So good afternoon. Thanks for the invitation to come and speak about what is going on in physics and indeed what has been going on in physics for a long time when it comes to publication. I was asked to talk about something called the archive, the physics archive. And well, I call it the physics archive, but actually it's widely used now by many fields. So this is ARXIV archive. And this is something that was invented for physics and which I and my colleagues use absolutely every day. And it is a totally open access solution to disseminating research in physics. So the history is that especially the high energy physics community in the 1980s already had a very extensive system of mailing preprints for papers around to libraries around the world where researchers would routinely flip through preprints in hard copy. And by the early 90s, the internet was good enough and fast enough that person by the name of Paul Ginsburg at Los Alamos in the United States came up with this way where people could put their preprints on a server and then other people around the world could look at that server and download papers off of it. This was before web browsers were invented. So this thing started in 1991. And it was an immediate hit with the high energy physics community where the amount of snail mail that was traveling around the world immediately plummeted to essentially zero and people started every day looking at the archive to see what was new since the day before in high energy physics. So in those days, it was based at Los Alamos. It was called xxx.lanl.gov. And because it was before web browsing, you had to log into it using some FTP server. And it was tremendously complicated to post papers. And it was moderately complicated to download papers back into your own machine. As was mentioned, it was kind of slow. But the advantage was just so tremendous that people adopted it very with their whole heart. So I remember my first experience loading a paper onto there, it was tremendously complicated. It took me about half a day to go through all the obscure steps with FTP to make that happen. But there was a real feeling of pride. I said, well, now I'm a member of this worldwide community, just my stuff is out there and they can pick it up in Brazil if they want. It's great. So the reason I say that is because it was really just absolutely fantastic for the worldwide community. So it's totally open access, totally free. And the costs were minimal because Ginsparg and just a handful of people at Los Alamos were running the whole thing single-handedly or just a few hands. So the thing then expanded as the years went by so that today the archive is used by pretty much every branch of physics, all of astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, mathematics, statistics, and quantitative finance. So when you go to the archive now, you can download the latest papers from all of those fields through that interface. In 1999, the small team at Los Alamos got tired of doing all the legwork themselves. And so they made an agreement with Cornell University so that Cornell started, well, they took it over completely. And so then it became archive.org. And Ginsparg moved to Cornell and continued overseeing it. And it's been there ever since, and it's been growing. And so the costs for running it have been carried up until fairly recently entirely by Cornell. And the system, it costs Cornell supposedly around $400,000 a year to give this worldwide access to all these papers. And they have started making inquiries to libraries if they would please, please, please, please donate something to the cause. So I don't know where that stands in detail. But I know Cornell is trying to spread those costs around a little bit. But for researchers, it's still totally free. Not only to use it, but also to post on it. So I've posted, I don't know, a couple dozen papers in the last 20 years on that system. And it never costs me anything. So let's see. So this thing is not peer reviewed. And so there's the issue of how do you keep the crackpots out? How do you keep out the ocean of lunatics out there who would post any rubbish if they would think that some real physicists would read it? And the way that works in practice is first it's still, even today, a little bit complicated to post things. So the average 18-year-old kid can't figure it out too easily. So that's sort of one level of keeping it serious. Each of the subfields represented within the archive has what they call moderators. So moderators are anonymous people. I don't know a single one. But these moderators do have the power to reclassify papers if they're not put into the proper subcategory. And I think they also have the power just to delete papers if they're totally inappropriate. Don't quote me on that though. I'm not totally sure of that. So that's sort of the second level to keep it professional. And then the third thing is a few years ago they started a system of what they call endorsers. So if somebody comes along and tries to post a paper, then if it's a post from someone who's never posted a paper before, then the paper has to be endorsed by some other person who is endorsed by the archive system already. So that's less onerous than you think. So if one of my graduate students wants to post a paper because he's from Carnegie Mellon and he's from a school that's got a certain level of reputation in the world, my graduate student can get in and post without any hassles from the endorsers. But if it's something from left field, they will ask somebody who knows that field, is this a serious paper? It's not peer review, but they just look, is this not totally nuts? And so that's what they, as I say, introduced a few years ago. And I've never actually, I think I've had to endorse one paper in the last six years or so since that's been going. So that's a fairly low hurdle to get posted as well. OK, so the next thing that, at least in physics, my colleagues and I, we all set up a thing where the archive will feed you every morning all the new papers in the field that you're interested in. And so you don't have to even go there. It sort of arrives in your email box, which is terribly nice because then if you see a title, what comes is usually the title and the abstract.  And so that's really great in terms of the rapid access. But as I say, it's not peer reviewed. So the way it's treated nowadays is that people will post to the archive and then they will take the same paper and submit it to one of the professional journals. So in my field, that's, in first order, the physical review in this country or the European physics journal in Europe or various Asian journals as well. And so the routine is you post to the archive. You also post to the, so what we call the archival journal. It's not the archive, it's the archival journal like physical review where it then goes through the standard time-tested peer review process. And like I think somebody mentioned, that process still today can take for physical review anywhere from three to six months. So on the issue of getting credit for doing something new, I think Tar was talking about that, about the idea that if you might lose your Nobel Prize because you were submitting to some tardy journal, nowadays submitting to the archive, that's your time stamp for your work. So you get credit for something new even if it isn't peer review yet, reviewed yet if you have an archive entry. So that sort of solves that problem. I mean, if he were still here, I would explain that. So in physics, we don't suffer from priority fights anymore in the sense that if you've got something ready to go, the whole world will know about it the next morning. Okay, so but having said that, it's still viewed to be very important to have peer review. I've been an associate editor for physical review letters and I know that the people who are professional editors over the years, they've worried a lot about, you know, what's the relationship between us, the stodgy old formally print journals with this new quick open system for publishing things. And so their competitive advantage in their opinion is still the thorough peer review that they've always done. And by and large, I think at least the physics community still feels that peer review is worth the effort because that way what ends up finally in physical review are the papers that some reviewers at least agreed are worthy of publication. So in a sense, the traditional publishers like European Physics Journal and Physical Review, they've capitulated to the reality that today the open access archive has essentially taken away from them the newness of anything that they might print. But they have come to accept that to the point where nowadays if I submit a paper to the archive and then I go to the physical review website, they will take the archive files. I don't even have to separately submit them to physical review.  And so that makes it totally painless for me to submit there. So they're trying to work with this. I know the editors are worried about their long-term future. And it is an evolving thing. And like somebody already said, probably 10 years from now we'll have a different discussion. Last comments about the archive is that they do not do any metrics or citation counts and things like that. They don't do that on the archive. They just post the papers. And so a number of alternative sites or systems have popped up that then will scour the archive and count citations and the like. And so the ones I'll mention there is something called Inspire at Slack in California. And Google Scholar, I find, is pretty good too for doing that. So the archive continues to grow like crazy. There are now about 7,000 new submissions per month. And that's grown pretty much monotonically since 1991. And on the last note, they continue to grow. And they are having growing pains. And they're now trying to figure out how to make it feasible at Cornell to keep this going. But certainly in physics, we expect it will continue to be our main source of new information on a daily basis for the foreseeable future.


