And Keith, hi how are you, Dave Vellante. Hey, nice to see you. Pleasure to see you, how's it going? Great. All right, Keith is the EVP of the business analytics solutions side of the house. Yes I am. Good to have you, analytics is pretty hot, you guys are focused on. Growing fast, yeah. Yeah, so, well let's start with Sapphire, I mean, big show, we were here last year broadcasting live at theCUBE and the themes last year were kind of new for SAP, first of all, there was a lot of talk about the co-CEOs. Right, that was sort of. That was new. That was new and then CyBase was, the ink was just flying on that deal. So, people like CyBase, Mobile really? And then, so you guys are showing some proof points there today, had an announcement today around that. That's correct. Had an announcement yesterday on EPM, you've got a lot of talk on analytics. Bill McDermott today used the term big data. Right.  So, talk about the role of analytics, your role at the company and we're seeing a real transformation of SAP and a real emphasis on analytics and business intelligence. Right. Let's talk about that a little bit. So, first of all, what's your primary function? What's your area of focus? So, I have responsibility for a set of analytic applications that we've been building out for about the last year and a half. And as you may recall, last September, Bill McDermott and I announced this new, our new foray into analytic applications. And we started out by focusing on a set of industries that we targeted to build very specific use cases that our customers have to normally build with the analytic tools that we sell on their own. So, we had this idea that we could build analytic applications, co-innovating with customers and getting those to market as products that they could buy instead of having to buy all the tools. Now, our customers end up buying both because the analytic apps that we build only deal with a specific use case that could be enterprise risk and reporting for banks or supplier, you know, suspended analytics, these kinds of things. So, and we've seen great success in a growing pipeline and this sort of thing and I've been very happy with the traction that we get because it gives us another angle, another way to interact with our customers and add value. We had Stephanie on yesterday and she was talking about the spectrum of analytics from kind of reporting all the way to predictive analytics is, and where do you fit on that spectrum? Is you span the whole spectrum? The whole spectrum. So, what we do is we use in our architecture all of the capabilities that SAP brings to the table and we combine those in unique ways and pre-configure those if you will for a specific use case, either a line of business use case or a vertical use case. And, you know, some of the demonstrations or prototypes that you're seeing here at Sapphire that leverage some of the new and advanced technologies that we're building, whether that's the mobile viewer technology that we're bringing to the marketplace that's built on top of the CyBase OnWire platform or HANA even, those are all analytic opportunities for us to build something specific for our customers. Let's talk some of these use cases, Keith. Can you give us some examples? An example would be one of the ones that we showed at our launch which is for retail companies which helps them optimize the space that they have, the shelf space that they're trying to rearrange in such a way that they optimize throughput and that they make sure that they've got the right inventory on hand and so forth. And so we built the retail sales analysis analytic application to deal with that specific case that our customers have. Now, how about mobile? We're hearing a lot of talk about mobile. I presume that's a big part of what we're hearing a lot about analytics on mobile devices. So where does that fit within your purview and the initiative? Yeah, well, in order for analytics to be impactful, they need to be wherever the business user is in their daily working life. And in many cases, the business users that we're targeting aren't at a desk. So just being on a laptop or a desktop isn't sufficient and we're making our analytic gaps wherever there is a mobile use case to be defined that our co-innovation customers say is necessary, whether that's a claims agent that's out in the, out with customers looking at various claims that they need to make in an insurance company or any other kind of use case where the user is really out and about. You need a mobile angle to that and you probably aren't providing the full range of analytic capabilities on the mobile device. You want to pair that down for the very specific needs of that person that's out in the field. So I want to talk a little bit about complexity and simplicity. It's a big topic. You see the consumerization of IT, driving trends, trends toward simplicity. And then you've got this base of software, rich customer base, demanding a lot of functions. Analytics are very complicated to look at your business and slice it and dice it a zillion different ways is a complicated task. At the same time, you know, a lot of enterprise software has functioned that may or may not be necessary. People really trying to optimize their business around just a couple of metrics. So how do you balance the need for rich function and all that complexity that you're designing with them drive to mobile and simplicity? Yeah. Well, first of all, we get very focused on what it is that the specific co-innovation customers need. So we don't build an analytic app unless customers tell us that it's a need. We have these roadmaps to find. They can look at the roadmaps and we pick a specific point where there's an inflection of need and we build it out with them and they advise us, we're building an analytic application that needs to apply to many customers in that industry even though it could be a relatively narrow use case. What we consider narrow, a solvency to compliance in the European Union for insurance companies is a big topic and they need to comply with this legislation and the European Union in a couple of years. So they're getting very smart about whether they've got capital in place to underwrite specific insurance policies that they've written. And so you may say, well, that's narrow. Well, it applies to every insurance company in Europe and that will become pervasive in other parts of the globe. So even this is more of a statutory requirement. There's lots of complexity in there and many consultancies are advising them and we're working with our partners and customers to define that set of requirements. Now what they may do is for different departments within the insurer, they'll break that down into those KPIs and measures that are relevant to that department. Right, okay. So there's still a fair amount of customization that you're able to do there. We can. And or the ecosystem can do it. Yes, exactly. How about this notion of data? Bill McDermott talked about big data today and where do you see data fitting in to your product strategy? Well, it's fundamental. Without data, you can't do analytics. And without analytics, I don't know that the data makes a whole lot of sense, right? Do you see a day when you can actually develop products around data? Is that something that's just in the mid to near to mid term? Or is that just something that really is going to be left to other companies? You know, a lot of these web 2.0 companies, Google, Facebook, et cetera. Is that something that, can you see the day where SAP actually packages and monetizes data? Data as a product itself? Or is that something you're going to just enable your customers to do? Well, you know, we're seeing forms of that in our incubator. We have an incubator team that does very, you know, sort of far out looking projects, if you will, but they're looking to build a product that we can actually bring to market. And they're working with co-innovation customers too. And what they're doing in essence is they're looking at data that's within, I'll call it within the SAP ERP framework. And they're looking at data that, for example, here's the use case that I've seen where they've gone to a number of clients in the aerospace and defense industry. They share 50 to 60% of the same suppliers. And if they basically call that data and aggregate it and anonymize it, they can actually do analytics on top of it to help these companies, these aerospace and defense companies understand where there might be a risk in their supply chain with one of their suppliers or whether there's something that they might want to optimize. And so those are the types of services which become a product that we can offer to our customers because we know our data, what's stored in ERP so well. I think those kinds of services that become products I think we could get into. And with HANA, it makes it a heck of a lot easier because we can essentially replicate the data, although we're not really replicating it. We're just instantiating it in another form in another environment. And we can analyze that data very, very quickly. But selling the data that's not from within SAP becomes challenging because of all the concerns you have about privacy. And customers own the data. Yes, exactly. So do you ever have customers saying, hey, we want you to help us do that, help us monetize our own data? Is that something that you can see in the next five years? Occasionally there are customers who broach that topic with us, but that's not our core business, right?  You can think of something like satellite TV, these TV networks, and the data they're getting about what you choose, what movies you choose, what channels you watch, et cetera, et cetera. There's lots of data there, but that's not our core business to take that data and create a product from it. Yeah, although it may be increasingly their core business to do that, and they'll be relying on your software to do so. One of the things that we talk about, Keith, in the Wikibon community is, when we talk to companies using analytic systems, there's a tension between the line of business wanting functionality, wanting it now, wanting to do what they want to do in their narrow stovepipe, and the IT department wanting to standardize our own systems. And so, you know, we're seeing this sort of, interesting tension between IT and the line of business, and of course, it's exacerbated by the fact that you've got a lot of consolidation going on in that industry, you've got a lot of point products out there. What's SAP's take on that, and are you hearing that, and how are you navigating through that tension field? Well, you know, this is something that's been going on for a long time, and as the tools become much more user-friendly, and so business analysts can actually configure the tools to do what they want, the IT departments begin to have issues with, they may not have as big a role as they used to have in the development of that solution. Well, one of our benefits, I think, is that we've actually pre-configured the solution for them so that the IT can be part of the process and work with the business users to say, here's a solution, it meets 80% of your needs. 