Protecting your identity is a must. One way to make sure your identity is safe is to keep track of your credit cards. Well the first thing I would recommend is you don't want to carry all your credit cards with you. Only carry the ones that you are actually going to use. That way if you lose your wallet or things like that you don't have to deal with 10 or 11 credit cards. You want to check your statements and your billing daily if you use it a lot, at least weekly. And scrutinize every purchase. The new thing with the hackers is when they scam your information they'll send a charge through for under a dollar. A lot of people may see that on their statement and just regarded to blow it off. What happens is once that charge goes through it tells them that the account is open and active and then they begin to make other purchases. Large dollar amount purchases.


Hey guys, it's Jen from iCreate Crafts. In today's video, I will show you how to create these cute little purses using 651 vinyl and my Cricut machine. I bought these cute little purses at Walmart for only a dollar and I plan to sell them and make a nice profit on them. Stick along to see how I created them. They are so cute and so easy to create. Now let's get started. So I had some really great ideas from everyone. They said animal faces or ice cream cones or unicorns.  So I'm gonna do five different faces on here. So I found these ones. I wanted to show you really quick. I'm starting in design space. I found these ones in design space and I'll show you how I did that finding different ones. So I went to the upload button here and I went to the view all button and then I unclick this one because I did not upload any of these and I went up here and I clicked on this one the Cricut axis. If you don't have the Cricut axis you're not going to get all these for free. I paid for the yearly axis so I have access to every one of these free ones. Actually this one's really cute but I'm looking for unicorns. So I'm just going to type in unicorn and you could do this on Google as well and type in unicorn SVG and you could probably find quite a few on there but just because I have the access I'm gonna take advantage of that. So I'm actually just looking for the unicorn face. Like I saw these these are really cute. I like this but I was looking for something different but this is what I'm looking for is that kind of face. So I'm just gonna scroll down really quick and see if I can find what I'm looking for and you don't have to use the specific things that I'm using. I'm just showing you which ones I like. Like I really like these but still not what I'm looking for. I saw something before and I wanted to show you guys. Like this one's really cute so I'm gonna click on that one but there was a few different ones that I saw. Yeah this one I really liked. I thought that was cute and then maybe this one and that one. Not as many as I wanted to pick but I'm gonna choose those ones and then before I go ahead and click insert image I'm gonna X out of this and actually look for ice cream and see what comes up because somebody also said an ice cream cone with you know putting the words ice cream money on it would be really cute for kids. So I'm just gonna find a few different ice cream cones here that might work for me and I'm just looking for different colored ones different layered ones maybe so I'm gonna pick these two. So I'm gonna insert all of those images and we'll see what we got. So it comes in one big cluster so I'm just gonna shrink it down a little bit so I don't have to shrink them individually. I'm gonna click away and then I'll have each one here so I'll move these all so we can see what they look like. I'll put these two together and put these guys. Oh my gosh I love these. These are so cute. So the only thing really you have to do or that I have to do for this is just change the size of these. I want to keep these top ones the same color. I'm thinking I'm only gonna pick one or two of the top ones and then one of these and then maybe one of those but I was looking with the cat. This cat looks so cute but it has no eyes and the only way that I know how to do the eyes unfortunately you can't draw something in design space maybe I hope that they do that one day. I just I'm gonna go to shape and I'm gonna click circle and then I'm gonna go up and duplicate that circle and I'm gonna kind of use this slice button to my advantage so I'm gonna put this one over top this other circle and it looks pretty center but I'm gonna grab both of them go to a range oops go to a line and click center and that will put it directly in the center for me. So with them both selected I'm gonna click slice and I'm gonna get rid of my original ones and I get rid of the top one. So here I have sort of a you know one of those closed eyes kind of thing. It looks kind of cute so before I duplicate it I'm gonna change the size really quick because I want them to be the exact same size so I'm gonna bring it over here still too big and shrink it down a little bit but doesn't that look a little bit better? I mean it gives it an eye so I'm gonna take this and I'm gonna go up here and I'm gonna click the duplicate button and it's gonna give me another one the same exact size so I don't have to resize it and that looks really cute together I mean you could do this you don't have to but I just figured I'm gonna show you how I do it so since it is technically three different pieces the face and then the two eyes separately I'm gonna select all three pieces go down here to the detach button and then I'm going to go ahead and do it again so I select all of them I had to push the detach button because it was already the eyes the face was already attached to each other that I had done previously so now I'm gonna attach everything together so now as you can see I can't click on the eyes so everything is attached so I love how this