 Welcome back to the School of Castellanx TV, it's Tim and Jaco and now they're setting this month's graduates. It's a little bit different, isn't it, to the news desk. Timbo, tell them why we are in the sun riding on this bad boy. Well we decided that we'd better go on a couple's retreat because the news centre was getting a little bit heated. It was, wasn't it? We came out to my ex, Jim Marbay, and we actually invited a load of other people to come with us. So we've had an amazing weekend workshop with a group of guys and girls absolutely smashing it in the sunshine. We've been out on a world famous obstacle course. We've been in Ninja Alley and it's been absolutely legendary. Jetski. Yeah. We went Jetski paddle boarding and all the calisthenic stuff as well. And actually, next, if you want to come next year in May 2020, we are going on another trip and the details for that are available in the description below. And you can book your place for that on the website, but do be quick because last year the trip we were on now was sold out in, I think, less than a week. So you need to be quick if you want to get on it. Yeah, it's a great experience. Yeah. And Tim, I do like your new vest you seem to have on. Yes, these are the new 2019 Scala Calisthenic Vest Edition with a little bit of this, the reminder of redefining possible. These are available in the shop if you want to get yourself a little bit of Scala Calisthenic Stash. I'm going to say that I'm very happy rocking it how well these came out. All right, less enough of us. I've just had it in my ear that the boys in the studio, the analysis studio of the graduates are ready. Yes, they are ready. So over to Tim and Jaco for this month's graduates. Cheers for that, boys. Nice to see you having a good time in Marbella. I mean, the closest we're getting to Beach is Jaco's photo. Is it a photo or a painting? Well, that, yeah, it's a beach behind here. Beautiful. Looks like it. Have a cocktail on me. Yeah, don't because you're supposed to be working. Anyway, Jaco. What have you got in store for us this month on a graduates role? We have the May graduates. There may be some awesome people doing some awesome things. No, there is. And we've got a, yeah, there's actually the first one that's going to kick off at the beach as well. Probably we could do that. Shall we go? Yeah. We talk about Scala Calisthenics. You can train anywhere. You know, it allows you to be with the family. This embraces, I think, everything that is cool about what we try to do with the Scala Calisthenics. Okay. I'm just going to make those a little bit bigger so you can see us. Right. Ready? Yeah. Hit it. Oh, yeah. Can't support. This is why I love it. I know this pain with Jaco. I'm trying to train Jaco. Get out of the way. Oh, he's just trying to get a graduation video. Left his shoes on, which is confident. Oh, he's ready. Yes. Amazing. And I think wife, I'm assuming they're married, is a partner, is a lot more impressed than the kids. Kids can get less. No, kids are just like, oh, come on, Dad. Get out of the way. On a climb. And a human flag is of no mean feet and very nicely polished. And they had a lot of things to deal with there, including children getting in the way. Yeah. Onward. Well done, Aaron. Love that one, mate. Well done. Nosebleed. Yeah. So Bucky, he's done a couple of the Instagram lives and he's just been, he'd been working on his circle, you know, and how blended. Holding, just go back here. Holding, like, so this, that middle section being of that. So frog to handstand this, this being that, that's middle transition phase. I'm just getting good and confident there. And it was, you know, it wasn't long ago that it was, that was completely impossible for him. And so the, like Tim says, that alignment, how long he may hold that, if that becomes a stable position, just like your frog stand, you work between the position between the two, plenty of all handstand work, you are laughing. Yeah. That is such, if you can get strong in that position, you've got, you've got so much more capacity to have some fun because you just, yeah, you've got always got some go-to to anchors in there to get pushing. I like that. It's really nice, isn't it? And he's, Bucky, he's nosebleed on Instagram. He's done a few of the Instagram lives with us. So I would appreciate it. Expert coaching, largely. Well done. Right. Next one up, I saw a little bit of a glimpse of who this one might be. We'll just enjoy it. Oh, then the grunting. I know, the effort noises were there. Good grunting. Now Jenny. Jenny came to Marbella in September last year. 2019. Absolute legend and came, and what I was so trough about with Jenny is she literally came and she's like, I'm just here to learn. Like I haven't really done a lot. I'm trying to get back into my training. And this was something that she's been working on for a while. And the, the, the sense of achievement and what it, it's like, this is all about her expression at the end. Which I remember reading this and she's like, I've