20% of this we're going to have to modify and tailor to our specific needs, and we'll help you get the data that you need and make sure that it's in a trusted form for you, the business user, to analyze on a daily basis. And so what we're trying to do is create an environment where IT and the users come together and get something up and running, not in 12 months or 18 months, but in six weeks or eight weeks, and start to derive value from that, and that standardization is already built into the architecture and the data forms that we've shipped with the products. What's the biggest change that you've seen in the whole analytics space in the last couple of years, and what do you think that means going forward? Well, I think we may be on, and Bill and Jim have discussed this kind of concept over the last year or so, and what we're starting to see is that the switch to the line of business and decision making is becoming very real, and we spent decades doing our best to automate and to optimize business processes, and before that just transactions. And now what's happening is there's sort of a new wave of enterprise applications, I believe, that will be coming to market in great number, and those are all focused on analytics and decision making. They're decision making applications. It's the next wave of an ERP-like set of products that will be sold in the software space, and I think over time what you'll see is that many companies spring up in an ecosystem, and so one of the things that we're trying to do is to build a developer kit. You heard a little bit about that when Jim talked about the mobile piece of that, and so that we can go to market with a comprehensive developer kit where our partners can build analytic applications with mobile functionality, within memory, with other advancements that we make, and build it in a standardized way, a way that we feel confident that when delivered to our joint clients is well-conceived and is built on a set of standard technology that we support. And so that's kind of the future of really opening this up, because SAP, for all its resources, does have limited resources to build these specific products, right? We were talking to Oliver Busman, your CIO, about the notion of an app store, and I asked him, is SAP analogous to an Apple or a Zynga or both, and his answer was both. We see ourselves as the platform and also the application developer, and you're putting forth a scenario where you've got the platform, you've got your own analytic applications, maybe other business applications, and then your ecosystem partners with applications. So what do you have to do to take that role on of the analogous to Apple role, the platform vendor? What do you have to change about the way in which you deal with your ecosystem? I mean, Apple's very controlling in terms of how it adjudicates which apps go where and when they get released and the standards. I mean, are you putting those capabilities in place? Is that something that you need to learn how to do? And what are your thoughts there? I think that's where we need to go, and the reason why is because we can't do it all on our own. Our clients have, they're asking us for, we have no shortage, let me just put it this way, we have no shortage of clients coming to us and saying, we've got this idea and we've talked to five of our, our competitors, because they all talk and they all want the same thing. And so, and they used to do this to us in the industry specific solutions that they wanted in ERP. And even horizontal capabilities that they wanted, they get together, our user group is very powerful. And so we're starting to hear the same thing, which is that we, and we share with them openly our roadmaps and they say, okay, when am I getting that? Well, that's two years out. That's too far away. We need it like now. Then what we need to be able to do is approach our ecosystem and say, we've got this standard developer kit. And make that easy to use. Don't make that laborious to sign up to a program. Don't make it too expensive. You know, these, to do volume, you need to be accessible. And of course we want to make money off of it and we want to proliferate our technology in the marketplace. That's, you know, what the play is for us. Yeah, and it's a fine line, right? I mean, because you've got on the one hand, you want to be the platform vendor and maybe you can take a big on every application that's sold, for example, again, the Apple model. At the same time, you know, there's competition with the ecosystem in certain ways. And in fact, you could say that about Apple. You could say that about Facebook and you can certainly say that about Google. So that's a new learning for SAP, isn't it? I think it's new, just because the players that we're looking to partner with in the ecosystem aren't the traditional SAP players. We're looking at the traditional players absolutely want to be in this space. But there's a whole range of partners who have very distinct knowledge about consumer goods companies in the Midwest of the United States and how to interact with them and get requirements from them. And they want to build an analytic application that's not only sold in the Midwest, but sold throughout the country or maybe throughout the world. And we can provide that channel for them, right? To market. But we may not have the time, the resources, the expertise to build that analytic application or another kind of application, a mobile application. And that's where we want to go with this. It was a very powerful concept. I mean, the whole notion of SAP becoming essentially the Facebook or the Apple of the enterprise app store. I mean, it's the right strategy, it's the right vision. It's just good vision, right? A lot of work to get there. Yeah, I mean, what I think we're fortunate with is that we have the fundamental components, whether it's industry expertise, line of business expertise, the channel, the board backing. The brand. Even the technology, the brand, the technology investments that we're making, et cetera. So we've got the, I'd say we've got the right vectors. Now we got to put it all together and actually deliver, which is what we've fundamentally done for 38 years. Yeah, I mean, we had Jim Hageman-Shinabe in theCUBE yesterday and you get a real sense in talking to him that you guys do a lot of serious R&D. You take it seriously. And I think that is definitely an advantage. No doubt about it. And we're seeing an interesting transformation of SAP. I mean, the majority of your revenue still comes from the maintenance base, right? But you're investing that maintenance base and trying to innovate in new ways. We're talking about simplification. What I'm hearing from you is, in a lot of cases, you'll look to the ecosystem to help provide that simplification. Maybe reach some of those new opportunities. So it's a really kind of remaking SAP, aren't you? It's a new approach to the market where we tended to build everything on our own. Now what we want to be able to do is to build certain capabilities for the ecosystem that certainly have the SAP stamp of approval and the brand, but do a much broader job of opening that funnel for innovation and content for our customers. Yeah, I think there's real opportunities. I mean, obviously a major competitor wants to basically own the whole stack. And I think that's created a vacuum from a partnership standpoint. And you're seeing, I mean, we had EMC on earlier today and they were talking about the importance of SAP as a partner, that's a company with VMware and Cisco's doing a lot of partnering. And to me, you remember the PC days, right? Where you had sort of Apple doing everything and that worked, that was effective. And then you had the Microsoft's and Intel's sort of taking that ecosystem approach and ultimately got more leverage out of that model. I don't see why it wouldn't here. We talk a lot about Android as an, clearly Apple's doing very well, but the ecosystem approach can work. I mean, they can both work, but clearly SAP is becoming sort of this new partner-friendly company. At least that's my take. Yeah, I mean, and you can see that in the investments we're making and the programs that we're bringing to market through Eric Defoe's new ecosystem team, and they're very much focused on the go-to-market aspects, the sell-through, the channels that we're creating, and you can't do that unless you're able to bring to those partners a set of value-added capabilities that they can build their own products with. Yeah, I mean, if for every dollar somebody spends on an SAP license, you can claim, well, there's five or 10 or maybe even $15 spent within the ecosystem, you know, that's money in the pocket of your partners, that's good news, and I think that's the philosophy that you're taking, is that right? Yes, it's money in their pocket, but it's also money in ours. Yeah, right, I mean, there's one guy that makes a ton of money here, and a lot of guys make a little bit of money, and they're all happy, you know, it's like the old car dealers and car makers, right? The car makers made the big bucks, and the car dealers all did pretty well, though. They all had boats and summer homes, and, you know. As far as I know they did. Yeah, right. I think they still do. Actually, a lot of the car dealers probably did better than any of the car makers, so there you go, right? The ecosystem partners could do quite well, so. Excellent, well, we're here with Keith Costello, who's the EVP of SAP's analytics business. Keith, I appreciate you coming in on short notice of theCUBE, it was great to have you. Yeah, thanks for having me. And, you know, please follow us on siliconangle.tv, we'll have this video up for you, and have at it, so thank you very much. All right, take care. All right, that was Keith Costello.