looks just wanted to show you guys how I did it and actually know that I'm looking at it could be a bunny too kind of maybe not long enough ears right so anyways so that was the last part to this I'm going to just leave it black and then any of these I'm just gonna leave the same color so I'm kind of curious to work on these guys I appreciate everybody's comments and telling me what I could do for this because this was the cutest the ice cream cone and then also writing underneath it ice cream money I thought that'd be really cute if you have little kids and they make like an allowance or something they can go to the ice cream store in the summer and pay for their own ice cream I know my kids would love that so I know that this is I believe it's three different parts yes you can see on this side here these two are blacked out so they're you're not even gonna see these so there are three parts to this which is really cool because it'll be easy to put together and I believe this is the same here so yep there's three pieces here one two three because this one is just blacked out we don't need that piece so the only thing I want to do for these guys is actually write ice cream money on it so I'm gonna go to the text box and I'm gonna write ice cream money we've read the why there we go so here it is ice cream money so the way I want to do it is I want the money to go down below so I'm gonna double click on it go in here and put the money down here below so I like things to be centered so with this selected I'm gonna go to the alignment and I'm gonna center it right away okay so another thing I want to do before I finish this is I want to change the font of this and then I also don't like how far down the next word is from the top so I'm gonna change that too but I'm gonna change the font really quick so I'm gonna go up to the font box and I'm gonna find a font that I really like and there was one that I was looking at yesterday let's see if I can find it oh it's this one cutting up holy cow so you can see it has an a here the green a means that I get that for free normally you would have to pay 499 for this but because I have the cricket access I don't have to pay for this but look at how this one looks isn't that cute just for some reason it really stood out at me that it has a little holes in it I don't know it just makes me remind me of ice cream for some reason I don't know so the other thing was is the part in between part in between here really drives me nuts how much spacing is in here so you can do this one of two ways you can have it selected already and then you can go up to the line spacing up here and then you can just push the down arrow a bunch of times or the other way you can do it is with it selected go to the ungroup button and then take whatever word you want and select it and then just use your mouse to go up a little bit that might be the easiest way and then I like to do is select it all again and then attach it because otherwise it would cut out each word individually and I don't want that so this is done for now I think I'm going to change the color on it but just for the time being I'm going to leave it for now and I'm actually you know what I'm going to make two of these I think that was the cutest idea so thank you whoever said that so I'm going to duplicate this one and I'm actually going to make two of these ice cream ones I love both of these ice creams okay so the last thing you're going to want to do is figure out the size of your little purses my little purse that I bought from the Walmart for a dollar is approximately a four by four so if you guys know me and watch my channel I like to visualize things rather than kind of estimate how big it should be so I'm going to go to the shapes here and I'm going to select a circle so I know mine is about four by four it's a little bit bigger than a four by four but I'm just going to change it to be a four by four and then this way I can visualize what it's going to look like inside of there rather than trying to estimate how big to do this so I'm going to shrink this down just a little bit and pull it over and oh it didn't go away it's still there guys don't get scared so I have it selected I'm going to go to the arrange button I'm going to send to front so there it is so this is going to do the same thing it's going to go right behind it go do the same thing arrange and then send to front so this way you see what I mean we can visualize to see what it looks like rather than saying okay well this needs to be a point two nine point nine two three by one point six five three it's kind of hard telling unless you really visualize to see what it would look like so I'm actually going to unlock this and make this just a little bit bigger I'm trying to stretch it to make it as large as I can and then I don't know if I don't want to skew this up too much but there you see what I mean now we can see what it looks like so when I cut this out and go to put this on I know that it's going to fit my area and it doesn't matter if it's centered here right not right here or not because we're going to deal with that when we put it on our purse itself so as long as you can see that it's going to fit like if I move this over a little bit more I can see that I have room on both sides and I know my circle is a little bit larger than that so this one is great and unfortunately I only have one circle one the rest are hearts so I'm going to do the same thing go back here to the shapes and then click on a heart and then change it to be the four by four because it's the same size oops it should have changed it to be four by four but it didn't so we're going to unlock it and manually change it to be four so here it is and I'm going to look at mine and it's a different heart than mine so this one that I'm looking at right now is a little bit wider so I'm just going to take it and make it just a little