In the Club
The ultimate podcast for kids activity clubs! ClassForKids is an award-winning booking and management software trusted by 3000+ kids activity clubs.
From dance schools to football academies to gymnastics clubs to multi-sports clubs, we’re here to help kids activity providers grow and scale their business. In the Club is monthly music to your ears! Okay, not literal music, but all the advice, tips and inspiration you need!
Tune in to improve your business, hear inspirational stories and advice from across the kids activity industry and listen to our team of in-house experts answer your burning questions.What’s not to love?
Keep up to date with our podcast by heading to our social channels.
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/classforkidsuk/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/class4kids
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/classforkids
In the Club
EP 42: The Art of Football Freestyle
Get in touch with us directly today
What happens when football meets performance art? Rebecca returns from maternity leave to join Caitlin in welcoming Ross Brown, a professional football freestyler who defies gravity with every trick. His journey from late-blooming football fan to street performer to successful entrepreneur reveals how passion can create unexpected career paths.
Unlike traditional footballers, Ross came to the sport as a teenager, developing his freestyle skills through solitary practice. "The only thing that's actually similar about it is that you're using a ball," he explains, comparing freestyle more to gymnastics or dance than team sports. His performances on Buchanan Street taught him to draw crowds with high-impact tricks, eventually leading to workshops, corporate events, and a sustainable career.
Get Social with Us:
okay, we are here back with a familiar face or voice depending if you watch all my followers all my fans. I'm back, so you can rest easy now rebecca is back.
Speaker 2:It feels very strange being back in the podcast and see caitlin. I feel like a bit out of practice. I feel a bit like what am I doing here? The lights are very bright, but feels good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, feels good, and you have been off on mat leave, I have been off on maternity leave.
Speaker 2:Since I have been away from the podcast. I have done a lot of things, including having a baby. Yep, it's a pretty impressive.
Speaker 1:It's a pretty impressive seven months. It's a justifiable excuse growing a human.
Speaker 2:Having a human raising a tiny little human. It is very stressful, but I am glad to be back and doing something a little bit different than just feeding and keeping a person alive all day. Yeah, now somebody else is doing that for me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's fine, much better. Yeah, you have a few hours of not having to keep a person alive.
Speaker 2:Well, I've got a team to manage. I keep you alive. Make sure you're okay, got to make sure um our other podcast host, stephen. You know he's the really difficult one he's actually more challenging than the child's, to be honest yeah, um, you know, have seven months of experience of that, so you know exactly what.
Speaker 1:I'm talking about. He's like a house plant.
Speaker 2:He needs just constant. He's constant watering attention. Nurture, stephen, if you're listening, which you should be, because he always says have you listened to our podcast? To me, yeah, uh, you are our little house plant that's actually very endearing for.
Speaker 1:Stephen.
Speaker 2:I know it feels too sweet I know look at him differently, like he is a little houseplant he just gets a wee, a wee hug from now and again. But yeah, it feels good to be back. Lots has obviously happened since I've been off, and lots of podcasts. We've had lots of people on the podcast and I guess I'm kind of coming back in an exciting time where we've had somebody in the football space?
Speaker 1:yes, we have. So we had um ross brown um join us in the podcast studio, so he is a professional football freestyler that's a sentence. It is, yeah, professional football freestyler say it like five times really fast.
Speaker 2:Professional football freestyler. Professional football freestyler. It's kind of like the whole purple burglar alarm or she sells seashells on the seashore, that's the one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, some red lorries.
Speaker 2:Yeah, lorries, oh yeah, gosh Ross, that is what you are.
Speaker 1:Sorry Ross, but yeah, and Stephen, I had the pleasure of interviewing him so it was great to kind of hear his story a little bit. So he, yeah, he's a professional football freestyler and he also has a company called pitch parade. Obviously hear all about this in a little bit more detail in the interview, um, which they essentially do kind of like football pop-up festivals.