Lakeland Currents, your public affairs program for North Central Minnesota produced by Lakeland PBS with host Ray Gildow. Production funding for Lakeland Currents is made possible by Bemidji Regional Airport, serving the region with daily flights to Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. For information available at BemidjiAirport.org. Closed captioning for Lakeland Currents is sponsored by Niswa Tax Service, tax preparation for businesses and individuals online at NiswaTax.com. Hello again everyone and welcome to Lakeland Currents, where tonight we're going to be talking about pressures and coaching. And it's something that affects all of us, whether or not we have kids in school, maybe we used to have kids in school. There's a lot of research that shows that kids who are in athletics do really well after high school. They do well in their life, they do well in decision making. There's just so many positive things about having kids in athletics. But the whole athletic environment and the whole environment of coaching is changing so drastically. It's putting a lot of pressure on the people who go into coaching. In fact, the Minneapolis Star and Tribune did us about a two-section article on the pressures and coaching here just recently. And there were some interesting statistics that they threw out. Ten percent of girls coaches, I believe hockey coaches, no, ten percent of football coaches quit every year or retire every year. Eighteen percent of girls hockey coaches quit every year. And in the 2016-2017 year, 71 coaches resigned their positions from coaching across the state of Minnesota. Those are pretty stark statistics. And so today we're going to be talking about what these pressures are and what is it that coaches are dealing with today that they didn't have to deal with 15, 20 years ago. And my guest to my right is Gary Gruy, who is a longtime friend and who's been a coach for a long time, an athlete, played at the college level, played at high school level. He's done a lot of different things and he'll give it a little bit of his background. And then Stephanie Hansen, who is a star player maybe. I will say that. But she has an interesting, very interesting background. And Stephanie works now in Park Rapids. And she is a volleyball coach coming off a disappointing loss to chance to get into the state tournaments. But welcome to the show. Thank you. Thanks for having us. Gary, maybe we could start with you and you could give us some of your background. Oh, let's see. I grew up in Jerk Creek, Minnesota, small town by Wadena. And went on to college at Brainerd Community College where I played three sports. Mainly went to college at Brainerd, basically, obviously to get an education, but mainly to play sports. Back then, that's three sports. You don't play three sports, even at the high school level, about any more. I went on to coach at Sabika Staples, Park Rapids, Bemidji, and I finished up in Pequot Lakes. 25 years as a head boys basketball coach, we had quite a bit of success at Pequot Lakes. Some dang good kids and some good people I worked with, some assistants. Got out of coaching about my fifth year out of the head boys basketball position. Found out I was spending more time with other people's kids than my own kids. My wife and I have a set of twins, a boy and a girl that are now seven years old, and that eats up a lot of my time. I found out that coaching took up too much time. I was spending too much time away from my own kids. I do miss it.  Now I'm currently the junior varsity coach. I spent a couple years coaching seventh and eighth grade after I got out also. And you had pretty good levels of success. You had three teams that were in the state tournament in basketball. Yeah, we were blessed with some good kids and some good set of parents, good administrative help, wonderful assistants. We hardly ever changed assistants. The 11 years I was there between Brett Surge and Brian Lempela. Kyle Spray and John Dale helped out there for a few years. But once somebody told me one time, you surround yourself with good people and they make you look good, and that's pretty much what happened at Pequot Lakes. And when you got out of coaching, like you said, for a couple years you really did miss it, didn't you? Oh yes, definitely. I missed the competitive spirit. I missed the camaraderie with the kids. You really miss that. And the competitive nature of the game. But I found out it was just taking too much of my time. And after I got out I didn't realize how much time it actually took. And I go, my goodness sakes, how did I actually do all this and spend time with my family beforehand? It was very noticeable. And I think it's something important to point out too that no one coaches for the money. No, absolutely not. We'll talk a little bit about what people are paid. But it's not a lot of money when you look at November, December, January, February, March, and basketball. All of these sports takes a lot of time. Stephanie, let's talk a little bit about your background if you would. Yes, I actually grew up in Northern Minnesota in Carlstead, way up in the northeast corner. But yeah, I of course was a three sport athlete as well. Basketball and volleyball and track and very involved actually with a lot of things. Anything I could be involved in I was as a student athlete. But I played college volleyball at NDSU and also had the chance to transfer and play with the same coach in Texas at the University of Texas in Arlington. So and then I chose to coach as well after I had my kids. And so how long were you at Texas one year then? Two. Two years at Texas? And then I actually lived in Texas for about seven, eight years. And we decided to move back to Minnesota just for our kids and get kind of the way I grew up in the small town and just a safe environment for my kids to go up in and so been here ever since. And I coached my daughter through her career in volleyball and she went on to play college volleyball as well. And did very well. Yeah, she did very well. She won two national championships at the University of Concordia in St. Paul. So very well. She was on the seventh team that won the straight title, seventh straight title national at national. So just really fun to be a part of all that. Never thought I'd probably coach again but had two nieces that in Park Rapids and started with them on their offseason and then the coach resigned and then I took over and this is my 15th year so I'm four years going now and coaching volleyball in Park Rapids. Volleyball has gotten to be really a big thing in Minnesota. I think a lot of that credit goes to not only the teams like Concordia but University of Minnesota has had a phenomenal program for a number of years and I know it's not unusual to see that place packed now when they have their volleyball games. So it wasn't that long ago that not that many people went to the University of Minnesota volleyball games. So it's good to see that women are getting the recognition and girls are getting the opportunities to play in those sports that probably wasn't that big. I don't think we had volleyball when I was a kid growing up. Right. Well girls didn't have anything but being a cheerleader at that time. Yeah it has grown immensely and I don't know the exact statistic but volleyball in Minnesota is they're one of the top in the country as far as participation. So now besides being a coach you also teach. Yes. And what is it that you teach? Currently I do have my master's in education and have an elementary degree but I'm currently a teacher for Deaf Hearty Hearing for a co-op in Bemidji for BRIC. Okay so you travel to other school districts and work with kids in other school districts. Yes it's a low incidence so not a lot of this you know there's maybe one or two in each school so technically they're not going to hire a full-time teacher so yes I'm kind of the itinerant that goes around. And Gary what grade are you teaching now? I teach the grade language arts and I've taught for what not 35 years I'm 56 years old so I can retire. You didn't have to tell those you were. You look much younger. I married well that's my key success. Well so you both have very rich backgrounds in coaching and you've been around a long time period you've been around since the 80s and the 90s when the coaching was very much different than it is today. And the article that the Star Tribune did focused primarily on the metro area. Correct. And I think you guys want to talk about maybe the rural area to start with and maybe we could talk a little bit about the pressures of the clubs in the AAUs in the metro area but maybe we could get to that if we have time later. What's happening from your perspective that's creating the pressure on coaches where so many of them are just saying it's not worth it? Well I think a big problem that we have in the coaching ranks is that you don't see the the longevity of coaches anymore and if you're a young coach say if I was like 23-24 I'm not going to probably make it to 30 as a head coach. And sometimes part of it is that coaches get in as into a head position too young of an age but of course there's an opening there and there's nobody else that wants to take them. I think a lot of the stuff has been our summer programs and to keep up with the Joneses so to speak. If you're going to be successful you have to put time into the summer and you know I think that one of the biggest changes when the high school league started to allow coaches to work with their athletes in June and July. And basically I remember the last 10-15 years or whatever when that program when that initiative came