bit wider again it's just to visualize it just to see what it looks like and my heart is not it's like right here where it starts so I need to think about that when I'm putting this on but I think I want to do another ice cream money one I think that is just so darn cute so if you want to continue seeing how I do this you can stick along otherwise you can skip ahead and see how I put this on but I'm just going to finish this up really quick I have five of them already but I really like these ones but I wanted to show you guys one of these really quick so I think I'm actually going to choose I love this rose one I think that's beautiful I think this one is really neat too I think kids would like this one better so I'm going to actually try this one and I'm going to put it on the heart because I only have so many so I'm going to take it arranged center front and remember I said I have the heart starts up here a little bit so but I think I'm going to shrink it down just a little bit to be sure that's still going to fit on there so this one obviously is going to cut out different colors so I'm going to have this pink here the purple and then the black for the eyes but one thing I like to do when I have multiple colors is actually put them together so I don't always have to guesstimate where they go so I'll show you what I mean so I'm going to select it and I'm going to hit the ungroup button here and that's going to ungroup each piece for me which it looks like holy cow that's awesome so this one actually did it for us already so you can see over here it's already had it already has all the pieces together that's exactly what I was going to do so whoever made this thank you I love it this file is awesome so I did not have to ungroup that button so it's going to cut everything out just the way you see it so I can show you because I know it's the right size already so the pink are together the purple are going to be together and then so that's exactly what I was going to do but they already did it for me so that is great doesn't matter that I already messed it up because it's going to cut up separately anyway so I'm going to get rid of these ones that we're not going to use because I don't want this to think I don't want cricket to think that I'm going to be cutting it out so I'm going to get rid of these and shoot unfortunately I only have four bags so I'm going to have to choose and I really love these ice cream ones I think I'm actually going to get rid of oh I don't know guys which one um I'll have to go buy some more I think I'm going to get rid of this dog one and then I'm just going to use these ones one thing before I finish up is I'm looking at this and I want to have a different color so I'm thinking maybe I don't know maybe a pink color or a white color for this so I'm going to select this go up to the color box and I'm going to see what white looks like really quick and kind of like think what it would look like on my purse kind of like that that it's just white so I'm going to change this one to be white as well you can change this to be any color you want you can change the color of the ice cream if you want it doesn't matter because once you put it on your mat it's whatever color you put on your mat so all right so now it's finished the way I want it all these pieces are going to cut out separately I like how this is white I'm going to go ahead and click make it it and I'm going to show you what they look like so these I'm just going to separate a little bit I like to have a little space in between so I can cut them that is so cute I love it okay so this I want to be the same color as this one and I wanted to cut out in the same one so this might be a trick you guys know or you don't know maybe I'll teach you something but once you're on this page you can click these three little dots and you can either move object or you can hide the selected object so I'm going to move it I wanted to go on this one so you can either select it and change it to a different mat that you're already cutting out or you can choose a new color so I want it on this one so I'm going to put it right on this one and I'm going to move it over here so that all three of these pieces will cut out the same color black and then this one's just going to be empty and then we've got the ears here the ice cream cone part of the unicorn face the other parts of the ice cream cone the unicorn I think the rest of these oh no that's the ice cream unicorn and then the cherries oh my gosh that is so cute so I'm gonna go to continue because I know I like it the way that it is and I'm gonna show you which one uh which setting I like to use okay so here are the base materials that I always like to use if you are new to my channel you should know that I don't use a lot of cricket materials or supplies so I always just use this stencil vinyl here and I don't know if it's because my blade is dull and I have to replace it but I always go to the more button it just seems to cut it out better where I can pull it off the mat easier so that is it so I'm gonna go ahead and do all these colors hopefully I have them all um but I will cut this out and I'll wait it out and then I'll show you what each piece looks like after I'm finished but I'm really excited to show you guys how to put this on these bags and I cannot wait to see what they look like so stay tuned guys I'll be right back all right so I finished weeding out my files here's one that says ice cream money and then here's the ice cream cone the little tiny cherries which is so cute and then the actual cone itself I should say ice cream not the cone so that's just how it turned out and then I got a bunch of pieces for the unicorns so we're gonna put those together and then here are the bags that I was asking everybody for help with to figure out what to do so I did do these ones I went a little bit ahead and did these to make