Speaker 2:They have lots of different like fun fun games and things like that a little bit different from just attending weekly classes like pop-up events, that type of thing, something I've actually not heard of before in all my years of working at class. No, I'd seen, like some of the things individually.
Speaker 1:So, like you know, I'd kind of seen football darts or seen that kind of speed cage stuff, but never so much on offer.
Speaker 2:So it was really good to kind of hear all about that and how that came about as well well, now that we're hearing all about it here, why don't we let our listeners hear steven and ross having a sit-down conversation all about pitch parade and everything that they're doing great I am here today with ross brown from pitch parade, but more like you're also notably known as yourself.
Speaker 3:Um, ross is not a customer of ours, you're somebody that we're hoping to. After this, we're going to have a little meeting, but maybe working together. Yeah, but can you explain to our audience what it is you do? It's very interesting, guys, and it's probably quite visual. We may be later on be able to capture some footage that we can put on top of this, but explain what you do.
Speaker 4:Yeah, well, that's a great, uh, a great intro. So, uh, my name's ross, I'm a professional football freestyler. Uh, I've been doing freestyle football, which is basically it's a sport that consists of doing skills and tricks with a ball, yep, showing off being creative. And, uh, I've been doing freestyle for about seven years now. Um, and then, about two and a half years ago, my brother and I we started up pitch parade Parade, which is essentially a football entertainment company where we can offer the hire of different things as well as the freestyle services for events, camps and yeah pretty much.
Speaker 3:I think it very much aligns with our football crowd and audiences. Again, it's so visual. If we don't get a clip of you in here doing it, we'll put a clip up on top of this from your video, which I would compliment you on before. That's a lovely compilation you made there and you edited it yourself. Yeah, thank you very much. I mean, it's incredible what you're able to do with a football. Thank you. It does appear to be that you're on the moon defying some kind of gravity.
Speaker 4:How, how did you get into this. So I got into freestyle because I got into football very late. I got into football very late. I didn't have what's very late, so about 15, 16. I didn't have any interest in football. Really, really none at all ok, so what pulled you? Into it. I went. I went a little bit.
Speaker 3:Unfortunately, we're part of Thistle fans in my house, so we went along to a game.
Speaker 4:We support all teams, so I went along to a game with my dad and some mates and I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 4:I really enjoyed it. I thought I'm going to get quite into this and I did. And you know I wanted to start playing some five-a-sides with mates and stuff. I thought I had a lot of catching up to do because not that my mates were at a really high level of football, necessarily, but they'd been playing for years, right through their youth, and I hadn't. So we started playing this five-a-side league and I was rubbish, obviously, but I wanted to catch up, I wanted to get to their level.
Speaker 4:So I used to go out just kind of one-on-one with the ball to the local pitch and I would just practice for hours and because I was so much time alone with the ball, kind of one on one, things like my control got good, got good at things like keepy ups, but what I lacked was that vision of the ball. So after doing that for a couple of years, you know, I felt quite comfortable in the ball and I kind of learnt a lot of little skills and tricks and flicks just because it was just one-on-one all the time with the ball. But you know I never had that vision of the ball. I wasn't good at seeing where I should be and stuff. And then I seen some guys doing freestyle on YouTube. There was a guy who was actually doing a street show and I thought that looks amazing and it made total sense for me, you know, because I was already learning all these tricks. It made total sense for me, you know, because I was already learning all these tricks and I thought that was great.
Speaker 3:Well, other than that, right, you'd seen them on YouTube, but before that were you already doing your own things with the ball. I mean, it seems like a lot. If I was to give you a ball in the space just now, you could pull off the same tricks that you've done time and time and time again. Yeah, where your foot needs to be inside that shoe to achieve Totally.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's 100% muscle memory. Right, it's 100% muscle memory. I do a lot of the because I do the same movements over and over again. You know, it just feels really natural now and it's like learning to drive. It's like anything.
Speaker 3:you know, it feels awkward, it feels strange at first and then and then, first of all, back to when you go into the first football match at 16. So your dad took you yeah, yeah, was he into football?