Welcome to School of Calisthenics TV with Tim and Jaco. We've got some great stuff coming up on this episode. We're going to talk calisthenics for sports performance. We are celebrating one of your graduations. And it wouldn't be right to leave you without a little movement challenge to have a go at. So we're going to bring a little bit of play time into School of Calisthenics TV as well. And then we'll wrap things up. We're just letting you know all of the exciting things we've got planned for the rest of this year. Welcome to the first episode of School of Calisthenics TV, a slightly different format, giving Jaco an opportunity to lounge and chat. See, it's getting comfortable. We're in for a nice little ride here in this new format of content we've got. We want this to be as interactive as possible with you guys. So if you have any requests, the things you want us to cover, you have any questions, put them in the comments below. And we will be able to add those to future episodes. So it's fair to say we're going to do a bit of an evolution. We're hoping to get guests on in the future. We get an opportunity to dive in some bit of training, science, whiteboard sessions. We may even have a monitor if we can stretch to that. But yeah, absolutely. I hope you guys are going to enjoy it as a slightly different take on what you may have seen in the past from School of Calisthenics. But we're looking forward to bringing a little bit of new, exciting content to the table. So the first feature we've got for you on the very first episode is our deep dive, where we get to take a literally deep dive into a bigger topic of conversation. Timbo, what have we got for us in this first episode? Well, something that's been on the agenda a little bit for us recently over the last year or so, particularly since we started doing some work with the UK Strength and Conditioner Association has been the use of calisthenics within sports performance. So we've done some work with a number of different organisations now, and we just thought we'd sort of have a bit of a reflection on how people are using it, the feedback from coaches, physiotherapists, strength and conditioning practitioners, about where they sort of see it fitting in. Because there's obviously a lot of people who are going to be playing sport, looking at calisthenics, and then started to think about, is it going to be applicable or useful in that training environment? And obviously our background is in sports performance, as practitioners and athletes. I refer to you as that one, Jack, I was... And everything as a rugby player, as an athlete, I just think it's a rugby player.  They just don't give that, we're just not that athletic. I just rocked up on a saturday afternoon and tried not to get hurt. It's exactly what I did. But we thought we'd have a bit of a look at and chat around that. So let me throw the first question over. General sort of like reflections and terms of when we first started thinking about using calisthenics as sports performance, probably fair to say is we didn't know how it was going to land. No. I think we'd experienced from our own training of how we were able to start to use or seeing how calisthenics was made really beneficial for the upper body and integration into the core and sort of the rest of the kinetic chamber. It was very much like core shoulder based. And so with athletes like some of the Paralympic Swimmers we were working with, it made sense to challenge them a little bit using body weight training calisthenics for that sort of upper body core control. And then it just sort of, people would just, I guess, we didn't set out to make that happen. I think people were using, we're talking to a number of different coaches that we had touch points with that had used it a little bit like us, a little bit with themselves, having to see some of the content and then started using it with athletes and really seeing the benefits and sort of having that thought experiment, that idea of like, okay, but it makes more sense to use this scenario, this exercise over my normal bench press or overhead press for these reasons, testing it out and then seeing it through and getting great results. And so it's sort of just snowballed from there, I guess. I think there's one thing that surprised me a little bit is how many different people have got in touch and said, I can be using it for Brazilian jiu-jitsu or I'm using it to really help my triathlon training. And there's a lots of people who've sort of just implemented it within the training and gone, actually, it's a really effective way of improving style and canoe or whatever it might be. Particularly we've done some work with rugby and we've done some stuff with the Football Association recently and obviously the UK's Training and Conditioning Association, it's quite a broad mixture of sports, but I think that the transfer over and why it works so well is with all of these sports, and when I did my first training, some of my initial sort of qualifications were around just understanding human movement and understanding that the human movement system is effectively like one big piece of muscle, whether we like to kind of chop it down into smaller bits, but it's one big system, all integrated, complex, lots of stuff going on. And what Calisthenics does is respects that complexity and sport is a complex environment as well. So when we're talking about rugby as a good example, the chaos on the rugby field, having a system which has got a really strong peck from a bench press in an environment which is kind of changing all the time, having trained the system in a more integrated and holistic way is probably going to prep you for better to better perform in that environment. And I think that's one of the major things about Calisthenics, it's not the golden bullet. Like we've said that in a number of presentations that we've done is that it's part of the puzzle. There is definitely a need in most sports to have a really strong lower body, powerful, explosive, plyometrics, back squat, deadlift, whatever you want to do. That's 100% part of the puzzle. What we're probably saying with Calisthenics is that this is part of upgrading the athletic profile to be able to enhance physical literacy and improve performance, which is actually gonna go, you know, if you're on deadlift more weight or you wanna shoulder press more weight, there's some movements within Calisthenics which may well help that if that's part of the training program. So like we've talked about this before, if you wanna shoulder press more weight, just learn to handstand because I'm pretty confident that the neuromuscular connection and control around us, the shoulder and into the rest of the body is gonna improve your ability to shift more weight overhead, more joint stability, more force output. So it's using it for the right purpose, I think. But when you zoom out and you go, well sport is total body movement. Like we were chatting with the FA recently in Caroline with the physios there was saying that we need to really understand the importance of single leg stability because sprinting is a single leg exercise. When we start to bring us on the progressions in low body calisthenics, they're really good for just building mobility and stability in that pattern which you then gonna transfer through onto the park or the playing pitch. And just, I think that's it. That for me is a big one, I think. Yeah, and it's using it as, like you said, using it as a tool of where does it fit appropriately for you so that if that example is saying someone needs to improve their overhead press and they have some handstand work as part of it, but ultimately understanding that that's gonna form part of improving that base layer that if you are gonna want to get really good at over pressing, you're still gonna then have overhead pressing in your program just because the specific adaptations are imposed. And as I said, Prince, we're going, well if you're still gonna wanna do that then, it's not the answer of just one thing. But for some people that don't take part in sport and you do, you're just like training for fun, it's like you wanna go all in on calisthenics, like that's cool as well. It's probably where we're quite at in our own training. But then if you're looking at working in some of the sports that you're doing, whether you're in elite sport or