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.
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!
@@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
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 👊
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.
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.
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 😂
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 🤣
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 ! 😉)
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 !!
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.
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.
@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!
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.
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 agree. When I was there in the early seventies there were a few instructors, who if they were out in civvy street, would have been sectioned. In the main though, many of them were good blokes who had a job to do.
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.
“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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Rhine Platoon '94. Pirbright's RSM then was a Scots Guard Falkland Island War veteran and a MM recipient. Big scary bugger too. Basic was a good laugh, they never broke us. lol
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 :)
Was this the old Guards depot at Brookwood ? If so I did my training there in 75/76, and I remember that sandhill well..Especially when done in No2 dress uniform as punishment..
@@psychorider46 I agree completely, as I'm a veteran of it..The day I did it with full No2 kit on, bulled boots etc.. That was a day that will stay with me to my grave, after that I ended up till the early hours in the toilet block cleaning my kit for the next day..Aah, the memories ffs..This was all because we were deemed to have been lazy on drill, and it wasn't my last time either..I also do believe that someone actually died on it and was closed down for H&S reasons..Oh yes, the kicks and punches were real enough along with everyone vomiting everywhere.
@@andyjohnstone4950 Yeah, I remember going back to Blackdown for a course and hearing that someone had a heart attack on sand hill. Always remember going up and down sand hill in basic followed by a quick go over the NATO assault course.
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!!
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 ....
@@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!
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 -
Yes indeed. The 'gentle' bracken decked uplands of Pirbright, or 'The Factory' as we called it back in the early seventies. The poor blighters who struggled, usually ended up being dragged by their webbing by yelling PT instructors. I can almost smell the damp bracken 52 years later.
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.
I remember as a recruit when Pirbright use to be the Guards Depot running up and down Heart Brake hill (which was Sand then) carrying logs mind you it still looks like a bitch going up and down now.
Easier than when I went it...... 8 mile speed march in 35 deg heat, no water breaks, and no water, then had to do the huge obstacle course twice at the end of the March, where one bloke fell and broke his back......
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....
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
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
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!
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
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.
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.
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 🤣
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 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼
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 .
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
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
Excellent content once again Fabziy and good effort troops.
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Best British Army training Videos on You Tube, Thanks for posting Fabziy
The drizzle must be a blessing
OMG it's a blessing
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 💪💪
"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 😂
The staff was amazing!! Encouraging them all the way
Inspiring Staff/Leader, showed with his troops performance. Good to see again
The memories! I can feel the burns just by watching this!
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 ;-)
Brought a fresh memory when I did all those thing. Prepare well before joining army, you will have no drama.
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.
@FabZiy ahh heartbreak Hill . good times another great video bro 👊
Thanks pal
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.
Another quality video Fabziy. Great interview with the PTI. Thank you
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
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.
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 remember doing this back in 2000/2001 with Le-Cateau troop. Brought so many memories back
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 agree. When I was there in the early seventies there were a few instructors, who if they were out in civvy street, would have been sectioned. In the main though, many of them were good blokes who had a job to do.
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.
“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!
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
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.
What a brilliant PTI. Brought back some found memories
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?
Good video, I remember doing this back in 2013 with Cook Troop.
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
Such a gorgeous perspective
I remember when I went through phase one and the PTI's had you terrified lol every sessions. Great videos fabziy
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
Loved my training at Pirbright. Good times.
We had a nightmare one in Osnabruck it had a false crest, normally did it after the 3 sisters trail.
Staff are moving well considering they, have those burgans full of duvets and pillows on their back.
*bergens
Penguin of Death 👆🏼
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
I simply cannot wait to join the army. All the way from kenya. I am in love.
First went up heartbreak in 1984. Went up there last Saturday. Called heartbreak for a reason,!
Every recruit that went through pirbright has there own story of heartbreak 🤣🤣🤣 good to see its still in use 🤣🤣🤣
I only see white
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.
Heartbreak, The Seven Sisters, Figure of 8, all character building!!
Copral hyssley was a section commander at catterick earlier this year, top bloke
Wonder if they started using sand hill again.. up heartbreaker down concrete. Love it.