sure that this would stick htb would stick on here and it definitely does so here's the panda bear I love how this one turned out and then I did the cat one as well um the eyes weren't so big so I either might leave it the way it is or go back in and make the eyes a little bit thicker because I did those myself just because I think it's kind of weird looking then it doesn't have any eyes on it so I just want to show you what it looks like so then you're gonna want to take some alcohol in a pad and just put some alcohol in on a lot and then clean your surface really well I already did this so it would be dry by the time I would put this on so the next part you're going to want to do is just start with your file and then I'm just going to grab a piece of transfer tape off of this I just buy the cheap transfer tape from the dollar store or you can buy this stuff that I normally use on amazon but just for this project I'm just going to use the cheaper kind so you're just going to want to take your edge and pull it off sometimes these can be kind of difficult to work with here we go so just take your transfer tape and put it over your wording and then just use your squeegee push on it really hard to make sure you've got everything that's going to stick on there so it's just like this and I'm sorry it's white so you really can't see it but then I like to work backwards to make sure my things don't come off like this it didn't come off so I'm having troubles with this one here we go because it's white so it's hard for me to see maybe something was missing on there here we go so now you can maybe see ice cream money so I think I'm going to put this on this pink one here like I said clean it off really well with alcohol first and then take it and put it where you want it to go I'm trying to just match it up on each side and to make sure that it's straight with each corner so this part is a little tricky um you want to first just rub it really well with your fingers I think the warmth of your finger and pushing down on the transfer tape helps a little bit you could also take your squeegee and push on it but there's not much to this bag the other way I did it was also stick my hand in here and kind of give it a little bit extra support before I pull off the transfer tape but once you think you got it on really well you can go ahead and pull the transfer tape off and if it sticks on you you can just kind of hold it down as you go a couple things here I found out that when I work with wood signs and the vinyl doesn't want to stick to it I just use a hairdryer and then I put it on low and I take it off the heat and I put it on and that seems to really help so if this doesn't stick right away which it seems to be sticking really nicely right now you can always take a hairdryer on low and on not hot heat on cool heat and put it on here it will help adhere to the bag itself so if you have any issues with that that could be a tip for you but you want to make sure your your container your thing that you're working with is clean my concern is just the eye right here that it's kind of looks like it's coming off but it looks okay so that is the first part so then I want to take my ice cream cone and that's three parts you've got the bottom part the ice cream part and then the cherries as well so this you have to layer this I'm just going to take this off I'm not going to use transfer tape just because it's one whole piece and I'm just going to layer it on top of that other piece I don't want any of that cone color to come through but I'm just layering it like that and then we just have to add the cherry at the top there so this one actually might take my little weeding tool since it's so small get it on there and then I don't know if you can see it well but there is a line right there so you got to kind of match it up with that line just like that oh my gosh that's so cute so I'm actually going to cut these apart since I only want to use one of them right now and then take my transfer tape that I just used and do the same thing just rub it on there really well and I got the layers on there so I like to flip it and now you should just see the one color on the back just like that so I'm going to want to take it and just put it on here wherever you want I'm going to try to put it right in the middle kind of center it see if it looks okay before I push it down and then again just use your fingers and push really hard this is just a little bit more difficult because it's not much underneath it so I'm just trying to let some of my warmth of my hand go on it so it helped peel it up and then you just peel your transfer tape back and that is it ice cream money so whoever gave me this idea thank you so much that was a really good idea I really love how this turned out if you guys like it give me a thumbs up I like how this turned out if you have any other ideas let me know you know there was animals unicorn which I'm going to be doing next and then the ice cream so I'm going to continue with the unicorn here so the first one I'm going to want to do is this big one with the ears here and then just kind of match up to figure out where I want to have it so it's kind of long here so you got to look where it is here so I'm going to take this use my same transfer tape that I used the last couple times and just scrape really well there we go perfect oh or I have this pink one hmm I think I might put this on the pink one and then save this one for the other ice cream cone you can see it better this way anyway so I'm lining it up in the middle right here with the heart piece so I can know it's completely in the center even though I put it like that it still looks like it's off a little bit let's see okay so I have it completely in the center just do the same thing you can use your scraper if you want use your hands but whatever you need to do just to make that stick on there really