Y'all know what came in the mail. Finally my celestial Odyssey part 2 order came in which is going to get straight into it. I ain't got time to waste. This is the first part one of the Pat McGrath Holiday collection to launch. This is the celestial Odyssey palette. I posted this at this point weeks ago. Review on this all of that. I also have a tutorial video on this if you're interested in seeing the probably most exciting part of this collection. I will have that linked down below. So she launched her holiday collection in two parts. The palette was part one and then part two had bits and bobs like the blush palettes, the eyeshadow quads, the highlights, some lip balms, and what I ended up picking up and what I'm reviewing today are the two eyeshadow quads and then the highlight. I did not order any of the blush palettes because I own all of the blushes. This is the preliminary round of me testing these products. My mom actually ordered one of the blush trios for herself. So when that comes in for her, I actually am going to be doing probably another video doing another look with the quads incorporating the blush palette. So keep an eye out for that. But elephant in the room. Dang, shipping for this took a long time and I have to say I know for most of you it's a different story, but I live in Maryland, which is relatively close to New Jersey where their distribution center is and I have never had an issue with Pat McGrath shipping. In fact, I got that Celestial Odyssey palette next day without having to pay next day shipping. So it's always come within a couple of days for me. They must have been really backed up because this took well over two weeks to get to me. What? Are we working on three weeks? I don't know, but it took a long time. Finally came to me. So I expect you guys to get your orders very soon as well. So shipping left a little something to be desired this time, unfortunately. Something wasn't working there. They did not do something right. That aside, they did package everything right. Everything was bubble wrapped. It was beautiful. I think things might be a little backed up. So proceed with caution if you are ordering from the Pat McGrath website. Now, I know on Sephora not everything is available. Let me see. Sometimes Sephora shipping is off, but I'd recommend Sephora over Pat McGrath. However, they do not have the eyeshadow quads. Eye shadow quads are currently only available on the Pat McGrath website, but the blush trios and the big Celestial Odyssey palette are available at Sephora. So I would order those from there. Anyways, let's get started. I'm going to break it up. We're going to start off with the eye shadow quads. And then I will have in the timestamps when we get into the highlights just so that you can easily navigate whatever you are looking for. So without further ado, let's get started with the Celestial Odyssey Luxe quads. Like I said, I did pick up both. So let's look at the outer packaging first. So these Celestial Odyssey quads are $54 each. And here's what the packaging looks like. So the pink packaging is Bronze Burialis. And then the red packaging is Deep Space Divinity. Here's what the back of the box looks like if you need to take a closer look. Both of these quads are made in the USA of US and imported ingredients. And they have a 12 month shelf life. So the box styles, they aren't, you know, the twisties or anything. It's just like a normal box. It's a beautiful box and I do keep the boxes. And then here are what the components themselves are going to look like. So it's just the same black lacquered packaging that all of the Pat McGrath looks quads come in. Beautiful, untouched. Now this time it just has the Pat McGrath labs name on it as opposed to, is it hyalogryphics? Whatever that, you know, but I'm talking about this thing right here. It's not even raised or anything. I mean, I don't mind it. I think it's cute. And then the back is going to look like this. And this should have all of the details on here for you. So one thing I want you to notice is the size of these. Pat McGrath quads have never come in this size pan. I'm just going to grab the Celestial Divinity Luxe Quad from last year. Look at the pan sizes right here. This year's are smaller and they are in the same components. So there's a lot more empty space this year. Now here's the thing. The pallets from this year have 4.4 grams of product in total, whereas the quads from the previous years have 8 grams of product. Not quite twice as much product, but 4.4 versus 8. That's a significant drop in product, which I'm fine with as long as the price drops. But here's the thing. These quads were this year were $54 each. For the Luxe quads from last year, these are $58. So there is only a $4 price decrease for almost half the amount of product. I don't know about that, y'all. Now, just so you know the price difference, and this is kind of irrelevant, but the Blitz Astral quads that came out a couple years ago, these were $65, but these were the Blitz Astral formula, which is clearly more expensive to make, and Pat only puts them sparingly out. So that's a significant price difference, but these have no Blitz Astral formulations in here. So it's about the same formulations as the Luxe Quad from last year, which is $58, that $4 price difference. So that's a little bit disappointing that there's less product.  Don't get me wrong, but I think there needed to be something bigger, given the decrease in product. So just keep that in mind if you are considering purchasing these. But without further ado, that aside, let's look at each of the palettes individually. I do have some comparisons for you first. So let's zoom in a little bit closer, and I'm going to turn the lights down so we can see the colors better. So this is the Celestial Odyssey Bronze Burialess right here, and this one I have some comparisons for you. So let's go into the four shades. Lunar Legend, Sienna Rose, Mink Dusk. That's what these three are going to look like. Let's swatch. Swatch nice. Ooh, that's gorgeous. The matte looks really nice and smooth too. Let's get Cyber Bronze. Feels super creamy. Now these feel really, really good, as expected from Pat. So take a look. I mean, this is a gorgeous quad right here. So here are the formulations. Pearl Shimmer, this is also, this looks like a metallic to me. A matte, and then this is a metallic. So those are really pretty. But the big elephant in the room was you