virtual workshop tour Landis River Woodcraft in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A woodworker by the name of Rich Reagan is going to join us. Now Rich makes some beautiful beautiful keepsake boxes and he has an Etsy store and he's just a very very talented. I may be buying one of those puppies here pretty soon. So this is another one of our virtual tours. As you know we did one recently with James Finger. Fixed fingers out of Sydney, Australia. We've done a few others as well particularly one with Mike Newett and people seem to like these so I guess I'll continue trying to do them for a while. So yeah what we're going to do now is switch using a program called Ecamm Live which I'm an affiliate for if you happen to see the link at the very bottom and if you want to do some live streaming or whatever Ecamm Live if you would buy it through my link that'd be very appreciated. So without further ado let's switch virtually to Lancaster Pennsylvania and bring on Rich Reagan of Landis River Woodcraft. Hello Rich out there in Pennsylvania nice to see you. Nice to see you Paul as always. I told you guys all about Rich in the intro so we'll let him just kind of take the floor here and do what he wants to do. Rich it's all yours. I'm glad to visit with you all and I've enjoyed the small workshop guy for well over a year now and he's a very innovative guy and he's not the old cootie thinks he is. I envy him even though I'm 72. I'm gonna go ahead and switch the camera here so I have a here in Pennsylvania have what's called a daylight basement and it's the lower level of my house which is a ranch style house and I have a little man cave it has a full bathroom where we have guests and we also have a small bedroom down here and this is the entrance the outside which is why we call it a daylight basement. I come downstairs from our upper floor or come in the back door if I'm bringing in products and I enter my shop here in this room. So that little slanted line you see is the stairway going down to upstairs so once in a while I forget myself and hit my head but it's not too bad. So my shop is 18 and a half by 13 and a half which equates to a 250 square feet. So you're 25 percent larger than I am. Oh okay and everything I have is on wheels and you can see there to the right is my jointer which is a York craft joiner it looks like every other joiner in the world it just says something different. I got my plaitort on the left side and as we walk in you can see my have a rack it's a Bora lumber rack. I think I saw that from a guy on YouTube have a Delta dust extractor which works quite well. I use that primarily for my table saw and also for my router on the edge of the table saw. And of course like everybody else my table saw is the center of my shop it's a Jet Super saw I bought it about 12 years ago so it the reason they call it a Super saw is it has a joiner I'm sorry a router table built in and it used to have a setting table there on the right hand side but I got that off because it really wasn't functional and they don't make it anymore anyway. And then I have my outfit table which is a table that I built that table and one of the first YouTube videos I saw a couple years ago was from April Wilkerson and she has this table where just goes up and down I have it down most of the time and it also serves as another work table I do a lot of glue up on that so then we just continue around I don't have a lot on my walls because it's such a limited space but like you Paul I'm a big micro jig fan so I have my micro jig stuff there and of course I use the MJ splitter on my table saw and one of the things I haven't done yet is I haven't built a sled but this little device which I found on Amazon I find very very effective it does what I need to have it do only thing it doesn't have which is why I need to build a table saw is if I have an extra wide board that I'm cross cutting it I run out of the t-slot so that'll be one of my next projects. Yeah even with a sled we tend to run our room for really wide ones and a lot of times the sled won't handle a wide one anyway so you got to go to the miter gauge like we've got anyway so all right yeah you're right so the jet I'm very happy with it's a one and a half horsepower and I can cut through two three inch solid wood and I use mostly I use walnut mahogany and maple right now mahogany's are is the wood that is selling the best and oh just a chop saw like everybody else and then of course I have my pocket screw jig I use that quite a bit I think that's a great tool and then some of my micro jib clamps my box templates you can see they're up against the wall and here's something that if you woodworkers haven't gotten it yet it's the dust deputy and so I don't have a central dust collection system I use a little shop vac and I got so tired of emptying that thing I got online and I saw a guy on YouTube oh yo 56 and he had this a dust deputy and he built a plywood case for it and I put that on and I'll tell you what this is one of the best best addictions to my shop I hardly ever well first of all nothing gets into my little shop vac and this thing is much easier to wheel around and I use it for my chop saw and then I also use it for my six inch Rycon belt that belts and there is a real workhorse and the kind of box make can