well and then peel back this one sticks a lot better oh wow so I don't think it liked the material on here it definitely is this blue is a lot more coarse so I'm thinking that this pink one was a lot better because this other panda bear one on really well too so maybe if you buy these maybe buy the more the softer ones like this one wasn't this one I don't know if you can see it kind of has like a pattern to the back of it so always watch that when you can so here's the first part and I think the next one I'm going to do is these ears and when I cut it out it cut out as one piece so I'm not going to take them off I'm just going to use the transfer tape again now if you get a shot here we go and do the same thing just get it on here really well peel it back and then layer it so let's try to find the center here oh yeah that definitely peels off a lot easier so there's the first part with the ears so I think the next part I'm going to do is put the eyes on so I'm just going to do the same thing transfer tape sorry if you guys know how to do this please feel free to skip forward to see what it looks like in the end but for those of you who don't know I'm just going to show you really quick so and then I'm just going to take it and line it up all right so I jumped the gun on this I should have done the flowers first so I'm going to take another piece of transfer tape you guys know I'm always honest with you if I make a mistake I don't want you to make the same mistake I do so I'm going to cut another piece of transfer tape off so that I can work with the flowers and then we'll do the eyes because I'm looking at the picture of the piece that's already finished from design space and it looks like the flowers are definitely on first so there's pink ones here that I have to do and then there's also purple ones so I'm going to start with the pink ones here and it looks like it's going up and down like this so that's why I'm going to do it so again same thing take your transfer tape and then feel back I'm sorry you can hear my dogs feet tapping in the background so then it looks like it's goes on a curve so it fits perfectly in here like that so you see there was a little hole here so it definitely fits right in the middle there perfectly so I'm just going to use my fingers and push really hard and if it comes up you can just push it some more but once you let this sit I think for like 24 hours it really adheres to it if you're using the permanent vinyl so I'll let it sit for a couple of days before I give it away or try to sell it so here's the first part and then I have to work with the purple ones the last part is just to do the eyes now or the eyelashes I think those are so cute and then let's just go right there again anything I do is always homemade handmade so it's never going to be perfect like you would buy at the store which I really love doing homemade and handmade items because it's never going to be perfect so even though there might be a gap here or it's not overlapping the proper way there it's homemade so you're not going to ever get anything that's perfect but I really love how these turned out here's the ice cream money one I really love that thank you again whoever said that is really good idea and here was the panda bear one and then also the cat one which ones do you guys like the best I think I really like either the ice cream money or the panda one I think that one looks really awesome so I had this last ice cream one I'm gonna give it a try we're gonna see if it'll stick to it with the texture it doesn't seem to like it too much but I'm gonna try it but give me a thumbs up if you like this tutorial please hit that subscribe button if you're not subscribed already and happy crafting everyone I really love how these turned out I bought them for a dollar at walmart and I'm planning to sell them at our local craft store for six dollars and make a nice profit on them I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and I hope you create your own little purses happy crafting everyone please be sure to hit that subscribe button if you haven't already and I would love a thumbs up on this tutorial if you enjoyed it


Portal, Mirror's Edge, Ori and the Blind Forest, Super Mario Odyssey, Mega Man, Shadow Knight, Celeste, Vest, Super Meat Boy, Spyro, Cannibal, Pitfall, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider and even Temporum. These are very different games with all sorts of unique mechanics, controls and stories. So what they all have in common? You're in the 80s, the Golden Arcade Age. There's a shop near your neighborhood with all sorts of arcade games. We were entering this shop and there are lines of people waiting to play it. What are they playing? Ah yes, Dokencom, the first true platformer in history. Although Space Panic had a similar setup, it was Dokencom that really showcased all the features that would define this genre. Here's where our journey starts. So let's take a brief look at this revolution released by Nintendo in 1981. But which features are we talking about? What made Dokencom such a good game back then? Well, jump and run. Yeah, nothing too fancy, but note that back in that time this was completely revolutionary. We had a character, no, three characters, an antagonist, a protagonist and a princess. We had to move around jumping over barriers trying to reach the far goal using these platforms to progress. There we have it, the core of platformers. Jump, run, environment with obstacles and platformers that helped us move around and progress towards the goal. But note that here all the action happens in a single screen. All these elements appear at the same time, even the goal. And here, my friends, is when we start to enter in the depth of platformer games. You'll for sure have already heard about this genre many times. After all, it's one of the most popular ones, but it gave way to a ton of