in. Basically the only month that I ever got off from basketball pretty much was August and part of September. Otherwise you know when you're preparing for the season then there's a season of basketball then there's April and May getting ready for the summer then June and July okay you're spending time not with just your varsity if you want to run a good program you as a head coach you're also delving down into the fourth fifth even the elementary lower than that. That takes time and I think that really weighs on young coaches with as far as their commitment to their families and obviously you're not going to get paid for this and you don't get paid much even if you do get paid some. And usually that's through Community Ed or something different. Yes yeah it's I don't think I hardly ever talk hardly anyone to be so much money for the gas or something like that this summer because it's costly enough for the kids the way it is. We try to keep it low cost I hardly ever charged very much for our camps but still when you think about your camp then you take gas money for tournaments these kids have to eat sometimes there were overnight things things start to add up and then it's the investment of time we live in a lakes area kids when do they have time to go fishing or to do whatever else it is that they want to do as a kid or with their families and that not only for the kids and their parents but also for that coach and I think fewer and fewer coaches want to spend that much investment. Stephanie did you play basketball too? I did. And so you played basketball volleyball what was your third sport? Track. So when you had your summers as a student where was the other pole what was the biggest pole for you was it volleyball or was it basketball or what was it as a student? It's interesting you asked that because I think that's so different now because of the opportunities that are out there in the summer especially with volleyball because our off season is in you know well it actually starts winter right away when the season's done but I really don't remember ever really taking an interest in volleyball being my top sport until I was a junior in high school I loved all the sports and I did everything but nowadays I just think girls especially volleyball athletes are picking volleyball ahead at an early age and then quitting their other sports and yep and because the opportunity is a year round and I'm not I don't want to take away from that opportunity because it's it's needed to again to keep up with the Joneses you know but um but I do feel like they're they're not getting the value of of all the sports and they're seeing different coaches too yes you know and I I've always thought too is that some of these basketball players that they just play basketball that's all they would see is me and then my style of coaching yes and I always thought it was very beneficial for them to have a football coach a cross-country coach or someone else a baseball someone else to compare to where they get different experiences in life everybody brings something different to the table and those kids will benefit from that I mean practices I love it when they say oh I coach so-and-so said this and you know certain things stick in their minds and it makes a difference for sure and it's so beneficial coming from someone else and not just you all the time and you do start to recognize talent pretty young don't you in the sports that you're seeing so when you see a talented girl are they starting to feel some pressure about being good enough to go on to college at the high school level for sure yeah I think you know though it depends you know those pressures can come from a coach for sure yeah um I'm I tend to try to be a more balanced uh coach and I try to give the you know the athlete a bigger picture and and give them a chance to kind of see what is going to be best for them but they might be getting the pressure at home with with parents going you know or peers or peers yeah or their best friend or social medias where a lot of those interactions say Billy over here he's playing on this AAU team and he asks Sam over here on my team to play with them yeah and then one thing kind of leads to another definitely so that social media has changed the environment for coaches yeah in what ways how is that affecting coaches you want to go with that one well I younger on this yeah I okay so the instagram and I mean there's so many things now that they can show the videos and they can get information out there and and they can I know our park rep it's uh you know team had a instagram page and and so did the tennis team and I was able to be tech tech enough to kind of you know go into those different pages and it was almost like this battle of popularity and you know and it's just a constant pressure I think for I don't know these adolescents to be popular and to be cool and they can go get drills they can go get information on camps they can get information on tournaments some in-state some out-of-state what's Johnny they they get together with people from other towns and all sudden then they're all sudden they're being taken out of your community yes or away from your local coaches sometimes I'm not saying that's a bad thing and but you know what I'm saying there's more pressure than because everybody else is kind of doing it and that they find out that through that that social media and they know everybody they know every every kid knows every other kid it's insane that was one of the things that the star tribune reported about was some of these elite camps were telling the kids come to our camp we do a better job somewhere than your high school called track which has created a whole different stress less the level especially I think in the metro area I'm sure you see some of that at your level too yeah there are camps that you send your kids to and one of the concerns in the years a few years ago I know was that AAU kinds of events sometimes kids were getting bad habits yes yes and no I think there's a place for AAU and I think that there's a lot of good AAU coaches unless maybe you explain what AAU is for people who don't know it's a higher level of basketball volleyball I'm assuming also correct outside the regular high school season it usually takes place in April May it sometimes it goes in the fall league there's fall league basketball it's where kids will go to gain one better skill set to play more basketball number two through about through these programs and to get exposure for college college coaching and you have a tryout tryouts and so you're put on a level a skill level of team that you know are they regulated by the Minnesota State High School no not a bit so they're completely free yeah kind of operate as they like correct and there's a lot of good coaches out there and there's a lot of good programs I'm not here to bash AAU by any stretch of imagination I always had good good rapport with a lot of the AA coaches some are better than others and they run a better program some I think but AA parents have to and players have to understand there's more time commitment for certain programs as opposed to others and I think they as parents athletes you have to kind of find your niche yes in the AAU program sometimes unfortunately sometimes kids have an expectation when they do play AAU that that's automatically going to make them a better high school player and go to guarantee them a spot on the varsity team or x amount of minutes playing time that's where things kind of come in and I would guess that parents also have some expectations from that they do sure they do it's it's also it's cost time and time away from family so they're investing they're investing all this money we want more playing time or they think they should and in some cases you know the majority of the people that I worked with that wasn't a problem but I think it's getting I think it's more of a problem towards the metro area because it's a little more cost we've had pretty good rapport with the people up here that I've worked with through the AAU programs definitely yeah and I guess what I was going to say is there's different levels but they're all opportunities and you kind of have to look at the child or the kid and say what what what is this kid looking to do what are their goals and what kind of AAU situation would be would be good for them is it the high level best skilled team in the state or is it just local tournaments or is it you know in in a college where they want to go you know and that can start as young and believe it or not second grade really yeah I was just talking to a parent I'm not going to get into names but whatever their their son was invited to play in a specialized hockey situation I was going to say I bet it was hockey down in the cities and the parent you know is probably going to say no because hey it's it's too much time away from home away from school now grand there's parents that might want to choose to do that but I think that's where parents have to come in and say enough's enough or this is right or we need to do more I mean there has to be and there has to be communication with the high school coach and the parents and the player to figure out where that would be best for them as coaches how did you handle parent complaints or how do you handle parent complaints do you prefer face-to-face meetings because I know that one of the things that's starting to happen excuse me through social media is there are more parents communicating with their coaches through email maybe saying things that they maybe wouldn't say face-to-face have you how do you handle that to be honest in in