Speaker 4:yeah, my dad's always been into football, my brother's always been into football. I never took. Well, he tells me, I went to a game I think it was against Falkirk, and it was the most freezing cold night. Whatever happy you're off. I was really, really young this is too cold back.
Speaker 4:But no, we had some friends visiting over that were visiting me, staying with me. You know they wanted to go so I went. I had quite a good time with them. You know, went again. I just I slowly got this, this interest in football at such a late age.
Speaker 3:You know, because I mean I was the complete opposite. I mean I'm still, I can't, I can't. I hate admitting this, but I have to admit all the time and I just don. I know loads about it now, mainly from being in here and being involved with football a lot, but I think they took me and I was more. This is too cold and that is it. You know, it was just, it was never going to happen again. So did you? Whilst you've got your solo time and you're out and you're practising and stuff like that, were you playing actual football games as well, or were you kind of total like just Jedi in this in the middle of a field?
Speaker 4:yeah, I've never played with a team. I've never played with a team, which some people find quite surprising. I find that surprising, yeah yeah, can you.
Speaker 3:Would you be good in a team, do you think?
Speaker 4:I've always said I'd be alright on the ball, but off the ball I don't see where to be surely, if somebody's going to run up to your tackle, you could just start doing the ninja stuff.
Speaker 4:Well, that's the ninja stuff. Yeah, I mean, the thing is, if you learn freestyle, it's naturally going to improve your control on the ball, you know, because you're constantly juggling a ball and kind of moving your body to make it do what you want it to do. So, you know, I would never worry about being on the ball, about dribbling, about hitting, hitting a ball at the goals, but it's just that. It's the vision of the game. That's what I would like. I like playing five asides, six asides, seven asides with mate, where it's not quite as important, and you still do that, yeah yeah, I still do that with friends and stuff, but I've never actually played in a.
Speaker 3:I would find it very hard not to just have them approach like running up to and you're just going like ten minutes of that whilst they're going, you know as long as you're not touching it with your hands. Surely that's okay?
Speaker 4:yeah, I think it's actually the worst thing you could do before a game. Someone sees you doing that. They're going to, they're going to go for you. Okay, they're going to take you out of the play, so I keep it quiet take you out.
Speaker 3:Okay, I've got that, so you started this professionally how long ago out doing street shows just out in Buchanan Street oh right, okay, yeah, and I used to do that kind of like busking, just kind of like money down, yeah, 100% busking, amazing.
Speaker 4:I used to. I started really learning freestyle. I started really learning freestyle and then, you know, about a year or so after doing that, I'd moved to Spain and then obviously we had the weather in Spain, so I was teaching out in a school out there and I would come home. It was still warm.
Speaker 4:You could stay outside a little patio in the house I was in and I would just go out and practice there all the time, and that's one of the really nice things about freestyle is that all you need is a ball and a little bit of space. You can train it whenever you want, wherever you want. So yeah, I went out to do that and then, when I felt like I had a bit of a level, I started doing some street shows over there, moved back here, and that's when I really tried to kind of up the performances. I used to go to Buchanan Street. I've got a big speaker.
Speaker 4:I would put like little orange cones maybe about that height and kind of mark out a big square so people could see there would be a show, a bucket down. I'd have, like my social media links and that kind of thing, the kind of routine that I do now from busking that's so interesting every Saturday at least. What?
Speaker 3:a strange route into it, but I'm really interested in it because it's totally like a street. You are a street performer and you know, that's how it's, kind of you've honed your entire calf through that. Yeah, definitely that's what a comedian does.
Speaker 3:I don't know if I'm fit enough for it now but you've, you've achieved a career doing street sport, I suppose. Yeah, yeah, that's nuts, okay. So from that right did you get noticed, people maybe going could you come here and do this or could you come here and do that. Is that how it kind of progressed, was it?
Speaker 4:totally yeah so I made up some.
