 We haven't got a fancy intro this week, but that is generally how I start every video. This is August graduates. Welcome back to the School of Cassettes. We'd like to showcase and feature the incredible achievements of our students across the world and Jaco very well, very beautifully. People have been sending them in and we get excited and we put them in a little folder and then we upload them and then hopefully some of these, Tim hasn't actually seen. Maybe, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see. Of my, I'm trying to remember, I did this about a week ago, that there's a couple of beauties in there littered with virtual classroom graduates, by the way, people making serious gains inside the virtual classroom. There you go, Tim, look, we're up, up in the corner, on our first graduate as a member of the virtual classroom. Can I press play? Let's watch. This guy, Ruben, has been getting some gains in recently. Keep seeing it. Check out the, just to note, the painting clothes. Yep. I don't think this was even a train station, this was a, I've just been painting all day. Just see what's happening. See what's cooking. Frogs, the control, he is gone, so slow, trusted the process and not rushed any part of his training, little flash of the abs, inevitable when you don't talk your t-shirt in the handstand. Is it from a Ruben? Yep. Very good one. Look at that. Well, he's going to be doing handstands to celebrate his drumming. Key one. Can I make a quick coaching point? Yeah. Absolutely. This bit here, when he just, you can see me lifting these off, this is a bit that so many people struggle with, is when you have to keep that shoulder and the elbow locked, well, not locked up, but you just don't want to see a hips drop, so he doesn't see his elbows bend as he pulls through. It takes an arm and stays high. That is the crux to this movement. There's literally nothing other than just that hip rotation, nothing else is moving. Yeah. He's solid. Started super high in his frog stand, which has been a help. He's looking at corrections as he goes. I'll take this book, this one, Jaco. Yeah. He's gone, but then I can't emphasize enough that he's, he's not, he's took a, he's took his time over and he's not rushed that process at all. Let's enjoy this bit again. Get it there. Good lad. Oh, I remember seeing this one. I was excited when this one came through. Obviously. I haven't seen this one. Yeah, I've seen this one. This is Claire. Nice little kick. Okay, cropped. Look at it. Sticks it. Look at the fingers. And this, I was like as she paused it. All day. On a carpet. All day. I mean, obviously, all day. It's not one of the tools to lock up. But if you had a particularly soft carpet, that would make balance more difficult. We had a shag pile, for example. That would be more difficult. Difficult to tell from the, the video whether. Do you know what that's called, Jaco? What type of science is an appropriately enriched environment. I was going to talk to you about the, the, the fabric of the, the weave of the. Next level. Well, potentially. But it's, yeah. On this itself. She backs. You need this one. Backs up. I thought her standard handstand starts to now get a little bit of a flare going and listen out for the commentary. Get, get the volume. Can I just ask one question? Is that a, a tan colored yoga mat or is she just been to as we've got a cardboard box to practice on? I didn't have to ask you. Sure. Which is what that is. No. Nailed it way. Sticks it. Hello. Love that. Seal of approval from your mate. You don't need any more. She knew it was good before she came down, but it just hammered it home. You need a pro bro. Don't you? Yeah. The female version of a pro bro is, I think it's a pro bro. Yes. Yeah. Let us know who your friend was as well. Now this one I saw a while back. Matt. Yoga teacher. Yeah. Virtual classroom. Make sure there. The teachers are nailing their back lever. Absolutely. Loving the door frame set up, getting it done. Drop starts high. Feet on the ceiling. Level out. Level out. Chest on mat. Bingo. Smashed it. Lovely line. Yeah. Lovely straight line. He was pleased with that one. Control on the way down. Really well. Had some strength in. Excellent work. Yeah. Proud of that one. So there's some full graduation. Some frogs handstand, a handstand, a back lever. And a step along the, along the journey. Dr. Peewee who has done a frog to handstand, but she's working on a straight arm press and beautifully using a little red band. We should know that's the Instagram name. Madeleine. Yeah. Dr. Peewee. We just know her as Dr. Peewee. Everyone knows her as Dr. Peewee. She's a beast. Absolute machine when she come. Yeah. I like this one. Using the arms locked out. Using the band for a little bit of feedback as to where the vertical is. It's a nice vertical trunk. And then really building the strength, using that band to help with that eccentric arm still staying straight. I mean, arguably with that one, she's making it like harder than it necessarily needs to be because she's actually. Basically. Exactly. So you think what's, she's going to get a press to handstand that, but she's probably going to get some carry over to it. Like you think of your punch training, you did so much of getting up into your handstand like that. Controlling on the way down. I put out a post actually this last week where I've been doing loads of like, just when doing my frog, normal frogs handstands and maybe trying to do his handstand push ups, but forgetting about that. I've not just, just not done it in ages. Coming down from a, from your frogs handstand coming back down to a frog and just building some of that eccentric strength and control. You've got a full, rather than just doing effectively half a rep, actually doing the full thing. That's what I was going to say. Cause you've got to head the long way in front of shoulders there. So she's actually starting off with like this, this line angle here. It's fair way off. And then particularly notice it on the eccentric. So that's nice little control balance position. But coming