whether it's just like you're playing whatever sport you do for fun, then it might be able to form parts of your warm-ups or parts of some bits of your weeks of your training. So we're just finding it nice to go. There's so much that you can do with it and then you can pick and choose which bits is gonna be relevant to you, your sports, your goals or the people that you're working with. And even from a starting point, if someone's listening to this and thinking, all right, well how do I even start to integrate calisthenics? I play rugby, football, hockey, cricket, whatever. How do I start to integrate some of this stuff? I already have a gym program. We can just, though, rather than doing a lap pull-down, you might do start working a bit more on pull-ups. And I think that you can integrate some of the progressions around chest pressing or that sort of stuff. And again, I'm just gonna do some of these more push-up variations and progressions, which we talk about push-ups, but when you understand about the calisthenics, you've got way more sort of opportunity to scale it with intensity. You can still make push-ups super, super difficult. Like a really good example is we do a bit of work with some wheelchair racers. We've used planche progressions with those guys because it's probably about as close to the pushing position we're gonna get. Dips, barbell, bench press, rows have sort of been staple parts of their program in the past. But if I can get them into a planche pressing type position with the hips in the elevated position, that's exactly where they're gonna be in the chair. So my transfer from training effect is high, but I'm also getting integration from the shoulder and the hip. And we know the shoulder's gonna perform well if it sits on top of a stable pelvis or a stable hip and we can transfer forces between that system. And the great thing about that in calisthenics and it's transfer into sports is you can't cheat it. If you can't create the right position, you can't stabilize the joint, you can't get into a good body position, then you can't do the movement. Whereas I'll show you many, many people who can somehow find a way of getting an extra two and a half kilos on a bar, five kilos in a bar, compromising position and still completing the rep or the set, but equality of movement is pretty much fallen apart. And when we zoom out and we go, what does like people who are excelling their sport at whatever level, I played like an really average level of rugby, but the people that performed well at that level were people who moved well, they were just athletic and they could just do more stuff. Those guys that struggled just didn't have a particularly good athletic base to lean on. So if we want movements to be effortless and beautiful, then it needs to be integrated and that's what calisthenics is going to help you to do, whatever then format you then going to start to implement it into from a sport specific perspective. I think my final point on that is just picking up on your, talking about progressions and variations. And actually, if I think back to what my training used to be like when I played professional rugby, like I had very good coaches and everything. We did lots of good work in the gym, but if I think of what bits would I use now from calisthenics, it would be the notion, the idea to be a little bit more creative and less rigid. I would be so rigid with our hand position, with our feet position for squats, for bench press, for pull-ups or what. We wouldn't really think about like challenging ourselves outside of just whatever was our norm or whatever we thought was like the perfect technique. And so I think with calisthenics, by its very nature, because the progressive overload doesn't come from just putting a little bit more weight, a little bit more weight, a little bit more weight. It comes from changing a body angle, changing a lever length. It does, by you, just exploring, being a little bit more creative, which I think I've certainly found as a training that's enjoyable, it's fun, I like trying to be creative like that. But then also as a coach, it's good to use to be a little bit more creative. It's not boring, because it's not just, there's a different way to provide that progressive overload. But you've got the continuum, haven't you? Because when we look at the guys who are swimming, we'll see people doing pull-ups with 40 kilos round the waist, and the shape is horrendous. Back's bent out of shape, range of movement's not amazing, but they're putting a big tick in their back because they've done a 40 kilo pull-up. Where in the water, when we transfer them into a streamline position and control in body shape, I really want the shoulder and the hip to be nicely aligned so I can catch and I can move effortlessly through the water. So we'll often, I've done it with swimmers before where they don't pull-ups, and like, right, strip it all back. I want that super strict line. I really want you to think about connection from shoulder to hip, so that we're moving like around, almost like we're on rails. Quite rigid, I'm quite specific about that because that's where the transfer is going to come in. And they'll go from being able to do like, let's say the argument, so they can do pull-ups with 20 kilos on. They'll go back to body weight and they'll be able to do like maybe eight or 10 or even less. And it's a really humbling part of that, but when we're looking at sports performance from a strength perspective and strength training, strength and conditioning standpoint, it's about transfer or training effects. Like, is what we're doing physically in the gym actually going to make us better? It's like their famous quote from the rowing coach of like, does it make the boat go faster? And if it doesn't, then I'm not interested because that's the outcome. And that's a very performance-based mindset. If you're in recreational sport, then if you enjoy it and you enjoy training, the stakes are far less. But I think that's always like, if you've got that mindset of I'm training because I want to play well at the weekend or I want to perform well, what can you do in the week which is going to give you more ticks in boxes and to then actually help you to improve the performance on whatever sport it is you're doing. And whether that's doing some more push-up variations because your sport requires good postural control and good core activation or you're trying to improve shoulder stability because you play a quite chaotic contact sport, that's where there's some of the stuff around that you can have a look at. And just to say that, if you're looking, if you are coming from a point of wanting to know where calisthenics can improve shoulder performance, there's a presentation you can watch that we did at the UKS training conditioning association which is on YouTube, you can watch the whole thing. So if you just type in school of calisthenics, UKS, yeah, you'll find that. And there's a bit of context in that around, up there apparently I'm being told. It's a bit of context around how the shoulder can benefit from closed kinetic chain training which is effectively hand fixed on the floor bar or a gymnastics ring. Yeah. So it's like understanding what you want from your training because I just want to pick up on that swimming example of being able to produce more and more force, like maximum for like how much weight can you pull in your pull-up? Yeah, I think the research project I did for my UKS, it was something like five newtons of force that you would apply through the water with your hands. So it's like 16 kilos, roughly. So it's not, what's the point in having more of that strength? You can't apply it to the moving water. But then if you take something like rugby where you're talking about being able to take high impact and being able to have those robustness around the shoulder to be able to absorb impacts in lots of different positions and scenarios, then having lots of strength in there and being reactive like how in a muscle-up we have to change from one position to another under maximal force and sort of strain. And that's where some of the more, let's call them the sexy movements in Calisthenics can be important. And that's what we did when we went to Scotland with rugby. Yeah. I think that my sort of closing thought on this is gonna, we used this quote recently, but if you've got more