been working on this for ages. Let's have a look. The bar pullover. So proud. Yeah. And that's what it's about. Learning to move in a new way, having fun whilst doing it. And then what, what other things is she going to go on and do now? Because she's ticked off one of those little things in the box. So it's not always about the full final thing. It's, it's sometimes it's about with those little wins along the way. And actually who doesn't want to do a bar pullover. And Jenny made that look pretty easy. But that's for another video of her trying some reps and she could see how frustrated she was, get it. But again, like confidence to go and do some other stuff and to play around with that. I mean, you've got that in the lock of your skin. The cat's going to start to get a little bit easier. It's all just like building towards something. So massive congrats on that, Jenny. These wins are super significant. And then it just goes onwards to the next little challenge you set yourself. Good job. Claire Clark, actually just done an analysis on this on that webinar, haven't we? And for our virtual classroom, we did a video analysis session today. So we, we actually be able to give Claire a bit of breakdown and technique. But this is looking nice. So super high frog stand position. And it's the high, the strength to maintain that high position when she takes those knees off, no dropping up. And then the last bit is just a little bit more slowly to just push out into that shape. So she's been doing some, she's been doing some work on that and getting straighter through in that arm position. But this is the one of those steps along the way of going like, I actually got both knees off. I rotated, I got my hips stacked into the showers and I'm pressing out into that full handstand and it's just polishing off that final little bit of straightening up through there and finally getting that full graduation in the locker. And she's making that look really easy. She pushes up this little bit here where it's almost that last little connection you've got to push with that shoulder to get vertical. You got to bring the torso line up to get a nice straight body position, but you can't go too far. So it has to be done with some real like precision. So that's just a little bit more time on learning where too much is and just doing that extra bit of confidence with that strength. That's a great position to start from. And actually just a little tip because we get a lot of questions about sometimes around, do I need to straighten my arms before straightening the legs? And the reality is you can, it's up to you, you can do what you want. But in terms of maintaining that bit of being easy to maintain a balance, if we keep the legs in closer in that tuck position, the balance is much easier because you haven't got to manage those legs all the way up here. So we bring them down. If we can straighten the arms out at that position and get them locked out, then it's less, there's a lot of strength going on to hold that position because we're not actually locking those joints out. So if we do, and then straighten the legs last, you're going to have more success in the long term, but in the short term, it's going to be a little bit more harder and more frustrating. But that makes the journey all the more enriching when you finally do, redefine your impossible. Well said. I like that enriching. Steven Morton, online client. Come on, Steven. He's been working with Seth, who's a judge about online. Easy, float it. Boom, nailed it. All day. All literally. He's going for the world record. One minute and six seconds is the world record. Look at that. I don't know you're moving the shoulder. Rock solid. I was like, he's holding his legs. Unbelievable. That's really good. That's longer than mine. The only thing that beats that is he's got one of the scorecards next rigs and when he does it on that, that's anything. So online coaching, that's what you get. Yeah. That's what you're saying. He's been, he's done, I think, two of the full programs all the way through, getting one-on-one feedback with Seth, our online coach. And yeah, the results, I think, speak for themselves. Marvelous work there. Is it just the strength to go to hold that position for that long without moving? It's some good work there. Right. Reads the jack from the virtual classroom. This was his first kick-up to holding his handstand. And as I always say, a second upside down, the first time you're holding a handstand feels like a lifetime. So again, you can talk about how straight we are, but the thing about being able to get that first bit of time upside down a significant amount of time like it was there, not just like one or two seconds. And actually being able to make some corrections and when it just got too much and too far over then, I wasn't able to bring it back. But is there for time? And from that, you've got so much confidence to go on for the rest of things. If you want to do a frog to handstand, you better be able to hold that