 All right guys What is going on welcome back to another video today's video is going to be probably a pretty highly Anticipated video pretty highly requested video And that is because I'm about to tell you guys how my first ever Try and an American football gridiron training went It was two days ago. I went on Wednesday today's Friday. It's Friday morning yesterday I made some other videos which you'll see some reactions I did but I didn't want to make this one because I wanted to just digest it just a little bit more and You know, I have been thinking about Plans and future plans and what position I'd want to go for and things like that because the reality is is that I have Had a taste of it now. I've had my first taste of American football training at least But they did run some scrimmages. I didn't actually run in the proper like, you know hard scrimmages But I watched and so I saw where the running backs set up I saw where the tight end set up I saw where you know if a running back moved over here, then his linebacker would would move across and target him, you know, I Saw some Some some good players, you know, but let's talk about my experience. I have written down a couple of notes I don't want to leave anything out So with that said my first thought my first thought was okay first thought after the training The amount of times had to put the helmet on pull it off. I Cannot have long here and play football. There's just no way it's not fucking worth it If I was gonna start a season of football putting my helmet on using it all the time I would shave my head straight up. There's no doubt in my mind the beard. I'm thinking I might keep it There's a shitload of guys down there with beards and I'm like man that this I do like that Look, you know, and I think if I shaved everything off top and bottom, I think it'd be too much so For now, we're gonna keep the hair, but I tell you what if I do play or I do have to Put that helmet on There's no way I'm having long hair and like I don't know. I might be able to like put a Like a skull cap on to keep it at keep it out of my eyes. That might be an idea But you know, it was it was just ridiculous. It was fucking all the way up bottom of my helmet like And when it gets dry, it's just afro and Didn't look good. Anyways, that was my hair. Let's talk about the fucking football the footballs. They use college footballs with the stripes on it I don't know if they were old that obviously were but fuck. They were slippery started training. We started doing some drills we did some warm-ups and After that we split off into our groups offensive defensive. You've got receivers running backs linemen Uh Linebackers blah blah blah so I ended up going with the second team this team Monash has two teams an A team the B team There's a B team called the barbarians. I decided to go with the barbarians, but to go with the receivers So I decided you know what man? I'm just gonna go receive it. I'm just gonna try and catch the ball run some routes you know, I don't want to Confuse myself too much and I had been looking at the route tree earlier in the day. So I thought fuck it I'll go receive it started doing warm-ups. We started doing a few drills the first time we did which sort of That's you know, it's obviously a very basic drill. I mean, I'm sure you guys do this thing all the time It's just the first first time I'd have to deal with it. You've got One guy here one guy here running through like that this guy Is running through on on my side. Okay, the ball is over here. This is the quarterback throwing it Throwing it in I'm running this way My other man's running this way as I run and as we cross he has to try and distract me from catching the ball So he runs in front of me the ball gets thrown He's not allowed to touch it But what what that means is that I've got to catch the ball after it goes like through him or past his hands Whatever and just that little bit of interference or a little bit of you know an obstacle in front of you really puts You off like crazily So, you know, I actually caught all of them. I caught all the balls. I just had faith I went for it even though this guy has his hand in front of it. I'm just like fuck it. I'll trust my gut I'll go for the ball and lo and behold. I caught it. So we ran through that a few times We also did one where both players are on this side if I'm catching the ball I'm on the outside He's on my inside, but he's just he's like a corner trying to try to just you know bug me He's just trying to hold on to me just trying to distract me so that it's harder for me to catch the ball Which basically means that as as the as the receiver you've just got to try and brush him off basically So it's just a bit of a distract a strip. It's just a bit of a distraction and That was fun and I caught the balls and it was all good. And then we did one where we had two lines of receivers here we had a cone here and a defender so Each receiver would take a turn we go one from this side one from this side We'd run up to the cone turn around catch the ball from the quarterback and then and then spin around and go