tear this is a walnut dovetail keepsake box look at this and this was a this is this was a custom build for one of my customers and she wanted it's a memorial box for one of her associates that's retiring just served on the ends so I put that in there but anyway I I do a lot of dovetail work fact I do a great deal of dovetail work and I use the Keller system I don't know if you've ever seen the Keller system dovetail jig system I have bought that about 10 12 years ago and I'll tell you it just makes dovetailing perfect and I'll zoom in here you can see that these dovetails are perfect and the amount of boxes that I make annually I just don't have time to hand cut them but I'll tell you what I don't believe anybody could look at my dovetails and see that they're not hand-cut so I want to know that you are making a lot of these beautiful boxes and you have an Etsy store which is called Landis River Woodcraft I've got it up on the screen there and so that's primarily a lot of what you're doing and and how has Etsy worked out for you well I tell you how I got on Etsy I'm semi retired 72 years old I I worked at New Holland church furniture in New Holland Pennsylvania for 28 years as the marketing director and manager and of course we sell church furniture all over the United States and Canada the Caribbean South America and so forth and that's where a lot of the sawdust got in my blood actually got in my blood when I was a kid but I really built my shop in 2005 when I worked at New Holland and then I retired last at the end of December of 2020 and I teach at two different Bible colleges locally I'm an adjunct professor and I was building these box in my neighbor across the street he said Rich you ought to put those boxes on Etsy and I said what's that so I got on Etsy with my first box in June of 2020 I sold my first one in July into Norway actually and I've now shipped them everywhere it was a learning curve tell you if you have any shop hobby that you would like to sell it's handmade I can't say enough good about Etsy they take care of everything you take care of sales tax shipping it doesn't cost you anything until you sell something and you can go on the Etsy site and find out what that is so yes Paul Etsy has been a very good source of part-time income for me yeah so for people to know the Etsy is just your entire platform and I have an Etsy store as well and and I've mine's even more interesting and I don't need to build anything I'm selling I'm selling digital plans and so somebody just goes in there and orders them there for my what I call my sauce scallions and my pop-up workbench and I do I do nothing other than notice that I got a deposit into my bank account so there your credit card processing firm I'm just telling people that they handle the credit card processing and and I think they take a very reasonable fee and so it's a way that if you've got something that you can produce kind of a rapidly and have good value for it then take a look at the Etsy it's easier than you might think to set up an Etsy store it's really not that complicated and it's pretty cool and there's lots of people on those boxes would take me forever if I was truly hand-cutting those dovetails so that jig or that device that you've used is the secret right yep it's called the Keller system and you can find it online at killer dovetail.com invented by David Miller a bunch of years ago and it makes you look like a professional dovetail cutter after you get through the learning curve which is not very difficult and you just use a router they they provide the two dovetail jigs and they get he provides you with a it's a it's a dovetail bit but it's his own invention and he also has a bit for the tail the the tails which is also his own invention and it's a it's a great system for double making and you know I I know there's a lot of people out there that make hand-cut dovetails and I don't I think that's great but when you make two or three or four of these boxes a week 52 weeks out of the year you just don't have time to do it yeah no no way all right we'll put a link to that product or jig or dovetail cutter in the description if I can remember and I like those little things I see there they're called match fit dovetail clamps I've got about eight I've got about eight or nine different jigs in my shop that use those and I'm going to do a video in the near future demonstrating all eight or nine of those jigs so those are those are for me they're about $42 a pair so they're not inexpensive obviously you only need three or four if you want to share them I get kind of lazy so I buy you know eight or ten of them and then I can keep them on different jigs without moving them around the one thing I found out rich I don't know if you have when you're trying to use those you want them to slide in those grooves and I found out that if I put any kind of polyurethane on a jig they won't slide so that's right I think the best thing to do is either maybe just boiled linseed oil mixture 50-50 and or something like a Watco Danish oil and then they slide really really well yeah I learned that from you Paul I like that this is a bench vise actually using the micro jig system and I got that from Jesse over at penalty box woodshop yeah top you YouTube and it's a fantastic way to put up a bench vise