Speaker 4:I made up some flyers. I had, you know, a picture of me sort of in action doing freestyle on it and some kind of bullet points, what you could book me for. So I started off mainly with doing freestyle workshops, which was which I still do today. This is where I go to like a youth team to one of their training sessions, and the workshop basically consists of a performance to music. Everyone gets a ball and then I teach them some of my tricks Cool, so started getting a lot of them. You know people would message me they'd seen me busking and then, after I started getting quite busy with the freestyle workshops, then some more corporate stuff started coming along and then, yeah, but definitely it was like the snowball effect. You know, I got the first few bookings off the back of busking and then, you know, more came off the back of each job and I just got busier and busier.
Speaker 3:And you've worked with some big names in football. Yeah, like in terms of like football associations and things.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, totally, Totally yeah.
Speaker 3:In your video you've got you, which I love as well, because you've got loads of footage of you on streets and on pitches, but then on stages, yeah, yeah, how much pressure is it to do that? Right, because it's not like you drop the ball. Funnily enough, that's the actual term.
Speaker 1:You can't do that can you, I know, I know.
Speaker 3:So is it nerve-wracking.
Speaker 4:You can't think about it too much, because there is always that risk, and I think that's what makes freestyle entertaining Also it's like if you're on a stage, it's not what you've learned.
Speaker 3:You've learned on what pitch? You've learned on concrete maybe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:You've got a bouncy stage and things Does that make things more difficult. It's not too bad.
Speaker 4:That's not too bad. Sometimes I sometimes I'll go along to like a football festival. When it's on grass that can actually be a little bit trickier, you know, because it can be a wee bit slippy, so the stage isn't so bad. But what I will say is, when you go out and you've got like a big crowd, that doesn't phase me too much, because when I started busking, what you would need would be a crowd. You know, because if city, where you know people, and if you know someone walked by you and you're doing football tricks and no one's watching you, it would feel really, really awkward. So you would need a crowd. And it kind of trains you to this, it kind of trains me to this point where, when I have a crowd, I kind of chill out and relax with it.
Speaker 3:And I think that is just from all those years of busking there like again, that was something like actors and comedians and musicians, like everybody move in, everybody move in. You do all that and kind of like get everybody involved a little bit.
Speaker 4:Yeah the kind of show that I'd done on Buchanan Street in Glasgow was I didn't do so much talking to the crowd. I learnt little tricks that would draw people in before you even get started. So it could be.
Speaker 4:You know, blasting your tunes, putting out the cones slowly, you've got the ball in your neck. You know people think something's going on here and then before you even get into your show, you've got some people kind of watching and filming and uh, yeah, and then even things like when you do get started in your show start with really high impact, like tricks, like throwing the ball off really high off your neck okay so I learned to throw the ball and catch it again.
Speaker 4:Just people up the top of the cannon street would see it. People from the bottom would see it so you're drawing in a crowd start with those kind of ones.
Speaker 3:So yeah, there was little techniques that would help bring the people in and do you have other than because you said that laterally, you were already doing this when you started seeing freestyles on YouTube and things did you have inspiration? Is there a person In this freestyle world that's like the Maradona? Is that even a good reference? It's a great reference.
Speaker 4:Actually, it's a really good one. The very first video I saw that I suppose Wasn't a freestyler but that got me into doing Skills and tricks with the ball, was a video of Maradona Doing a warm up. It's called the Life is life video who says I? Know not football. Eh, there, you go right, okay and yeah. And then I started watching Freestylers and there was there's a few guys that are just amazing. There's a lot of guys who would you?
Speaker 3:because I mean we've seen you right and we've not seen you in person yet, but we will today and and you're the best one I've ever seen, thank you right so who's the best one you've ever seen the best?
Speaker 4:one I've ever seen. There's a guy in Poland there's a lot of good Polish freestylers called Shimo Shimo Skalski they're all called Shimo.
Speaker 3:It'd be really awkward at an event, wouldn't it?
