Allright guys,
Does anybody know if the Insight Course on the official Para website is a compulsory part of selection? And does the selection phase take a long time?
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Para Insight Course
Insight wkend is not a part of selection, however, I think if you have completed insight and go onto selection, they will hold some sort of record of your time there and it may help you out... A couple weeks after insight the para regt recruitment rang me to find out if i still wanted to join up and if so would "make sure i didnt get any recruitment bullshit at afco newcastle" 
As for selection you do same as everyone else, except you are required to run your 2.4 in less than around 9:20.. altho it may have changed?
you should complete all your strength related test too, and the icebreaker and interviews are easy peasy
As for selection you do same as everyone else, except you are required to run your 2.4 in less than around 9:20.. altho it may have changed?
you should complete all your strength related test too, and the icebreaker and interviews are easy peasy
Insight course is great, you do all the same stuff as in ADSC and a lot more. I think what you do is comparable to the BFT (although I maybe wrong). You do the bleep test when you get there (about 10pm), Get up at 5am-5:30am and get beasted as soon as you get up with press ups (variety of types) for not cleaning the rooms/toilets properly, followed by breakfast. Then its out for the 1.5 miler with a 1.5m warm up. Straight after this you go off into the gym to do max press ups, max sit ups, max burpees squat thrusts and max chin ups. Then its the rope climb which you have to do twice (touching the metal at the top) if you want to pass. Then its back outside to do the jerry can carry where you have to carry 2 20kg jerry cans 100m (walking) without dropping them . I think all but 2 people managed that one.
After this it's on to the lessons which include weapons, p company and a parachute briefing.
Lunch after this, then onto the assault course. A short "cough cough" 'warm up' "cough cough" is carried out first which involved carrying people piggy back around the 'A' frame (i weigh 9.5st and got partnered with a 15st giant), lots of press ups, crawling on the ground, burpees and anything else they can thing of to make you hurt. You then get to do the assault course (multiple times) shortly before you feel like keeling over and vommiting. I think before you do all this you do the team events but i can't remember the exact order.
The next day you are up nice and early again with a nice hard beasting yet again and get straight on the mini bus to go to the sand dunes (if you are in St Athan) to do the log race before breakfast. Then its back for breakfast, get everything cleaned and polished before your interview with the recruiting staff.
Certainly a lot crammed into 2 days and you will feel totally buggared after but it really is worth it to see the sort of things you might be doing during training. Staff are generally quite friendly though which is good, but i doubt its going to be like that in training!! haha
Mike
After this it's on to the lessons which include weapons, p company and a parachute briefing.
Lunch after this, then onto the assault course. A short "cough cough" 'warm up' "cough cough" is carried out first which involved carrying people piggy back around the 'A' frame (i weigh 9.5st and got partnered with a 15st giant), lots of press ups, crawling on the ground, burpees and anything else they can thing of to make you hurt. You then get to do the assault course (multiple times) shortly before you feel like keeling over and vommiting. I think before you do all this you do the team events but i can't remember the exact order.
The next day you are up nice and early again with a nice hard beasting yet again and get straight on the mini bus to go to the sand dunes (if you are in St Athan) to do the log race before breakfast. Then its back for breakfast, get everything cleaned and polished before your interview with the recruiting staff.
Certainly a lot crammed into 2 days and you will feel totally buggared after but it really is worth it to see the sort of things you might be doing during training. Staff are generally quite friendly though which is good, but i doubt its going to be like that in training!! haha
Mike
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sky ninja steve
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to be honest mike ive done tabs in feb when it was snowing and we are doing them now while the weathers nice and give me nice cool weather anyday over the heat and it isnt even summer properly yet and i think this ones going to be a doozie plus ive got p company in june (yeay!!!)
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Brooksy140
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Well Im hoping to go to the insight course this friday the 20th April. I sent my confirmation slip about a week n half ago but I havn't received the train pass yet from the MoD. Ive been ringin the recruiting office and it just goes to their answer machine and Ive e-mailed them and received nothing so god knows. Just have to see if the train pass comes this week.