guys definitely wanted me to do some comparisons because I agree that this reminded me a lot of the Bliss Astral Quad in Ritualistic Rose that launched a couple of years ago. And I mean, when you see them side by side, they are very, very different, especially just because those formulations are different. But the shades certainly, they are the same, right? So let me just swatch them for you so you can see. So I know this was a level of concern for you guys, but here is that palette from a couple years ago, Ritualistic Rose. They almost all pair really well together. They're definitely different enough to where I think you could own both. I know these two shades look kind of similar. But other than that, they're different enough to where I think it's okay to own both. I actually think that these two would work really well in combination for a look. So I would pair those two together. Now, if you're trying to convince yourself not to get this year's quads, I mean, this could convince you, absolutely. But if you are trying to convince yourself, if you need this or not, I think it's okay. I actually honestly thought that this had a lot of similarities to the Divine Rose series. I pulled out my Divine Rose palette and let me just show you. So if you have the Divine Rose palette, take a look at it next to the Bronze Burialis. This looks like the extension to Divine Rose, doesn't it? It really looks like an extension. So if you like the vibe of Divine Rose, I think you would like this. But let me do similarities here. So here is Bronze Burialis and here's from Divine Rose, what I thought was similar. Again, I would say Bronze Burialis is the perfect extension to Divine Rose. You can see there really aren't too many similar shades. It seems that this shade has the most twins. But the rest, I can't really find too much that are similar. But again, very repetitive for Pat McGrath here. While we were at it with Divine Rose, I also pulled out my Divine Rose too because I thought that there was a couple similarities in here as well. So take a closer look if you need to. But I definitely see a couple that I want to swatch next to each other. So let's do that. Okay, so Divine Rose too. I swatched a couple just so you could see. It seems that the darker shimmer is close. It's this one. This one is the one surprisingly that's not that unique. And this shade's a little bit more orange compared to the Bronzey shade. This one's much more pink. This one's deeper. So I would say Divine Rose too and Bronze Burialis are more different. And Divine Rose and Bronze Burialis are closer, if that makes sense. But so just take those swatches into consideration if you are interested in Bronze Burialis. I would say that this quad is definitely the least unique of the two and are closely related to some pre-existing palettes. Okay, so it's eyeshadow application time. I'm just going to put Bronze Burialis on this eye and let's see what we're working with. So as you could expect, we're going to start off with the matte shade right here. I'm using an Isam S33. A little bit of kickback. I don't know if you can see that. And I'm going to pat this on the outer corner of my eye. This is a beautiful mauvey shade right here. And we're going to blend that. I'm just going to keep this in the outer corner for now. Next step, we're going into the shade right here. I'm using a Sonia G builder brush. And I'll leave room for two more shades on the lid. So I'm just kind of adding a small stripe of the product. This is definitely going to pick up more if you use your finger. But I want to use brush so that I can have more of a precise application. The shade is beautiful. And it's the perfect duo with that matte shade. I love it. We're going to use this one again for sure. Just wait. Next, we're using Cyber Bronze. I'm just going to use the same brush. And I want this to pop on my eyelid. Make sure you leave a little bit of space. I mean, I don't have anything bad to say about the quality of these. They're gorgeous. It's just a matter if you need it. And next, we're going to use the lightest shade. This one seems a little extra powdery. So we're getting a little bit more fallout with this one. Put a nice application here. Now let's see if we can touch up with the fingers to get a little bit more oomph. So I'm starting off with the darkest shimmer. These definitely respond well to a finger pickup because they are so creamy. They worked with a brush, but if you're looking for intensity, I would use a finger. But I really just wanted precise application. And this shade right here feels a little bit less creamy than the rest. It's a little bit more dry and powdery, but it's still a very good shade. I'm not saying that it's bad with those words. I'm just saying compared to the others, it's a little bit more dry feeling. It's a little bit more powdery. And then I'm gonna take that original matte brush that we used, and I'm going to make sure the shimmers are all blended out on the edges. And how pretty is that? Okay, I'm going back into my builder brush. And I told you I wanted to use this shade again. So that's what we're gonna do. I'm just getting it on the tip of this brush, running this along the outer half of my lower lash line. It's doing pretty well with this technique. And then I want more of the bronze shade. I think this one's my favorite one in the palette. It's probably very dupable, but it just adds so much oomph to the look. And then finally, I need this depth right here. Maybe bring a little bit down here and blend the edges. That's the look. I mean, it's really beautiful. It's soft. It's wearable. But if I didn't know that this was a new Pat McGrath palette, I would look at my eye and I would say, is that Divine Rose 1 or Divine Rose 2? It definitely looks like I have one of the Divine Rose palettes on my eye. So just keep that in mind. Okay, so let's take a closer look at deep space divinity. Nice and fresh and pristine here is the back in case you need to see it. And let's take a look. Again, the same pan size is really beautiful. So let's get to swatching here. So we have Golden Aura and Rose Nocturne. So this is like a velvety matte. And then this is going to be, I think it's a Satine Shimmer if we're going in terms of her formulation names, but it's a shimmer shade. Here we go. That's really, really smooth. Very pretty. And that matte. Okay. Okay, and this one's kind of the star of the show, Alien Moon. Gorgeous. I