Okay, we've made it. So we've been working the last two weeks. I've been showing you techniques and different tools that I use commonly in my scripts. Now we're going to start looking at some scripts I've created that I use daily to make life a lot easier. I'm going to go through a script that I've already created, and I'm going to not go into detail because all the details are in all the previous videos, but I'm just going to explain how the script works. This script will also, I'll try to remember to put a URL to the script in the description of this video so you can download and use this script. But let's go ahead and have a look at it. For me, I call it MAGA IMG. So again, this is the website here. We talked about it in the last video, and I talked about how to use curl to upload an image of that. But let's make it super simple because before, this was the command we had to run, and we had to tell it which image we wanted, and the type of image it is. Well, my script takes care of all that, so let's have a look at it. So at the top of the script, I have the shebang line saying this is a bash script, and then I have my copyright information, it's a GPL version three, license that I put this under, and we have a main function. If we go to the bottom of the script, you can see that I call the main function. Remember what this dollar sign at symbol means? We talked about that a few videos ago. This means all the arguments that you pass to it when you run the script. So you run the command, in my case I called it MAGA IMG, and then I give it some arguments. And so we're passing all those arguments to the main function. If we go back up to the top of our file here, you can see our main function here. First thing it does is it runs the check function, and again passes all those arguments that were now passed to this function. Let's have a look at our check function. So the check function, the main part of this is gonna be using get op, which I did a whole video or two on. And it's gonna look through all these options, q, c, n, and i. And the i has this colon after it. And what that means is I should have some sort of string after it. In this case, it's gonna be a file name. And then it's gonna use a case statement. It's gonna look through each one of those. And if you gave it the i option, it's then gonna take the IMG variable and put whatever string you put after the i there. And again, this will be, in this case, the file name. If you put c, we're gonna set c to true. And you can see what you're doing there is I put comments here. I don't always do that, but at this time, it's putting the link that's going to be returned to where your image is that you're uploading into your clipboard. If the q option is set, then we're gonna set qr to true and that will display a qr code. And you need to have qr and code installed. And then the option will also send a notification to your desktop. If you give an option that is not one of those options, it's going to run the help function and then exit with one. Meaning that it's exiting with an error that the script did not continue successfully. So let's go ahead and look at our help function here. It's just some text. Remember, we use the cat. And then we're doing the less and less than EOF to print multiple lines of text. So we're printing this message on how to use this script. So if you put an invalid option into the arguments when you're running the script, it should display this message. Remember the dollar sign zero will give you the name of the script. So even if the user renames the script, it will print the proper name of the script here. And it will give you how the usage is used and then give you an example and an explanation of each of these arguments. So now going back up to our check function. So that was our help. Again, if you get nothing else that's something that's not one of the proper arguments, it will run that help function and then again, exit before continuing. Next, so it's going to check through each one of these. After you check each one, you got to tell it to shift to the next one. Then we're going to check, okay, is image set? Because this script does nothing if you don't tell it what file you want. So if IMG is blank, we're going to say no input file and we're going to exit with an error. Because this script did not execute properly. After that, we're going to continue and we're going to get the meme and set that to a variable. So we're going to use our file command. So remember we're using dollar sign parentheses. So anything in this is going to be the output of this command is going to be put into this variable. We're saying to use file to get the meme type of the image that we've told the script to use. We're going to pipe that into Oc and get the second column. So we're getting just the meme type. And we're seeing that again into the meme variable here. And then right here, I'm putting the URL, which really, I'm not sure why I put that here. I probably should have put that up here at the top of the script, because that's a global variable for the script. It's not going to change. I'm not sure why I put that there, but I did. Okay, so now that we did that, we've collected the image name. And then we set these to true if those options were given. And you can give one or more or none of these options. The I option obviously is needed. So then you would go back to the main function after the check is done running, and it will run the upload function. The upload function then is going to run our curl function from our previous video. And in there, it's going to paste in the image file name, which is this variable here, the meme type. So again, if we can pass it a JPEG, a PNG, a GIF, or whatever file formats the website accepts, it will put the proper meme in there. And then the URL, which is set right here. Again, I'm not sure why I put that right there, but I did. And then it's going to return the location of your image. So it's going to upload your image. The website's going to give you back some information. We're going to look through that information, grab. Where is that image now on the server? And we're going to put that in this link variable here. Then we're going to display that. We're going to echo that out. So our script will say, here's the URL. This is where your image is. Next, we're going to check. So these brackets, and don't forget these spaces. This is a very short way of doing an if-then statement. We're saying, if this is true, or if this is true, and then they, so this is going to return true or false. The ampersand, ampersand, that's saying, okay, if the last thing is true. So if this is true, then