Don't Break on the Heartbreak Hill | Pirbright | British Army
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- Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2019
- Don't Break on the Heartbreak Hill Pirbright British Army,
Le-Cateau Troop week 8 going strong
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I’ve watched army RUclips Channel for years, and your way back when my son started his army application process.
This is the only channel I now watch that’s stayed true to giving a balanced and true reflection of what recruit training is really like.
It’s an immense aid for getting reliable information when many of the forums and other marketing channels are either full of speculation and misinformation or not up to date, as its probably impractical to do so by an organisation of the size of the British Army. An individual initiative like yours is NB as RUclips is not far behind Facebook in terms of being the most popular social media platform today.
Your channel is a motivational and inspirational platform for new recruits or people considering joining.
As a parent, I can say it’s been an incredible way for us and other families to feel connected and get a better idea of what our loved ones are and will experience.
So impressed by the level of organisation, quality of the PTI’s and staff.
Know making videos is hard work at the best of times, so hats off that you can do this with a full-time job, please keep it going.
100% agree!! 👍🙌
Thanks so much, Simon, you don't even know how much comments like yours keep me motivated to invest my time and resources in my Channel. Knowing that it doesn't go unnoticed and is appreciated by people not just for entertainment purposes but really giving parents and potential recruits peace of mind is just overwhelming and heartwarming. Thanks again for your support!
a very nice text and also nice to see how the view of the parents is 👍🏼✨
Is this this process the same for reservists, please advise
gabj en the reserves do the same thing just in the evenings and the weekends or when ur available
This Trainer is dope tho, Fact that he didn’t want to lose the guy who dropped out. AND Good to see these vids back on my screen. 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
A Viking for you
Top bloke 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💪
When I was in they were trying to get rid of you not trying to keep you in what a change 68 of us started in the engineers and 34 finished
shropshire lad outdoors wow so hard 😂😂😂😂
Great encouragement from the Staff + Great effort from the Recruits = Great content 💪🇬🇧
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Looks like you don't get beasted these days
@@shropshireladoutdoors743 you're getting that from one exercise that's being filmed?
@@andrewblythe3896 no just general content most wouldn't make training from thirty years ago they couldn't hack it that's why it is softly softly please can you do this and that
@@shropshireladoutdoors743 I get what you mean but you've got to remember that if they're being filmed they're gonna play it safe
My biggest regret was not joining the regular Army from school and making a career of it, all because I thought I was too good for the Army. Falklands war and Afghanistan has shown them to be consummate professionals, a credit to our country and something to be genuinely proud of.
I'm both humbled and embarrassed by my snobbery.
I like how around five minutes or so the bald instructor in the gray PT sweater tells them chins up chest out (excellent advice) they do what he orders and he gives them just a little bit of a reward by telling them that the water break is coming you can see them all just get motivated. Excellent moment caught there Fabziy. I'm not sure you how you got the sound quality so balanced at that part either good work 👊
Magic, reference to both, the moment and editing 😎 Well spotted!
Oh, SUCH SWEET SWEET MEMORIES.
20yrs AGO
Getting an option to Heartbrake Hill? I remember the whole troop getting smashed up and down it coz one of the lads had a Mars bar in his webbing pouch 😂
They've made a much softer army now. Its all because they don't want to get sued for being "cruel" to the recruits...
Sounds like a great way to install self reliance and self care and also to remain useful on the battlefield. ....
@@hussainasim15 would they smash me do you reckon?
AfricanPride X 😐
Yeah got smashed up and down heartbreak lost my breakfast and stomach bile as well as my fuckin will to live. Whats with the rest stops and water breaks? Never saw anyone throwing there ring up either or even in physical and mental pain. A lot softer than when I was at pirbright 32 years ago. When I was there it was alot softer than 20 years before that.
Old soldiers would always tell us how easy we had it back then. I shudder to think what those lads would of thought about water breaks and rest stops 🤣
The felling of dread when your handed a hi vis vest lol
@karl karl Im only reserves mate , have to try keep fit while managing a construction site 12 hours a day its a juggle lol, I know what you mean though , its a badge of honor I guess
@karl karl I remember it well, the 1 up, send it! Me and my mate gobel always got the rear. We had the sandhill to do when I was there aswell as heartbreak, the sandhill was a bastard!