mean, I wish I could say this was unique, but if any brand does a duo chrome, it's likely this like blue-brown kind of look. This is one of her metallic duo crones. And I think this is, I don't know what this is, a metallic shade. Anyways, this is Dawn Fontasia. Oof, gorgeous. You can see that shift right there, that red-brown. Then just a nice metallic bronze shade right here. So I really like this color story. I think it's really fall appropriate. It's a little bit deeper, a little bit more grungy. This is the one that I thought had a twin in the line. Like honestly, I thought there's no way that these aren't the same. In fact, when I first saw this Deep Space Divinity being promoted, I was like, is that a repromote? Because we have the Celestial Divinity Luxe Quad in interstellar icon right here. And you can't tell me that these don't look the same. I mean, you can see now that they're different formulations for sure. But seriously, I mean, we couldn't do something a little bit more different. They're different.  But as two individual quads, they're suspiciously similar, no? So let me show you the similar shades. Now, Swatched, I will say, they definitely look different from one another. But it's that situation where they could definitely go together for one look. I think this palette's a little bit more unique than Bronze Barillis, honestly, though. Even the duo chrome shade is completely different, which is very nice. And this is more pinky champagne. So I would say these two look a lot more similar to one another than they actually are. When we get to Swatching, the whole tone is different. The formulations are very different. So they're not as similar as they look. But again, you're going to have to decide if the $54 is worth it to you or not if you do have this one. I think if you have that interstellar icon, it's going to give you more of like a grungy look. But enough chitchat. Let's get it on our eyes. I'm wiping off my brushes, by the way. I'll miss Sigma Matte, which is amazing for switching colors. Start off with the matte shade. We've still got a little bit of kick up, but nothing crazy.  This is really pigmented and it has a little bit more of a berry tone to it than I was expecting. But I got a crazy amount of pigment from that. So let's just blend the edges a little bit. You know, with Pat McGrath, it really isn't about having the matte standout for me. I'm all about the shimmers. So that's why when I use a matte from Pat McGrath, I tend to really only circle it in the outer corner. But the shade is very, very pigmented and blending crazy. So this is a good quality shade, but use a lighter hand than I just did. Oh man. Okay, I'm not going to be shy. I'm just going to go in with my finger and use Alien Mood all over the lid. Like I said, when brands do a duo chrome, it's usually this style of duo chrome color, that blue-brown. It must be the easiest one to make. So I don't want to say that this shade is necessarily unique, but it's definitely the one that catches your eye when you see it. And sometimes I'm not the biggest fan of duo chromes. I don't like when the darker shift is on the inner corner, depending on where the light is hitting. I think I do like this better than Sextra Terrestrial in the Divine Rose too, because that shift in that one is so unflattering. This one is not as bad. It actually looks really flattering with this matte shade. Ooh, I like this one. I think I might like this quad better. I'm still like fighting with this matte shade though. I've got way too much on. I'm going to be super simple and use this as the inner corner color and along the inner half of my lower lash line. A little pop right here. Dang, that's pigmented. That's beautiful. Look at that. For being such a light shade, I'm impressed with that. That had legitimate coverage to it. It's literally covering that matte shade. That's a great quality shadow. And then we're going to use the bronze shade now, the outer half. Honestly, because I have nowhere on my eyes to put it, because I needed that alien color everywhere. Oh, that's pretty. I'm sure this is going to be super beautiful all over the lid. If you use this in the crease and this all over the lid, it's going to change the whole vibe of this palette and give you a bronzy kind of look. I do want to carry some of the matte shade using a lighter hand this time. Just in the outer third to bring that warmth to create more of a cohesive look. I must bring it right below my eye socket.  I meant to do that. I love this quad. I think this quad is gorgeous. Let me put on liner lashes.  And we're going to do a final reveal. In terms of the quads, here's what the final looks are. Like I said, I do plan on doing another video with the blush palette and everything else in this collection so that I can do a full cohesive look as opposed to having to split it. But I can say from first use, I definitely prefer deep space divinity just because I feel like it's a little bit more unique and more fun. You can still get a neutral look with deep space divinity. But when I think of Pat McGrath and I go for Pat McGrath, I'm typically not going for wearable.  So that's why this is best suited towards me. However, for those of you who prefer something more wearable, this is absolutely stunning. This is probably the one I'm going to end up using more. But if you're similar to me and you're a collector, this is the one I would say you need the least if you have the Divine Rose Palettes. Because while this isn't identical to the Divine Rose Palettes, there's just a lot in her line that has shades similar to the Bronze Bray List. So it's not a necessity. That's for sure. But I think the deep space divinity is a little bit more unique if you're thinking in terms of that. But performance wise, both worked absolutely beautiful. Quality is great. Love both of the looks that's on my eyes. So I do recommend them if they are something that is on your mind. Now, I think a lot of you guys were almost more excited for this just because of curiosity and because of the crazy price. Which I probably would not about this highlight if I didn't have a review channel. So thank you for giving me an excuse to buy this. So this is the Skin Fetter Sublime Skin Highlight. This is what the box looks like. I love it. This is my favorite packaging of all of the palettes today. And here's the back if you need to see anything in particular. So this highlight is made in Italy and it has an 18 month shelf life. And catch what this highlight is, this one single highlighter. It is $60.  