Big up @Fabziy always doing good work💪🖒
Thanks brother🔥🔥 I've been away for a wile, 💪back-in
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.
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.
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
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!
Rhine Platoon '94. Pirbright's RSM then was a Scots Guard Falkland Island War veteran and a MM recipient. Big scary bugger too. Basic was a good laugh, they never broke us. lol
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 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!
Was this the old Guards depot at Brookwood ? If so I did my training there in 75/76, and I remember that sandhill well..Especially when done in No2 dress uniform as punishment..
The sand hill was worse than this, they had to close it down because the chippies said it was too dangerous 🤣🤣🤣🤣 it turned boys into men 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@psychorider46 I agree completely, as I'm a veteran of it..The day I did it with full No2 kit on, bulled boots etc.. That was a day that will stay with me to my grave, after that I ended up till the early hours in the toilet block cleaning my kit for the next day..Aah, the memories ffs..This was all because we were deemed to have been lazy on drill, and it wasn't my last time either..I also do believe that someone actually died on it and was closed down for H&S reasons..Oh yes, the kicks and punches were real enough along with everyone vomiting everywhere.
@@andyjohnstone4950 Yeah, I remember going back to Blackdown for a course and hearing that someone had a heart attack on sand hill. Always remember going up and down sand hill in basic followed by a quick go over the NATO assault course.
Nice to see Jonny vaun Still working
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!!
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!
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
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💪🏻😀
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🤔🔥
Such a great video this, well made
Good job lads, I remember back in 2003 that was me. I hated heartbreak hill.
Thank you Mr. Fabziy
Most welcome! Thanks for watching
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 -
My advice is invest in proper tabbing boots..it'll save ur knee,back etc...absolutely brilliant video...
Staff ali !! He's an amazing pti , I rememeber him during my phase 1 at atc pirbright , he was very encouraging, waters troop forever
Do you know if first name ??
@@debrabell8633 no I csnt remember his first name
I'd like to see him again though and shake his hand havnt seen him for 2 years
What sticks in my mind are the 7 Sisters and remember "it pays to be a winner" 😉
Oh😢 pets you should have joined RM Commandos it’s only 8 months basic training eg 9 mile speed march and a 30 mile stroll across Dartmoor
Now for an actual thrashing. Respirators ON...up the hill GO! :D
Yes indeed. The 'gentle' bracken decked uplands of Pirbright, or 'The Factory' as we called it back in the early seventies. The poor blighters who struggled, usually ended up being dragged by their webbing by yelling PT instructors. I can almost smell the damp bracken 52 years later.
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
The camaraderie in this pops the goose Bumps 🦾 .
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.
I was at the guards depot in 1991. The figure of 8 run was a killer 👍
March 98 was there. One of the Sgts from another platoon blew his brains out whilst we were on exercise
I remember that place....and getting smashed up and down it for messing about....though I was gonna die...just got super fit
I remember as a recruit when Pirbright use to be the Guards Depot running up and down Heart Brake hill (which was Sand then) carrying logs mind you it still looks like a bitch going up and down now.
Easier than when I went it...... 8 mile speed march in 35 deg heat, no water breaks, and no water, then had to do the huge obstacle course twice at the end of the March, where one bloke fell and broke his back......
Phase 1's getting UBACS now?!
I’m a civvy and I thought concrete hill was bad enough. Only ever sling my Mtb down heartbreak couldn’t imagine running up the bloody thing!
Had to do this in my phase 2 in my trade training (infantry) sick training 🤙
Time stamp 1.24. Guy on left with glasses. Is his finger on the trigger?
Haha the fear on the faces when the PTI talks about the pace 🤣. I do not miss that place at all
Fast up, slow down and steady on the level 🤘
Is Heartbreak hill the old sand hill we knew in the 80s at the Guards Depot
Yes but they seem to be using a different face in this video. Maybe they go up the side or back of the hill.
I don't think so.
I believe It was 2 different hills.
Not fair, in 09 we was up and down there 4 times after that tab
1997. Ouch. Sure we went up 3-4 times tho. Good video. They looked better than we did.
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
I know this hill untimely, and it’s really lives up to its name. I wouldn’t want to be there now.
Went through pirbright 2012, good times!.