Welcome back to Schoolcast the next Jack away I'm on my own because Tim's off coaching some Paralympic Champions or something but you're in safe hands because I am the head of human flag to the schoolcast the next and the draw I've got for you today is five easy steps to the human flag. Okay step one for the human flag is we need to make sure that we have got the movement capability in our shoulders to make this overhead position just in this human flag going to be sideways. So for that I'm going to use one of these bands and it is called an overhead rotation so I'm grabbing it, outside shoulder at the park trying to keep my little pinkies on the side of the band if I can. The beddy white this the narrow you can take it. The good thing about the band when you go over the top you can stretch it apart if you're a little bit tight and then it's going to pull you back round trying to keep a nice control of my shoulders and I'm imagining I'm pinching it pound-coin between my shoulder blades as I come back over. What we don't want to do is if we're really tight and we get to the top when we run out of range in the shoulder is we'll arch our backs to try and get ourselves around we don't want to do that because all that's doing is giving us a false sense of what range we've got the shoulder and it's not going to keep us in a good position when we go eventually into our human flag. Okay step two is looking at the pulling arm in our human flag and we're looking at a single arm active hang where I'm going to try and get some separation between my ear and my shoulder so I'm going to jump up onto the bar and be on one side and I'm going to try and pull my shoulder blade down behind and you see that separation created but between my ear and my shoulder super important I'm pulling straight I'm not pulling with the biceps of the arm is straight and that is going to be my top arm in the human flag. Okay so that might be a little bit too difficult when we're just starting out so we're going to get out our assistance tool from the locker which is one of these resistance bands and it's going to help support you slightly so I'm going to chuck it over the top you're going to then loop it through pull it down obviously the more help you want the stronger the band and they're going to put both feet in and then jump up to grab the bar recommend grabbing it with two to start with and then what you're going to do is you're going to take that hand off and hold the band and you can support yourself a little bit if you need to and then I'm going to work to create that separation between my shoulder and my ear and the band is just helping pulling you up slightly but it gives you the chance to feel what it's like to pull with that single arm active hang. Okay step three is linking this single arm active hang that we're doing in step two with and a bleak pull to try and get some horizontal movement where I'm trying to get this hip up towards this active hang of the shoulder and that's going to come from pulling with my obliques. So it starts the same point as step two where I'm single arm hanging and then I go active so pull that shoulder down create that separation from the ear and then I'm squeezing the obliques to pull this hip up towards the shoulder and you notice that the feet go up and out to the side so do it again active hang create that separation then pull the obliques pull the hip and legs up out to the side start into create some of that horizontal movement that's going to help keep me out in that human flag by connecting my straight arm active hang with that oblique pull to keep those hips up just like with a single arm active hang if that's starting to be a little bit difficult when you're just starting out then we can grab our band and it's going to give us a little bit of assistance just exactly the same. So again bang goes over the top loop through pull it down both feet go in it a jump up I'm going to hold it and then go active and then again squeezing out to the side you can see you can get an awful lot more movement with the band helping out so active hang squeezes is a bleak side to the side leg starts come up. Okay so step four is where we bring in the pushing arm which is the bottom arm of that in that human flag and this we're going to now connect the single arm active hang with that oblique pull as well as pushing with that bottom arm and that's going to start to create some of that torque and that leverage to get me to a more horizontal position but what we're going to do on the bars is I'm going to be out at a 45 degree angle making it way more easy when you're out at an angle rather than fully out parallel to floor the force is involved the way less but it gives the brain the chance to learn all those three things happening at once the pull the push near oblique pull. So I'm going to start with step two where I go active create that separation and then I'm going to start to as I push out with this bottom arm I'm going to squeeze those obliques and I'm going to try and hold myself up at that 45 degree angle can come back down I can go active squeeze the obliques push out with that bottom arm give them a brain the chance to learn what it's like to pull push and squeeze those obliques out but not at that fully horizontal position so I give myself an easier exercise where the brain is going to learn those three things which is quite complex in a safer easier environment. Okay so step five is going to be fully into the flag position where I'm going to push in the bottom arm pulling with the top and getting those obliques up but with the added assistance of using our special friend the resistance band. I'm going to stick only the top foot in this time which is different rather than putting both in I'm going to step away I'm going to grab the top arm it's going to be pulling the bottom arm is going to be pushing I step away and let that band pull that top leg up and then I'm going to get nice and set until I can feel like I'm pulling those legs together and hold in my human flag. They're all day with the band.