movement options, you can move in more ways. And that sounds really simple, but what Calisthenics is gonna do for you from a sports performance perspective is it's gonna improve your physical literacy. It's gonna teach you to be strong in positions that we might not normally train in the gym in a normal bench press, bench row, dumbbell row, deadlift squat pattern, which is often very sagittal playing. It's gonna move us outside and it's gonna give you more movement options, enhance your catalogue of movements that your central nervous system has got access to. And then when you're confronted in a chaotic environment, and we refer to this as contextual variability of going, can you, have you got a movement system which can respond to the environment as the environment changes? The more diverse our physical literacy and athletic profile, the better we are equipped to respond to changes in the environment that we're playing in. And that means performance improves. So it's like, can you step, change, turn direction? Can you jump? Do you know where you are in space? It's all that sort of stuff which you just go, it's not about just like, how strong am I? You've got this whole physical other component to think about. And that's where calisthenics is gonna give you a little bit of an edge. And if you can move in more ways than your opponent and you're giving you technical requirements or build and build up at the same time, then you have a real opportunity for competitive advantage. Shifting gears now. We're gonna go into the redefining your impossible section team. And this is where we get to have a look at what you guys are doing and the amazing things all of you in the community are doing with your training. So it's time to celebrate a little bit of success. And this month, we've got an incredible human flag from the legend that is Rob Falzone. Jaco, how would you like to pronounce that second name? Falzone, eh? A little bit of Italian. He's not Italian, though. He's not. He told us very correctly that it was Falzone. Rob has got a military background, some powerlifting experience as well, got a good training background, but moved onto trying some calisthenics when he got an injury and meant that he couldn't kind of do anything with lower body base. I think it was a broken foot or toe that he was struggling with. So embarked on the human flag journey, got a gym set up at home. Join the virtual classroom and follow the human flag program. Have a look at this one and see what you think. I don't know whether I'm, what's more, whether I'm more impressed or more, a little bit jealous. Intimidated. That bad boy for, he got up there and then there was a little bit of an adjustment and then you're like thinking, wait, that's it? And then it was like, are I longer? I don't, oh, that's really long. It's probably longer than I can hold it. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna jump in in a second and show you a couple of things that Rob did really well. So you've got some practical takeaways that you can learn from his human flag performance. But before we do that, if you wanna be featured as one of the celebrated members of the community, doing awesome things and redefining your impossible, send us a video, landscape format, preferably shot in HD of some higher quality. I don't like, sends a really ropey landscape project probably for send us some quality because then we can feature it, everyone can see what's gonna go on. And also if you've got any techniques or particular movements that you're working on that you want some specific advice with, we are gonna do a technique breakdown analysis as part of it. So if you are, if it's handstand problems, you've got something in your back lever, your muscle up's just not firing properly, sends a video, you don't have to do it perfectly, just show us where you're at. And Jack and I are gonna put our heads together and come up with some coaching points so you're gonna get some completely free and specific advice to help you to really find your possible. Yeah, with Rob there, you see that he's waited till he can do the end thing, the full human flag. There's actually the most amount of value comes to you and everyone else watching out there when we were able to give you feedback and help along the way rather than just purely celebrating what you've managed to do at the end. We wanna help you guys with your training, whatever it is you're doing, whatever is that impossible is that you're working towards. And we can only do that if you give us, if we're able to give you feedback along the way and along the journey. And so that's what this is about. There's details in the description below about where to send those videos. Also in the comments, you can let us know some of the things that you're working on. If you've got any questions, you can connect with us there. But now, let's- Let's show you what we did to know that human flag. Breaking down some of the technique points then for the human flag that Rob did particularly well is focused around this bottom arm, the pushing arm of the human flag and it being a real anchor. So we just wanna highlight a couple of points on this just to help those of you that are working on redefining your impossible of the human flag. So too often people just come into a stop position where they're really slumped in this bottom shoulder. You see how Tim's chest is facing more towards me rather than opening up and turning chest towards you guys and actually then opening that bottom shoulder up. So it becomes a little bit of an issue sometimes for people around them ability or flexibility to get into that position but also and most importantly to be able to put force down in that position. Tim's actively pushing away with the shoulder rather than slumping. So even just cause he rotates into there he could still slump in and have that ear by that shoulder. Now he needs to be driving away in that nice shape. If we can't think about the framework that we're using, can I say it's movement and strength. If Tim can't create the right movement, the right shape in terms of creating this nice triangle of the arms and then having his body out to the side. If he can't create that force there, or that shape is not going to be able to apply force down. So in that shape there he's just starting to dab his toes off the ground and that's sort of your first step. Can you with a little triangle of strength pushing with bottom arm pulling the top can you just dab the toes off the ground? Ultimately what Rob did nicely was he got up into that position and what I want Tim to do is just do the tuck shape. So if he comes up in just to a tuck and making this connection between this hip and this top arm pulling shoulder, he's pulling, pushing, making a connection to that top hip and spending some time there where you've got the hip in completely the same line, so parallel to the floor is where the bread and butter, the base work of your human flag needs to be. We don't need to spend time chasing with the feet out all the time. That's just going to slow down your progress and what happens is you don't really often have the hip high enough it starts to be a little bit lonely. Don't really make that same connection once you've sorted out that bottom arm. That's quite advanced for the human flag. That's for someone like Rob that was like very close to get into there. Well, he was at the end, but the last phase of that training, if you want to work on how to build it up right from the start, we've got our things like our stability ball flag, our angle flags, all of those are in the human flag program inside the virtual classroom if you're wanting to know how to build up to that stage because getting to a tuck is pretty difficult, but once you're there, you'll have broken the back of a human flag. It's time for a movement challenge and this week we're looking at Tim is coming at it with a bit of a strength based element and they're going to put me through my paces a little bit, aren't you Timbo? I'm going to try. Because you've got a bit of a something not happy with. Is that what I'm asking? We talk about acute variables in training. Rep sets intensity, rest period and one that most people do really badly is tempo. No one can control tempo. We want adaptation, but they're not doing it properly. So we're going to teach you a little bit about We put ourselves in that, don't we? No. We're going to teach you a little bit about tempo and how you can maximize suit adaptations. Now tempo is super important for hypertrophy. If you're trying to build muscle mass, it's also really important if you want to build endurance and stability. So if you like doing longer sets, you're going to need to get your tempo nailed down.  