we're going to run QRN code. We're going to give it our link, and we're going to use Unicode as the output. So it's going to output, if we want, the URL in a QR code. So we can run this. Not only we'll display the URL on the screen, but we can tell it to display the QR code right there in the shell. I can point my phone at it, and now my phone will open up that image. Another option is the N option, if that's true. Then we're going to send a notification to my desktop. Going to display it for three seconds. It's going to say the image was uploaded. And again, give the URL that we retrieved. Now, we're going to put it in the clipboard. Well, if you set the C option, it's now going to use X clip. And it's going to, I've set it to where it takes the URL, and it's going to put it in both my clipboards. So now I can either, as soon as I run the script, I don't even have to, even though it's displaying it to the shell, I don't have to highlight and copy it. I can just center click anywhere, and it will paste that URL, or I can control V or control shift V if I'm in the shell, or right click and paste, or edit and paste. All those options will now work and paste the URL. Once we're done, it's going to exit with zero, meaning that everything was successful, hopefully. So let's go ahead and exit out of the script, and I'm in a folder with a bunch of photos of my son. And I decided to grab photos of my son because my daughter's been on my YouTube channel a couple of times, and I want to get my son some love, so I got all these pictures of him. Let's go ahead and run our script, which again, in my case is called mega image, or mega image, and I will give it one of these file names. I will give it this file name. And if I just do that, well, it's going to give me an error, no file input, because we got to give it the dash I option. Do that, and we should get the URL of where that image is. And now we can also run it again, and give it a different image. Boom, and now we got a different URL. Now we can give it the, well, if I say H, or really anything that's not valid, it's now going to print out the help file, so I can see all my options here. And again, that dollar sign zero lists out the name of my image. It actually gives the full path. Actually, I was thinking about, I don't think I've done this trial yet on actually, yes, that's right, because I'm going to do one. You can use base name to get the base name, or you can use pure bash, which I'm going to get to in a future video. Anyway, we now see our options. And again, so now we know we want to do I in the file name, but I can also do C. So now it uploads the image, and I gave it the same image as we talked about in the previous video, so it gives the same URL, but if I was to give it one of the other images, let's just choose that one. It's going to print the URL there, but it's also in my clipboard now, so I can center click and it's going to paste that URL. Or I can control shift V in the shell here and it'll paste that URL. So it's automatically in both my clipboards when I use that dash C option. The next option is the dash Q option. So I can say the name of my command dash CQI and give it a file name. And let's go ahead and just give it a different file name. We'll do this one, boom. So it's printed to the screen, the URL. It's giving me a QR code that I can now scan my phone and you should be able to in this video as well. So I should looking at it with high enough resolution. So I can pick up my phone right now, boop! And it will open up that image on my phone. And I also have it in my clipboard where I can paste that URL. Next option would be the notification option. So I can now add an end to this option. So I do end, boom. Once it runs, you can see I got this notification here and it will be up there for three seconds. And I have my system set up. So let me go here so that's not full screen anymore. I can run that command. And if I hit control shift I, or control shift period I can then hit enter and it actually will open up that image in my browser. So let's go ahead and run that command again, giving it a different image. We'll do, I don't know, this one here. And again, I can go control shift period and hit enter and it will now open up. And that's just how I have the shortcuts I have set up for my instance of guns, which is my notification damon. So that's very useful. If depending on what notification service you use, you might be able to click on that to open it. It all depends on how you have your setup. But since we're using notify send, which works with a variety of notification services, it should at least pop up there, it should still work. So those are our options. And again, we can give any variety of them. I can just do PR. So now it's not going to my clipboard and I don't get the notification. I can just say notification and it pops up there, which is very useful. So that is the script. And it's very useful to quickly upload an image. And again, I can have it go straight to my clipboard. I can have a QR code. So if I want to get my phone, but if I wanted to send it to somebody, I can just, you know, I can do this, boom, it ran. I can now paste that into a text and email or whatever. And some will have a link to that image. So it's fairly simple script. Once you know how everything works and if you watched the previous two weeks of videos I put out, I think I went over everything in that video in detail. So if you didn't understand anything, watch the previous videos that I put out before this. I hope that you enjoyed this video and we're gonna be looking at more scripts I wrote similar to this to make life easier. So thanks for watching. Please visit filmsbychrist.com, that's Chris the K. The link in the description. There you can search through all my videos. You can also go to my software section where you can click on my Git lab account, see my projects there. Scripts will bring you to my website where I have a list of scripts that you can run right in your web browser and my notes which search through all my pastes then which this script will be there. So I should put it in the description of this video. So you can search there, but if not, once it's uploaded, actually it might already be uploaded. Here, there you go. Here's the script right there because I've already backed it up. And yeah, go check it out there. And yeah, I'm using Payspin. I really should be using something a little bit better than that, but that's what I've been using for years so that's still there. Thanks for watching. Again, filmsbychrist.com, like, share, subscribe, comment, support, all that stuff. Thanks for watching. Have a great day.