I haven't even put this on and I'm telling you now if you're struggling with the price, please do not buy a $60 highlight. There's so many amazing highlighters on the market, but sometimes curiosity kills the cat, right? So first of all, the component here is absolutely stunning. Wait, yes. It is a gorgeous gold component this time. I'm absolutely obsessed with how the back is black with the gold sticker on top that has the lettering stunning. This is the luxist of the lux. Now it's not extremely heavy. It's the same weight as the eyeshadow quads in case you're wondering because I know Pat McGrath had a highlighter last year that was super heavy. It's not super heavy, but it feels sturdy. It don't feel like plastic. So this has 8.6 grams of product. This is a lot of product because just for comparison, the Divine Glow highlight is 4.6. So yeah, you're getting a lot of product in here, but you don't need a lot of highlighter is the thing. I'd rather get a smaller amount for a smaller price. But anyways, I mean, this is the luxist of the lux if you're into lux makeup like me. Here is the selling point. Look at this. This is the most beautiful royal embossment I've ever seen. Honestly, if you didn't think Pat could one up herself, she managed to do it with this highlight. Absolutely stunning. I wish this inside part was gold, but you know, beggars can't be choosers and you do have a mirror in here which is lined with the gold. I haven't touched this yet for the reason that this is so beautiful. I still don't want to touch it, but we must. So this is supposed to be a gel powder formulation. It has an opalescent sheen, multi-dimensional, buildable, and lightweight. It's formulated to become one with this skin and you can effortlessly layer for custom intensity. Oh my God, that feels really good. It feels very slippery. Like it doesn't feel really, really wet or anything. And look at that pigmentation. Oh my gosh, this feels heavenly. It almost feels like silk. That's the way to describe the consistency. It's silky. Oh, this feels really good. Let me compare it to a few other highlights. So we're going to do a divine glow. This is in her permanent line. So let's see how this compares. It feels different. It's this is not as silky or gelay feeling as a new highlight. It has a more champagne golden tone to it. So these are definitely different. And in person, when the light's not flashing directly, this has more pink to it as well. So it looks very different. So this is from, I believe it's last year's collection. This is what I'm talking about, that it's super duper heavy. This was about the same price point as this year's holiday highlighter. This was made in Taiwan and I did not like this highlight at all. It felt really wet and spongy. I didn't like this formulation. It wasn't worth it to me. Feels completely different than this year's. Oh my gosh. It's so much more cool tones and purple. So that's very different. Last highlight I have to compare for you is the divine rose highlight. So this comes in pink packaging. Super cute, by the way. So here we go. Again, Pat hasn't come out with a highlight that feels quite like this year's. And this is much more pink. So this one is a lot brighter, I feel like. It's a lot shinier. And it feels much more lightweight and silky than the others. I love the way it swatched. Taking a look with it out of the sun. I feel like this is gonna be good. Let's see. We just gotta, we just gotta put it on. All right, let's do it. I'm using a Kaleidos H1 brush. Not too much pickup, if any at all. Fairly any. Beautiful. So this first layer isn't anything crazy. Let's build it up. Okay, with that second coat, all of a sudden, it's a whole different ball game now. And she says it's formulated to become one with the skin. And I do agree with that. As I've blended it out, you can't see where the highlighter starts and where it ends. So that's one of the things that I look for the most in highlights. This is beautiful. It's pulling a little bit bright on my skin, almost a little bit more cool toned. It's a little bit more bright than I typically prefer for a highlight color. I don't know if you can see that. It just doesn't match the undertone of my skin. So it's not completely skin-like because of the tone. And I like highlighters that match my undertone. But again, it's absolutely beautiful. Let's use it as our inner corner highlight now. Just to brighten everything up. I mean, this highlight is stunning. You can see, I do have a lot of texture going on right here. It's not emphasizing it like crazy. The nature of highlights is to highlight, so it's going to show off. Your texture. But it almost is like, it avoids the texture, right? It doesn't necessarily highlight it, but it doesn't smooth it out either. It's not bad. I really like this. I think it sits beautifully on this skin. This is a really fantastic highlight. Do I think it's worth $60? No, probably not. Am I happy that I have it though? Yes. I mean, this is such a luxe Pat McGrath experience. I think, you know, this particular product goes beyond the product itself. It's about the packaging. It's about the embossment. And if that doesn't excite you, by all means, please do not buy this highlight. But if you are somebody that gets excited by the experience, this is going to give it to you. I did it. I covered everything that I've picked up from the Celestial Odyssey collection. And overall, in terms of quality, this collection is spot on with the rest of the Pat McGrath line. You won't be disappointed quality-wise, which is why I thought it was so important to give you all of this watch comparisons just so that you could see what you already have in your collection. But in terms of quality, everything is definitely a thumbs up. It's just a matter of what you feel you need in your collection. But I'm very happy with everything.  I love this eye. I love this eye. I mean, Pat does it again. Yeah. Anyways, let me know what your thoughts down below. Did you pick up anything from this collection? Have you received your shipping notification yet? I hope you guys found this video helpful. And thank you so much for being subscribed to my channel and for liking this video. I will see you all in the next one. Keep an eye out for the tutorial, diving even deeper into this. Yeah. Bye, guys. Have a good one.