again So if you ran from this side, you'd run up catch the ball and then spin around this way Or if you ran from this side, you'd run up turn around catch the ball and then and then keep going so it's sort of like a little curl route a route and Then you know trying to step that defender and then continue down the field. So After that we moved into some scrimmages well not scrimmages, but some some just you know snaps some plays so I Mean I know I know what a slant is I know what a fade is I know what a posters I know what a you know in in route and there were two curlers all that stuff So I said you know what line me up. Tell me where to go and we'll do it. So we come into the huddle There's you know, there's too many receivers So basically once you get tired you run a few snaps You just say sub the next guy goes in and everyone knows the players so they call a play they go sweet Everyone goes out to their mark They call it hot and go. I didn't know where to go. So basically someone was telling me every single time I probably had about I probably had about 10 15 snaps Wide up. I wasn't a slot receiver. I was a wide out on the left and on the right And I did a mixture of fade routes Which was basically just trying to beat my man beat my corner and then just go and look for the ball after about, you know 20 20 yards 25 yards. I did a couple of slants three steps then a 45 and I I actually I entered myself twice. Okay, so One time I did a fade a fade route. I got you know, I just did a little shimmy then just went turned around Obviously the quarterback was spying is his other his other receivers who he usually fired it off to but this time it was my ball So I turned around you fucking fired off like a 45-yard bomb and I tried to Try to adjust myself for my fuck. All right. Shit. Okay. Here's it. Here it is. It's coming. It's coming It's coming, you know and the thing is man that the way that that bull flies through the air if you haven't You know the ball we have a saying in rugby the ball always travels faster than the man So if you're spreading it out wide, you know, don't try and run with the ball try and beat someone Just pass it because it always that you know, it does Physics the ball travels faster than that and that's what happens with the ball, you know through the air so to To actually pace yourself and slow down enough just enough at the right time to then just catch it right on your chest I didn't do by any means so at the last minute I tried to reach for it and It jammed my thumb So I got a jammed thumb and of course, you know, I just ran it off I didn't really tell anyone but I mean the reality is is that a few hours later it was fucking throbbing So I iced it and it's it's actually come right. It's not too bad. It's a bit thick It's a bit thick, but uh, you know we'll live so that was one injury the second one was they told me to They told me to run a Slant, okay, but really what they what they should have told me to run was a post So the quarterback thought I was running a post which was I was on the left I was running up probably I don't know 10 steps and then going straight across to that far right post Whereas I was actually told to do a slant So I did three steps and then started going 45 degrees obviously the quarterback thought that I thought that that was a post he threw the through the throw and it was way over my head and That's because I was running the complete wrong line But at the last minute even though the ball was way over my head. I was like fuck it. I'm gonna try and catch it anyway So I tried to jump I jumped up like obviously with the the weight distribution was different the helmet the pads all that shit Anyway, I just went flying face first into the ground and I scraped my knee along the ground And I didn't realize until I got back that I fucking skinned it really badly So it was bleeding and shit, but you know, that's what football is all about So I got a jammed thumb. I got a scraped knee My ego was was intact. I gotta say my ego was intact at the end of it. I wasn't I Was confident I was confident I could do what I needed to do if I was told what to do properly and you know what lo and behold I think I did that So that was the training so I do want to just mention a couple of things that I did see I saw at the end. I didn't you know as I said, I didn't participate in any scrimmages But I did watch a couple of the the top team scrimmages offense first defense So I saw it like I think I mentioned this actually I saw when the running backs when but you know I saw I saw top running backs in Australia. I did I saw three of them. There's one. He's a He looks American, but he's got an Australian accent. He literally looks exactly like like Kareem Hunt I'm not gonna. I'm not I'm not even joking. He does. He looks like him He was rolling around the train like the he's rolling around the the changing room before going out to training and I was like Shit man He looks like he's in the NFL. No shit. Anyways, it's got out there. Lo and behold, of course. He's a running back So I saw him run through a few scrimmages, you know make the block As