What once was known as a baseball team from Cleveland. They are now the Cleveland Guardians. Wow! Let's go! We got the Guardians of the Galaxy. They hold it down. Hell yeah! When the Guardians show up, they're going to get after it. Hell yeah! And this came out of nowhere. I don't even think they did a focus group sample thing. Nope. The double G's around the ball. Hey, this is a two-seeing fastball. Come and rate your face. It's Guardians.


I'm Matthew Horkey and I'm Sherin Tan. Together we are Exotic Wine Travel. We've spent the last three years traveling around the world writing and speaking about unique and exciting wines. Our journey has taken us to both lesser known and established wine regions. In 2016 we came to Croatia for the first time. We fell in love with the country and the wines, prompting us to write the book Cracking Croatian Wine, a visitor-friendly guide. Now we're at it again. We're going to retour the country and bring our book to life. We aim to take you deep into the Croatian food and wine scene. So sit back, relax and join us as we go Cracking Croatian Wine. It's only a 15-minute ferry ride from the island of Cortula to the Pelješáts Peninsula. It's a slender sliver of land jutting out into the Adriatic Sea. I have to stay vigilant with you on this road. It's crazy how many weird things there are on the road. A two-lane road runs along the spine of the peninsula. There are towering mountains, hidden coves, and steep vineyards to be seen. Most of the vineyards on the peninsula consist of Plovac Mali. It's Croatia's beloved red grape and it's known for making massive red wines with big tannins. One producer that's learned to tame these big tannins is Miloš. They produce some of the most sought-after examples of Plovac Mali in Croatia. Their top red wine, Stagnum, is a must try for hardcore wine nerds. The tasting room is always busy and today Ivan Miloš meets up with us to taste their vintages. As usual, all the wines show well, including a brand new unreleased white wine made from rucatats. It's perfect wine. How good is it? It's very, very, very good. I want it. Ivan's father, Frano, joins us for a few minutes before we start the vineyard tour. All the vineyards of Miloš are in the village of Ponicve. There are an impossibly steep slopes. Ivan gives us some of his time to explain Plovac Mali and their vineyard practice. My family lives in this village of Ponicve over there for almost 500 years. My father was the first one in this area who founded a family-owned wine, one of the first in one of the first seven in Croatia. So the Plovac Mali grape is a really unique grape. This is the grape which can give you the best one or even the worst wine ever. So you need to have like, you need to plant it on just a few locations where it can really grow. It's really like a grape which can suffer a lot, but still if the conditions are not perfect for it, it will be like such a bad quality. It's a grape which is well known for the high tenon, but still if you have the tenon management, if you make it round and soft after a little bit more aging, it can be a really big classic wine. So we grow just this one location here. So the soil is very unique with lots of telemetic limestone, lots of sandy soil. Most of the vineyards are ungraphed. It's also very interesting. We are also practicing 100% organic and also all of our wines we do completely natural style. So it means we do always native fermentation, we don't filter wines. So we really want to keep them as unique as they are. Our final goal is to make the wine which is like really good. We are trying to make the best what we can from this area. Doing organic and natural just help us to get it to that final goal actually. So you can't use any machinery to cut a weed, to do the weed management. So you need to do it by hand. So that's very labor intensive. So we spend much more time doing the weed control than doing the harvesting and pruning all together. We wish we could stay here all day, but we have much more ground to cover. Our next stop is Makalaburra winery in the village of Potomye. Maria and Murgadish in her family produce one of the most legendary wines in Croatia, the Burra Dingach. Their humble cellar also consists of artwork by Maria's daughter. After a quick tour, we start opening bottles. The entry level Burra Galleria is a blend of Plavacemali, Kevenme, Seminyan and Marcela that take shreen by surprise. I think this wine really reflects where it comes from. It's so important when you drink it, you know where it comes from. You taste the late ripening fruit. There's no mystic at all, but there's a sense of like rustic, rusticity in it that you get and and then you smell the plavats on the nose. You smell the warm weather and I love it. The Murgadish family make iconic wines from both Postup and Dingach. They're regarded as two of the prime vineyard sites for Plavacemali and Maria talks about the differences. Dingach is slope around 40 to 60 degrees to the sea and