back down here, you could actually allow yourself to bend your knees back around just like, let the spine kind of flex into it. Cause you're lowering down and as you go into that bottom position with the legs out or the back staying relatively sort of flat. It's putting quite a lot of, it's a hard, but when we said that, practice it like that. You're going to build way more strength and you can control it like Madeleine can. And you're going to get carried over. So yeah, more than one way to skin a cat. He's at the right. More than one way to frog to handstand. You're a banana. I don't know. Animal rights. We'll be on about skinny cats again. But a step along a step along the journey and a good use of the assistance tool. It's one of the progressions. Now there. Scotty to Hotty. Yeah. Not his full name. And not actually the real Scotty to Hotty. Not from the 90s. Yeah. The grandmaster sex. What is for as a friend from down under. It's like a flag. Boom. That was that. I'm not claiming those. Educator edits girls. But then what I love is that readjustment back up. So go back and play that again. You see the gets out there before after the. Just losing the second just here. Cranks that hit back on. Yeah. Drops down and that to pull back up. Yeah. Building that strength in that top sling to keep that hip connected. To the shows. Yeah. Yeah. To get that hit back up. You just got a cranking hard from the shoulder. And that allows you to shorten that chain. Is it. It's you don't see many a finer flag in terms of like how straight that position was. Good work, Scotty. Now then. Mr. Oli Dyer. This is a local. So Oli has literally been doing. Started his calisthenics journey. Virtually the same time he did. Different things along the way. And some fitness competitions and also had a fairly bad. Back injury. So this is a massive. Yeah. And he's had a wrist and he's had a number of injuries. Strong. Oli. Had to work quite hard for the controlling one to five hands down push ups. That's what he told me at the beginning. Of the. The tune in the garden. Three. Four. Big arms. Yeah. You've got to be happy. Got to have that. And then just max it going. Going deep into those. There's a lot of people have been like. Building from there. And if a lot of people like frog stand feels impossible, but once you've done that and then you try and do a frog stand. And once you can do a frog stand, the same reason you started. So do a handstand. The first race was. I want to just do a handstand. I want to do a handstand push ups because that we just seen there. They're better. So Christopher Saunders. Virtual classroom member. Strong guy. Also seriously strong went from sort of power lifting weightlifting bodybuilding into calisthenics. A couple of years ago. Look at the height. A problem. Keeping the hips up. That's the biggest thing. You can keep your hips high and that handsome push up. You're going to be all right because you can see that line. Like sometimes you'll find you just go on this diagonal to make it a little bit easier, but he's staying super straight there. And then just really starts that last rep. If you just see that. Squeezing them out. It was dropped a little bit. Pushes backwards. But yeah. Absolutely. That's your that last from the level effort. The last rep does show you as soon as all the other reps hips, as you said, stayed high and then just that last one push back. As soon as they go backwards. And you know you're coming down, but you've already if you Chris, you've already just bashed out for it for handsome push ups. So you were already a badass. And hence the importance of need of that stability and strength and overhead positions for your hands. Just larger hands and bands, but also if you have some push ups, if you can keep that shoulder in a full flexion position or as much it needs to be able to you're not going to you then get that slight change in body angle. So unbelievable work from the graduates. It's a very high standard this month. The people and so Chris, they're a virtual classroom member. And that's been from from the beginning actually and been for us for a while. And people that are. They're redefining their impossible than they redefine their impossible again because one impossible turns into another turns into another. So whether you're starting out with your first ever frog stand, whether you're somewhere along the way using one, the progressions are a band or whether you're doing a full on a handstand push ups or whatever else that is that you're doing. We are one celebrating and applauding you and two here to help you along the way. And just want to celebrate that with you all. So unbelievable work guys. If you want to feature on the next month's graduates, all you've got to do is send us your videos. You can send them to reception at schoolofcalisthenics.com or you can tag us on them on social media platform. Yeah. Tag us in social or send them in direct messages. However you want to get to all of us and we will feature a selection. And remember the rules. It don't have to be perfect. You get, you choose how you want to move. So if it's a movement that you've been working on and you're proud of it, share it with us because it is inspirational and motivational to everybody else who's watching. It's not just about making Jack and I feel good that you can do some stuff. We actually want to share that and inspire the whole community to continue to push forward and redefine our impossible. I'm looking forward to when we get to be on it again. Yeah. I've actually got one on the go. My straddle from the floor. That will be a nice one. I currently haven't found out that I have the weakest hip flexes. I think Jack has got better hip flex strength than me at the moment. How far off the floor are you getting? Oh, not. Okay. I can pancake and that's step one. I'm on picking the process, but for me to do that, it feels pretty impossible at the moment, but I know that it's not. I've got to do some work, but I'm going to feature myself and then that will be a good commentary. Yeah. Until next time. Class dismissed.