Piqua Lakes I had very little parental issues not that there weren't parents torqued at me I get that and but that's the nature of the beast absolutely that comes with part of the job I mean you're going to get some of that but I had the majority and I mean the majority of the parents I worked with in Piqua Lakes were very very very cooperative not that they always liked what I did or whatever but the players and the parents were very supportive of what we tried to run as a program I think what really helped me is that I had stability in my coaching staff I had the same ninth grade coach I had two different three different varsity assistants but I and one was only there for a short year but I had on both ends some good quality people my seventh grade coach was there the whole time majority eighth grade coach was there I changed very few coaches the thing is that what happened is there was an expectation as people moved up the ranks and so on that there was this is what needs to be done this is what needs to be done this is what's expected and a lot of my lower level coaches took out took care of some of those problems before they got to me to be honest most of my issues you know would come up with our youth basketball with youth basketball program at the beginning of the programs when they didn't know the expectations that were designed into the program or what were the expectations as the as their son moved forward I think that's huge you know I would say the same thing well the expectation piece yes throughout the whole program right it just clarifies a lot of things right off the bat and when you know the kids come up especially you know at the varsity level they already know the expectations and there's no questions right there was there was one boss of basketball in our town we had different entities we had the pack program we had the community had program the high school program and then the summer program and you know I advised the youth programs and I ran the high school and the summer programs you know but there has to be one set of expectations from the head coach on down which means you have to have administrative support in order to have those expectations and I had that also I'm not asking about personal salaries here but in general what kind of salaries are our head coaches made and let's just say in basketball and volleyball if you look kind of across central minnesota what what ranges do you hear of or and I know it's negotiated by a teacher contracts for everybody but what are you looking at for salaries now for people in your field do you get forty eight hundred no I think I was like as low as 32 at one time the problem and I think I was at Bemidji I probably got close to a little over five I had to start over again yeah parking park rapids started at the low yeah because yeah yeah the salary doesn't I'd never coach for the summer no but I think it's important for people to understand that people I get what you're going to coaching to because it's paying well no it's uh when you look at the hours I used to say when you volunteered you made about the same amount of money as I had coach because you all put in about the same amount of hours and you know it doesn't come out I mean I I did it because I love that yeah I mean and I think the metro area is paying higher oh yes definitely does here and brander pays brander here and brander pays much higher they're a bigger school sure you know uh you I would assume you both belong to the coaching associations does your coaching associations provide any support for the challenges that young coaches are dealing with now well you know what they provide is they provide people to talk to you know when you're around long enough you have you develop friendship and if there's an issue I wouldn't hesitate to call Dave Gallovich and Crosby I would educate Dave Cressup and Purim I know some other coaches that here's the problem we have that I'm dealing with as far as whatever it may be and I'll network and especially going to coaches clinics in the summer you see people and you have an adult beverage after the game or not after the game but in the summer after things are over and then you talk about it the certain problems you might have and you work towards solving them in your own way definitely coaches clinics they're really fun to go to clinics are huge and networking you know they always say yeah I guess I've always said volleyball is a small world yes exactly it really does help to so that network of and I'm thinking about this for maybe people who are looking at the program who might want to get into coaching networking with experienced people would be a real big deal I strongly believe that goes back to what you said if you're a young coach and you want to you want to have a career in it you know be an assistant with with with the coach that is very experienced and kind of learn and grow yes and you know I'm looking at at becoming you know the end of my career too here soon but you know I've there's been expressed it's you know interest in in some coaches coming under me and I just think that's great I think that would benefit them a ton because there's so much more to coaching find just find a mentor find someone to help you to bounce ideas whether they're actually either currently coaching or even if they're not coaching but then actually then listen to them that doesn't mean you have to do it you know exactly the way because you still have to be your own person and I think you need to find and the schools have to help with this the schools need to hire more coaches I mean there's teachers and coaches if you're a good teacher you're probably going to be a good coach if you're a good coach you're probably going to be a good teacher the schools need to hire more coaches so there's more people to get into the coaching that are in the school I think that would be good you have a mentorship you find some people to bounce ideas off and then surround yourself with with good people you really have to do that up and down the program that makes it makes the head coaches assistant even in the summer which takes a lot of time if you have assistance to help you in the summer and I was really lucky that I had especially in Pequot Lakes it makes a ton of difference as far as hey I can get put them over there they'll take care of it I know they'll do a good job right so in your two particular areas at Pequot and Park Rapids are you having good numbers are you getting lots of kids out for volleyball lots of kids out for basketball are those numbers looking good it's interesting to bring that up because no it has been that has been really tough even though you've had a really successful season seasons really yeah we you know when I always you know you think oh what am I doing wrong you know they're not coming out for volleyball but it is basically all the sports in Park Rapids right now they're having a hard time getting kids come and I know some of the metro football teams have almost not enough kids to have scrimmages yeah maybe because of the concussion issue but that wouldn't be your issues in volleyball the people at the boys side it seems to be doing a pretty good part of participation I think overall our girls do too I think we've had a lot of success in both the girls and the boys sides of you know variety of sports and I think you know people are it's a sports town and people talk sports and the way the kids go out and we have good youth programs too it is amazing because when you have successful sports teams like it's all around the state and it has a positive impact in the community very much the positive impact with the kids yes and I see kids 30 years ago that played at Staples and they still talk about the heyday it's just a great experience so I hope when young people watch you guys today we've been very positive oh yes talking about how to get in not not how to get into coaching but the positive things about coaching I think it's really important information you give about building a network of experienced people yep and I am out of time but thank you both for appearing on the show and if they want to get in touch with you they I guess they could do that through your school district yeah Gary through Pequot Lakes yep Stephanie website yeah part of volleyball dot com so great well thank you for being on the show and sharing some really good information thanks thanks for coming and thanks for having us right you bet you've been watching Lakeland Currents what we're talking about what you're talking about I'm Ray Gildow so long until next time