Postup is around 40 degrees. The grape is Plavacemali, 100% in Dingach, 100% in Postup. In Dingach we harvest in 30% of dry grapes, but in Postup it's around 15 to 20. Maria's son Borus joins us and opens the family's premium wines, including the Benmos family Dingach, Mardi Postup and Buda Dingach. The latter is one of the top and rarest red wines in Croatia. However, today it's the Borah sweet wine that takes charine by surprise. Potomye is the gateway to the vineyards of Dingach. In the past growers had to use donkeys to take harvested grapes over the steep mountain ridge to the cooperative winery. In 1973 the cooperative paid for a tunnel making transport of the grapes easier. Passing through this one lane road gives way to spectacular scenery. Dingach is Croatia's first ever appellation. It was actually established in 1961 when Croatia was part of Yugoslavia and you can see by the steep vineyards some of these vineyards go up to 60 degrees in incline. They rival some of the most beautiful vineyards in the entire world. In the morning we had a Corta Caterina winery. It was started by Americans Penny and Lee Anderson who came to Dalmatia and helped displace people during the Balkan wars. They fell in love with the area and decided to start a winery. Today we're visiting our friend, director Evo Sibilic. After tasting a few barrel samples we find that Corta Caterina has prepared a tasting lunch for us. Corta Caterina produces one of the best potions in the country and they also happen to make a sparkling potion. It goes great with the local shellfish. Oh it's fish. I like it when you unwrap it and you're not in all the aromas just engulf your face. We have an ice cream cake with croquant hazelnut, some hazelnuts, white chocolate and homemade pralines with hazelnut. The team also opens a few older vintages of the winery's top bottling, the Rubens Private Reserve Plovets Mali, which tastes like Bordeaux on steroids. Evo also tells us about the grand opening of the hotel, which unfortunately we're going to miss out on. I guess there's always next time. This summer we will open a very exclusive villa that will be only for 20 people, not more, and that will be something completely different to everything else that you will find in the area. Later in the afternoon we stop by Peninsula Wine Bar. They carry a wide selection of wines from producers on and around Pella Shots. We hold this shop near and dear to our hearts. When we first started the research process for our book Cracking Croatian Wine, we stopped in here and the owners opened around 30 wines for us to taste and a win. They carry a number of exciting wines from producers like Crige, St. Hill's, Gurgic, Rosic, Scaramuzza and Milicic. It's been a long day, so we head back to our place to get some rest. Stone and Mali Stone are home to the largest fortification walls in Europe. These were once used to protect the lots of local salt production. Today they make a popular visitor attraction, in addition to the local bays, which are perfect for farming oysters and mussels. We have no time to stop though, we're heading south to the city of Dubrovnik, the pearl of the Adriatic. This well preserved walled city is one of the sets in the popular show Game of Thrones. The city is beautiful but always crowded in the summer. Today we're stopping at one of the city's most famous restaurants, Proto. Proto actually is standing here as a restaurant since 1886. It's one of the rare settings which is actually made to be a restaurant. This terrace where we are sitting is very exclusive. It's vast, that means it has a beautiful atmosphere as it's located right in the center of the old city. Well, all our ingredients are locally sourced. This is very, very important for us. We also have a supplier in the Marlestone Bay for the famous oysters. This is a flat European oyster which is exclusively on our beautiful planet, still living and being farmed only in this Marlestone Bay, which is one hour drive from here. It's called Ostraia Dulles. Unfortunately, it died everywhere else in the Mediterranean where it was living. But somehow as we have a very clean sea, it survives here. The restaurant also employs one of the top sommeliers in Croatia, Senisha Larsen. He stops by and offers us some wine that he produces with some of the top winemakers throughout the country. But at Proto, it's really about the fish. Very special oven, which is Italian made. You just taste like subtle burst of flavor. It's not typical grilled fish. I mean, I got a little bit of olive. I got a little bit of dried up taste with it too. Typically, the fish that I get from Croatia, I expect it to be really simple, grilled, baked, some salt, pepper, olive oil. But for this, I somehow taste like patches of like olive. I don't know if it's, is it rosemary or thyme that you put in here too? Yeah, you just get like little patches of different flavor and I like that. After the fish, aloe dessert, and we are stuffed. Because of its natural beauty and