Issue 1 August 2009 FIT2FIGHT FIT2FIGHT Adventure Training Beijing Dreams Canoe Canada Team successes Boxing Championships 2009 + Healthy Lifestyle 6973 RN&RM Sports Lottery Poster A4-Updated:Layout 1 22/4/09 16:20 Page 1 • All Levels of Sport • Adventurous Training • Equipment • Challenging Activities To be ”in to win” up to £5000 every week or increase your chances contact your PT staff or Email: Temeraire LOTMAN or Phone: 938023806 (023 9272 3806) www.rnsportslottery.co.uk FIT2FIGHT Annual Roundup 2009-10 ISSUE 1 Contents Page FIT2FIGHT 04 FOREWORD Captain Mike Farrage 05 SPORT ROUNDUP FIT2FIGHT 2008-09 the RN Golden Years 08 DEPLOYED UNITS Reports from around the world 10 INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS When I got told that we were creating a new Beijing Dreams magazine focused entirely on sport and 12 BOXING ROUNDUP adventurous training for the Royal Navy, and It’s a knockout that I was going to be given the opportunity 10 to edit it, I was unsure to say the very least! 14 WINTER SPORTS I may work in HMS Temeraire but I am not 153 km/hr Rush the most sporting of people and I was not 16 HEALTHY LIFESTYLE 1 convinced how interesting such a magazine When is a shoe not a shoe? would be to the majority of members of the Service. I very soon realised that my 18 ADVENTURE TRAINING preconceptions were completely wrong; I Adventure Training Centres began to understand that there are amazing 20 ADVENTURE TRAINING opportunities available to everyone, no- Winter Wilderness matter what their skill level. I hope that I have managed to produce a magazine which can 22 EXPEDITION 1 prove to all personnel, no matter of rank, rate Canoe Canada or experience that there is something which 14 24 ADVENTURE TRAINING will appeal. It is not all about the RNFT and Naval Outdoor Centre Germany circuits; the options are endless and the opportunities are available to everyone. 26 SHIPS SUCCESSES HMS Bulwark I would welcome any input for the next 28 TEAM SUCCESS edition which is due to be published in April Ladies Boxing 2010; please send articles for publication to [email protected] Also any 29 HEALTHY LIFESTYLE feedback on what YOU would like to see 10 Minute Workout in YOUR magazine would be gratefully 30 SPORTS LOTTERY received. Where does the money come from? 32 FUNDED ‘QUICK WINS’ PRODUCTION TEAM 24 How the money was spent Publisher / Managing Editor: Sara Loewendahl Lt RN 33 SPORTS ACCOMMODATION 1st Lt HMS TEMERAIRE Mil: 9380 23959 HMS Temeraire Tel: 02392 723959 Email: [email protected] 34 HEALTHY LIFESTYLE Produced By: Re-Energise your life Corporate Communications TEAM PORTSMOUTH Editor: 36 EXPEDITION 2 Mark Wakeman 023 9272 5301 [email protected] Freefall Africa Design and Publishing Manager: Steve Wallace 023 9272 5593 37 PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT [email protected] From AB to Admiral Photography Fleet Photographic Unit 38 RN SPORTS AWARDS 08 Presentation Ceremony Printing Speedwell Litho Print Southampton 36 Fit 2 Fight 2009| 3 FIT2FIGHT already have “grit in bucket loads”, 2SL believes that there is much more that we can do to develop the necessary attributes for a fighting Service and he has placed Physical FIT2FIGHT Development at the heart of the campaign. In a personal letter to all Commanding Officers, he states: “Sport, Adventurous Training and Physical Education enhance the ‘will to win’ through the development of controlled aggression, teamwork, identity, physical fitness and FIT2FIGHT a mental resolve to overcome adversity. These personal attributes develop the skills vital to inculcating fighting spirit and are at the heart of our Service ethos. One of my highest priorities is to reinvigorate the physical development agenda by promoting a healthy lifestyle across the Naval Service, thus maximising the number of personnel CAPTAIN MIKE FARRAGE who are physically fit and mentally ready for DIRECTOR NAVAL PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT task. I intend to change attitudes to sport, Foreword Adventurous Training and fitness, within our working routines: they are an essential part I am proud to be writing the introduction change attitudes to ‘time for’ Sport, AT and of our professional lifestyle and culture…. for this inaugural ‘Fit to Fight’ magazine. I Fitness (not ‘time off for’) within our working The mantra here will be ‘fit to fight’ and ‘fit thought it useful to start this foreword by routines. He alluded to the importance of for life’”. outlining the reasons why the Navy Board Physical Development in his 100-Day Muster has become increasingly focused on the in which he gave his future direction and As we all know, people are our most key role that Physical Development (the guidance. He used the word ‘grit’ as an important asset. Maintaining their health trilogy of Sport, Adventurous