Icebreaker Help Please.

[Gareth Dent]

Hey, new to this site going for my Pre-ADSC next week in York, I'm just a little bit worried about the Icebreaker i'm physcially fit enough to be under the 9 minute mark in the 1.5m run and i do boxing so the jerrycans isnt worrying me. Am i suppost to memorise these or do i write it down and take it with me? Can sombody tell me what happens or how the icebreaker actually works so i can better prepare for it. I'd hate to go and everybody has it all sorted out and i feel like an absolute idiot.

Thanks to anybody that relpys,

Gareth Dent

[Naylor]

When i did mine mate the had a list on the wall so u could look at it as u were doing it just talk about age and where ur from what ur into how ur family feel about u going in what u want to join and why, what training u have been doing to prepare for the run etc they said it needs to be about 5mins long so just practise in front of a mirror

[ofens]

Don't worry too much, just prepare a simple overview of who you are and what you've done.
They just want you to stand up and tell everyone a few things about yourself, nothing much just a little summary.
It doesn't need to be specificly detailed, if I was going to do one tomorrow I'd write a list like this:

- Age
- Family
- Last job
- What I liked doing at school
- Sports I play
- Sports I'd like to play
- Why I want to be in The British Army
(etc)

(Those who have recently done one might have a better idea of what topics to cover!)
You could change this adding and removing things as you see fit.

For each item on the list, speak a sentence about it...such as:
Age: "I'm 18", Family: "I have two brothers, live with my parents, my Dad was in the army...", School: "I liked Science but was better at History", Sports: "I play football almost every day, would like to try squash as it's good for agility"...

You don't have to write and memorise all this info, just speak the truth about each thing as you come to it in your list.
If (as Naylor suggests) a list is put up then that's ideal, just say something about each thing on that list.
But to help you prepare, think about writing your own and have a go, perhaps in front of your family or a couple of friends.
If you're at school, a teacher might be even better to help with something like this.

Good luck Gareth.
ofens