popularity, we highly recommend visiting Dubrovnik outside of July and August. We return to Pelje shots for our last visit with Carigia. Vedrin Carigia is one of the old guards on the peninsula. He makes traditional plavets Mali from a small garage with little to no technology. Vedrin's top wines are as dinghets and contra-bottlings. But today, his plavets Taiano is really impressing Shireen. The nose is just really beautiful, vibrant, grapefruit. But what's amazing is it's almost silky for, come on, for a plavets Mali blend. After we taste the newest vintages, Vedrin has a little surprise for us. This is from Dubrovnik Republic. He takes us back to his cellar and we open an older bottle from one of Vedrin's favorite vintages. My son was born in 97, now in Zagreb. Zagreb student in Zagreb. The 2008 Carigia dinghach is captivatingly beautiful. Ten years old wine, dinghach, my wine, my dinghach, ten years old, is the best. This is so beautiful. I start to cry when I drink it. I'm too happy. This is our standing plavetable, our standing dinghach. This is fantastic. I don't stop drinking this wine. The dinghach is dinghach. Carigia only makes 15,000 bottles of wine per year, so if you see it in the shop or on the wine list, it's worth checking out. In the next episode, we'll take you to Mainland Dalmatia and introduce the Croatian wine grapes Zlatarica, Babic, Debe, Marastina, and Lasina. When in Mainland Dalmatia, the unique cuisine of Neretva is a highlight that you shouldn't miss. What did you say? I'm not leaving a drop of this. I'm going to drink it all. If you would like to learn more about Croatian and Croatian wine, keep a lookout for our next episode and check out our book Cracking Croatian Wine.


What's up everybody, Jason here for jaskiescasebreaks.com, our last box of 2023 Panini Immaculate Baseball first off the line edition, one box break, number eight, random division just sold out. And again guys, everybody gets a random division in the MLB. This is the last box of the case. So good luck guys. Let's dice roll it. It's a five and a four, nine times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, nine times, five, four, nine, James. Last box of the game of Greg. So let's see there. Nine times here, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, nine times eight, nine, NLS down to the AL central. Let's make this a little bit bigger for you guys. So James, you have the NLS, Greg with the AL East, Steve with the NL central, Reno with the NL East, Chew with the AL West, and then Greg with the AL central. So if anybody wants to trade, give you guys a quick trade window, 30 seconds to a minute.  But it doesn't work like a football, but it's a model, model, model, model, model, model. That one worked. Try, try refreshing again. I'm going to close it. I'm going to close it and try it out. It works from back, from that gear. That's a start. That's good. Yeah, at least it saves us a walk. I just don't want, I just so funny if it's not popping up. I know. It's trying to be crazy. I'll just let that sit for a little bit. Maybe it'll actually work. Yeah, that's cool. As long as it works though. Nice. At least works on that back. It works. KingDee, what's going on, man? Sorry. November 12th, here, here in Roso Beach, we're just visiting NLA. Charlotte. Nice. We're not that far off from Anaheim. We're probably like 30 minutes away. 25, 30 minutes. But nice. And Joe is like, Hawaii. Nice, nice. All right. Try one to close in, guys. Oh, yeah. This is not going to work. We already printed it out. All right. One second, though, guys. Let me actually move it how I like it to break here. Like that, like that. I just got to quickly grab the box right here, guys. First off the line, baby. Gary Sheffield for the New York Yankees. I'm pulling my divisions really quick. So I always get confused with two of them. All right. And then Yankee is AL East, which is going to Greg. Then we have a patch autograph of Michael Bush for the Daughters of NL West. Go to James. We have a Lou DeRosha for New York. Of course, this could be any one of those older New York teams. So let's actually pull the checklist really quick. Just to be safe. Leo DeRosha. I think he was a manager for the Brooklyn Dodgers at 1.2. In this particular card, though, card number 18, Legendary Materials. It's a New York Giants edition, it looks like. Yeah, New York Giants. So there you go. That's going to go to the Giants out of 25. So let's tag that really quick. That's another one for the NL West. Big one, guys. Look at this. Michael Burrell's 5 out of 8 for the Pittsburgh Pirates. And Pirates, that's going to go to the NL Central, which is Steve Becker. A little chipping there in the corner. Such a thick card, though, so it doesn't surprise me. We're going to put that in the slider box, too. Then we have a patch and autograph of Rafael Palmero for the Texas Rangers. And Rangers, of course, that's going to the A.L. West. A.L. West, that is a chew. And the last one here, it's a