What does it mean
I didn’t believe the hill was that bad from what I heard until I encountered it during basic training, then i understood why it got its name 🤣😩
The concrete was the nastiest of all....
Sand hill was worse, difficult to get any momentum and there was always one who came rolling back down ;-)
“Back in my day”, total BS; there is only so much the human body can take. If you get an injury, you get an injury. It doesn't matter how strong or fit you are, injury can effect anyone. The South African army used to expect all of its infantry to complete the 1.5 mile in less than 12 minutes whilst wearing their helmet, boots, webbing and carrying a rifle. Funny thing though, half
the recruits got stress fractures, ok I exaggerate, but the instances of injury were ridiculous. For a conscript army these injuries can be absorbed, but, for a modern volunteer army you simple can’t get away with the losses. Absolutely no point in breaking recruits before they are even fully trained.
I hd grwn paynz n joynt paynz the wz anthr won I hd, whch ws joynt strains, n I rmmber slypin wykin up at 4:30 ownly to HV the sayme pain ther, frm 4 to 9 I wz shkin to sverly THT I cld see ma nerv pulsaytn on th ouwt of ma leg xD sow mch payne, I wz Lyn the n a ld sleypin on th chair ownly to fnd owt the corse ws in 10 minets, Mrcia
@Will Greenland
Yh prbz, I took sm mediction, helpd quitee a bit, but Fing pynfl
8 min miles for 12 minutes should be doable for young men without significant injuries as long as they were training running for a few months beforehand and didn't regularly run with heavy loads in practice. Its the long ruck marches carrying heavy packs that I see as a greater risk.
Basic Para you had to do 10 miles in 2 hrs with full kit over vers sandy and hilly terrain. (Flagstaff Hill anyone?), however the PTI`s were very good at pacing you and the aim was to do the 10 miles in 1 hr 40 mins
@@nathanthekid3904 Well the English language was good while it lasted!
Good video thanks Fabziy. Nice to see the staff encouraging the recruits. Water breaks never happened when we were doing our 9 mile speed marches. Different era. One of the morale boosters we found was to keep the troop in step when double time marching. It gives a troop a sense of unity and cohesion instead of just a bunch of guys running. Our staff would call it out at the start of each change from fast march to double march as Left, Right, Left, Left, Right, Left, until we got the rhythm from then on we just counted to ourselves each time our left foot hit the ground. Counting steps is important in night patrolling and this would get the habit ingrained in us. It also worked to unify our troop and get us to work as one unit and allowed us to focus on something else other than the effort, and pain of the old 58 gear rubbing our backs raw. Well done, good effort guys keep it up.
Pure, great nostalgia. I remember Heartbreak Hill well.
Well done lads, respect and good luck from Le Cateau Troop of 2000
I was 97
Cleall troop 02 thanks for the memories heartbreak hill
Wow ! Heartbreaks still going strong .... I passed out of the ‘Guards Depot’ in 87, and I remember that run very well indeed, a little different to what I see on here, but you never forget the feeling and the SMELL of all that putrid stagnant water lol.
(Those who know, KNOW ! 😉)
But you still can't hit a Fig11 at 10ft you daft bugger 😉
I was at the guards depot as a boy soldier way back 72, tell me was the sand hill still there ? ( not far away from the assault course ) we were made to run up & down till we dropped ! Happy days !!
I passed out 86 and that sandhill was a ball breaker, seen many a lad collapse on that.
@@kevinadamson5768 I was there in 1990 and the sand hill still haunts me. On the subject of sand, i wonder if sandys is still there?
@@sean3691 not sure mate , it's over thirty years since I was there .
Best British Army training Videos on You Tube, Thanks for posting Fabziy
Another quality video Fabziy. Great interview with the PTI. Thank you
Great video and great instruction. Nice flow. We send guys to Phase 1 (Reserve) every month so really good to see the quality that is delivered.
Brilliant.
I always like watching your videos as it lets me see what I have got to come in my training
👍you better hit that notification bell
I did when I subscribed so I didn’t miss any of your vids
It’s like looking at the answers on a exam before you do the exam 😂 I like your thinking
Try p company and all arms commando....🤔🤔 done them both and become remes first commando para trained craftsman 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼
I like it best when they're doing the log and stretcher race up the same hill, the one between the paras and guards. Top stuff 💪💪
Fabziy, well done. Back on the YT. Well done Si, typical Viking for you in his back yard too. Bless
Viking all the way... Si, genuine bloke we only we only have few left in the Army
"If its not raining than its not training" 😂 glad staff Illsley was my PTI .... nice video mana 🔥
Ask Staff Illsley what it's like to be shot at by the Afghan army 😂
Excellent content once again Fabziy and good effort troops.