So give it a go, but this is like a real level. And if you start to play around a bit more of a tempo working training, you are going to see some significant gains. So it's real simple. It's a push-up challenge and we're going to combine it with a cluster. And that's when we start to break down a set into smaller chunks. So Jaco's job is going to get into push-up. We're going to set him on a clock. I'm going to start that. His job is going to be a push-up and he's got to do a four-second eccentric. So taking four seconds to lower down, he's going to hold for two at the bottom and then drive back up. Four, three, two, one, hold. One, two, back up. He's going to go for four reps and then he's going to have a 10-second rest. He drives back out. That's three, push through one more. So he's going to control this. And then after this one, when he gets back to the top, he's just going to check his time on the clock, see how long he's got. That says 30 seconds. So he's now going to roll through. He's got a 10-second rest period. So four reps. Three, two, one, go. Again, four seconds on the eccentric, two-second hold and then press back up. Your job is to repeat that circuit. So four reps with a 10-second rest as many times as possible. See how far you can get and see how much your shoulders and your chest are going to thank you for actually paying attention to what science has been telling us should be the way that we train for a very long time. You can thank us later. Jack is going to keep going. I think he's going to have like five. Oh, is that it? That was another two sets. All right. I've got another 10 seconds rest. Have a go. Post me in the comments how you get on. Let us know how many sets you get to do. Three, two, if you hit 10, you're doing pretty nicely. That's 40 push-ups in probably four and a half minutes or so. We look forward to seeing you have a go and post it up on social. If you want to share those with us, we'd love to see what you guys are up to and how well you can smash through your tempo. We'll see you soon. So, before we leave you for this episode, we're going to tell you a little bit about what's going on in the School of Calisthenics over the coming months. And let me tell you, Jacko, it's a packed schedule. It is busy. One of the things that's really important to us is creating opportunities for our community of incredible people who are engaged and part of the School of Calisthenics to come together and hang out. And we have got something coming up this year, double back to back, Adopio, Jacko. That's how we like it. Which we're going to tell you about. In June, so on the 13th and 14th of June, I'm going to go in reverse order. On the 14th of June, something that's been really popular and we really appreciate everyone that does listen to the podcast has been the School of Calisthenics podcast. And we thought for the third year we've done these live events where we bring everyone together. It's a free event, so everybody is welcome here in Nottingham. This year we're going to go for the podcast live where we're bringing in some of the best podcast guests that you guys have loved the most and bring them together to perform part of this event where not only are we going to do calisthenics and a little taste of sessions of calisthenics and have some little competitions like we did last year. We're also having these guests giving us a little bit of insight into some of the expertise and areas that they work in. So we've got Dr. Sally Bell from the podcast company talking about health and nutrition. We've got Brian Keen, the fitness expert. We've got the handstand expert, Jonathan Last. We've got Guy from the National Circus coming to teach us about that. And then also we've got the guys from We Move plus a whole load more. So for all the details for that is on the website. This is what's going to happen, you know? Normally we have to work quite hard at these events. Now I've got all these people. Oh, those are literally going to be me, Peter Collarda. I was asking a couple of questions again. So yeah, what do you want? So they're all going to do on their specialist areas. They're going to do a taste of sessions for you as well. So you get to come and experience not just what's going on at the calisthenics but everything that's plugging in and around there. So if you're into health, fitness, wellness and calisthenics, come along to that free event in Nottingham. I've committed to this. That's on Sunday, the 14th of June. And you don't have to sign up. You just turn up where the details are on the website. I've committed to this position. I feel like I can't move now. So if you really want to get on board and then make a whole weekend of it, the day before on the 13th of June, in Belvoir, Beaver Castle, which is close to Nottingham, is where the Midlands Tough Mudder is. Now we did this at 25. We got together as a team last year. And one of my goals is for us to have a bigger team this year. So we're going to be doing that on the day before. So you can come do the Tough Mudder with us as part of our team. We've got a set 11 a.m. start time for that. All set up the details. And we do need you to sign up for that. Details for that, again, are on the website. That's the day before on the 13th of June. Podcast live on the 14th of June. Best weekend of the summer happening here in Nottingham.  We're going to have massive range of abilities. Last year, it would be the same this year. It's not that difficult. And we will be doing it as a team. So you're not going to get left behind. No person left behind in the Tough Mudder course by the school of calisthenics. And we finish as a team. We did. And Jack got electrocuted, which was a highlight of my day. But if you don't want to do that bit of electrocution bit, don't know, put it off. Anyway, last couple of bits, loads of workshops all over the country, which you can come and get involved in. And not just this country in the UK. Outside of this country. Also international. We're going to Norway. And we're doing a retreat in Sri Lanka, which is going to be the most intimate experience that we offer, not in a weird way, but in a way where you get one-to-one individualized program by myself and Jack. That is going to be in Sri Lanka in December. It's selling fast and it's going to be epic. You need to go and have a look at the place that we're going to. On the beach, unspoiled, calisthenics, outdoor CrossFit box, unbelievable. As we record this now, there's 12 spaces available. Seven have already been sold. So there's only five left. So get on board with that if you are interested. And finally, if you want any online training programs, anything else that is specifically helping you towards your calisthenics goal, you can find those in our virtual classroom online, virtual classroom, find it on the website, go there, find everything that you need. Probably I would say the most comprehensive calisthenics educational and training resource available on the internet. And I'm saying that because I wrote it and I put a lot into it. So please go and check it out. We have a bit of a map. There we are. There's a free beginners program and there's a free pull-up program on there. So you can get to test it out for free in terms of that. And then you also get a seven-day trial with it. So if you want to just test out all of the different programs, you can get one of the memberships and try it out for a week for free. So that is the end of the first episode of the School of Calisthenics TV. I enjoyed it. Brilliant. If you've got any suggestions on content that you want us to cover, questions if you're going to send us your videos that we can do some video analysis on or guests that you would like us to see. Obviously, within reason, we can't get anybody. We can try. We can try. But things you want us to cover post them up. Tell us what you think about this new style of content of interaction with Japanite. And we are very excited to see you in the next episode of School of Calisthenics TV. Class dismissed.