redemption. It's a Premium Patch Autographs Black. Premium Patch Autographs Black. Is there a premium? Does that printer show up? Oh, sorry, I'm still doing the first one. Oh, sorry, I'm using it for the break. Premium, is there a Premium Patch Autographs? Yes, there is. And Black is out of 10, guys. Wow. That is going to the Milwaukee Brewers, Jackson Churrio. Nice, Premium Patch Autographs. That should be, like, a very, very beautiful patch. And again, another one there for the N.L. Central, which is going to go to N.L. Central, is Steve. Alrighty, guys, and there you go. So that was the break. Very solid stuff popping on here, that Jackson Churrio out of 10. Palmero, the thick patch autograph. Leo Gerocher, Michael Bush, and little Gary Sheffield rally. That is the last of first alkaline, guys, and we do have more breaks in the store that we can do tonight if you guys want.


All right, so what gives? We're talking about these asymmetrical pull-ups. Why do they look like that? Why is that one shoulder elevating more than the other one? Why are both my shoulders tilting forward? Well, it has to do, in my mind, the extremities only do what they can. And you're demanding of them to do a pull-up. So they gotta find a way to get your chest, basically to the bar, your shin to the bar. If they don't have the position to access those upper back muscles to help you really depress and downwardly rotate your shoulder blades so that you can finish that pull-up at the top of the pull-up, then something else has to happen. And that's where we see that posts to your shoulder start to take up some of the slack is trying to do extra work and that stuff gets real tired. No, that's a big one for me. Let's talk about the ribcage, though.  Let's just try to give you the cliff-snips. So we are asymmetrical. The only thing that's really symmetrical in our body is our skeleton. But if you take all of our, it looks like we got two arms and two eyes and two ears or whatever. But if you take all the skin off and you're not looking at the bones, all the organs, the nervous system, everything is really asymmetrical. Every cell individually is asymmetrical. So we have this pervasive asymmetry throughout our body and since most people are built pretty much the same way, that asymmetry is pretty consistent between human to human to human. So I might work with 40 different people and I'm probably giving 40 of you the same kinds of resets, the same kinds of mobility-building exercises because you are all humans and you all have the same problems.  All of you have no colon in the right ilium and all you have a sigmoid colon in the left ilium. So these things, having stuff in the way makes the rest of this challenging. And so we've got to learn how to manipulate our body in ways, tolerate different compression and relaxations in different ways so that we can stay as symmetrical as possible for our training and specifically in this case for a pull-up. So with that given asymmetry, we talked about the liver being on the right side, the big breathing muscle in the middle of your body, it's way bigger on the right than it is on the left and that plays into it as well. And then the other thing that's really, really obvious is your heart is actually shifted over to the left. So it makes us really good, all that stuff together. We got nice support, that big right breathing muscle and we got a heart supporting the left lung. It makes the left lung really good at filling. And so what happens is the left ribcage gets really big and really wide and the right ribcage doesn't do it quite as much. And so when they come together, we have asymmetry.  It happens in a bunch of different planes of motion and we'll get to that in our coming video. But what I wanna talk about today is this ribcage position. So if the left one gets bigger, what does that do to everything else? We don't need to understand everything that goes on, but one thing that I will tell you is that it makes the left ribcage wider. It makes it harder for the shoulder blade to move because it's wider. It can't come forward and it can't downwardly rotate. And it needs to downwardly rotate for a pull up if I'm gonna finish at the top. I might feel better if I just come halfway up, if I have this issue, if I'm not fixing the issue, that would be a good workaround. But if I wanna fix the issue, if I wanna fix the asymmetry, I can't pay attention to the shoulder yet. I need to fix what is more in the middle, what is before the shoulder and that is the ribcage. So big wide ribcage, it makes it good at bringing that shoulder back and it kinda sets it back itself already because there's so much air on that left side, but it blocks the downward rotation because it's already downwardly rotated, ain't that cool. So it can't do it anymore. So you know what picks it up? That posterior shoulder on the left side. It tries to get me extra shoulder adduction to finish the pull up. Now, it's just, you know, if you don't know all the terms, it's just