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Brings back memories. I can still feel the pain in my shins.
Brilliant memories I remember it well still get shivers when I watch but we're good times
The memories! I can feel the burns just by watching this!
Cleall troop 96, remember two mongs in the troop getting into a fight about 100 m away from the end of a tab so our pti turned us all around and made us run up and down this hill ,he made the idiots who caused this punishment stand and wave at us as we ran, 1 mong at the top 1 at the bottom
I remember when I went through phase one and the PTI's had you terrified lol every sessions. Great videos fabziy
The staff was amazing!! Encouraging them all the way
Such a gorgeous perspective
What a brilliant PTI. Brought back some found memories
The drizzle must be a blessing
OMG it's a blessing
Every recruit that went through pirbright has there own story of heartbreak 🤣🤣🤣 good to see its still in use 🤣🤣🤣
I only see white
Inspiring Staff/Leader, showed with his troops performance. Good to see again
Such a great video this, well made
@FabZiy ahh heartbreak Hill . good times another great video bro 👊
Thanks pal
I remember doing this back in 2000/2001 with Le-Cateau troop. Brought so many memories back
Heart break hill got nothing on the land of nod now that was a hill 😂😂
Daniel Hartshorne cattericks finest 🤢
you aint seen the hill at my old school...it took many lives
I went to Pirbright, but I've heard some stories about that hill from some of my Infantry pals from back in the day.
Land of nod is a feature let me tell you
As someone who’s done both now, yeah nod is a lot lot harder. Heartbreak is still gopping though. Gets you closer to the top whereas nod just fucks you right away.
Lad at the front wishes he chose RAF
Nah man they did 4 miles in this, havent you heard of the hardest military test in the world. the raf 5 miler of death. ive heard it lets them stand toe to toe with the paras and marines.
@@marcussmith5826 I've tried Paras thanks. Rhine platoon 2006
@@Isa-wz5qm Joke. i forgot to say thank you for your service
@Isa 89... Cheers dits.
Paras are so easy. RAF regiment is where the real shit happens.
Heartbreak, The Seven Sisters, Figure of 8, all character building!!
I literally took out my water bottle from my pouch and poured all the water 💦 over the top of my head. Everyone just stood still staring at me at the bottom of that concrete hill, my troop captain asked "what was that" and I answered "I'm cooling my temperature🌡️ down" and that's what we do in Africa. This was quite emotional story... I will leave it here.
That's actually a great way to cool down.
@@Tazdingo01 trust me, we got beasted all day for that and my troop didn't like my action
Big up @Fabziy always doing good work💪🖒
Thanks brother🔥🔥 I've been away for a wile, 💪back-in
Brought a fresh memory when I did all those thing. Prepare well before joining army, you will have no drama.
Good video, I remember doing this back in 2013 with Cook Troop.
Thank you Mr. Fabziy
Most welcome! Thanks for watching
In 1966 I was stationed in Queen Elizabeth Barracks Pirbright as a member of the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards. We would go for a run in Battle Kit weekly & I remember we would have run up this hill. It was a struggle but we all used to make it. We didn't have water break or rest breaks but then we didn't have to do the calesthenics that these recruits had to do.
Anyone here who's endured this shower of shitttttt 😂🤦♂️
Loved my training at Pirbright. Good times.
I remember that hill well, our (Lucknow)troop was smashed on it for what felt forever.
Good to see the PTIs platitudes are going strong also💪🏻😀
I first ran up there in 1972 as a 15 year old junior Guardsman
Back in my day, Hungry Hill was the beast we feared, go for it fellas!
These instructors and pti, s are good lads, all ours wanted to do in 1986 was beast us to see how many they could lose, times have changed for the best in that respect.
The camaraderie in this pops the goose Bumps 🦾 .
My troop was up and down there all the time with full kit on till someone did actually have a suspected heart attack.
Loved the place and really bonded our troop and got rid of the shit lads.
That’s awesome!!!!
7:40 looks like that guy on the left needs to piss real bad
Mobieus_uk I think your just go in pants wouldn’t you?