This is stock number 9210, and we are at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, checking out this 2015 RAM 2500 Crew cab short box This truck has a 6.4 liter v8 hemi motor from this HD video You'll be able to tell that this truck is extremely clean all the way around We shoot all of our videos in 1080p So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or a smart device Turn them on now It's like you're right here looking at the truck with me It has the 20 inch fuel painted in polished aluminum rims that are an excellent condition has trail blade a Turro 33 by 12 and a half hour 20 tires and these tires look like they have roughly about half the tread left Frame and underbody is very clean on underneath here Bright white is the color I Didn't see any dents or dings on the hood didn't see any cracks or scuffs on the grill or the front bumper Hood is an excellent condition Passenger side rim is in pretty nice condition as well One tiny little scuff there, but nothing major and as you go down this side of the truck You can see just how clean the body is how reflective and glass like that paint is We take these HD videos if you so if you are far away Or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down But you're still interested in purchasing the truck You can still see the truck here the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here Very clean down this side cab is an excellent condition I didn't see any dents or dings down this side of the truck All the lower rockers look really good as the factory chrome step bars this back rim is an excellent condition No scuffs or scrapes on that and you can see that this frame and underbody is in really nice condition You can see it has the coil springs in the back. They went to those in 2014 Gives you a much smoother ride when the truck is emptied Not hauling anything. It's a much smoother ride. You can see all the lower lips look really good and The bottoms of the doors look really good as well As we go around to the back side here See the rear bumper is in excellent condition. No dents or dings on that has a full towing package Which includes the receiver itch four pin and seven pin wiring tailgate is in really nice condition as well No dents or dings on that and it does have a backup camera This truck has a spray and bed liner has a tailgate a sys drop So it makes it really easy going down so it doesn't slam on you Like I said spraying bed liner beds in really nice condition a couple little dings, but it's a truck bed. That's what truck beds do Tailgate shuts nice and solidly as you can see it as a big horn package And as you go down this side of the truck just as clean as the passenger side See just how reflective that paint is. This one does have the tow mirrors. These do fold out For bigger trailers, and then they also power fold in so Pretty neat feature right there This one has the big horn package, which gives you the gray cloth interior. Both of these seats are heated No rips or tears in these seats power driver seat has lumbar Carpeting is very clean underneath the husky floor liners. This one has auto headlamps You can see right there And this truck has 39,905 miles. You can see it has the 7-inch TFT display You can see all the corners have different information on them as far as compass outside temperature range to empty and trailer gain Has the six-speed automatic transmission with the turn dial four-wheel drive has the 8.4 touchscreen radio Also has factory navigation. You also have your heated seats and heated steering wheel controls right there factory brake controller More heated seats and heated steering wheel buttons You have your dual climate control and then this is also where your backup camera shows up Really nice high definition backup camera Passenger seat is very clean as well. No rips or tears on that And we got a husky floor liner on that side as well keeping that carpeting nice and clean Steering wheel has is leather wrapped and has the cruise controls and bluetooth audio controls on it Power windows power locks and power mirrors We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll check out under the hood Back seats are just as clean as front seats. No rips or tears back here It does have the power sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost We got latch child safety system for your car seats Underneath these floor mats. There are little storage bins on both sides These are removable so you can put ice and drinks and stuff in there and easily clean them Underneath these seats. We do have the load floor Which is a really neat feature So if you got boots or tools or even if you got pets can set these down They can go on here not ruin your seats or get them dirty And even if you have little kids they can leave them up like that So they have a place to set their feet so they're not kicking the back of your seat Underneath here there's more storage So Dodge really thought of it all On these trucks Take a quick look under the hood The 6.4 liter v8 hemi motor These do have mds which shuts off four of the cylinders on the highway Engine bay is very clean runs very smooth This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change All the fluids have been checked and topped off And it is 100 ready to go To see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 400 new and used cars trucks SUVs minivans wranglers you name it. We got it Go to our website www.summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle on our lot videos of every single used vehicle that we have All at summitauto.com. Thank you so much for checking my video If you want to make this truck yours give us a call right now<PHONE_NUMBER> ask for one of our sales associates to make this truck yours today Once again that number is<PHONE_NUMBER> thanks for checking out my video if you like it want to check out more go to youtube.com Slash summit auto remember to like subscribe and share And in a second you will see a subscribe button on your left a link to more heavy-duty truck videos like this one on your right And if you haven't been to our website on the bottom a link to this truck on our website Click that check us out see what we're all about and we look forward to help you with the super clean 2015 ram 2500 crew cab short box. Thanks again


Hey guys, welcome to Higan Iruthil and let's do a review of media If you notice that I already have her at four star because I got a copy of her in the guaranteed SSR banner So let's proceed and see what she has for us. I find her a bit intriguing. I've been using her Quite a bit, but I'm still leveling her up especially her skills. So in terms of As you can see her focus here. She does really have a lot of burst damage I I guarantee that to you guys she can be very good with her AOE in terms of You know clearing out mobs But she can also be good in a single target enemy So what I'm saying is she is very versatile in terms of use You can really use her be my guest She can be tier one at this point my assessment of her at this point But she could be higher than that depending on What happens or depending on my further playtest of her in the next few weeks? So specialty is going to be board control She does have debuffs by the way, and she focuses on her her attack and also her burst damage so you can't go wrong with her if you're looking for a Caster she's a caster by the way, but she's a caster and Her element is light. So if you're looking for a burst caster, you don't have any casters right now You can really really use her but I think there are a lot of casters in The roster even at our rarity. You have a few casters that you can use especially claw are and The other one is Isa, but both of them have different specialties. This girl really Has more damage than the both of them So I think you should use her if you're looking for a burst damage Caster at this point and your light element doesn't hurt because in terms of If you see the element table, you're not really Most of the time you'll be encountering wind fire or water most of the time And you won't be you know, you won't be at a disadvantage in terms of element based on this This what they call this this counter Countering element chart. I'm not sure what this is but more or less What I'm saying is she's versatile enough that you can carry her in a lot of content regardless of the element That is presented depending on the battle right in front of you. So again at this point. I'm I have her at level 36 um as for stats um Very nice ap by the way at level 36 And what else bonus ultimate damage and crit damage here And nothing special here. So I wouldn't expect a lot of health and a lot of the other stats from her Because she is a caster. So just be careful when you are using her and and um If you can see here again, let's go back to the class. So All allies charge energy 5 faster when you have a caster. So If I'm gonna show you my team later, I do have two casters. We're in We're in I recharge faster because of those two. So let's uh, let's try to look at Her weapon here. So this is her. This is actually kind of cute. I thought she was she was um She was like a range um hero or unit But definitely she is not I thought she was a ranger But she is a caster. So in terms of her skills, let's take a look at her basic attack. So basic attack is Just just really your basic attack. So damage equal to 110 to 120 ap to an enemy nothing special her passive by the way is is For me it will Give you an edge, especially if you encounter Enemies with different types of affinity. What affinity means is the element. So light dark Fire um wind and water. So if you have for each kind of affinity It's going to be a plus 11 to 12 percent ap as you level this skill up This is going to increase as well. So with that skill I think she could go to tier zero at you know at this point first glance But right now i'm telling you guys use a tier one near the top and let's take a look at Her ultimate so her ultimate is um Turns into a powerful bullet chat dealing m damage to 108 plus 362 percent to 225 ap to all enemies In a circular area this deals a lot of damage and after her active skill She has two of them. You can actually switch Between your preference. So so this is the one that i'm not using So this one is applying focus to the target hit when a focus enemy is defeated all enemies Within the three meter ranges will take um m damage equal to 140 percent of media's ap So if an enemy dies the rest take um additional damage, but i'm using this one. So uh m damage equal to 108 plus 407 percent to 225 In total to enemies within an arc. So this one is It's outright damage.  