trying to do the extra work, okay? So what we need to restore is we need to eliminate the need for that posterior shoulder to turn on and we need to restore the ability for the shoulder blade to move again. And to do that, we need to fix what class? We need to fix the ribcage, okay? The other muscle I wanted to talk about is the upper neck, like the trap and the levator scapula, this upper neck area that likes to turn on in this because there's so much air there, because the shoulder is being pushed up there, it's the only way that that shoulder can get downward rotation. If I take the shoulder blade away from the ribcage, I've now created room for it to rotate and now it can downwardly rotate. So that's why you might be seeing that. And as it comes up, it's really normal for it to kind of slide forward. And we talked about, I mentioned that the depressed shoulder might be tilted forward as well. That's just because there's less air there and that shoulder blade is already tilted forward. It can't come back anymore because there's no air helping it get back. There's no wideness, there's no breadth to that side of the ribcage that's helping it come back. That's helping those upper back muscles on the right side turn on. So that was way more than anybody ever wanted to know about the ribcage.


Hey, everyone welcome to another video lesson from navigation trading calm in this lesson I want to address a question that I get quite a bit and that is I'm a new trader What should I focus on first and so I want to kind of give you a little bit of a a cheat sheet To walk you through kind of what I think you should be focusing on when you first get started with navigation trading and I want to emphasize one of the most critical things to start with is Paper trading so a lot of the major brokers that you'll use have a Paper trade capability meaning they'll give you an account with virtual money With full functionality of the platform so that you can place trades and watch them and learn and Understand the concept before you actually have to risk real money This is true with thinkorswim from TV Ameritrade now tasty works Our other preferred broker is working on their paper trade platform, but it's not available yet But you can still set up theoretical trades in their platform and watch them as Price moves around to get an idea of what the effect of different situations are going to be on that trade So I'd highly highly recommend that I've seen way too many times when traders come in and a lot of times Is people with larger accounts they'll come in and think just because they have a lot of money And they've been successful in other areas of business or life that they can come in and be successful trading Without learning the ropes without actually understanding the process and they'll start taking our trade alerts without having any idea How the trade actually works and it always blows up in their face So I really highly encourage you to take the time to learn first Because what happens is if you come out of the gate and you start making trades and especially if they're you know larger trades You're going to get slapped the market is going to slap you and here's what that does to your psyche all of a sudden now you start thinking this doesn't work and This is not gonna work for me. I lost money and everything else So from an emotional from a psychological standpoint It puts you behind the eight ball from being coming a successful trader And then if you quit before you actually see that success and really understand the concepts and why they work Then you never get to the point of being consistently profitable And it's a real shame because this is one of the most powerful things that you can ever learn from a standpoint of Generating consistent income and being profitable and building wealth. So please please please Start paper trading understand the concepts understand the strategies before you risk any real capital, okay? I beat that dead horse. So let's move on the next thing I would focus on is You know, obviously within the within the membership area, which is what we're looking at here If you're a pro member you have access to all the different strategy courses the alerts and everything else But the first one is just the option basics and this teaches you how to set up your platform And it shows you some very, you know basic concepts of getting everything set up and once you've got that in place Then the first strategy that I would recommend looking to is the iron condor And what this allows you to do is it allows you to place trades that are what we call delta neutral Meaning you are not trying to choose a direction All you care about is the price of that stock or the price that ETF staying within a specific range So iron condors are great vehicles to start with they are defined risk Meaning you define your risk at order entry, you know exactly what you're risking on that trade before you even Press the go button and so it's a very powerful strategy