Mobieus_uk
Happens to me every time lol I hate that feeling but u gotta push on regardless 😂🤦🏾♂️💪🏾
Not a chance would any trained soldier on a gift of a 4 miler or Any length of a TAB piss himself if he needed to go for a piss... He would hold it untill a relevant pause. If it was on a patrol it would then be a case of taking a tactical pause, ensure all arcs are covered, get as low as possible by taking a knee in cover and pissing. So if trained soldiers wouldn't do that do you really think a recruit is going to do that? And if said recruit was to do that then clearly the Screws teaching said recruit are REMF crow bags
Andy S I see. I seem to remember hear that if your guarding Buckingham Palace the uniform they wear has very thick woollen trousers and if you need a Pee just go and let the trousers absorb the Pee.
@englishAndy so your trying to compare a fighting soldier (or In this particular case, Soldiers in training) with Queen Guarding duties? Have you not noticed In the video the recruits are wearing MTP and not thick wollen bearskin Outfits or did that just so happen to skip your eyes? As a teeth arm soldier I am not fully aware of the Ins and outs of Queen Guarding or their respective TTP's however I can, assure you that during a Physical training session If someone needs to go for a PEE it is more than acceptable for said individual to fall out to the side, do the deed and then catch up with the squad.
Brings back memories of me training at pirbight in 97 good old Heart break hill and the seven sisters
😜never too late to for a re-fresher 💪😁 thanks for watching
Dont think I'd do well anymore due to age lol
I simply cannot wait to join the army. All the way from kenya. I am in love.
Fast up, slow down and steady on the level 🤘
I ran heartbreak more times than i care to remember, it was one of my cross country and marathon training hills SI CAREY APTC 1970 TO 1986
Staff are moving well considering they, have those burgans full of duvets and pillows on their back.
*bergens
Penguin of Death 👆🏼
Nice to see Jonny vaun Still working
Good job lads, I remember back in 2003 that was me. I hated heartbreak hill.
I don’t remember being allowed to take my kit off for heart break hill, also remember it 3 to 5 times haha
With combat 95 smocks and shitty issued boots
Now for an actual thrashing. Respirators ON...up the hill GO! :D
Wow this takes me back to my time in pirbright in 99 the heartbreak hill route was a killer as it's not just 1 hill there was around 4 or 5 different hills on the route heartbreak being the killer 1 but dam it got your fitness level up I recall 1 of the hills we used had a recruit die on it it was a bad one it was basically a massive sand berm but it was closed due to the death I then went to deepcut for trade training where recruits were commuting suicide supposedly the staff were bullying recruits I was on the gaurd shift that a female shot herself in the head it was all over the news brings back memories
Everybody can laugh & joke on the internet but go ahead give it a try, all this is no joke & will test you to your limit. Big up fabziy on all the content you make as usual one love 💯💪🏾🔥.
- Kingz #RKA -
Yeah this video is laid back. When I was at pirbright we had a guy called paddy, he used to smash us at heartbreak hill for full sessions then the circuit ring at camp. The guy loved a good sesh of hill reps and tbh I fkn loved it haha
Had to do this in my phase 2 in my trade training (infantry) sick training 🤙
First went up heartbreak in 1984. Went up there last Saturday. Called heartbreak for a reason,!
please keep the videos coming!
Stay tuned 🙏🏾
Done that a few times when I went through Pirbright but was known as the guards depot back then......and there was also the sand Hill another body killer.
What sticks in my mind are the 7 Sisters and remember "it pays to be a winner" 😉
Fabziy 🔥 🔥🔥🔥
Respect....
This brings back old memories having done Heartbreak hil a good few times and twice with a small log for one person. Then the next hill Crucfix which was just sand and shallstones this was the hardest of them all and is a killer these i did in the 1980's and it was good fun too :)
Heartbreak hill.... that brings back a few memories 👍
I was at the guards depot in 1991. The figure of 8 run was a killer 👍
Guess what mi gonna do now, go for a tab! Motivation up 👊🏾🆙
You always going for a Tab, how is going at your new post?
😍😍😍😍 who doesn’t love hill reps 😍😍😍
Had a female psi on my Senior Brecon - she was the toughest, meanest, hardest but fairest instructor I have ever met - went to her wedding - stunning....
Absolutely delusional.