At Ellis Brigham we take product testing really seriously, it forms a crucial part of our range selection and today we're out here at the ski industries of Great Britain ski tests in Kutai, Austria. This is the last part of our range selecting, it's where we're going to decide exactly what skis and boots we stock in store. What I want to do now is pass you over to the brands so they can tell you about the key features of this ski, who it's designed for and what it's going to do. Hi there, this is the Elan Ripstick 96 Black Edition, one of the best free ride skis you can get your hands on these days and it's really at the light end of the free ride market. So if you're looking for a one ski quiver that'll do everything, this could be the one for you. I'll tell you a little bit about it. All of the Elan skis have amphibio profile which means you get a full contact cambered inside edge and you get a rockered tip and tail on the outside edge. This means at slower speeds it's really easy to turn and you get really smooth turned transitions. But with the technology inside this ski with four carbon rods and a carbon layer really reinforcing the inside edge you get lots and lots of edge grip on hard snow on piste. It's a great ski to ski everywhere on the mountain and with no metal in it it's light enough to do a little bit of touring if that's what you want it to do. Give it a go, it's the Elan Ripstick 96 Black Edition. So we're out in team in France, this is the Ellis Brigham ski test and this is the final part of our testing programme. This is when we invite colleagues from all the shops to come out and join us, try the skis that we've ranged for next year, validate in our choices but also make sure that they've skied them, they know exactly what those skis do and they can give you the right information when you come into the store. So here's what it's all about. So I've just got off skiing the Elan Ripstick Black Edition. So we had really good conditions to ski the ski on slope. It was quite firm underfoot but not so icy, softening up throughout the rest of the day. I took it on a good few runs top to bottom, took it off the sides a little bit too and I'm not gonna lie it's everything I expected from it. Maybe a little bit more as well, it depends on the kind of person you are as to whether you like it or not. For me it was brilliant. So I've skied the regular Ripstick before the Ripstick 96 and absolutely loved it. It's really easy to initiate the turns with it. They're a little system with rocker on one side and camber on the other with the left and right skis. It's more than a gimmick, you do have to try it if you've not tried it before but the Black Edition of this ski is just a little bit firmer. So it's a bit more for your slightly harder going freerider or sort of all mountain skier. So for myself I like to skate quite hard, it was perfect. It was just that little bit more response coming out of the ski than the regular Ripstick gave me and for that reason I thought it was absolutely brilliant. It's a great bit of tech and I would happily buy it.


How to clutch 1v4 in the mind of a Euromane.  I know I'm 2 points off of my ultimate, so if I can isolate 2 1v1s and win them both, I can get my ult, grab spike, and then TP B. Thankfully Brimstone tries to swing me bridge and loses. I know there's a really good chance that Brimstone calmed it and somebody's going to be holding it waiting for me. Now I have my ultimate, my TP set up. I can run into site with it, ult, grab the spike, and I'm free to run B. After I plant the spike, my TP comes back up and I throw up B main because I can watch the spike from there.  And at this point, the round's already won. I'm in Viper's head, she can't lose this. The entire match is watching. The spike is down, they have no idea where I am, and it's over. Is that Red's Smurf account? What?


We define the critical density of the universe as the density that would give us flat space. Any more than this, and we have a closed universe. Any less than this, and we have an open universe. The flat matter-dominated version is called the Einstein Decider Universe after the scientists that developed the model. This critical mass density comes to around five protons per cubic meter. The actual density of interstellar space is on the average of about one proton per cubic centimeter. That's a million times denser than the critical density. But much of the universe is made up of vast voids with far less than this. So five protons per cubic meter could be the number we actually have. Cosmologists like to work mostly with ratios. In this case, we have the ratio of the energy density over the critical density called the density parameter omega. Current measurements have it at very close to one. It is the sum of all forms of energy that fill the universe. At this point in our analysis, we have three components that add up to one. Radiation, mass, and curvature.