handstand at the end. So it's important to be able to have that in the locker. Yeah, I think it's just a continual process then of just tidying things up. That's just how your handstand goes. It's, you've got to get onto that point where you can balance the start off. Yeah, no one's first ever handstand is perfect. And what is perfect anyway? Let's save that for another day. Trevor Sexton came on the Tough Mudder event with us just recently. Trevor's been in Riddles at the School of Casting since the beginning. Literally day one. Great to hang out with him at the Tough Mudder very recently. And this has actually been one. I know I can see what he's been doing behind him. I'm thinking it's a human black handstand. And he's been working on this for some time as well. So this is going to be a victory. So this is the first time he'd managed to get both legs off in his frog stand, which for some people, he takes one off and then brings it a bit. Like the first time even you take one leg off, it literally, you're in the frog stand and you're like, I've seen Tim take his knees off. Like why do mine feel like they're glued to, and I think a lot of people then feel like there's, the reason it is, is because there's something around their hips and their core that's not strong enough to lift them off, rather than actually the shoulders not being strong enough, the brain knowing they're not strong enough and just going, well, I'm not going to give you that option because we're just going to fall down. The interesting thing is everyone is, well, I say everybody, the majority of people are strong enough in this portion of their body to be able to lift their lower body weight. You could lie on the floor in a number of different positions, you could do that. It's not that you're lacking particularly strength here, it's that you're lacking the neural connection and the strength to be able to do that whilst you're in this position. So it's a combination of things and just goes to highlight the way that the body works as a complete system. It knows it's unstable here, taking those knees off, the brain is going to go, why would you want to do that? But if you've got the strength there, you then start to be able to go, do you know what? Let you play. Let you play, yeah. Great work Trevor, that's looking good mate and onwards it was from there. Yeah, you can see them starting to go up and then it's just a case of getting into that inverted chair position from that. And then balancing that shape because you see the body weight is behind and stuff all starts again to put, just getting those off is a massive way and it just shows you've done some decent work on your strength development. Yeah. Good job mate. Sat well though. Yeah, it's a flagship. Lowering it, I don't have a lot of flagships this month. Nice. He's got, we've got a couple of options. A couple of options the way he likes to get into these, which is nice. So that was lowering down and then this to be able to come in and out and pull up. Let's have a quick look at that bit again. This is where people have got so much of opportunity to nail the human flag. He's getting this bit here, you're going to watch him as you come through. Watch that bottom shoulder. Yeah. He just moves it into a good position and locks it in and then that's creating a stable foundation from that bottom arm push. Here he goes there, pump and it's locked in there. Push away. And there you get it up. Nice. If you can get into some tuck positions, you're almost there, but like pulling up into that his shoulder, some of that strength in that bottom arm shoulder is going to, it's going to pay you in good stead for lots of stuff that you're going to do because you've got to, you've got to have that like rear delt like locked on and he's got to be firing white to be able to even like dang his head in that shape let alone fully push out. Jackie, you're doing well this month. I'm enjoying the variety. There is a huge variety. We've got on a show today. Mason Martinez. It's a muscle up. He's in the virtual classroom and he is a bossing tidy. Them out reps tops off obviously. Look at that. Crack him. I'm going to that's good. There's a couple of things on that. Here, look at the smile on his face. One thing I wanted to just say is a really nice example of like maintaining straight body line, getting all the way down to full extension of the elbow and into full flexion of the shoulder and then actually being out and allowing himself to then spring out of that bottom position. Then also as he's coming down you see as he gets tighter he needs more and more and more of that shoulder mobility there at the top but to actually get that he's actually got really good his range to get into that transition is great and he's got good mobility of the shoulder and he's a super happy chapter for that and rightly it should be. Yeah, there's looking great. Right. I've been to Albuquerra, Tim. Have you? And that is what the sky is like the entire time. I didn't see a cloud for two weeks. Is it