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Posted: Thu 17 Jul, 2003 9:21 pm
by always go commando
cheers El Prez. it all sounds like loads of fun to me. proabably be eating those worlds on the endurance course though.
Posted: Thu 17 Jul, 2003 9:31 pm
by El Prez
It's all about attitude. Go out and enjoy it, don't treat it as a constant punishment, which some people seem to be considering. Life at CTC isn't all about 'Beastings' etc. It's about getting trained to be the best. The course is hard, it's intense, and very tiring, but it can be enjoyable if you laugh at the weather and the terrain.
The endurance course can be hard in the winter, breaking ice on Peters Pool and crawling through tunnels 1/3 deep in freezing rainwater is not funny, but it has it's up side as well. Just can't seem to remember what it was................... Oh yeah, they give you a nice new green hat when you have completed everything.
Posted: Thu 17 Jul, 2003 9:41 pm
by always go commando
i look great in green.
Posted: Thu 17 Jul, 2003 10:02 pm
by Chester
El Prez wrote:Tarzan and asssault combined 12 or 13 minutes.
There's a board on the Tarzan Course that gives the fastest times the course has ever been completed in - I always found it very motivational - Trying (Without Success) to complete the course in Superhuman time....
And believe me, when you do it in within the normal time constraints and you are blowing out your arse, you'll wonder how those Nods and YO's on the board managed to do it in Superhuman fashion
Posted: Fri 18 Jul, 2003 12:17 am
by ash2003
I can't wait to get stuck into these either.. (i might change my mind when im in the freezing water but hey.. its all fun
).
I really want to have a go on a proper assault course before PRMC to see how hard I can push myself but I guess thats what the PRMC and recruit training are for
Would anyone that's done their PRMC be able to describe the assault course down at CTC?
I'm so happy, I've finally earned the right to wear my third bullet. I feel as if I've achived something very special now
Ash
Posted: Fri 18 Jul, 2003 12:47 am
by mark_glasgow
congratulations ash on your third bullet :bday:
i felt proud myself when i achieved my second
mark
Posted: Fri 18 Jul, 2003 3:03 pm
by agentkitson
Yo the assult course is diffferent to any other standard army assult course!
It is spread out more with a small hill which actually turns into a very big when your are doing it! The actual assult course is not that hard its the warm up(BEASTING) you get before which makes it hard! They want people who can put maximum effort ino the warm up but then still perform on the assult course!
It consists of a:
TANK TRAP (a hole filled with water you have to jump over)
SIX FOOT WALL
FALLEN GATE(just a metal frame which u walk up and over)
CRAWLING THING(cant remeber its proper name but its the one you crawl under, it takes it out of you because of the excessive amounts of shingle!)
MONKEY BARS
WALL (climb up a ladder walk along a wall, jog along another, then sprint over the last and jump over the barbed wire)
CHASM (a climbing frame with a rope that you pull yourself along)
SWINGING BRIDGE
5 FOOT WALL
HILL
GATE VOLT(a frame you do what called a gate volt on)
TUNNELS
12 FOOT WALL
SPRINT TO END
thats it! EASY said sarcastically! JUST KEEP SMILING :fadein:
Posted: Fri 18 Jul, 2003 3:29 pm
by Chester
agentkitson wrote:CRAWLING THING(cant remeber its proper name but its the one you crawl under, it takes it out of you because of the excessive amounts of shingle!)
AK
"The Scramble Nets" is what you are thinking of, hence the usual order from the PTI's "UNDERTHESCRAMBLENETSBACKTOME GOOOOO!"
Posted: Fri 18 Jul, 2003 3:56 pm
by Sully
Life at CTC isn't all about 'Beastings' etc. It's about getting trained to be the best.
I beg to differ, the sour old duffer that I am. I don't want to put anyone off though, the feeling when you march off the drill square "Royal Marines to your duties, quick march" is indescribable and will inspire you for the rest of your life. Good luck all.
Posted: Fri 18 Jul, 2003 6:38 pm
by Jonah
I get goosepimples even now, just thinking of that last drill command and i'm nothing but a wannabe as yet!
With referance to the endurance/tarzan courses, looks nothing but fun (and a few technicolour yawns!
)
Posted: Sun 20 Jul, 2003 4:02 pm
by dan
Sully wrote:Life at CTC isn't all about 'Beastings' etc. It's about getting trained to be the best.
I beg to differ, the sour old duffer that I am. I don't want to put anyone off though, the feeling when you march off the drill square "Royal Marines to your duties, quick march" is indescribable and will inspire you for the rest of your life. Good luck all.
Hmm...I'm with Sully on this one. Have the sands of time blunted the memories??
For me, they are very raw and very real!
Posted: Mon 21 Jul, 2003 10:10 am
by Sully
Glad they're keeping you on your toes Dan - after all, the Devil will find work for idle hands
I hear Hawkerland is nice this time of year - watch out for those adders though
Posted: Mon 21 Jul, 2003 10:36 am
by Contractor
Talking of adders...............playing golf yesterday and one of the guys was bitten on his forearm by an adder. He put his hand into a bush to retrieve his ball, which was unplayable, and zap, snakebite. He carried on playing despite advice he should get it treated. Additionally somebody else got a hole in one, so a good time in the bar afterwards
Who said life as a civvy was boring.
Posted: Tue 22 Jul, 2003 1:08 pm
by matt1389
said somewhere back on this post that endurance course is to be completed in 80 mins correct me if im wrong but i thought it was 72 mins including the 4 mile run bact to ctc and firing 6 out of ten shots on the target on the 30 metre range.
P>S sorry about full stops and grammar.
Posted: Tue 22 Jul, 2003 1:24 pm
by faddius
Endurance course, 4 mile run back and range 6/10 shotsto be done in72 mins max pass/fail.