yeah combination of youtubers and micro jig products all right then here here's Paul here's something that we said you would like to talk about my favorite power tools well these aren't really power tools but the Keller system and in addition my table saw and this this is called dowel max I don't know if you've ever heard of it but this this little dowel max has changed literally changed the way that I do joinery I had a biscuit joiner I never could get that quite accurate maybe I'm just not as good at it as some people but I always thought doweling was a difficult process and really really wasn't a very strong joint so I was watching Vic on down under woodworks and he demonstrated this dowel max and I'll tell you something in my opinion this is one of the finest pieces in my shop Paul it's uh it's well engineered well designed and here's the thing they have a test on their website and their test shows that it's 200 times stronger than biscuits I'm sorry 200 times stronger than mortis and tenon and about 600 times stronger than biscuits so I'm not selling it they don't sponsor me of course I just think it's a for a beginner woodworker with a minimal investment and a router and a drill press sorry a hand drill you can make some great joinery and for example all my boxes are the tops are two pieces of wood on the top joined together and they got a lastly lifetime so the dowel max makes it perfectly easy and the interesting thing about this little dowel max tool Paul is that if you use it properly when the two boards are boards are joined together they are absolutely flush one of my other products is a small chest and I use two four inch boards glued around these fronts and sides and so with the dowel max it makes it so much simpler I was going to buy a super max uh drum sander because I was doing all this sending and this dowel max has eliminated that so that's one of my favorite tools also Paul do you remember how much it costs yeah it's 265 dollars and when you pay the 265 dollars I think it's 265 they send you a drill bit and a spacer and they send you the whole kit and they send you some dovetails I now have the quarter inch adapter and also the 5 16th inch adapter so it's dowelmax.com you can find out all about it and then here's uh here's something I just got not long of doing all of my own finishing now and I have the earlex 5500 sprayer and I was getting a commercial shop to do all my spraying and the problem was they were using um uh vocs for the finish and a lot of people when you close these boxes up and you ship them and they're closed up for a few days when you open them up and uh if you use conversion varnish or something like that it just blows you away with the vocs and vocs are a no-no in california anyway so I picked up this earlex sprayer and aqua coat for my polyurethane water base and in 24 hours it dries hard as a rock so that's that's one of my newest innovation and uh it saves me money and it saves me time and the finishes are just gorgeous I use the drill press a lot and um so it's just like any other drill press that was actually one of the first tools I bought my wife bought it for me for christmas it was a rigid and I bought a ryobi table saw and of course um I traded that in rather quickly and uh so those were the first tool first tool two tools I purchased and I have um I have a delta bandsaw that I don't use a bandsaw very much for the kind of work I do and then one of my favorite things here is my um uh thickness planer and that's a makita and I'm very happy with that I couldn't be any happier with it if everything under rollers I have my sanding station and supplies under there and I think one of my favorite things in my shop is this um this workbench when I first opened my shop I wanted something that was versatile that I could move around and I could store things with but also use it for an assembly table in my limited space so I found this in one of the magazines it's not my design I keep my drill stuff there and um I keep my all my router equipment down here in that and of course it has three drawers for storage and then over here I have um my finishing equipment small tools including all the tools that Paul Carlson told me to buy I see your uh graph gear yeah graph gear 1000 yep I got my porter cable guys down there for pin nailing and that that's probably my favorite piece of the shop it's so versatile and uh it's my home base and then we continue on that's my wall there and uh I have my bits and uh I got my Forzner bits grinder and some miscellaneous tools that's where I keep my extra saw blades I have a DeWalt um uh data set which I highly recommend and a variety of different clamps and if you make a lot of boxes like I do this this this uh clamp system was one of my best finds when I make boxes and cabinets and then over here is my the last part of my shop is my clamps which I don't have enough of like everybody else uh yeah and uh that's my that's my little 50 square foot shop a guy's castle in the basement of his home uh a lot of good time for spending there and uh do you think you'll get tired of I know you use a lot of different woods and you got different custom designs that people ask for but do you think you'll get tired of making those boxes does that making those and keeping up with your orders does that keep