Both of them are good But for now, i'm actually testing this one talk show So let's move to her Awakening so as you gather um additional additional copies So you'll be awakening Um awakening stars and awakening phases as well. So some of the phases here would give you stats A bonuses as well and also would give you passive, you know abilities like this one at phase three So this is at rank three ap increase ap by 12. This is the first one After defeating an enemy this lasts uh for eight seconds. This is actually quicker But i'd rather do this when there are no more than three no more than three So you have to have three or less In the battlefield increase ap by 12 to 5 percent, which is this is fixed Okay, so and also this is nice if you have one boss left This is actually a fixed buff rather than this one. So i'm going with this one And uh, let's go here. So for phase four So this um is tied to a thousand two thousand words defeats an enemy instantly uses Currently equip skill one time So this one is a trigger for the currently equip skill one time When thousand word defeats an enemy the other one is upon entering battle um increases ultimate damage by 25 percent That's also nice, but i'm going with this one because i want to trigger additional skill uh triggers and therefore additional damages as well So again, uh, you will have a lot of skills here this one for phase five Upon entering increase ap by 10 Um, I think this is nice. Um, this one is also nice as long as You increase it from 10 the crit rate because if you have it at 10, I don't think that's going to trigger much So it's going to be better to have increased ap by 10 percent, which is Her her damage and also I think phase six This one if you you for asking me is um focus applied by exclusive reduces targets M damage mitigation by the extra 10 percent. So this is If this is more on um defense reduction And the second base active skill talk show attacks two more times Which I think I would go with additional two more attacks Again, her kit is really based on burst damage multiple damage Um versatile with aoe also with single target Um, again, I'm gonna say she's gonna be tier one But she could be tier two guys a tier two not tier two tier zero Um, let me build build her up. Let me just comment more as we go along But for now if you have her use her It's also nice to have her with uh with another caster in the team because they could They could refresh um energy as fast as they can. Let me do a a trial here On how she works I'm gonna do but I'm gonna do this in auto. So It's one. I just want to give you guys an idea on how Um, her damage where her damage goes to not How big her damage is so let's um, let's do this. I have her currently in my team already So there she is So far I am at let's just slow this down a bit Let's slow this down. Let's let's skip Okay, so let's just fight this one So we have two affinities here, which is roughly a minimal plus 22 percent Let's slow this down On a side note. I brought siacom because of the bear The bear actually gives me another front line You know hero that uh, I can pair with arman So as you can see there a lot of burst damage from media These are ultimate guys Let's see how it does. Oh lots of damage there There you go. Very very A lot of burst damage very very nice So that is it. Let me just uh Check and select And let's get out of here for my final thoughts Okay guys, so my final thoughts for media here. I think both siacom and her are one of the, you know, two of the best um SSR Uh casters You can't go with either of them. They actually I I found it that I found out that they play well off of each other and um Again, please. Uh, what do you call this? You can you can actually use her really? um level up her kit and Take advantage of her burst damage AoE Again, the burst damage is incredible. Um once you clear out all those mobs if you have a boss Then that boss will also take burst damage So again, although her her regular attack is not that impressive, but her skills guys are passive is So thank you very much for staying this far. Take care. Stay safe. This is the warden and I'm out of here


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To invite on stage dr. Andrak Bhatra chairman and editor-in-chief Bw business world and exchange for media to deliver the welcome address I'll request you all to welcome him with a round of applause I said I came fast because Priyanka has to leave and we are running late So I'll make it fast. I tried to be like some of the news anchors That's kidding, okay Good afternoon. It's my honor and privilege to welcome you to the 22nd edition of the exchange for media conclave We started E4 and 23 years back First exchange for media conclave was at the ITC sake it in You know, South Delhi and since then we've come a long way this year's theme is inclusive marketing winning customers with diversity equity and inclusion I just want to say that exchange for media conclave Is a very important landmark for us because really We became what we became because of the content we did on exchange for media calm and the content We did on the conclave in the initial years. I just want to say that Innovation is what is driving every ecosystem including the advertising marketing media ecosystem Every day in every yesterday we had the E4 MD to see a lot in every category and subcategories new players are being born Daily, you know, there are Entrepreneurs who are coming up with differentiated ideas and differentiated business propositions they're incumbents that are learning from new entrants and As we saw that big large companies have made a D2C push push and their D2C Numbers are very impressive. So really in this environment. What we need is a combination of going back to basics Thinking big thinking on a scale using technology in a big way, but also when we talk of inclusive marketing we're talking about how to Make sure that we are genuinely in the way. We build our businesses in the way. We build our brands. We are looking at Diversity equity and inclusion in a big way in our industry On the face of it diversity equity and inclusion are not issues, but I can tell you That we have a long way to go at exchange for media initiatives Whether it's a jury meets or it is our speakers. We try to have a 50-50 Split of speakers between men and women and luckily in our industry and overall In India there is enough talent at the top. We need much more similarly when it comes to Inclusion in terms of specially able people In our own way. We've done initiatives to help them today. We have mr. Adam Gerhardt Who's the global see of mind share going to deliver a keynote in the evening? We are mr. Aman Gupta who's the founder of both and and someone who inspires many people Through his journey. I have met friends who were talking about him yesterday. So really this is something that They will also talk about and you will hear it in their addresses We also will be doing the sixth edition of the exchange for media influencer of the year We've announced this year the name Mr. Prashant Kumar. I talked about him yesterday. He's the South Asia CEO for the Group M And you know he's somebody we know well as a company as individual and somebody the whole industry looks up to This year's go a first if I may say PK may like it or may not like it Happened only because of PK's initiative. He was calling sponsors He was calling people of course other people also contributed, but he's somebody who's gone beyond his Own job description of building his own company, but has contributed to the industry PK will be here CVL Srinivas who's the country manager for WPP. He'll be here and Adam will be here when we do the exchange for media Influencer of the right. I have a longer speech, but I'll not get into that I just want to say my apologies for starting late Priyanka I know you had to have another cup of coffee But I will look forward to your session and I'm sure you'll be able to give us something That we'll take back think and hopefully implement in our business. So thank you so much Please clap for all these speakers who are here. Please encourage them So they know that there is an audience that is looking forward to this back to your oven


And I don't want to ask you this question to depress you, but in your life, who is on your side 100%? And I'm going to ask you this question, who's not on your side 100%? Maybe it's time to let them go. Today we're going to be talking about how to support the people that are around you to grow into who they're supposed to be, but also how to make sure that you become the person that you were put on this earth to be. So is this an important episode? Hell, yeah. I would say it's a pretty freaking important episode when we're going to talk about this. And to start off, I want to give you an analogy. Have you ever saw like actually sat down and thought about how amazing a seed is? Like if you've ever just held a seed within that seed is even though it's this little teeny tiny thing is the potential to grow into something amazing and beautiful. If it's treated the right way, if it's taken care of that little teeny tiny seed will grow into something amazing and beautiful. If you get a little bit of a bigger seed, it could turn into a massive tree, but within every single seed is the potential to become this big amazing plant or tree or flower. And I want to talk to you about this kind of dive into the seed itself, but I want to talk to you about a flower going that seed route and a gardener. Now what is the gardener's job to do with that seed and with that flower? What is his job to do? His job is to allow the seed to become what it is supposed to be, right? To give it space, to nurture it more than anything else, to treat it exactly how it needs to be treated, to give it water, to give it sun, to give it air, to create the space for that little teeny tiny seed, that flower, to become the best version of itself, to grow to its highest potential. And the more that it takes care of it. The more that seed will become what it is supposed to become. Now what happens if it doesn't get all that? What happens if it doesn't get the water that it's supposed to get? What happens if it doesn't get the amount of sun that it's supposed to get? Or maybe too much sun? What happens if it doesn't get enough air? It doesn't grow to its full potential. The seed, the flower, does not become the flower that it could become and is supposed to become. Let me ask you a question. What if the gardener goes up and takes a mason jar, flips it upside down and puts it on top of that flower? What would happen to it? It would restrict its growth, right? It might become weaker because it's under that mason jar. It might start to have its branches and its leaves and everything start to wither away and fall off. It might kill the leaves.  