To clarify: no woman ever born was the toughest soldier; meanest then cannot possibly be a compliment; fairest means nothing; hardest is absolutely absurd; and you telling us you went to her wedding and that she was 'absolutely stunning' can only mean that you were in love with her. Don't confuse your cuckold feelings with soldiering - in a bind you would be as useless as her.
@@filipselakovic9768 I don't think there is a single person reading this who doubts your wife has just left you cause you are a tosser, and now you hate all women. Shut up no one cares, but please please please, if you ever meet this woman say it to her face and record what happens
Yes, Fabziy, thanks for the much appreciated content. Pls invite me for your award ceremony as I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be recognised for the amazing work you do for Pirbright and the Army overall! Your bosses must see the proof in the comments!
It's long overdue, but hey, maybe he needs to show that he can part water or run on it before Fabziy gets the recognition he deserves. Lol one of his videos went viral and reached newspapers, but who got the credit? You guessed it, NOT Fabziy. The struggle is real ....
Humble😏 but thanks, I'm here to motivate and inspired others, I'm not doing this for them!
@Nat Nice you're a true supporter from day one 😤😏🤔🔥 this wont stop me
@@Fabziy Yeah, THEM just benefiting and take you for granted. You're a VERY STRONG CHARACTER. full respect to you Fabziy!
@@Fabziy ALWAYS, I know the hell will freeze first before you show any sign of weakness. Fabziy you're truly one of the G.O.A.T. never stop shining and being you, you're blessed!
Very different experience from my time there in 89 when it was the Guards Depot!! (I was in Waterloo 6 Coy) .. ‘Beasting’ is evidently a thing of the past .. which is a good thing. I remember the Sand Hill too… some instructors were sadistic pricks..
I got Beasted up and down there a few times, also the seven sisters when doing a few days in the guardhouse 🤣. Good Times.
Everyone that’s been threw pirbright knows this hill lol great video
God bless you all my child
Well done Troop
Whats up G
@@Fabziy All good just watching your videos to get some inspiration & motivation. Hope to see a vlog about yourself soon. ONE
Heartbreak hill always a killer but the lads look like there up for anything!
🔥💪 Strong men
Great to see the female instructor getting stuck into it too, awesome job!
Remember the hills and Seven Sisters. All to well in 89 when pirbright was the home of every Guardsman and home to the household division
Septum junca in uno. As all guards know this Latin phrase. As well as their own regiments history. 🇬🇧🇬🇧💂🏼♂️💂🏼♂️
Haha the fear on the faces when the PTI talks about the pace 🤣. I do not miss that place at all
I remember that hill 💪🏻🇬🇧
Lol this takes me back was there in 96, remember the walking part murdered your shins the running murdered your thighs
Hospital Hill at Shorncliffe was way worse, also Sugar Loaf at Crickhowell back in the day. Both were monsters. Those who know, know!!
Hey guys you have my support
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God..i remember that hill..did it in heatwave..pure stresser...
We had a nightmare one in Osnabruck it had a false crest, normally did it after the 3 sisters trail.
Isn't that first hill Hospital Hill? I remember that term being thrown around a bit when I was there. Gave me goosebumps watching them go round the route. Plus.. Daysack down before Heartbreak Hill??? We never got that choice! For us it was, 'this is heartbreak hill.. We're going to go up it now. 1 2 3 GO!!!' Good times. Enjoy everyone!!
Keep them videos coming, very informative.......preparing for my phase 1 early next year.✊
Maybe you should mention it in your inval
@@natnice5359 uhmmmm ok👀
@Nat Nice you have a point🤔🔥
Oh bloody hell yea, also concrete hill and 7 sisters.
I've got a video of my mate (British CMT) running up this hill
Everyone else looks damn miserable, and he runs up with a toothy grin with a spring in his step the jammy bastard
They use a different face now than when my training platoon did it in 82 (Guards Depot). We had a sandy face to traverse. Straight up and then the instructors got to play Space Invaders. The recruits were the Invaders and the staff (L/Sgts Remington, Wilson, Thompson et al) threw water bottles to "destroy" the Invaders. I remember this being called Heartbreaker, I guess the name changes as each different intake progresses. The hardest training session was the Bayonet assault course.
Was that L/sgt Thompson IG
@@spartacus72 yes, all three were IG. QS.
First rule: win.
Went through pirbright 2012, good times!.
I know this hill untimely, and it’s really lives up to its name. I wouldn’t want to be there now.