you from doing any fun woodworking for yourself or like Paul yes it does it does get tiring when you get four or five orders in a week and um if I make three or four boxes at a time that equates to about three and a half hours per box um if I make one at a time it's four hours so uh so when you take because I take a lot of pride I use all rough lumber I don't use box lumber I put it especially lumber yards and um I buy only top grade lumber and top grade materials and um so starting about the end of October through the end of December it gets crazy it gets absolutely crazy so here's what I did I changed my delivery time which was unbelievably short in the beginning I changed my delivery time to two to three weeks and if um when I opened this shop by December of this year my shop was running me and so I quickly decided that I need to run my shop and so I stretched out the delivery time and if somebody orders something and I don't have time to get it in their timeframe I just message them and offer them a refund or the additional time and I got to give a plug for people people who buy from Etsy have been fantastic the people all over the world it's I never dreamed that Etsy would be like a pen pal shop I've made urns for I've made wedding boxes and shower boxes and when you get a mother who lost a son oh I'll ask you to build something special for brains I can't explain and that's why I do it it's not about the month although I I cover my costs and I do make a profit but what I've learned is it gives me a purpose that I never dreamed that I would have at this age of my life very cool very cool it's nice to see there's more old coot more old coots out there enjoying their return all right well that was very very interesting I've delighted to visit your shop let me uh change my screen here I got a little picture up of my french cleat wall it wasn't where I meant to go let me go to uh ending so I would invite everybody to visit Rich's Etsy store and take a look at the beautiful boxes that he has over there and the pricing and so forth and also visit my store a small workshop guy and I really want to thank Rich for carving out the time to let us see his shop in Pennsylvania please give us a like a comment and subscribe to my channel I don't think Rich has a youtube channel thank you very much for tuning in today and stay safe in your workshop so uh when Rich is through with his video


Hey guys, it's MJ the students actually and in this video. I want to talk about Contego and backwardation so Contego is not a style of Latin American dancing But it's a situation when our futures price is greater than the expected future spot price Now that sounds very complicated. So let's break it down with an example So let's say we have restored yellow. Let's say we have a chunk of gold So we have this piece of gold and it's currently trading at a price of 10 rend In the future That price is gonna be worth Let's just say we expect it to go up to 30 rend Contego means that the current future price So the price of the futures contract Is going to be greater than 30 so it has to be selling like 40 okay, so You're locking in the futures price at 40 Whereas it's only going to go to 30 which means this is a future that is seven days away When it's six days away Then the contract will be a little bit less. It might be say 39 and then five days away It will be say 35 and it will come and it will converge to 30 so What we call this is a downward sloping futures curve so what we see here is this is time and this is the price of the future, okay, so The vet look your contracts value decreases with time Which means if you had to buy the future hold it for seven days You would lose 10 rend if it was the expected spot price So why would anybody do this? I mean this seems pretty dumb doesn't it you buying something at 40 rend and In seven days time, it's only expected to be 30 rend Well, not necessarily remember this is a futures price and a lot of textbooks will refer to it as an unknown But you can actually think of it as a random variable It's a random variable whose actual value is you know, it's uncertain So we don't know what this 30 is gonna be This is what we expect it to be so there could be a 50% chance that it is 15 and a 50% chance that it is 45 Which means if you're buying it at 40 and You're trading it in here. You could actually realize a profit, which is why some people will do it But One of the reasons or what you might just say is well, okay Why don't we just rather buy the physical gold at 10 rend and then whether it's 50% at 15 or 50% of 45 We make a profit either way so Isn't that the more logical thing to do is just to buy the gold Not really because you see when you buy gold You have to store it You have to secure it and If you live in South Africa, you probably want to ensure it as well and What we refer to this is this is a carrying cost So holding gold actually costs you money and this is why Warren Buffett's very much against commodities Or he doesn't see the benefit in it You spend a lot of money on gold and then you have to spend a lot of money on storing it a lot of money on protecting it and a lot of money on ensuring it and it's kind of like if This will say it's cash flow diagram You're making this big payment share and then you're making all these other payments