soon as he's done that he's off running his route Either that or taking your hand off, you know these fast feet I saw some really nice fast feet with with the ball still like this, you know running through that gap Getting past people not having pulled the ball down to the side actually still running it with like running with the ball like that Which is which is good good to see it's good to see the people can still move like that with the ball in two hands Which is pretty sick So I saw three awesome running backs the first one was Denzel that that's American looking fella The second guy was a white guy And you know, I hadn't even seen him run. I literally had not seen him run But I thought you know what I bet you he's a fucking running back and I bet you he's a gun I literally hadn't even seen him do anything. It was just intuition So I asked someone. I was like, what's that guys? Who's that guy number 85 and he goes. Yeah, that's that's whitey I can't remember what his name was but his nickname is whitey and he's played for Australia as a running back And I was like, ah Okay, I Thought so and then there was a third running back that they were switching in with And he was 17 and he's a junior, but he's playing with the men because in juniors. He would just absolutely carve up So that is one guy that obviously if he wanted would would be you know on track to To sort of take his career to America. I suppose So there was three running backs for me to watch and I got a whole lot out of it was fantastic I probably watched about I don't know 20 25 snaps and That was it so training was over I You know, I started talking and thinking about trying to Play on the weekend for the second team But the more I you know talks people the more I realized fuck. This is a pretty intricate game You know, even the second team the guys still know exactly what they're doing. I can't I can't play I can't do it. I don't want to do it to them. I don't want to do it to myself I can't have someone having to explain something to me every single snap, you know, it's not gonna work So I decided, you know, I'm just gonna take this training for what it was and and not try and play and not push for that So that's what we're doing Saturday, I am going to watch the 18 so that's tomorrow The warriors and I'm gonna see, you know, exactly how they play I'm gonna take my camera down I'm gonna try and video a few snaps. They've been going well, you know, I can't wait to see I can't wait to see these running backs Man, see what they can do with the ball So that is my goal for tomorrow. Sunday. We've got my assessment with pro kick Pro kick Australia and I've got to say man That is the one thing of this whole trip that I'm looking forward to the most that is That's the one meeting and the one thing that has the most Significance to this whole trip to myself right now. You know, the fact that I'm not playing on the weekend just means that this this meeting with this pro kick Australia is even more important and I could see myself being a kicker. I could I could see myself being a punter in the game of football Punting the ball on special teams and then looking being that last line of defense Waiting for that guy to get through so I can just fuck them up That's how I see it happening So tomorrow being Saturday, I'm gonna take the camera down to the field and we're gonna practice some kicks I've got my football with me. I'm gonna practice some drop kicks and some punts and You know, just just get the feel back I haven't kicked the ball for a few weeks and I'm going to this assessment It's like fuck, you know, I'd be doing myself an absolute disservice. I didn't practice even just a little bit So that is the plan for tomorrow And was there anything else? no No, there's not I've literally thought I've talked about absolutely everything I needed to and that my friends was my first ever experience with the proper American football gridiron training here in Melbourne, Australia and Who knows what it's the start of but it's not the start of My career because I won't be playing for these guys unless I move back to Melbourne for next year's season In which case I want to already be off doing something else man. I want to be in America by that point fingers crossed man Pray for me pray that my first kick at pro look guys I know I can kick the ball. I know I can if I get a sweet connection if I get a nice drop onto my foot I know that I can power it man. So just pray for me man pray that the first kick I do in front of these coaches It's a boomer. I need a fucking boomer my first kick That's what I need. That's all I need. I Make if I make a good connection that first kick I'll be sweet for the rest of the time But to put myself in the best position for that to happen I need to go and practice on the Saturday So that's what we're doing Please guys if you want to support if you like this video if you want to support me and the channel Please press like if you want to subscribe. That's even better We're on a ride now. We're on a roll. We're on a ride somewhere somehow We'll get there so come along I'll see you in the next one