SAVE THE DATE! May 4th 2026 marks the 2nd birthday of the VRL 🥳

As with last year, expect BIG updates & additions to the resource library. A teaser of what's to come:

*Entirely NEW categories & collections of practice, including:
- 'Environmental communication' category
- Rail-communication collection
- Wall communication collection
- Jumping & landing collection
- Ground acrobatics category
- Headstand development

*Updates & additions to existing collections:
- Spinal work
- Handstand balance development
- Press handstand development

And more!

This will be a BIG year for VRL updates and, as always, a PROMO CODE for discounts on VRL memberships. To ensure you receive them, subscribe on the website and you'll receive them in the mail-outs.

With a sea of passion & fire inside for the practice!

J

Good people,

I am preparing the BIG updates to the VRL for 2026 and am so excited to share the new categories & collections of practice with you!

I would like to know - OTHER than content, what else would help your VRL experience? Here are some examples:

1. Collections of 'Skill pathways' in each category. These would sit inside the categories (e.g. Upper-body strength') and outline to progressive pathways to certain skills, e.g. the 'Ring muscle-up', the 'Handstand pushup'. Or, for mobility, the pathway to the 'Full pancake' or 'High-bridge', starting from ZERO to HERO.

2. Currently the additional information for each resource and also variables are in separate documents in a Google drive. This was done to make this extra information exclusive to VRL members. But, I understand that this can be clunky and you may wish to see all of this information itself. Would you like this to be placed instead under the videos for all to see?

3. More programming support and also example program templates. These could be uploaded to each category, e.g. an example 'Locomotion' session with videos linked for, say, 3 different levels of proficiency. Would this be valuable?

4. Anything else which would support both your use & experience of the VRL.

Your input is what really makes the difference here. Please do give feedback so we can make this new update also informed by the members of the platform who are using this rich library of resources.

Yours with passion for the life practice,

J

Good practitioners! Yesterday ca. 150 new resource went live on the VRL, composing entirely new subjects of practice (notably under the macro umbrellas of 'Environmental-communication' and 'Ground Acrobatics', as well as some rearrangements of existing resources and updates to current categories & collections. Be sure to check them out and how they can help nourish the growth of your movement journey further:

Notably - due to the sheer volume of work just to get everything up, PROGRAMMING RECOMMENDATIONS will come later. If you need anything immediate in the meantime, please ask in the FORUMS.

The email with the annual PROMOS on all subscriptions will come soon!

Thank you and, as always, I hope you are all being & moving well

J

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THE 2026 UPDATES:

WALL COMMUNICATION
Under-wall work
-Straight-arm (SA) 'cat' wall-traverse (ipsilateral)
-SA 'cat' wall traverse (contralateral)
-Fundamental wall-hanging 2: Toe-hooks & Heel-hooks
-Fundamental wall-hanging 3: Wall-facing ipsi & 3-point 'side-bridge'
-Fundamental wall-hanging 4: 2-point contra 'side-bridge' & B2W ipsi hangs
-Wall bridge-hangs free-association (FA)
-'Spider' wall-hang entrance

Over-wall work
-High wall-work 1: Frontal & sagittal walking 'on-edge'
-Low wall-work 2: Seated-to-squat transitions
-Low wall-work 3: Squat-locomotion patterns
-Low wall-work: Free associations (integrating low wall-work 2 & 3)
-Progressive 180° wall-vault turn
-Low wall-work 1: Seated transitions & locomotion
-Narrow wall-walking (high & low)

Integrated wall-work
-Ipsi heel-hook wall-mantle
-'Over-wall' and 'Hanging-bridge' free-association (FA)
-Fundamental jump to 'cat-hang' 1 (double-foot takeoff)
-Fundamental jump to 'cat-hang' 2 (single-foot takeoff)
-Fundamental jump to 'cat-hang' 3 (rebounding)

Foundational wall-strength
-Fundamental wall-hanging 1
-Fundamental wall strength 1
-Fundamental wall-strength 2
-'Front & back' wall-support sequence
-Wall high-straddle hold
-3-position 1-arm wall-support

RAIL COMMUNICATION
-Low rail-work
-Fundamental rail-entrances 2 (kipping into rail)
-Low-rail locomotion 1.1 - Quadrupedal 'Cat-walk'
-Rail squat-turn transition
-Low-rail locomotion 1: Frontal squat-walk variations
-Low-rail mount-routines (contralateral & ipsilateral)
-Fundamental rail balance 3 (bi-/quadrupedal walks)
-Fundamental rail-entrances 1 (sitting, step-up/down & squat)
-Rail-quadrupedal 'leg-thread'

High rail-work
-High-rail 'hinge' progressions
-The rail 'sickle-step' turning (forward & backward)
-Rail-walking & Leg-swings
-Fundamental rail-balance 1 (sagittal walking & basic turning)
-Fundamental rail-balance 2 (progressive walking)
-High-rail static-balance contexts
-High-rail squat, lunge & 'Pistol' variations

Integrated rail-work
-Fundamental rail balance 3 (bi-/quadrupedal walks)
-Rail-walking integration A
-Low rail-work free-association (FA) 1
-High rail-work free-association (FA) 1

JUMPING & LANDING
-Jumping: vertical, broad & staircase
-Fundamental jumping tools 3: The 'triple-step'
-Fundamental jumping tools 2: Precision broad-jump
-Triple-step to stairs-jump
-Staircase jump-sequence (bilateral & unilateral)
-Staircase-ladder
-Single-leg staircase ladder
-Pause-squat stairs-jumps