going on and you're hoping that you can sell it later At a price more than this and this combined So we call this commodity in Contego And so the futures contract This 40 rent this additional amount to the 10 rent is is like the premium for For not having to spend money and worrying about these carrying costs And this makes a lot of sense, especially when you've got something like your commodity is Like a bunch of cattle, okay If you want to like they say you think that the the price of cattle is gonna go up You really don't want to buy 2000 cows Because the thing is where on earth. Are you gonna put 2000 cows for seven days? Or if you buy it for say a two-year future contract, you know, then you're gonna need to rent a farm You're gonna have to get some shepherds or cowherders or whatever those things are You're gonna have to give it food then one of the cows might die So you need insurance and you have to replace it and I mean On a commodity such as con such as cattle like beef pork and all of these We would expect to see this whole thing known as Contego and that actually is what Contego is There is a flip side to it, which is known as backwardation where the price of the future actually increases In time, but I'm thinking let me do another video on that Just so that people who are happy with Contego can just skip straight to that one and people want to focus on Contego Can just watch this one But there we go that is Contego in a nutshell with a downward sloping futures curve And you're paying the premium so that you don't have to carry the actual commodity Thanks guys so much for watching and I'll see you next time when we talk about backwardation. Cheers


Is copywriting a good career? That's right, we're gonna be talking about whether becoming a copywriter is a good idea. And we're gonna be going over really important things like what the heck is copywriting, what are some other jobs that are similar to copywriting, how much do you make as a copywriter, what's the demand like, what's the job satisfaction like, and other X factors that are important. And then at the end, I'm gonna give it a rating from one to 10. So if you appreciate me doing this type of content, go ahead and let me know by gently tapping that like button and let's jump right into it.  Well, basically a copywriter is someone who is responsible for convincing people and usually that is going to be through the medium of writing such as emails or writing for a sales page. But it could also include billboards, commercials, websites, newspaper ads, social media, and even YouTube scripts. And another way of thinking about it is copywriting is selling through the written word.  I'm gonna be spilling all the beans, spilling all the secrets on how you can get into this career. And it's going to be exactly 72 hours from the time that this video is posted. So if you're not sure on the date, just go ahead, look down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. And I wanted to make this as affordable as possible, but it is going to be live. I'm gonna be presenting to you how I think the best way of getting into copywriting is. And then I'm gonna be taking all of the questions at the end. But if you miss it for whatever reason, either you're not able to go to it because you're working at that time or you're busy, or if you see this several weeks later and you're not able to attend the live workshop, the link below will lead you to recordings of the event. So yeah, definitely check it out and it'll be awesome to see you there. Now let's talk about the salary of a copywriter. So according to Glassdoor, copywriters make about $63,000 a year. Now this is if you get a job as a copywriter. Many copywriters choose to either do freelance or they start their own businesses and offer their copywriting as a service. So you can make more money if you do freelance or offer your copywriting as a service, but it's a good idea to get a job so you can get some experience. And by the way, you can subspecialize in copywriting. For instance, there's creative copywriters that make about $77,000 a year. And there are copywriters that own their own businesses that make millions of dollars a year. Now typically you would hyper-specialize if you become this type of copywriter. For instance, you might only write for female specific physical products, right? So that would be an example of specializing in copywriting and that is definitely the way to go. You wanna specialize in something and get a name for writing for that particular type of copy and also that particular type of audience. And this is how you make the really, really good money. But just starting off, you can get a job and just kind of be a general copywriter. So when it comes to the salary, it is very good. This is one of the most valuable skills you can learn and if you get really good at it, you will get paid very well. Next, let's talk about satisfaction. Now there's not a whole lot of data on copywriters specifically when it comes to job satisfaction, but with that being said, if you learn this skill, there are so many different paths that you can go down. So it's incredibly flexible and flexibility definitely increases your job satisfaction because if you're not interested in whatever job you wanna do, you get tired of it, or you just don't like