Speaker 4:and introducing Shimo and so he's great. He was definitely my favourite one to watch, but there's loads of great guys. There's some countries where you'd expect a lot of good freestylers, like Brazil they're quite renowned for having good skills with the ball and whatnot, so there's a lot of great freestylers from there. There's a lot of good guys from Norway as well, and is there see there's two very different disciplines.
Speaker 3:Is there people in the premiership that can do this?
Speaker 4:I've never seen a footballer. You know I have a professional footballer that does freestyle.
Speaker 3:You think they maybe use it as their celebratory like hey or whatever, but you don't, you don't, it's a totally different sport.
Speaker 4:You know it's a totally different sport. I've heard people say that you know the only thing that's actually similar about it is that you're using a ball. You know similar, but it's how you're using a ball, you know it's. In some ways it's even more similar to like dance, or you know breakdancing gymnastics.
Speaker 3:I would say because we, if you look at um cheer as in um, um, that is very much in the gymnastics world as well. Yeah, it kind of bridges both. And then you've got acro, which is something we're learning more and more about now, which is dance, but bridges into gymnastics as well. So it sounds like I mean the, the muscles you're moving, you're a gymnast, yeah.
Speaker 4:I mean I had to learn things like handstands, kind of kipping up, throwing yourself off the floor, and all that kind of stuff and roly-poly. So yeah, there's definitely a kind of gymnastic type element from doing freestyle. We've got to a point now with freestyle where it's like all the tricks have been done, almost you know. So we're having to bring in other sports, other elements to change it up and add something new. So there's, for example, in Japan there's a lot of freestylers that bring in a lot of breakdance into their routines. Acrobatics is becoming more and more setting the ball on fire.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, it's probably been done, it's.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, well, we won't be doing that later, then We'll get rid of that. Gasoline Caitlin, we don't need that, right, okay? So that's great, such an interesting career you've ended up on. But then your own business. Yes, how did that come to be?
Speaker 4:Yeah, so it was getting to a point with the freestyle work. I'd stopped doing the street performances. I was getting busy enough with just the events. I was getting to a point, um, with the freestyle work. I'd stopped doing the street performances. I was getting busy enough with um, with just the events I was getting booked for, with the corporate stuff, with the with the foot, with sorry with the freestyle workshops, even with things like parties and whatnot, and I was getting a real wide range of, you know, jobs and I was.
Speaker 4:I was eventually able to go full-time with it. I always done a a little part-time job, you know, to keep me going and until it, until I got big enough with the freestyle and and I was, I had a bit of a wake-up call. I got this really bad back injury, um, like it's. I thought, you know, I've totally got over it now, but, um, you know, for a period of time I couldn't do any freestyle and I had to cancel a lot of big events and um, and yeah, it was, it was a bit of a wake-up call. You can't totally depend on this yeah, and um, so it was my brother and myself.
Speaker 4:We had an idea, um, yeah, about a year or so before that, where I was going in and doing all these fan zone events. So, for example, we were always working the fan zone at hamden outside in the kind of car park area they set up, and they would bring us in, they would bring us in me, two other freestylers and we would do some shows there. They would bring in another third party to hire out an inflatable, another third party to bring in, like face paints, that kind of thing. So, yeah, so the idea was, if we start pitch parades, you know, we could just bring everything under one supplier and then we can also operate it as a as a bit of an agency for freestyle as well, you know. So it doesn't have to always be me and you know it's.
Speaker 3:It's very clever, very clever. That was the idea with it. Yeah, so Pitch Parade itself. Explain a couple of things. I mean again, it's very visual. Yeah, yeah, explain some of the things that you bring along to football clubs.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so the Pitch Parade services include Techball, which is like a big table tennis for football, like a curved table tennis for football. You can play it. Use all the same parts of the body that you use in football with the head, shoulders, knees, feet. We have two inflatables. At the moment We've got football darts, which is kind of self-explanatory.