Training and attribute which needs to be developed in all and fitness is a major contributor to the Physical Education) plays in developing Naval personnel. He describes grit as: moral and physical components of fighting and sustaining the Moral Component of power. The key challenge is to change the Operational Capability. It is seen as one “physical, mental and moral fortitude and overall culture towards healthy living so of the main means of delivering individuals character. It is the individual and group that it is regarded as a fundamental part of who are mentally and physically robust capacity to deal with the most demanding a unit’s overall operational capability. This with a high degree of war-fighting spirit by circumstances: it is the spirit which allows means inculcating in the Command team, developing our people’s ability to respond ordinary people to achieve extraordinary the Divisional System and every individual, instantly and effectively to the physical and things. But it is not just in harm’s way, it is a desire to maintain physical and mental psychological demands of operations and also part of the way we conduct ourselves well-being through a healthy lifestyle, proper be able to maintain that response over day-to-day. Aligned to this, I want to stamp dietary control, a responsible attitude prolonged periods. It also makes a critical out the ‘walk on by’ culture and move back towards alcohol, and a regular exercise contribution in the recruitment and retention to one of ‘absolute standards’. Marks of regime. Are you ‘Fit to Fight’ and ‘Fit for of individuals and in the maintenance of high respect, standards of dress, discipline, Life’? morale. fitness and bearing are as much to do with our overall professionalism as is our ability to I hope you find the content of F2F 2009 One of 2SL’s highest priorities is to fight fires on ships or to steam, march and fly interesting and informative. reinvigorate the Physical Development into danger.” agenda by promoting a healthy lifestyle across the Naval Service. He is keen to While acknowledging that many in the Navy 4 |Fit 2 Fight 2009 Sports Roundup 2008/9 – The Navy’s Golden Years Tennis. After 11 years, the RN Tennis Team June Introduction finally clinched victory in the Inter-Service B Commander Mike Barge - SO1 Sport Ice Hockey. The Navy’s Ice Hockey team Tennis Championships. retained the British Armed Forces Ice Hockey Sport has always been seen as a fun and title in its second year in the competition. Rugby Union. In the opening match of the enjoyable activity, good for morale and a Inter-Service Championship, the Navy Senior great way of keeping fit. However, it can Show Jumping. The RN Show Jumping Team gave a dazzling display of fast and provide much more than that, and the Navy Team won the military class at Royal Windsor open rugby when beating the RAF 67-12. sees it as a key means to prepare people for Show beating 25 other teams and was Mne Greg Barden was top scorer with a operations and to enhance their mental and presented with the trophy by Her Majesty the fantastic five tries. physical toughness. Sport does this through Queen. teamwork, leadership, competition, physical Marathon. The Navy team cleaned-up in the conditioning, self discipline and courage. Mountaineering. Surg Lt Lara Herbert London Marathon with its first three runners Because of all these positive benefits, the became one of the few women to reach the taking all the podium places in the Inter- Navy actively promotes sport, provides summit of Makalu, an 8463m peak in the Service championship. Top RN runner, Cpl time in working hours for it, provides sport Himalayas. Lara was part of a Combined Mark Croasdale, ran 2.32.31 to finish 75th in staffs, and funds some of the best sporting Services expedition climbing this mountain the main race. facilities in the country. It is therefore no which is regarded as a stiffer challenge than surprise that the Navy has helped develop a Everest. Boxing. With no RAF boxers making number of exceptionally talented sportsmen the finals of the Inter-Service Boxing and women; you can read more about their Championships, the night turned into a July achievements in the sporting calendar. gladiatorial combat between the RN and the Swimming. The competition from the Army Army. With 12 weights being competed, the and RAF swimming teams was intense 2008 Navy was immediately disadvantaged by at this year’s Inter-Service Swimming April lacking representatives in four of the lighter Championships, but a depleted Navy team weights. In the contested bouts, the RN dug deep to secure another win. This made Cycling. The Navy Time Trial team retained showed its fighting spirit by winning five out it 10 wins in the last 11 years. In the Inter- the Inter-Service trophy at both 10 and 25 of eight.