Hey Virgo, this is Kelly from House of Virgo. Welcome to your reading. This will be for all Virgos, Virgo's Sun, Moon, Rising, Venus. Some of the messages may or may not resonate. Just take with fits. Leave the rest and if you want to get a personal reading from me, there's a link in the description box below where you can get your reading. It's just you can choose a 30 minute or a one-hour phone call. Yeah, and if you're new to my channel, welcome. Please do hit like, share, and subscribe. Okay, Virgo, we're going to take a look at the energy past, present, and future of the person you may be thinking of or who you're listening to this reading for. Remember, it's a general reading, so it may or may not resonate. Just take with fits. Leave the rest. Okay. All right. All right. Give me just a second here. Um, so the past, Ten of Swords, the High Priestess, and the Queen of Cups. So Cancer Scorpio Pisces, we have Leo Energy, and we have Virgo Tark's Capricorn. We are female. Okay. All right. Excuse me, I have to like, there's so much steam on my glasses. I can't say. All right. Let's see. Let's take a look at the past energy. All right. Engagement. Your love life was ascending to a higher level of commitment, true love, the romance of a lifetime. Okay. So I feel like there's somebody here in the past. Engagement was on the table or a possibility to, you know, move things forward in a very healthy way. Um, I feel like your person was with very withholding of their emotions. Like they have deep emotions and this person kind of comes across here to me like in the past very supportive, nurturing type of person. Lot of betrayal. Okay. This person, the Ten of Swords, it's just like hitting rock bottom. I think they kind of surrender to the fact that you are their true love. I feel like that was yesterday's reading as well. But that high priestess energy withholding of the emotions, yeah, it's very strange going within. Some of you may have been in a process, maybe they proposed, and you're going to get engaged and then this person dropped off the face of the the earth in a lot of ways. But if it wasn't engagement, then for some of you, like the connection in the past was kind of ascending to another level of your relationship, but it feels like this person, um, gosh, it's like they surrender to the fact that like you're their true love, but they pulled back their energy. Let's take a look at this Ten of Swords, King of Swords and high priestess, yeah, nine of wands, boundaries, withdrawal, and the queen of pentacles. Okay, for some of you, this person had a choice between you and somebody else, okay? King of Swords energy, Libra, Gemini, Aquarius. You could have been connected to another person and your other person, maybe for some of you, threatened your person to stay away. That's just a very strange message that I just got here. But it feels like, hmm, it's like your person just kind of was, they may have agreed to go into a higher level of commitment or a romantic relationship, yet at the same time, holding back, withdrawing, keeping their emotions within. Okay, nine of wands energy, putting up these strong boundaries with you. Why? It's weird. It's like they wanted it. Now, let's see. We have the queen of cups and the queen of pentacles. Like they definitely feel like you were a good match, you know? Some of you, this could have been a same-sex relationship, but they definitely felt like there was a good match. One was more emotional or deep with their emotions and the other was more practical and resourceful type of a person, okay? That could have been like playing out, but I feel like, oh, tenor swords here. Okay, that's twice. All right. I want to pull a card for this queen of cups. That just flipped out. Five of cups, okay. Wow, very strange. Your person has a lot of sadness and grief. They may have been abandoned by someone in their past that kept them from, you know, opening up their true emotions towards you or to be expressive of their love and their emotions towards you. They have a lot of sadness. Like the majority, like what they feel the most is grief. They have a lot of grief and sadness. And for some of you, this person wanted to come forward with you or move things forward with you, but withheld their emotions. They had a lot of fear. They couldn't tell you that they were fearful, so they may have tried to set it up that you would be the one to break up with them or you would be the one to end it, which is very bizarre, very, very bizarre behavior. But I do feel that this, like, it was on, like you were on the track, you know, the gas was filled up, the lights were on, foot was on the pedal. It was, like, ready to go, but this person also had a foot on the break, right kind of hovering over the break. It's almost as if, like, they knew that they wanted to move forward, but they also knew that they better keep their foot steady and put the breaks on something just in case it falls out. And sometimes that break could have just been, well, I'll give them the go ahead, but I'm also going to put a block there, because I feel like your person really didn't feel like they could. It's like they wanted it, but they didn't feel like they were capable of giving you what they want, what you wanted. Okay. So in the present reconciliation, this could be the one. Okay. Interestingly enough, your person here is waiting. Wow. They're in a waiting position and the six of sorts. This could be waiting for travel plans or waiting for restrictions to lift or they're waiting for the right time to, or waiting for you to come or overcome some fears. Reconciliation, this could be the one. I feel like your person wants to try to reconcile with you, try to make something work, but we also have the seven of cups. So they can't commit to anything just yet. Okay.  There isn't like this person is waiting for you to come back to them Virgo. Oh my goodness. They don't know if you will, maybe you ghosted them or you just pulled your energy back. Let's take a look at the two of ones. Yep. Let's take a look at the six of sorts. They're hoping that you will like have a different perspective on them or in the relationship. They're sitting in this position of feeling abandoned or, I mean, I don't know that it's your fault. I'm not saying that it's your fault, but I feel like they're in this position of like, they believe that you're just gone temporarily and you guys will reconcile. Okay. Seven of sorts over the seven of cups, sevens represent inner awareness. Your person is taking a look at any kind of deceit or betrayal that they may have presented or them running away. Yeah. They definitely had commitment issues and they ran away from that. And I feel like they are taking a look at that. I don't, I don't feel like it's predictive that they're going to run away, but they may also feel like you ran away. So Pisces and energy here as well. And I just feel like with this hangman, your person is really starting to see things differently. They know they need to face their fears and overcome obstacles or, there's a transition that needs to be made in order for you guys to make something work. There has to be like, I don't know if it's relocation or coming together. These are travel cards. You guys could be at a distance to each other. There has to be, I feel like your person wants you to come towards them. Are they waiting for the right time to come towards you? There's definitely reconciliation happening here. They want, they want to try to come back together because you're the one for them. Virgo, look, waiting for the right time, the right opportunity. Okay. So going forward, traction and soulmate. Oh, wow. Okay. So we have the sun card here. That's Leo energy. So going forward, something's coming out into the public or someone or someone's going public or there's an energy here of like out into the open celebration, happiness, joy, fulfillment. The sun on the sun. Oh my goodness. This is double happiness here. Let me see. Why is the eight of cups here? Hmm. Tower moment. You know what, Virgo? I feel like your person is coming to be with you. Now we have Queen of Wands, Aries Leo, Sagittarius.  Let's take a look at the sun again. Another card for the sun. Oh, King of Pentacles book ending here and the King of Cups underneath. Okay. Your person, whoever they are, could be a water sign has been thinking about this and really contemplating the best course of action. What's the tower here for? So we have Scorpio. Again, we have pretty much all the sides. You have all the signs on the table here. Why is the tower here? Oh, two of cups. Reuniting, coming together, coming into agreement. That's what I was saying.  