Speaker 4:It's a big Velcro dartboard, velcro footballs. We've got the Speed Cage. It's my favourite one, basically it. We've got the speed cage, it's my favourite one. It's basically it's a big, long, giant inflatable goal and at the back of it we've got a speedometer. So you boot the ball, add it as hard as you can. It can tell you how hard you've kicked the ball. That can get a lot of competition between dads and kids and everyone.
Speaker 4:Everyone likes the speed cage penalty shootout. We can double the same inflatable up as a penalty shootout. We attach like a big backboard with holes to aim the ball through. We've got sub-soccer, which is like a table based football game where you try and score. It's a difficult one to explain. You try and score with a small ball under your opponent's seat oh, you've seen you're doing that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen that. Yeah, got table football and we've got some other smaller things. We've got, like football, tennis, target nets.
Speaker 3:It really is like a whole festival worth of fun for football totally it's 3F fun, festival football frolics, fantastic, yep, thank you. No, I mean, it's again seeing you doing the freestyle stuff. We thought, oh, that's brilliant, we'd love to talk to you, we'd love to talk to you, we'd love to work with you. And then that, on top of it, we're oh, we'll definitely do something with that. We've not talked or made any actual agreements yet, but straight after this we'll be straight to the negotiation tables.
Speaker 3:I hope because we'd love to. We'd love to work with you yourself, but obviously Pitch Parade as well. So you've got P set, which is choice.
Speaker 4:You also teach yeah, so basically through the freestyle workshops, which is basically a skills class, we teach kids how to do freestyle. We teach them some skills that they'll be able to learn right there and then you know in the session, and some skills that they'll be able to take home and keep working on and and with the with the freestyle workshops. I think this is just one of the great things about freestyle for me. Although it doesn't totally translate on the pitch, it certainly helps with the control and general confidence on the ball.
Speaker 4:What it gets kids doing is because you can be learning this wherever you want. They can learn it in their garden, in their room. You just need it and there's no one to tell you how to do it. Kids will often go away home after the session, after the workshop, and they'll keep working on their skills and it gets them out there with the ball. You know when they might be normally be sitting on the iPad. You know it. Just. It gives them a reason to go out and kick about and that's one of the great things about it.
Speaker 3:It's different from going okay, 11 kids on either side, and then when they go home they kind of go and do that again exactly else you can.
Speaker 4:You can train how you like, you can train where you like. You can train what?
Speaker 3:you like. You know, I think I think I managed. I think I can manage like three keepy-uppies maybe none of these jeans that's better than a lot of people.
Speaker 4:Is that right?
Speaker 3:I'm a footballer now I'm in the club. Well, I think that what we're going to do after this for those that are listening that don't get to see the after part is you're going to come to stand up with us, which everybody listening knows is a kind of time when the company gets together and hopefully you can show us some of your skills. Definitely, and I want you to try and teach our MD dunk trick or two. Can we go for a really hard one? We'll go for a tricky one and let them know most people can get and it's the absolute hardest trick, and then let's see.
Speaker 3:If he injures himself, right, we'll get him doing handstands. If he does injure himself, we'll cut this part out, because this could be liable for something. Thank you so much for coming along. It's been great to meet you. I'm looking forward to working with you and Pitch Parade in the very soon future. Hopefully, hopefully. But let's go to this negotiating table now, shall we? Thank you very much for having me. Yeah cheers.
Speaker 1:So that was really great to hear, really interesting as well to hear just a completely different perspective on football and how they're really just completely different sports as well, which is, you can definitely see or you don't see a lot of those kind of tricks on the Premier League field Not that that is a league, I think not really a football person, but neither Stephen and neither am I so sorry football listeners, I apologize, you've not got the best people in terms of knowledge of what's actually going on, um, but yeah, like I think when you're looking at what Ross offers, it is something completely different.