So a gardener's job, only job is to nurture that seed to become the most beautiful flower that it could possibly become. And through the nurturing, that flower becomes the best flower that it could possibly become. Its job is not to change it. He's not supposed to change it. He's not supposed to restrict it. It's just supposed to nurture. That is the only thing that it is supposed to do. So now I want to take that analogy and I want to put it into your relationships. I want to talk first about the people that are in your life and how you're showing up for them. And then I want to talk about you and how the people around you are showing up for you. So in your relationships, if you're the gardener, every person that around you that's around you has this ultimate potential of what they're supposed to be, what they're supposed to become and who they could become if they have the right environment to do so. So if that's the case, how are you showing up for the people that are around you? How do you show up? Do you nurture them?  Are you watering them? Are you giving them enough light? Are you giving them enough air? Are you helping those around you bloom to their true potential? Are you? Your job is to help them grow into who they want to become, who they were put here to become. Not, this is very important, not what you want them to be. Not what you want them to become. So if we talk about, for instance, let's take your significant other, right, and you could take anybody and put them in this position, but let's just talk about your significant other. Are you trying to mold them into what they could be and help them grow into that, or are you trying to mold them into what you want them to be? Are you trying to make them into what you think they should be and push them into what you think they should be doing? Or are you sitting there nurturing and loving them no matter what it is that they're going through? Are you trying to help them grow? Or are you trying to change them? Think about that for a second. It's an important question. Are you trying to help them grow into what they truly feel deep down inside they want to become? Or are you trying to make them become who you think they should become? How are you showing up for them? What type of gardener are you for the people that are around you? Now, let me ask you if you have children, how are you showing up for your children?  Are you not allowing them to do the things that they want to do? Are you trying to force them into the hobbies and the sports and the activities that you want them to be doing?  Or if they want to go play sports, are you trying to shut that off and trying to make them go into music? How are you showing up for them? Because ultimately, there's something inside of them that says, I want to go do this. Whatever you want to call that intuition, God, whatever it is inside of them that's giving them this drive to go do this one thing, are you trying to push them in a different direction?  How can I support you? How can I help you deepen that interest? How can I help you get better? Or are you trying to restrict them the same way that if you were put a mason jar on top of a flower, it's not going to grow to its true potential? So think about that. I know a lot of parents that restrict their children. Are you so afraid of what they could have happened to them that you don't even allow them to go and experience the things in life that they're supposed to experience?  Because we all know we have to go through stuff to grow. So are you trying to keep them away from all of the struggles in life? Are you trying to keep them away from everything that could help them grow into who they want to be? I remember this, it reminds me of this really sad story. One of my friends, their grandmother died. And their grandfather was still alive. And so they went up into the attic and they were starting to help clean and change some things around the house. They went up into the attic and they were sifting through things in the attic and they found these beautiful paintings, like these amazing paintings. And they could tell that they were old, old, old, old, old paintings. And there was like four or five, and they're like, these things are incredible. These are beautiful, who's are these? So they take them down to their grandfather and they're like, hey, did grandma paint these? Like who painted these? Where'd you get them from? He's like, no, those are my paintings from when I was younger.  I never knew that you were a painter. And he's like, yeah, you know, I only painted up until my late teens and I tried to keep it away from my dad because he wanted me to go into sports. And this is a true story. So don't take my words of what I'm about to say as if I'm saying them. But what he said was, he told me I couldn't paint anymore because it was too gay, right? So in the 30s or 40s, whatever this was, it was seen as quote unquote gay to be going and becoming a painter.  And he never painted again. Just think about how terrible that is that a child has this natural inclination, this great talent and skill to go do something and that he just shuts it off. I never wanna be that person for the people that I love. I don't know about you. Do you wanna be that person for the people that you love? I don't. I wanna help them grow. If I see a talent or a skill that they have, I wanna help them get better and deep in that interest in that skill of what they have. So then, you know, now that he was free and he was older and they said, hey grandpa, what if we just gave you some painting supplies? They brought over some painting supplies and he started back up again and he made this amazing beautiful paintings. And it was like he came alive again. There was a piece of him that died 50, 60 years ago and he was able to bring it back to life. Think about that. Are there places in your life where you're restricting people that you love and not allowing them to flourish when really you should just be there to support them? Hey, if you're enjoying this video, do me a favor and hit that like button down below. It helps with the YouTube algorithm so that more people can see this message because it helps us get it out organically. So hit that like button and I appreciate you. And it's sad. I never wanna be that person for someone that I love.  We're trying to mold them and little, hey, don't do that. Hey, don't make those jokes in public.  Hey, John, don't say that.  It's like death of a thousand cuts because of all these little teeny tiny restrictions.  Oh, don't dance in public.  How many times have you done something like that? Told someone not to say something that they thought was funny. Told somebody not to dance what they wanted to. Told somebody not to do this.   It's to help them become who they were put here to become. I don't know about you, but I have the belief that everybody has some sort of role that they're supposed to play on this earth. Whether you wanna call it, God gave it to them, the universe gave it to them or it's just something that's deep down inside of them. I believe that everybody has something that's deep inside them that they want to bring out to the world. So now that we've talked about the people around you, I want you to think deeply about that. And now let's dive in and talk about you. Now that we've talked about the people around you, we're gonna dive in and we're gonna talk about you. How are you showing up for yourself? How are you showing up for yourself? And how are the people around you showing up for you? Are they nurturing? Are they supportive? Do they believe in the same things that you believe in? When you pick up a new hobby, do they talk about how amazing that is or do they try to cut you down? When you go for a big goal, do they try to motivate you and support you along the way because we all need motivation and support from the people that we love for big goals or do they try to chop down your goals? When you succeed, how do they react? This is a really big thing. When you succeed, how do the people around you react? Are they celebrating with you? Are they as happy as you are about your success? Or are they trying to poke holes into every little success that you have? Are they trying to show you how your success isn't that great? Or how they once did better? Do they try to one-up you on everything? Think about that. When you succeed, how do they show up for you? Usually, you can really find out who's in your corner at that point in time. Are they allowing you to bloom into who you really, truly want to be? Or, same thing, are they trying to mold you into who they want you to be? Are your significant other, your significant other, are they showing up for you?  