 I can see you there, yeah that's me, it's me talking, it's Jacob and we're here literally on top of the world, or on top of central Australia anyway, let me give you guys a quick look around, go to the left here, give a bit of height, so these are the Mactanel Rangers and they go for miles and miles and miles stretching across the Simpsons desert, I believe, here in central Australia and those buildings you can see in the background is Alice Springs, that's where I live, that's probably about 10 kilometers away and as you guys can see there ain't much else but it's it's definitely beautiful around here, every time I come up here I feel inspired in some way or another and yeah the Rangers go off that way too so let's bring her down a little bit so I thought guys it was time to not only get the drone out but to give you guys a current update so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna sit down here and send this backwards a little bit and I'm gonna talk to you guys from here, so actually you know what, no, we'll come in a little bit, we'll come in a good bit so guys how are we? I hope you're all traveling well, I certainly am, it's been hang on let me get my drink, it's been about a month, no it's probably been about three and a half weeks since I got back from New Zealand so clearly as you guys can tell my vlogs actually quite old at the moment I just went ham on the the footage taking in those first few weeks but you know what I'm trying to do guys bear with me you know bear with me because I'm trying to build a base of videos you know what I mean like build a library so that when people do come to my channel there is a good amount of videos with quality content but you know I understand if you guys are getting sick of the vlogs I mean what I've actually decided to do guys you guys are the first to hear of this I have chosen a show that I'm gonna do in the INBA it's 16 weeks away as of yes well as a couple days ago so we've got 16 weeks now it's probably lucky that I didn't do up-to-date vlogs because you guys would have seen me ever since I got back to New Zealand it's been a struggle man it's been a real struggle to choose what I want to do I convinced myself I didn't need to compete so I started bulking then I thought no I'm gonna compete so I started cutting and I pretty much had one week of bulking one week of cutting and another week of bulking which is absolutely stupid as you guys know so as of today I've made a decision tonight I'm actually gonna go home into the competition online I'm gonna go to icompeak.com.au and enter the Southern South Australia state titles September 11th 2016 down in Adelaide so I'm really excited for that 16 weeks gives me a lot of time to prepare and yeah really excited so as well as that I have decided to put the vlogging camera down for the next four weeks and just really really get stuck into this prep what I'm gonna do is pick the camera back up again it's week number 12 12 weeks out and then I'm gonna do a full series up to the stage and this time guys this time I'm not mucking around I really you know I've said it before and I'll say it again I didn't deserve to get up there on stage where I did the level of competition was just so high that you know I I was completely soft on stage and I won't do that again so I will be dialing it in I will be a moody bastard but I've said it before in another video and I most probably say it again I love this quote from the great man Greg Plitt rest in peace he said never give up on something you can't go a day without thinking about and ever since I got back from New Zealand I haven't stopped thinking about competing I can't get out of my head I need some closure on the matter if I had to put my 110% into my last two shows and I knew that I did and I still didn't come away with a good result then I think I'd have closure on the matter but because I never really dialed it in I really I need to do it again so the plan is obviously 16 weeks out I'm gonna go quiet on the vlogs but still release these ones that I've shot before so we've got all the footage that I took from New Zealand we've got my sister's birthday coming up and you know some some footage of when I got back to to Alice Springs as well so I hope you guys are enjoying them clearly you know some still only get 30 40 50 views and it's a lot of work editing these these bloody things but like I said at the start I am trying to build a vault of sorts of videos so that in the future when I am in great shape and when I do have eye-catching thumbnails and you know when I do start getting shout-outs and might get sponsored who knows that's another story for another day by the way but what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put the vlogging camera down really really grind it out for these next four weeks pick it up pick it up again and in four weeks time and I'm 12 weeks out and and take you guys to the stage so in the meantime I'm gonna keep releasing the vlogs that I've taken still quite a bit of content to come so that is what I'm gonna release over the next four weeks while I'm not taking any videos and as well as that any any ideas that come into my head or any questions that you guys have hit me up and I'll make videos discussing them so you guys might have seen recently I put up a couple of rugby videos I've got at least a couple more of those to come so look out for those I really enjoyed making those apologies for the audio I know it's shocking at that point I thought it was fine but the cover little cover had come off my microphone and I've lost it so that might expect at the moment I'm actually using this Samsung headphones microphone so I'm hoping that the audio is good enough but you'll get the drift anyway even if it's not so yeah man if I did a physique update up here this would be a bit of a bit of an epic one maybe I will do that should I hit a few poses 16 makes out pissing, sickening, revolting, insulting. Order 66. Good night. Well guys I just wanted to to update you on how things are going here with me guys the vlogs are gonna continue coming they are old footage but I do think there's some funny bits and some cool bits in there so I hope you guys like them. For all you guys who have supported me from the start thank you very much. It's beeping at me now telling me the battery is low so I better I better cut it off now. Yeah we'll bring her in, we'll bring her in, whoops, oh fuck my feet. Jesus that's bright. Come on yeah so as I said 16 weeks out update I had to tell you guys I'm excited every time I come up here I get really really inspired and this is gonna be a cardio session of mine that I'm gonna hit at least two or three times a week you know I was enjoying cardio too much too to bulk never give up on something you can't go a day without thinking about I can't go a day without thinking about competing again and making up my shitty showing last time it's gonna be in a natural bodybuilding competition this time I'm excited I feel like I can do well let's do it guys let's do it. Catch you later.