subgenres. Back in 1982 Pitiful for Atari revolutionized the genre, presenting the idea of spamming the level layout throughout 255 interconnected screens. So when the character reaches the left end of the screen, the game will load the respective area. And if the character goes back to the right, the game will load the previous screen. There is an interesting talk from David Crane, game designer and programmer of Pitiful, where he explains how they managed to store and process all these different screens in just 128 bytes, not to mention all the sprites in game logic. Atari was a fun place to work, at least it was while Nolan Bushnell was there. I stayed on at Atari a little while after Nolan left, developed a couple more 2600 games, Outlaw, Slot Machine, one cartridge that was Canyon Bomber that also had depth charging. This was a remarkable feat. The video is in Brazilian Portuguese, but all David lines are in English, so it definitely worked taking a look. But loading new screens, even if they share some kind of continuity, was still playing the game into a single screen. Then again, Nintendo brought another revolution, Super Mario Bros. with what we call side-scrolling levels. Although this feature came before Super Mario Bros., for instance with Jump Bug and later Backland, Super Mario Bros. was the one responsible for mixing parallax background which adds depth to the games, with side-scrolling levels and a good story with memorable enemies, power-ups and so on. From there, there was no stop, the side-screw era began. Lots of games implemented this new feature, which then became a core feature for games to come and still is a main feature in most 2D platformers. But just jumping and running from side to side stopping being enough, players were the main thing in something else, and designers gave it to them. Fairly enough, some side-scrollers and even the very Donkey Kong itself already gave weapons to characters. In Super Mario Bros., technically Americans shoot fireballs, but that's not what a game is about. It's 1987, golden era of science fiction and its robots. Robocop just launched in the theaters, an android mixing a man and a robot with guns. It was born, the masterpiece that would later become a never-remarkable series. We're not going to talk about how Megaman X series just revolutionized later in the 90s with air dash, wall jump, vehicles and more. Let's just appreciate this very first Android Android. Yeah, shooting yellow lemons on the robots, now we're talking. With jump and shooting, we entered in the era of fast-paced action, with games that started the genre known as jump and shoot. With screw-able scenarios, the ability to jump, run, shoot and more, designers thought that it would be a good time to invest into more complex storytelling. Some games already had a good story, but most of the content wasn't really uncovered to gameplay elements. So it was time to make players explore the secrets of a level, the ins and outs of the magic world they were playing. Game designers used it the new advance in technology to create bigger levels where the obstacles between the starting point and the goal weren't just a matter of running, shooting, jumping, no. Players would have to figure out how they could live that place, unlocking new abilities, fighting new weapons, coming back and forth to explore everything in that world. In August 1986, Metroid introduced players to the premise of mixing and escape the room with platformers. With a non-linear exploration of the planet's zips, players would have to collect power-ups and new abilities to allow simmers to reach areas previously inaccessible in progress through the level. At almost the same time in September 1986, Castlevania was released. Following a similar premise of exploring a level with an open-ended approach, the developers of Castlevania told the story of Simon against the monsters of Dracula Castle. Due to being released at almost the same time and with a heavy focus on non-linear exploration, open-ended worlds, upgrade system and platform mechanics, these games gave Bertrand what we refer nowadays as Metroidvanias, a subgenre of platformers and action-adventure. You might already notice that I didn't mention any 3D platformer until now, right? That's because I don't like them. But let's be fair, adding a new space dimension can be super hard, and some games exceed when they manage to do that well. Let's take Super Mario 64 as an example. In 1996, some genres were exploring 3 dimensions already, like first-person shooters, racing, flight simulators and others. All these genres have their merits, but making a platformer demands a lot of precision, spatial awareness, responsiveness and tons of other fast maneuvering factors. But Super Mario 64 proved that all that can be achieved with good and smooth controls. And a decent camera. From that, 3D platformers implemented many of the features that once were gender-finding.  That's part of the reason why I don't engage too much into 3D game development. People just assume that your game must have some groundbreaking features by default, so you have to innovate with something else on top of implementing all the standards and a decent camera. This all makes 3D games very expensive to make, especially with tools like Grow, where we don't have really good assets to save some development time, like Unity's first-person and third-person character controllers. Now that we already have a good sense of what are platformers, some subgenres and what makes them so amazing, let's make one. This is the first video of the Let's Make a Platformer series, sponsored by my patrons. In this series, we are going to design, develop and publish a platformer game, so subscribe to the channel and turn on the notifications so you don't miss the upcoming videos. That's it, thank you so much for watching, keep developing and we'll see you the next time.


