeks worth of training alongside of him in America Prior to this combine so I could you know do everything in Melbourne come Monday fly from Melbourne straight LA and Then fuck and then I have to go LA to bloody New York and then start training with him for a week And then come back to Australia and do it. I mean, it's pretty out there. It's pretty damn out there But I mean the shit that I've seen this guy doing it. It just looks amazing You know, I'd actually be able to train on proper football pitches, you know, nice ground Nice cones nice grass, you know Proper actual quarterbacks defensive backs to train against train with You know, like he said He said it'd be a hell of a lot of fun regardless of you know, how serious we're taking it It would be fun and that's the kind of thing. I like I love I love training. I love, you know Competition I love getting better at something I love having a goal and reaching it or at least reaching for it And that's what this whole thing is man. This whole football thing is a fucking huge goal That it's just been building building building building building And I'm either gonna be brought Right back down to earth or I might be right on the side here, you know slowly slowly trying to get up or I could really surprise myself and land right on the top Who fucking knows? Not me and not you So like I said before come along for the ride if you've liked this video Please press like if you want to subscribe please do and I'm gonna book some flights Peace out guys. This is I'm excited man I'm excited and I don't do things in half measures We out here baby. We out here