Jumping & landing mechanics
-Fundamental jumping tools 1: Coordination & ‘Double arm-pump’
-Ledge drop-downs
-IN-FOCUS: 'Splitting' & 'Joining' arm-coordination
-Backward ascending stairs-jumps
-Staircase drop-downs
-Directional jumping & landing

Jumping & rebounding
-Foundational landing & rebounding drills
-Rebounding-jump contexts 1
-Bouncing & rebounding (stairs)
-Depth-jump into box
-Depth-jump over box
-Single-leg (SL) depth-jump into & over box

ENC applied tasks
-ENC task: High wall-kip to squat
-ENC task: 'Kerb 2 kerb' precision broad-jump
-ENC task: Vertical-jump to precision-land
-ENC task: Rail-2-rail precision broad-jump
-ENC task: Drop-down gap to 'Cat-hang'
-ENC task: Precision broad-jump to rail
-ENC tasks: 'Batman' traverse across a gap

GROUND ACROBATICS
-Ground-acro shapes & synergies
-'Explosive hip-thrust' / XHT shapes 1 (Table-holds)
-XHT shapes 2 (floating table-supports)
-Explosive hip-thrust (XHT) synergies
-'Reverse-hinge' shapes
-'Reverse-hinge' synergies

Cartwheels
-Basic ipsilateral Cartwheel variations
-Basic Cartwheels free-association (FA)
-3-level ipsilateral cartwheels
-The 'Swimmer' cartwheel (CW)
-Ipsilateral Cartwheel (CW) variations
-The AU cortado 'tik-tok'

Ground-acro skills
-The 'Meia Lua' (ground-acro skill)
-'Chapeau de Couro' (XHT ground-acro skill)
-Counter-Chapéu ('XHT' ground-acro skill)
-Chapéu de Couro (low & mid-trajectory)
-'AU Navalha' (Razor) & Macaco em pé
-The 'Tunnel' (reverse-hinge acro-skill)
-The ‘Meia-lua’ (ground acro skill)
-The 'AU de frente'
-The 'Macaco' ground-acro skill
-'Macaco' (partial regressions)
-'Dragon-legs' inversion pattern

Integrated ground-acro & FA
-Chapeau & Counter free-association (FA)
-Standing to 'Back-switch' transitions
-Ipsi CW 'levels in space' FA

Handstand entry & exit
-Handstand entries 1 (frontal-plane)
-Handstand-entries 2 (sagittal & helix)

Headstands
-Dynamic Headstands (HeSt) 1
-Dynamic headstands (HeSt) free-association (FA) 1
-Dynamic-headstands (HeSt) 2 & FA (leg-proprioception)
-Helix-headstand
-Headstand (HeSt) entries 1 (Role)
-Headstand (HeSt) entries 2 (knee to frontal)
-Headstand (HeSt) entries 3 (jumping & leaping)
-Headstand (HeSt) entries 3 FA (jumping & leaping)

COORDINATIVE TRAINING
-Temporal & structural coordination
-Ipsi & contra ball-bounce & stepping (coordination task)

ELASTICITY TRAINING
-Core-elasticity
-The foundational 'Stot'
-'Stot' to handstand
-'Illuminating' the long fasial-lines
-Axial spinal-elasticity routine

Upper-body elasticity
-'Caterpillar' bounces

OTHER
Breathing forms
-Breathing "Chest-opening"
-IN FOCUS: Breathing "chest-opening"
-IN FOCUS: The 'Da Vinci'
-The 'Teacups' (medial & lateral)
-IN FOCUS: 'Hinge & Fold' breathing-form

UPDATES TO EXISTING
Floorwork
-Role 'FEN/FEX' to 'Lateral floor-roll'

Groundwork sequences & impro
-Role driving the car 2.0
-Ipsilateral travelling HBR to QDR exit
-High-bridge 'undercut': sequences A-C
-High-bridge 'undercut': Sequence D
-Gallop 'insert', Dragon-pistol, 'Meia-lua', 'Corta-capim'
-Sequencing & "driving" 'Corta-capim' & 'Low-gait spin'

Shoulder-mobility (range-development)
-IN FOCUS: SD shoulder-ER stretching
-Loaded shoulder-ER stretching

Compression
-Standing compression contexts 1
-6-position leg-lifts & Standing 'meia-lua'

Bipedal patterns & conditioning
-Momentum walks: 'Low-ceiling' and 'Gait-pivots'

Core & spinal-stability
-Long fascial-lines & core-conditioning (OKC & CKC)

S&S: local & integrated patterns
--Hanging & pelvic-tilting/'rolling'

Bridging & Global-extension
-SD thoracic & shoulder "opening" contexts (CKC)

Locomotion integration, sequences & impro
-Gallop 'insert', Dragon-pistol, 'Meia-lua', 'Corta-capim'

Press HS & Stalder Press
-Shoulder-loaded wall-floats (low-press)
-Feet-elevated Straddle 'Press-HS'

Handstand alignment
-Standing HS-alignment awareness drills

Handstand supported-alignment
-Wall-facing dorsiflexed HS alignment
-Wall-facing 'tuck-HS’
-Wall-facing 'diagonal' HS alignment

Handstand supported-balance
-Back-to-wall (BTW) small-tuck & 'seaweed-legs'

SASS pull (vertical & horizontal)
-2-3 mins self-directed (SD) hanging demo

Emptying & tension-modulation
-3-5 min 'wilting-plant' emptying
-3-5 min weight-shift 'emptying'
-'Emptying' the hands & forearms