I feel like they're coming to reconcile with you and there's a lot of positive energy regarding finances as well or becoming more stable. You, Virgo, I feel like you really represent a very passionate, fiery, bold energy. You will be representing that going forward and your person, I feel like they represent more of like a very business minded type of a person, you know, very solid. So maybe somebody who's like an investor or someone who works with money or starts businesses is just very practical, that type of an energy. But yeah, there's like this. I feel like your person is going to, this feels like relocation, like coming together, signing contracts together, moving in together. Somebody may be losing a home, there might be like an earthquake or some fires or a lightning strike or something. And it could be your person where they live or something comes up along those lines, or maybe it already happened and now it's like complete, the cycle's complete. And I just feel like an energy of moving in together, you know, like everything coming full circle. I don't know what's going on with this person. They somehow get over these fears, right? They get over these fears. Let's take a look and see what the love energy is here. The love messages with this person. They would tell you Virgo, oops. Sorry, I have like such big cards here. Forgiveness, forgiving yourself and another will help you guys move forward. Okay, they want to tell you how they feel.   There's definitely an energy like they're going to talk to you about that. They hope that you will forgive them for their role in things. We will be together again. Yep, that's coming forward here for you Virgo. Yep, you guys are going to be together again. They're secretly longing for you, yearning. They have been. You're the best thing in their life. They know they were careless with you Virgo. And they want to be more than friends. So if you guys are friends right now or just casual acquaintances, now this person, they definitely want more with that. I left you before you could leave me. See, and that probably was what instigated you to just say, that's it, I'm done. Okay, maybe you ended something with them in the past or just didn't move forward for some of you. You could still be together, but just in a different way. Okay, but it seems like that's not enough for them because they feel like you are their true love. Oh, I know that I crossed the line with you. Virgo, for some of you, your person either said or did something at some point that was like way out of character and it just really set you back or rocked you in a totally different way that was just didn't feel comfortable. But the here and now your true love is already part of your life. So if you're not talking to this person, you will be soon. I feel like they're going to try to reconcile with you coming up, perhaps this week, or the rest maybe over the weekend. Let's get some charms and see what other messages there are for you. Okay, so we have a sailboat. Okay, that's interesting. That feels very much like a travel energy or somebody owns a boat or you're on a boat or you sail on a boat. Look, relocation and travel here. Okay, with this sailboat or somebody's, somebody has, maybe you're looking at a picture of a boat right now and then we also have the infinity symbol. Okay, so this is like coming full circle here. Things coming in the balance. Let's get another, maybe you have a tattoo of an infinity or you drive an infinity. Or you have the words infinity. Somebody has infinity on a boat. I don't know. It just feels like that sailboat is like or somebody lives near water or like a port or like a beach or a yacht club or there's a yacht or something. Okay, so we have a monkey and that immediately told me somebody was born in the year 1968, maybe 1957, or 56 or maybe 1981 could be and then we also have a bee. Okay, there's a bee. There's a bee attached to somebody, a bee they're allergic to like bees or pollen. There's a like allergy pollen allergy or somebody. No, no, I'm not necessarily sure that I'm getting this as an intuitive message, but somebody does crypto or something. There's, I don't know how that would be coming from that, but I'm also picking up, my gosh, honey. Somebody always called you honey or you called somebody honey. You know, or when you talk, there was always like, hey honey or boo called you boo or poo bear or poo bear. Let's get one more. Okay, we've got palm tree. Okay, so we got a sailboat and a palm tree. Maybe somebody's taking a trip, tropics or somebody lives near where there's boats or palm trees. It could be you, it could be your person. Look at that and I'm most seen, could be around Christmas. Somebody decorates palm trees with Christmas lights. Now I don't live in an area where there's palm trees. I've never seen a palm tree with Christmas lights, but I've seen it on TV and in movies and stuff. So, you know, I guess that's something some people do in certain parts of the world where there's palm trees. I've, you know, I've seen it and we don't have palm trees where I live. So it's not familiar to me. But I just had that image all of a sudden, like I see palm trees around a house and tropical plants. And then I see like around the holidays. For those who celebrate the Christmas time, there's Christmas lights around a house or something, you know? Or maybe you guys met somewhere in that area or you're going somewhere in that area or you were together somewhere where there was palm trees and we're on a boat or somewhere near there. I'm going to leave the comments open. So if you want to comment if any of that resonates for you.  And that's kind of like a saying, the monkey on the back. And I feel like your person was able to like get rid of that monkey on their back. I don't know exactly, you know, it's symbolic. It's a saying. And I don't know it could have been an addiction or something toxic. So that might have been released also. And that could be the reason for some kind of reconciliation here. Okay, Virgo. So I'm going to leave your message there. I hope you enjoy that. Again, click like, share and subscribe if you enjoy this video. And if you want a personal reading, there's a link in the description box below. All right, you guys, see you.


The nature of death and the fate of the human soul after death are riddles to which no man has found a key. But there have been a few restless men who have made investigations in the field, and while they have not learned the answers, their inquiries have borne startling fruit. In April of 1907, the prominent French physician and neurologist, Dr. Henri Baraduque, suffered an unfortunate loss. His son, Andre-Yosef Baraduque, died at the age of 17. On the day after the funeral, Mr. Chavineau, a close friend of the family, came to pay his respects. I know how futile words are at a time like this. It was kind of you to come, Chav. You were with Andre when he died, Marie. Oh, Chav. Why, my dear, I am sorry.  No.  Chav, I was not with Andre when he died. Henri would not let me be. What? He kept me out of the room. During the last few hours, he was in there alone with Andre, you see. When Andre went in for the last time, he took a camera with him. When Chavineau saw Marie several months later, he realized that she was a very sick woman. And the month later, the nurse received word that her condition was critical. He wanted once to the Baraduque house. I'd rather you wouldn't come in, Chavineau. Marie is dying. Good Lord. I want to speak to her, Henri. I asked you not to come in. Yes, I know. We heard the decency to permit me to be alone with my wife at the moment of her death. Why, Henri? For the same reason that you wanted to be alone with your son? Are you perhaps planning to set up your camera near the deathbed? Oh, you know about that, do you? Well, yes, since you inquired. Yes, that's exactly what I'm planning. The following day, the newspapers carried the report of the death of Madame Marie Baraduque. Chavineau returned to the Baraduque home. He bluntly denounced the doctor as a heartless and inhuman monster. I'm a scientist, Vino. I wanted a visual record of what happens to the body at the moment of death. And then he had at his friend a series of pictures explaining that he had used specially-sensitized plates. Vino stared at them in amazement and disbelief. Oh, dear. It looks like a sort of misty ball rising from her body. Oh, so it is. If you look here, you'll notice that three such balls appeared. They coalesced into a single group. It remained attached to the body by a cold, a luminous cold, and then at this point the cold broke and the globe floated away. I may be an inhuman monster, Charles, but I think you'll agree that I've made a rather significant discovery. Chavineau may have agreed, but the world did not. Dr. Baraduque's astonishing pictures have been published frequently, but science has refused to take them seriously. Is it because the circumstances under which they were made are so repugnant, so offensive to human decency, that the doctor's integrity is subject to suspicion? Or is it simply because the photographs themselves tell a story that is too disturbing? A story incredible but true.