Speaker 2:And there's so many clubs and academies out there that we work with or that we're aware of or that we've heard about, and although they're offering something similar, obviously they have very different, unique selling points or something's different about their brand or whatever it is that makes them stand out. But the one thing they all kind of have in common is the fact that they are looking to develop and nurture children. They're looking to educate them. For some, that's more about how do we move them into kind of pro academies. Others, it is just more about maybe being a little bit competitive, but within the club it could be that they're, you know, more in the grassroots space. But then there are other clubs who are about right. Okay, this is just purely fun and I like the way that Ross kind of ties, I guess, and kind of can infiltrate all of those different academies. 100%, yeah, you, it's important that fun is at the core of something.
Speaker 1:For every academy. Yeah, and just kind of interesting. He kind of obviously spoke about those kind of freestyle skills and then how that will ultimately increase your kind of control of the ball, your like skills on the pitch and how they kind of work hand in hand as well. So, yeah, really interesting to hear kind of how he goes into these clubs and delivers those freestyle workshops and then also works with them on this kind of pitch parade aspect as well.
Speaker 2:So really interesting, um and great to see, kind of really encouraging, yeah, maybe people who aren't big in the actual football but would really enjoy that aspect of it as well yeah, it's almost like you could have a family fun day at your academy and have everybody involved, yeah, and that kind of thing you know, parents, new, new people that you want to get into the club like that's something that you could really use to push awareness and build, you know, interest and something for the term or ahead of new terms.
Speaker 2:But yeah, the podcast was left in a slightly interesting way it was negotiations it was very apprentice Stephen was Alan Sugar he was convincing, alan Sugar.
Speaker 1:I don't know what that makes us, but we're like I don't know who the new sidekicks are. I've not watched that.
Speaker 2:Oh well, karen Brady is still on it and I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think Claude left. It used to be.
Speaker 2:Nick. Oh yeah, nick, he was called Nick and then it was Claude that's where I know him from Nick, from Countdown. I don't know if it's a good thing this is the highbrow tv that we watch Countdown is amazing. I will have no other word said against it.
Speaker 2:I love it yeah eight out of ten cats is Countdown even better, um, but yeah. So, in terms of where it was left, negotiations were mentioned and although we can't reveal too much about what those negotiations might be today, there is something exciting coming to Class for Kids in the not too distant future.
Speaker 2:I want to say if you're an avid football listener, if you have a football academy and you're a Class for Kids customer. Even if you're not a Class for Kids customer, there is something I can guarantee, exciting coming in the month of July, that you might just want to keep your beady little eyes out looking for. Yep, yeah, that's all I can say without giving everything away, that's it no spoilers mic drop no spoilers yet, but, yeah, do keep an eye on our social channels. Caitlin, where can clubs follow us if they don't already?
Speaker 1:um, so we are on Instagram uh, class for kids UK. We are on TikTok just class for Kids, and the same for Facebook Class for Kids. See, she knows what she's doing.
Speaker 2:That's her job. I do yeah.
Speaker 1:And if you want to find Ross I believe he's Ross Brown Freestyle on Instagram and on TikTok, but we will link that all below so you can go and give him a follow as well.
Speaker 2:Well, lots of exciting stuff happening at Class for Kids. We go and give him a follow as well. Well, lots of exciting stuff happening at Class for Kids. We are about to move into a new financial year. As part of the Access Group, there's loads of different things coming, covering all of our different activity types that we work with, of which there are many. So if you do want to keep an eye on what we're doing, make sure you follow us on our social channels, or you can from our social channels sign up to our newsletter to be in the know of what's happening at class for kids.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, and on that note shall we say bye. Yeah, do you do it the same way as steven? And I do it, I do, yeah, well, yeah, he kind of like confused me and then normally we do a countdown and then we wave bye okay so do you want to do the countdown?
Speaker 2:do you want me to?
Speaker 1:do. You can do the countdown, just because he said you love channeling Stephen Young.
Speaker 2:Okay, three, two, one bye. Oh, caitlin, you didn't wave, sorry bye.