as good as Marbella? Well, I was camping and we had a lot of we had an ants problem. Imagine camping for two weeks and scorching hot. With ants. With ants. And my wife making us do like some sort of warm weather running, training. That might be by Friday afternoon that that is preferable to two hours with Mike. Yeah, it's the same thing we were running around that. I'm ready for the assault course anyway, Stephanie Lee. What a muscle up. Again, happy chapter. We'll bust out some dips in the top. Just dips in front of top job. More muscle ups. Yeah. So this chap is from South rugby player from South Africa. And he is making those look easy. You can talk about your faux pas position. I want to do that. Watch one. It's like it was interesting of rugby player in South Africa and how calisthenics using calisthenics as part of a training program for developing here upper body power. Like does he need to be able to do a muscle up for him to be good at rugby? Well, not necessarily, but is it giving him an outcome to train for that's developing his upper body power at the same time making sure that he's got good shoulder range of motion and good body control? Well, yeah. And do we want good shoulder range of motion body control in a sport? That will be a course we do. So I'm not going to add anything about that. No, fine. Just fine. Fine. Just a little bit of space between the rings or between the bar makes it more akin to a ring muscle up because you've got some space to move into. But he's repping those for fun. It's still having to work hard and the shoulders are looking good in terms of that rotation position. Sees a pop. So just getting the elbow stacked on top of the wrist to be able to provide a stable foundation for the dip. Like it. That is our graduates for the whole of May. Excellent. I've been, as I said, I've enjoyed the variety. Yeah. I enjoyed the competency. And that people, what I enjoy the most is actually people take the effort to send us their examples of what they've been working on. Yeah. They're really finding their impossible because it does make us feel very warm and fuzzy to see people out there absolutely smashing it. And sometimes way better than what we're doing. Well, and we know that like seeing those winds along the way and we know that when you share that and we're just like a medium for you to be able to share that through that that is going to, I know that that's going to inspire not just like one person but potentially hundreds or maybe even thousands of people that are working on, they might have been working on one of those things that you were getting or they're stuck on one of those things that was just done where there was a bar pullover where there's a full muscle of more where they were just taking the knees off in the frog stand. And actually that's just going to spur them on and give them some hope that, okay, it feels pretty difficult at the moment, but I've seen that person do it and I know that if they can redefine their impossible, so can I. So keep sending them in. And I think the one of the things that I'm enjoying the most more recently, maybe I don't know if it's a season, but whether it's going to be ongoing. I like the, I'm almost enjoying the little winds along the way rather than like the full wave. Because I think that you see more you see more of the vulnerability. I think in halfway there. Yeah, it is, but I'm waiting and sometimes I'm like that I'm going to wait until I can do it properly before I start put some stuff out and share it. But there's those pictures on the way that give you, they're the ones that give you hope. Yeah. And give you actually that you know they are important. Because a big, so trying to get a perfect handstand for graduation is going to be a really long process. I don't think we need to wait. Don't wait ten years to send the video working on mine and it's not perfect, but especially on some days it's terrible. But through the thought, but we enjoy the little winds. I don't feel like you're going to send us a graduation video that has to be the perfect thing. Send it in. If you're happy with it, we're happy with it. We'll share it and encourage others. And that impossible might just be one of the steps along the way. And who is there to say that actually all you want to do is take one knee off the frog stand and that's it, you're retired. Yeah. And that's cool if that is. That's what my wife is, it's just on that. Corrin says literally she came in from the gym of the week and taken one knee off. Absolutely, it was it. She moved, it moved. And even if that your goal is literally like one of those things what will happen is as soon as you get to that, well actually now I did think two was impossible but I'm going to go for that and once you do that then you're going to go I'm going to do the fourth thing too. That's what it's all about. Really finding impossible. Right guys, thank you for stopping by. That is signing off from the graduation studio for today. We'll see you next month. Until next month.