it or anything like that, you can very easily switch. Not only to different copywriting related careers, you can also rise up through the ranks and get into higher level positions, or you can just completely switch careers. And the skills you learn as a copywriter will be very valuable no matter where you go. Now, one thing I do like to note is if people have high levels of neuroticism, they tend to have much higher job satisfaction when it comes to very stable jobs. Copywriting is probably not one of the more stable types of jobs. And the people who make the most money typically are freelancers or people who own their own businesses. So if you are a neurotic type person, this may not be the best career for you. I'd stay away if I were you. But with that being said, overall the satisfaction is pretty good. Next, let's talk about demand. Now, because of the fact this is another one of those careers that are kind of off the beaten path, it's a relatively new career. There's not a lot of information on this. But with that being said, if you are good at copywriting, if you're truly good at the skill, you are never going to have any issues making money. There are so many different types of jobs you can do if you're good at copywriting. And this is one of the only careers where you can get into it without any experience. You don't have to go to college and you can make millions of dollars a year. And if you look this up on Ziprecruiter, there's about 4,300 jobs available. So there's plenty of people hiring for this skill set. So overall, there's not a lot of data. The data is not really clear on this because of the fact that it's kind of one of those off the beaten path careers. But I still think the demand is pretty good. Next, let's talk about X factors. And this is how likely it is for AI to automate this, how likely this is to be outsourced and also how easily are you able to switch jobs into different careers, AKA how flexible is it and how valuable are the skills you're going to learn? So first of all, let's talk about AI. Lots of people have talked about how copywriters are going to be non-existent because of AI. And as somebody who has deeply looked into this, I can tell you 100% AI cannot create good copy. It can create average or below average copy. And if used by a good copywriter, it can increase the level of copy and also increase the amount of work you can do. But on its own, it absolutely cannot create good copy. And with a creative type thing like this where you have to really deeply understand your target demographic and your market and then speak directly to their fears and desires, I do not think AI is going to be replacing good copywriters anytime soon. Now, how easily outsourced is it? Well, all creative type jobs are relatively difficult to outsource and here's why. If you are an American company and your audience is mostly American and you're selling products to Americans, most of the people you hire are probably going to be Americans as well because they understand the demographic. It's very hard to market to Americans if you don't understand an American audience. So most companies are going to prefer to hire Americans for these positions. Now, when it comes to flexibility, as I mentioned before, this is an incredibly flexible job and it's also one of the most valuable skills you could possibly learn. This is very similar to sales in that when you learn this skill, it's going to help you no matter what direction you go in your life because no matter what you're going to be doing in your life, you are going to have to persuade other people. If you want to raise, you're going to have to persuade your boss. 25 cents per hour, pay rise. If you want to get a new job, you're going to have to persuade the person who is interviewing you.  I think you get the point. This is an incredibly valuable skill that is going to be super amazing for you to know for the rest of your life, whether or not you keep doing copywriting or not. And another thing to mention is this is one of the best skills if you think you might want to start a business in the future. Copywriting is a fundamental skill set that basically every business owner out there needs to know. So overall, when it comes to the X factors, this one is absolutely phenomenal. Now, for the overall score, I'm going to give this one a nine out of 10. It's really good. I will say it's not really a super well-established career. So it doesn't have like an obvious infrastructure to get into it. And that's why I'm going to be doing this workshop exactly three days after this video is posted, exactly 72 hours. And like I said, there's going to be limited spots available. We can't have that many people because it's going to be like a one-on-one sort of like zoom meeting type of thing. You are going to get to ask me questions one-on-one. I'm also going to present to you my favorite way of getting into these types of careers. And it's basically just going to be like a crash course on how to become a copywriter. So check it out. I'll put it down in the description as well as the pen comment below. And I hope to see you there. And by the way, if you haven't seen it already, I made a video called the 17 work from home job companies that are almost always hiring. And you can check that out by clicking right here.