That I want to challenge you to ask one of the most important questions you can ever ask yourself and that's How well am I actually doing this? See there's a gap between what we know and what we do It's called a performance gap and it is literally the gap between what we know we're supposed to do every single day and What we actually do every single day and in order for you all to continue to be high performers In order for you to get each of your stores to the one two and three million dollar mark You have to close that gap you have to start doing the things that you know You're supposed to do and once you've been able to do that for yourself Then you need to make that contagious and make sure everybody on your team Can close that gap and do the things that you know you're supposed to do The first relationship is one that is most often overlooked and unfortunately undervalued because it is the most important one And it's the relationship that you have with yourself Are you self-aware? Are you self-disciplined? When you make a mistake or things don't go your way Do you have self-compassion and are you able to move to the next play? But more important than that Do you make the time to fill your bucket? Mentally physically emotionally or spiritually if appropriate to you Do you make the time to fill your bucket so that you show up to your store every single day as the best version of yourself? See if you don't if you make the choice not to fill your bucket first and you show up as anything other than your best self Two things one. That's actually an act of selfishness You are giving you and your team less of a chance to be successful because you've made the conscious choice Not to show up as your best self And you also drastically reduce the chance that you're able to hit the goals that you've set of becoming a one-two or three million dollar store So it's vital that you do everything you can to fill your bucket first There's an old adage that's been around a lot longer than I've been around that says you can't pour anything out of an empty cup Which means if your cup is empty you have nothing to give those on your team or those that you serve and your customers So you have to fill your bucket first And that's why this is the bottom of the pyramid Then the next are the members of your team and I know some of you have smaller teams Some of you have larger teams, but even if it's two people that's still considered a team And I want to ask you are you doing everything that you can to empower the members of your team? To support them to assist them to fill their buckets to take friction off of their plate Are you doing everything you can as a leader to allow them to become the best versions of their selves? And then the last part is usually the most obvious to anyone in business and that's going to be your customers Are you doing everything you can to not make assumptions on what your customers need? But to actually ask insightful questions and listen to their feedback Are you listening to the problems and the issues they have and then making sure that you have a customized resolution or at least? customized in perception Each and every customer that comes in needs to feel like that you care about them not care about their wallet or their bank account and you do that By using emotional intelligence to build that bridge and to show them that you care One thing that is vital for us to understand in 2020 Customer and consumer expectations are through the roof and the reason they're through the roof is because of companies like Amazon You guys realize Right now each of you could pull out your phones Order something on Amazon if you have Amazon Prime and depending on what you ordered it could be at your hotel room before the dinner tonight Like talk about high expectations and while you all aren't necessarily in direct competition with Amazon You are always in direct competition with others that are raising the bar when it comes to customer experience Which means people will come to you all now at your stores and they have an inflated Expectation from service to product to everything that you all offer and in order to continue to separate yourselves So that you all continue to be the best in class you have to raise your game to meet those expectations So we can't forget how important these three relationships are


What is going on? Today we're going to talk about why you can't currently do a double under and we are going to go through all the things you may be doing wrong and make sure that you correct those mistakes so you can start doing a double under like a jump rope ninja. Let's dive right into this. Let's find out why you can't double under. The first thing is that you probably haven't mastered the regular bounce if you're still having trouble with the double under. So look here. We're just going to show you a quick example of what the regular bounce should look like. We're also going to link you to a tutorial so if you want a really in-depth look on how to master the regular bounce we'll link it for you but right here just look at what's going on throughout my body. Okay if you look at my feet I'm just coming barely off the ground staying in between the balls my feet and the tips my toes and also very very minimal movement when it comes to the upper body. So the wrists are doing all the work the arms aren't moving much the shoulders are staying stationary and overall when