Gels versus bars while on the bike riding. Have you ever wondered which one is best for cyclists? If so, stick around. So welcome back or welcome to the 16th edition of the RCA Training Tip Show. In today's video, we're joined by an expert sports dietician, Steph Cronin, who has a background as an endurance athlete representing Queensland in surf lifesaving for a number of years before turning to sports nutrition, where she now consults to some major Australian organizations, being Swimming Australia, the Australian Paralympic team, and the high performance department at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, all while working with a number of road cyclists in her private practice, Perform Dietetics, which I'll link to below. For this discussion today, we're gonna focus on Gels versus bars, as you know. Not sponsored, I bought these from the local supermarket, but I will have Steph on the channel covering a number of topics over the next few weeks. So if you get value out of this discussion today, don't forget to like the video. And if you already haven't, please subscribe below and hit the bell to ensure you get notified of when videos go live. Now I know what some of you may be thinking before we get into this video. What about the humble banana or the wonderful watermelon? And while there's nothing better than natural, in my opinion, the practicality of bars and gels for longer days in the saddle, you just can't beat it external to liquids, which we also touch on in this video. So let's get into it. I've got a couple of different things here for you. I've got a gel and a bar.  I'm hoping you're gonna say bad things about them. Well, what do you recommend? Again, this is why seeing an individual, seeing, sorry, a professional and getting an individualized sort of training plan is really important because there's no right or wrong hands here, there's pros and cons to both. So it really depends how many carbohydrates you're having per hour. As I said before, your efficiency as an athlete is meaning that you probably don't require as many carbohydrates to push at the same intensity. In saying that, we know from all the research that hitting 90 grams of carbohydrates per hour as an elite cyclist is gonna be what provides them the fastest times. So that's not to say that your weekend warrior should be hitting 90 grams of carbs per hour. And it might not be every session that you're trying to aim for that. So it could be, if we're talking about sessions that we're gonna include some fuel, it could be 30 grams of carbs per hour, it could be 60 grams of carbs per hour, it could be up to 90. It's gonna depend on the type of session, what you're trying to get out of that session. Do you like eating beforehand? So are we gonna take into consideration breakfast before that or an afternoon snack or a pre-training snack before that? The size of the athlete you are as well. So someone who's 50 kilos is obviously gonna require different carbohydrates to someone who's not T kilos. Bigger athlete needs more fuel to push those muscles. In terms of what to use, look, 26 grams of carbs and this is gonna be 34. So difference is that... That's gonna be a lot easier to consume, isn't it? This is a lot easier to consume. It's also a lot higher risk in terms of gut upset. So what you need to be mindful of with gels is that you need to take about 300 mils of fluid with every gel. It's a very highly concentrate, you know, this is equivalent of two slices of bread worth of carbs in this gel. Yes. So we put a gel into your stomach when you're exercising and when you're riding. The blood that's generally circulating to help with digestion is then obviously circulating your muscles more so. So when you put in a really highly concentrated amount of carbohydrates into your gut without fluid to dilute it, it's gonna panic, it's gonna start spasming and you're gonna get gastrointestinal symptoms or you could, you're gonna be at higher risk. So I've done an event called the Three Peaks Challenge and everyone tries to enjoy a beer when they complete it because it's a very tough event. And the year I did it, I had a couple of mates that didn't want to be at all because it had too many gels and they had a crooked gut. So that would have been from not the gels themselves but not enough fluid intake. Potentially both. And again, it depends if they've used it. So with any sort of event, you've got to practice what you're gonna use. You know, don't rock up to an event, not having trained. Same with your sports nutrition is you don't rock up to race day, not having trialled any of the products that you want to use on the day. So it's called gut training. So just like we train our muscles, you can train your gut to tolerate different foods and certain amounts of carbohydrates. So really, really important part of racing is that gut training. Interesting.  Absolutely, yep, yep. And it's, again, practicing. So if someone's starting out and the goal is to get them to 90 grams of carb per hour, we wouldn't start that on session one. It would work our way up to it because your gut has to learn how to tolerate that much carbohydrate. So again, this is super easy. You can get it in within 30 seconds. Yes. A bar as such, that's gonna take a lot of chewing. Some people choke. A lot of breathing. You've got to have a little bit more concentration opening that packet, chewing that while you're cycling. So some people prefer a bar. Some people prefer a gel. Gels also may contain electrolytes. So sodium in particular, it might contain caffeine. So it's depending on what we're looking at, what you're trying to get out of, what's your preference? Do you want to use one or the other? Do you want to use both? Do we want to include some liquid carbohydrates in there as well? Because we need to make sure that hydration is still an important factor. The other thing to be mindful of is this is gonna provide much quicker energy than this will be. So if you're looking for a boost, that's gonna provide that. This is gonna be more longer lasting. And again, as I said, there's a significant difference in your carbohydrates there. So two of these over an hour will give you 70 grams, but there's not many people that are gonna want to eat two of these per hour over a five hour ride or whatever. In saying that, there's obviously having two of these an hour is gonna get you to 50 grams or 52 grams per hour. You got a long, long ride ahead of you. It's a lot of gels and there's something called flavor fatigue.  