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So if you won Congrats, and if you didn't win You can enter again And I'm also going to pick a winner from yesterday's podcast of the comments If you comment the dunk life you get a free book or a free program, which everyone you choose So that's pretty dope for I think because it's I think guys if I was you and I was watching I would think it's so dope if someone gave me that Cool open mic tonight super pumped about it gonna yell at people gonna dance and I'm not gonna tell any jokes I'm just gonna see if I can make them laugh with pure energy I'm kidding. I have jokes too, but I'm finally doing it It's a hundred percent today because I was on the bump list meaning I signed up the first week And when you don't get to go your when you sign up you get guaranteed for the next week But then the friggin hurricane storm Dorian storm Dorian and then and then This week I got confirmed. So I'm super pumped. It's tonight. I'm gonna record it. It's gonna be fun and Terrified but at the same time. I'm super excited. I think I'm more excited than terrified The only thing I'm terrified is if I'm gonna be terrified, which is very weird because I'm like I think I should be But then if I don't give an f which I don't I think about having fun Like if it was just all people if they're if they're enjoying it, I'm not nervous at all But it's just like will I be able to get in the right mindset? That's what that's the weirdest part for me is like I want to get in the right mindset And it's hard but like right now I have so much energy I feel like I would go up there and just go nuts and there's no way I don't have just like ideas flowing, but some parts of the day. I don't have those ideas I just feel like getting stuff done. That's what I've noticed about me Sometimes I have to be more action like I don't even know just get things done Sometimes it's creative like my mind is just like If you're watching the video, you're just listening my hands are going outwards like they're just like jumping all over the place All these different places, but sometimes I'm like zeroed in on something only for a short period of time But I don't have those creative ideas flowing like a freaking waterfall right now They're like waterfall coming in and I just have like genius flowing through me. I'm working on wraps I'm working on more videos for this. I'm loving the podcast I actually dunked yesterday on 10 feet just kept it light I'm strengthening my hamstring now with hamstring curls and trying to do single leg to and it hurts a little bit But I'm pushing the pain a little bit because you got to push it a little bit to test it and it's actually not getting worse It's actually getting a tiny bit better like it always feels like it's a little bit inflamed when I do it Not not during it, but like a little bit after just like I just ran it But then as as I like cool down it gets better so it feels really good from the strength training I'm gonna try to get my hamstrings and my low back crazy strong So the fact that I did those good mornings on that machine that you saw my Instagram That gave me a crazy low back pump. I'm like man. It was super weak all those imbalances I've said before that causes the inflexibility and the injury prone injuries, and that's it And that's what I let's get to the video of of the person who won shout out to Jalen Kirk I believe his name is and if you want your video reviewed Hopefully you went if not I offer it on my website And I do that and then if you want to keep up with me and more of my training more closely my Instagram is like more daily More up-to-date, but what's up?  I made a masterpiece I made an effin tiktok masterpiece You saw it at the beginning of this video which I'm thinking about now because I'm gonna put at the beginning Because it'd be a great way to intro this dude tiktok is my life It's so much fun. Okay, so now let's get this going and Here we go. So this is Jalen Kirk. I think he did a one-foot dunk and a two-foot dunk. He is six two I believe let's see what he said. I Believe he said that let's see So yeah, he entered he won congrats to you and let's get the video going. I can't find it But here's the video. Oh two-foot dunk. He asked for a little technique on his two-foot dunk Let me get this out of the way Okay, it looks really good. I'm back it up here. So very nice dunk I don't know how high the rim is, but I think he's just practicing but Technique looks good the way he has a big penultimate But then right here you see he great positioning with his chest upright his