you look at the body there isn't much movement here and so that's where most people enter have problems with the double unders because they're moving their body too much and that may happen because you're doing the exact same thing in your regular bounce but you get away with it because it's an easier move so make sure you watch the tutorial if you need to this is the foundation for the double under start with the regular bounce. Next up you may be moving your body too much in general so understand that this is called the dolphin right here and you may see this by a lot of people and this it may seem like it's a funny thing but a lot of people teach the double under and do the double under this way where they're you know jerking their neck forward and their feet out and when you try to learn it this way it's a lot harder to fit the the rope under your feet because you have a ton of extra movement and so people who try to use this form end up even looking even sillier like what you can see on the screen right now and so limit the movement in general okay look at what i'm doing here see this example very minimal movement you know coming slightly off the ground and trying to keep everything controlled throughout the entire body so if you learned anything here do not do the dolphin keep the movement minimal and you're going to start the massive double under next up you may be using your arms to spin the rope instead of the wrist you can get away with this when it comes to the regular bounce but you can't get away with it when it comes to double under so you can see here obviously i'm really trying to overdo it here but a lot of people move their arms all over the place when they're trying to double under to force the rope under and they end up tripping over it so this is going to happen over and over again if you continue to try to use your arms to spin the rope instead of using your wrist okay this is something that's going to happen over and over again you're going to keep on hitting your legs as long as you're you're not using the proper form so as you can see here when we slow it down i'm not moving my arms at all really i'm just keeping my wrist spinning and that's very slight movement is enough to spin the rope under my feet twice without any extra movement in my arm so really focus on spinning with your wrist and not with your arms next up you're trying to hard to spin the rope twice so a lot of people have an idea in their head that they want to double under they have to spin the rope twice this is actually not not as true the yes it has to go under your feet twice but as you can see here when we slow it down i'm just doing one abrupt whip of the rope to get it under my feet the first time and the momentum takes it under my feet the second time so we're going to show this to you a handful of times here i want you to really watch what happens here boom watch my wrist boom there's a aggressive whip and that one aggressive rip whip gets the rope under my feet two times and it's happening very quickly but really try to watch and see how this double under doesn't take a ton of movement throughout your entire body doesn't take you trying to spin the rope uh you know multiple times all it takes is that you spin the rope one time very aggressively and that aggressive movement that one time with your wrist is going to allow the rope to actually spin two times under your feet and that's what it looks like in real time all right mistake number five you're not keeping your arms stationary so this is very similar to the mistake we talked about earlier but if you're trying to move your arms uh or your hands out to the sides or up or down you're going to continually bring the rope into your legs and into your feet and trip over so you can see here when we slow it down my wrists aren't moving they're shining right at my hips it's a very tight motion here and so because i keep this motion so tight the the rope can easily slide under my feet and one doesn't take as much effort and two make sure you don't trip over the rope so the lesson here you want you to get is do not try to force the rope by moving your arms up down side to side instead keep your hands exactly where they are and just use that wrist movement to make sure you get two cycles under your feet so we're going to show it to you one more time here and one final look giving you a 360 view of what this looks like right and in real time the wrists are doing all the work are not moving your arms up and down or side to side finally the number six mistake people make is not investing in a good rope obviously you see here we're using the jump rope uh by cross rope this is the quarter pound agility rope we linked in the description below for you if you want to grab it but you don't have to grab this one this is what we use every day but in general get a high quality rope because if you don't have a high quality rope you're going to end up dealing with issues like your rope getting tangled you're going to end up dealing with issues uh of your rope wearing out super fast in general guys just invest in a good rope it's going to be easier to do tricks do double unders and continue to improve your jump rope skill set and that's it guys if you want to grab that rope you can do so below here is a recap on the double under if you master these things you are going to get the doubler under 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