And then you're gonna probably hit that bonking phase where you just don't want to take any nutrition but you're gonna bond because there's no fuel coming in. Yeah, okay. And I think we talked off camera as well about you can put electrolytes and some carbohydrate in your water bottle as well. It's another good idea. So is the best approach if you can to have a blend of all three? I try and keep people's race plans quite simple because I think if you're thinking about how often do I want to take something on board every 15 minutes, every 30 minutes, is it on the hour, every hour? If you, there's so many other things to be thinking out when you're even training but racing in particular, you don't want to have to be doing an equation in your head is what minutes do I need to take that versus that versus that? So a combination, it depends how long the event is. If you go really long event, it's nice to mix it up so you're not getting that flavor fatigue. If it's a short event, I try and get people to stick with the same thing. So they're only worrying about the same product each time. Interesting. And how important is that first hour or two when people may not feel hungry because I've had a big meal and let's say they've got five or six hours ahead of them but to ensure that they are consuming in that first hour, even though they may not feel hungry, is that important? Because I feel like some people wait for two or three hours and then they're almost behind the curve for the rest of the ride. That's what I've been told enough. There's any truth in that? If you wait too long, then you can start feeling nauseous because there's no fuel coming in. Electric acid might be increasing and you're just feeling nauseous and then you're less likely to consume. So you really are going to be at a higher risk of wonking. It really depends on what you've had before you start. So that first hour is probably, it can be but it's not essential. I would say on the hour, try and keep it pretty steady every hour but it really depends on intensity, how long you're going for and if you've had anything before you start. And you wanted to mention quickly about the two to one ratio? Yeah, so with that 90 grams of carbohydrates per hour, it's really important to understand that after 60 grams of carbs per hour, your gut can only digest one type of carbohydrate up to 60 grams of carb per hour. So when you're bumping it up to 90 grams of carbs, we need a ratio of different carbs. So generally you'll find most gels will be a two to one ratio. So this will be two parts multi-jection, one part fructose. Ah, so there's a reason why they do that. I just thought they were just jamming just different sugars in this. Because the gut can absorb that two to one ratio at 90 grams. If you just put one type of carbohydrate in, it's just, you may as well just be having 60 grams. So that health bar that you've got there, which isn't really for cycling, it's just, I just like to eat it because it is a bit more gentle on the gut. That may not have that in mind because it's not specifically thinking about sports nutrition. Well, look, this has a number of different carbohydrates in it. And if we look at it, the first ingredient is a sugar or a syrup. So it's still going to do the job. It's just that, you know, to get in 90, you know, we're thinking about it realistically, to get 90 grams of carbs in, you've got to eat three of these now, almost three of these now. So it's pretty unlikely that you're going to do that. Okay. You could. Yeah, good luck. I probably would have been the best performance choice. Yes, okay. Yeah, maybe you do one of these and one of these and then a little bit of fluid or, you know, two of these and one. Yeah, yeah. Cool.


Welcome. This is Melissa Arma with a stock swishing. I'm here reviewing a mat and this is for an advanced trader This was a very very good trade that happened a couple of days ago And I wanted to review it so everyone can get an idea here. What exactly I did So if you'd like more information you can email me at Melissa at the stocks wish that calm or call me at 9 to 9 3200 gap you can also follow me on Twitter Facebook YouTube or Skype So if you decide that you want to trade and do this as your job as your career The nice thing about gaps is that you do not have to trade all day Now one of the other nice things is you can work from home So usually we're done in the morning. Sometimes it's a late trade But one of the reasons it's a really great job is because you can work from home And you're not even working eight hours a day So let's take a look here at this aim at really nice mover stock closed here the night before and gap down So you see here, what does that mean? It means it closed at one point of price at four o'clock and then it opened at a different price at 930 So it opened lower and in this case here it sold off. So this is a short Okay, and actually this is a really big move high in the day was like 38 ish and low actually was around 35 Whatever this is a big move for this. You can see all the previous bars in here a nice move on a mat Now what was the trade here? You have the sell-off that happened into the open Actually, this is a huge bar. So this is a 15-minute chart here We're looking at this is a 15-minute chart of aim at and this is the day that it fell off the planet Here you can see where it closed here. You can see where it gap down here You can see the move actually here you see from 38 low and here was 37 So this was like a buck right into the open in the first 15 minutes of the day dropped fell pushed back and Then it was this was a late trade But again, it is what it is and this is the day where everything was falling as well But this was a gap you could have shorted it here You could have added in here and then it broke and it fell so this was the secondary move So we ended up doing the secondary move and that's not the first one, but you could have done them both Okay, secondary move came down in here into 12 o'clock 12 15 12 30 made the low Anyways the short in this was the original entry and then an ad which sometimes I will call out an ad We do you can take more sometimes the stops lowered sometimes the stops the same But it's a confirmation that the move is gonna go so then you can get heavier in the size entry was 3660 stop 3690 Share quantity 7,000 this is in the initial position and then 3654 7,000 shares total shares will be 14,000 and then the price then again This is something that you don't you can't do this all the time people But I'm just telling you that you where you would add and the price then would be pulled down Okay, and if you double your position then it's pulled down But you know sometimes I do that sometimes I don't do but I try to double it when I do the ad But either way it pulls it down But you're getting the confirmation because the stop really was still 3690 anyways This was a nice move fell down in here again Typically looking for a buck or more and this one even lower one even lower But nice exit on this 35 30 profit 17,780 dollars in one trade now the size and this was big I'll grant you that but even if you had half this size half of a 14,000 share position Even if you had a quarter, okay of this still an enormous trade why so why was this such a big trade?  