and and so that would be kind of number one The second one is short strangles now a lot of people have different opinions on this They think oh no, these are naked options You should not even think about using these as new traders but the bottom line is if you use these on Low price symbols meaning the lower the price of the stock or the lower the price of the symbol the lower Risk and the lower buying power capital needed to place those trades. Let me give you a quick example If we go to the platform, I've pulled up EWZ, which is the Brazilian ETF It's kind of like the Dow of Brazil and so if you look at that, it's a 41 dollar symbol It's trading at about 41 dollars right now if I pulled up EWZ and I put on a short strangle Which is what we're looking at here This is the risk profile the visual representation of a short strangle and if you look down here the margin required to put This on is five hundred and sixty five dollars. Okay, and you can kind of think of that as theoretical risk Now, of course if there's some major black swan event, could you lose more than five hundred? Yes But you know, it's not very likely and these are very high probability trades And so if you want to start learning short strangles, which is an excellent strategy that you're going to want to learn eventually You can do that even with smaller accounts even as a beginner and just stay extremely small with one contract on lower price symbols like EWZ, EWW XRT, these are all great symbols to start with So that would be the next one and those are both Delta neutral type strategies So we want price not to we don't care if it goes up. We don't care if it goes down We just wanted to stay in a specific range from there The next course I would look at is our directional strategies course which is called winning options strategies for any market and Within this it's going to give you all different directional strategies If you have an assumption that a stock or an ETF is going to move a certain way We want to use vertical spreads and that allows you to define your risk and have a directional assumption But still put the probabilities on your side, which is very important no matter what you're trading Okay, so that would be the next step and then the other thing that I would mention to start with and this is Where I'm going to end it, you know as a new trader like I said we want to get you some wins We want to get you engaged and understand these strategies and that's what's going to make you consistently profitable long-term I don't want to provide, you know 20 different things for you to do So this is the last thing that I would do as a new trader and that is look at earnings trades Okay, now if you're part of the navigation trading trade hacker community we have a whole lot of Traders in there who are posting trade ideas a lot of the ideas that we're looking at every single day are earnings trades and the reason I like earnings trades for new traders is because A you can put these on with defined risk the strategies that we utilize can allow you to risk very little capital And we're talking a few hundred dollars per contract. So if you wanted to start with one contract we're talking about just a few hundred dollars at risk on anyone trade and The thing for new traders is it helps you learn these strategies Very quickly and here's why is because when we put on these overnight earnings trades We're putting them on before the market closes one day. There's the closing bell We put them we put them on before the market closes each day for that specific earnings announcement on that specific stock And then we're typically closing it the very next day So this is an expedited way to learn some of these strategies whether it's iron condors or strangles or butterflies or iron butterflies or some of the other strategies that we use on these Earnings plays that way you can look at the strategy and how it works and how implied volatility affects the pricing of these options and it happens Overnight so we're in one day and we're out the next and it gives you that expedited learning curve as opposed to some of our main core Income strategies, you know, we're in those trades for several weeks to sometimes a couple months if we have to adjust or roll So that is the checklist one paper trade to learn iron condors and strangles three learn directional trades using verticals and four Look till you use overnight earnings trades to expedite the learning process and stay small the key to This business is staying small relative to your account size And when you're first starting out you need to stay even smaller because we want you to understand the concepts Learn how to trade get some wins get consistently profitable from the get-go and that's going to help you long term So I hope this was helpful if you have any questions let us know and if you want to check out other stuff that we're doing Always check us out at navigation trading calm. 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