head upright and like he's behind his plants I just think he can use even a little bit more of an arm swing because it kind of just like brought the ball up Really drive that ball up and then also I use a lot of speeds You can try to push your speed a little bit to even jump more And then it's two feet. They kind of planted a little slow like you can speed that up to like they planted one than the other You could do like super fast You can see that can be even faster if you compare this to my video you'll see the differences But everybody's a different style jumper But I do think people can go a lot faster and when you push yourself it makes you jump harder and the last thing is even a bigger penultimate you can get a bigger penultimate right here and extend like extend that Foot way out get even lower and just really explode basically jumping dude is really tough It's just like sprinting if you wanted to sprint There's a lot of technique in jumping so it's a little different than sprinting obviously But when you're sprinting you're trying to go 100% you're trying to shave off a fraction of a second You got to just push yourself as hard as you can you can't just like work on technique technique And you run faster. Yes, it will help But if your technique is perfect or whatever you have to push yourself So I would say for you technique looks really good just really explode You might even want to use like a heavy ball and do medicine ball throws to get that upper body strong And I also like lobs throws throw stuff some lobs and that are really high and go get them try to take off from further All that stuff and now let's watch the other one. Oh Why is the freaking thing in the way? Let's see.  That's like the ultimate way to get the arms when you did that really well knee drive was really straight up I'd say your one foot technique your timing is perfect. I think it looks really good It looks a little more natural It looks like you've been doing that a little bit more and if so comment below and you could say that I'm a friggin sense a master Okay So yeah, congrats to Jalen Kirk good work if you want your video reviewed Hopefully you win and if not I do it on my website if you really want like a full-depth analysis to help your journey Cuz I know that's helpful It's only like 10 bucks or something like that. Oh, where'd it go one more time? Yeah, I'm dead boy. Let's go. I don't know why there's no sound, but all right. Here we go So this is from last video why anyone can dunk by the way if you haven't seen this video I believe anyone can dunk and it's also just a motivational video But I think anyone can dunk and should because of all the benefits that comes from and what you learned about yourself Physically and mentally so yes that there's that Okay, here we go Instagram YouTube random comment Winner All right, here we go the winner that you have to have a written dunk life Let's see. Oh look filter comments based on specific text 12 actually, I'm not gonna do that cuz just in case you didn't do it, right? All right, let's see what you got. Sorry for the listeners the winner is let's see what he comments it Hopefully it's dunk live and he did DC take off. Let's go free booker program Let me know in the comments of this video below what you want and that's it and we're gonna do on this day in history real quick Cuz I know you guys freaking love it on this day September 11th, we all know what happened to passenger planes hijacked al-Qaeda terrorist crashed in New York's World Trade Towers So never forget No jokes, but much love to everybody who had anybody who they knew in that attack Hopefully no more attacks. Hopefully more love is spread and where knowledge is about that We're all humans go watch that egg story. Please watch the egg stories about the universe and how we're all living lives every single life So everybody's everybody the universe is everything and we're living every life until we become gods That's what the egg story is about. I'll leave the link below. Enjoy your day. I don't know where this went I'm super pumped for open mic and I'm super pumped to keep making these videos Let me know what you want to see and I have a lot more to come I'm excited to keep reviewing your dunks It's a fun part of the podcast and it's a fun part of helping you guys because it shows me something that I could teach you and also It gives me good something to get hype about so give me some yams. Let's go You don't have to dunk either you don't have to be able to dunk you can just be touching the rim and I'll help you out Let's go. Have a good one