Okay, you had the momentum into the gap but gap rated well and the stock was small It's not always that we get something. That's a 30 cent stop So when you look at the size of the move and the stop So it's the entry the stop and the size of the move and combine That's how you get such a highly profitable trade and then with the ad Okay, but again, I you know, this is something that you would do on my direction in the trading room for the ad And even the trade but buying power need in versus cash people always ask me that because that was a big position You would have needed 512,000 Proximately in buying power to take that position. That's not in cash But in BP in a retail account, which is four to one margin would have needed a hundred twenty eight thousand in cash In a prop account, you would have needed fifty one thousand two hundred and cash So this was a big position But I'm saying to you if you had half of this if you had twenty twenty five Granted change you could have taken seven thousand shares and you could have made half of this You could have made like almost nine grand eight thousand something. So that's still a huge huge huge trade So either way, whatever you could have afforded to take this was an amazing call again It's because it was a 30 some cents stop and got it at the right timing I mean just everything here worked in my favor. It was just a nice call Okay So how do I determine what to do in the morning or which direction to trade the gap? I have a checklist. It's called the golden gap and that's what you learn in my system That's the 26 points. It's the golden gap checklist. You learn it and you do it I teach my class once a month people come to me They they they come to me and they say I want to learn what you do And then I teach them in the class and they pay me for my time and the information But learning from a teacher has value huge value and people that don't get that lose in the market So I know that there's some teachers out there that don't teach people what to do But you've got to find some of the resonates with your Intuition you say well, I think this person knows what they're talking about They make sense and that's what people would say when they listen to me and one of the reasons that I'm talking right now on TV is because I The things that I say make sense every single thing that I've said so far about any stock of the market Since I've been on national television has been correct And that's pretty phenomenal because it's been going back now 17 18 months have been on so I'm telling you when you Decide and come to learn from someone you got to learn from some of the knows what they're talking about I do not everybody does but just because not everybody does doesn't mean that nobody does So I get it that people don't understand the value of education But you're gonna lose in the market in 2019 If you don't have a proper education or somebody that you follow that knows what the heck they're doing because 2019 is going to be an insane year of volatility in the market I mean, this is just the beginning what we're seeing here now But if you know how to make money just like this aim at perfect example of how you can capture it Right at the perfect time and get it and make a crap load of money Anyways, let's go back to this here How much money do you need to trade the Golden God for retail account? 25,000 minimum to actively day trade daily and for prop account 2500 minimum to actively day trade daily you guys choose the type of account that suits your personal needs if you don't 25,000 go to a prop place if you have 25,000 But what more leverage go to a prop place because they give you tend to a leverage at a prop place and retail You're only gonna get four to one no matter how much cash you have all right So you can trade my system with a prop account or retail account It's up to you and if you want to do options just open up an options account You pay the cost to the option but this aim at trade was an equity day trade just so you know You would have needed margin to do it whether you did a smaller position or either way It's a cost of the stock of the pit, but it's not cash. It's on margin and people need to understand that Anyways, you can make a lot of money day trading if you know what to do I'm very good at what I do. If you'd like to learn my system and what I do you can take my class It's called the Golden Gap course. It's December 15th and 16th last class of 2018 Class tuition 59 99 usl as classes online. You can be anywhere in the world and take it So this is gonna be a really good class because we have so much to go over looking at the whole year Going into 2019 and I know people are excited that signed up and ready to do it to prep for the calendar year Next year coming up and seeing what the next year brings if you'd like to do the trends course and the Golden Gap course You can pay one price 6499 for both classes online again. It could be anywhere in the world and take it Don't miss this last class of the year to prepare yourself for 2019. It's gonna be a wild year for the market What does that mean? It means if you lost money this year trading you're gonna lose more in 2019 if you don't learn what to do and if you made money in 2018 trading you're gonna lose in 2019 if you don't know what to do because the market the way the market is studying up It's gonna be very strange and odd for people and normal things that worked in the past I'm gonna work for people like buying support and shorting resistance at the last couple of weeks have shown that What I do when I'm looking at a gap I'm just gonna go back here really quickly what I am looking at aim at says nothing to do with the market Nothing to do at all or it could be anything. I'm just using this as an example I'm raining the gap for my 26 point system. So it is this stock. It's stock specific on the gap specific That's nothing to do with the overall market Many many days though people that day trade need the market to get the direction right to get the move in the stock Or even this particularly even if we're scalping It's gonna be a year where you've got to get a full-on move and momentum and something to get paid and you've got to get in the right direction and I'm telling you that means you got to get with someone that knows what to do people are gonna lose money in 2019 if they do not get proper education, I can't stress that enough and I hate to see people do that to themselves, but they do They just do so you got to be smart It's the best advice I can give you people be smart make wise choices with your trains Make wise choices and take a course before you risk any money in the market at all Again, if you'd like more information if you want to sign up for the last class of the year email me at Melissa at the Stockswish.com. Have a great day everyone


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