Think about that. Most people don't think about the people that they surround themselves with. You know, if a flower doesn't grow, sometimes it's not the flower's fault. Most of the time, it's not the flower's fault. You don't try to change the flower, you try to change the environment of the flower, the amount of sun that it's getting, the water that it's getting, the location, the air. Think about that for a second.  So maybe the problem with your growth in life hasn't fully been just you. Now, it probably has a lot to do with you, for sure. I do want you to realize that.  So they try to chop you down and make you restricted in any way that they can. So maybe the problem isn't fully you. Maybe it's your environment. Maybe it's your gardeners. Maybe it's your lack of gardeners in your life. Think about that for a second. In your life, and I don't want to ask you this question to depress you, but in your life, who is on your side 100%? Who is there for you, no matter what, to support you, to help you, to always want to see the best for you, to celebrate your growth? Who's on your side 100%? Think about those people real quick. Think about them in your mind. And I'm gonna ask you this question. Who's not on your side 100%? Maybe it's time to let them go. Maybe it's time for them to, they've played the role in your life for as long as they've been there. But maybe it's time to let them go. See, if someone is restricting you or holding you back from who you are supposed to be, maybe it's time to release them. Not to kick them out or to get rid of them completely, but release them. They've played their role.  You can still love them from afar, but you don't have to spend every single day with them. And it's okay. Sometimes life gets hard and it requires you to release people. I've had to release friends. Some of my best friends in the world. And I can still be nice to them and still hang out with them every once in a while, every couple of years when I see them or when I go in the town that they live in. But I don't talk to them every day because we're just going different paths. And that is okay. Whoever says that it's not okay to grow apart from some people is wrong. It's okay to grow apart from some people.  More great gardeners in your corner. People that love you. People that support you no matter what. People that want to see the best for you. Because I believe that we all have purpose in this world. Some of us are here to be incredible parents. Some of you listening to this are incredible parents and you are here to do that. And you are doing amazing at that role. How can you deepen that sense of purpose and become even better at raising amazing children? Some of you listening to this? Some of us are healers. You're here to heal people. And I'm not just talking about through it. Like if you're a doctor or surgeon or a nurse, I'm talking about you can heal people mentally. You can heal people emotionally. You being there for a friend sometimes is more healing than anything else that they could have. Some people are here to be teachers. Their skill is to teach. How can you deepen that? How can you get better at that? How can you find more people that support you in your role of being a teacher? Some people are artists. There's so many different roles. What is your role? And if money wasn't an object, if it wasn't something you had to worry about, what would you do with your time? Who would you fit in as? What role would be you 100% if you're like, this is who I am? And how can you get better at that and then find people who help you get better at that and want to see you get better at that as well? Because ultimately I want you to think of two things. Two things in this episode are extremely, extremely important I want you to think about. Number one, I want you to ask yourself this question. How am I showing up for those that I love? How am I showing up for those that I love? Am I being a gardener? Am I nourishing them? Am I nurturing them? Am I watering them? Am I giving them enough sun? Am I giving them enough love? Am I helping them to become what they truly want to become? Or am I restricting them? Am I walking through a flower bed just stomping on every single flower that's around me? Think about that. How are you showing up for those that you love? And number two, what does my environment look like? The people that I surround myself with. The people that are supposed to be in my corner. Who is in my corner and wants the best for me? Who's in my corner 100% no matter what? And who's not? And who do I need to get rid of? It's okay to let people go. It's okay to release people. And what do I need to change about my external environment? What is it that I need to change? We all change. We all grow. And just as a flower, if you've ever seen a flower, sometimes it releases some of the petals and lets them go.  No, it's time to just let it wilt away and go so that you can grow a new one so that you can become your truest potential. Because ultimately there's the people that are around us that we love, that we need to focus on and be the best possible gardener that we can be and nurture them. And number two, there's the environment around us and the gardeners that are around us that we need. We need people to nurture us and to be on our side as well.  Our job is to be here and to live up to that potential and to be there for others and allow them to become who they are supposed to become as well. Hey, thanks so much for watching this video. If you wanna learn even more about Master Your Mind, click right here and watch this video as well. It's okay to not know what your true purpose in life is right now, but it's not okay to not be in constant pursuit to find what that is every single day.


We're not turning back and forth. It's not twist back and forth. This is the absolute longest way to learn how to throw the rotational shot. So are you curious how we get everybody to PR in a matter of days and how we just did it online in a virtual throws camp? We are going to show you highlights from day one, so check it out. So what we're going to focus on, again, pillar one of the shot we're working on. We set alignment position one and we bring it down. So it's alignment set it. So you're going to see this one. Look where the arms at it starts at the side. Avoid this. I see this. This is how we move. We create a path this way. This screws up your shoulder. You could start here too. Some guys just want to start here and then come out wide and notice we don't wind the shot. So a lot of throwers when you guys are trying to learn rotational shot put, the thing that you guys make a mistake on is you wind the shot. You twist the shot when I said here, watch my left shoulder. You're going to see this. We teach and recommend a higher start because it's easier to turn around and drop in. When you drop low and try to go drop and drop lower, that requires a huge amount of strength. So we're going to go a little bit taller. Alright, so watch. This is a good example. There we go. Okay, so it's not this. Hold on a second. We're not turning back and forth. It's not twist back and forth. This is the absolute longest way to learn how to throw the rotational shot too. So your two is too short. You want to turn. Sometimes people put their shoulders on top and they push their knees back. Now they've got this wind. Yes, okay. Now wind and maintain your shoulders in that path. So you're slightly forward. Yes, you feel the difference? Let's see. There we go. Very nice, Nick. Oh, I love it. Nick did a great job. You fell forward. That means your hips are locked. Your wind path is good and long. Good. Now your hips are just twisting a little bit. Here's what Tatiana was doing. Pretty good. She's set. Twisting you, showing you hips. Now here's what she was doing. She was this way. Remember guys, this is the whole point. If you get this wrong, your throws harder. I'm huge on this and this is why we're consistently showing big gains quickly because it's going to expose weaknesses that you need to address in the wake room and it's going to set you up on balance or not. And if you're off balance, you're going to have big problems. If my hips are moving when I turn my shoulders, there's no separation.  Right? It doesn't work. You have to hold the bow and then pull the string so you can let it go. If you don't feel tension, you're not in the right position. It's as simple as that. Nick has got a pretty, there we go. Nick, you're the rock star so far. I'm really pumped. Drop straight down. Yep. Get both legs more bent. Get your left more bent. Yep. And then pull, bend your knee. Yep. Yep. Now close. Now keep your left. That's a lot better. There we go. There we go. Good. I like it. I like it. Very nice. She's creating the angle and she's pushing herself onto the ball of the foot in the rotational shot. You have to keep the right moving. The glide, you're going to feel the arm and you're going to feel the sequence differently. That's why you're doing it that way because you were a glider, right? Yeah, so you're opening like the glide, which is good. So this is why this is a tricky switch because right leg, left arm. Boom. Stop it. You do a little drill. You correct her. You do a little drill. You correct her. Yeah, I feel more balanced now. I definitely feel more comfortable with the rotational now. Once I break those habits, I feel like it's going to be a big PR. Being immersed in it, I honestly think this is better.