Windsor and we hope to include the families once the club has become established. Everyone is welcome and we guarantee that you will find this sport exciting, and the social life enjoyable. There will be instructors’ courses running next summer and we are looking forward to meeting our new members. The sport is cheap, safe and exciting. Get a lift out of life. Come Para-Ascending!
LCpl Spencer achieving a ‘dead centres’
course is only a week long but guarantees two jumps, This is a growing sport within the Regiment and will be helped by being so close to both Netheravon and Pirbright. Finally The Guards Freefall Team is very short of jumpers, if there is any one who would like to joint the squad please contact Ct D. R. A. Daly.
PARA-ASCENDING This new sport, brought to the Regiment by Ct Daly and SCM Clayton from R.M.A., Sandhurst. received a strong following from all ranks. The club has managed to buy its own canopy. and on return to Windsor intends to buy some towing tackle and safety equipment. This will make the club totally independent. and enable the jumpers to use the airfields in the area. of which there are several. Para-Ascending is a growing sport within the Army and has the advantage that it is much cheaper than parachuting. and yet provides the same sensations. Each jumper is towed into the air by a Landrover. and when his optimum height has been reached he releases and . . floats back down again. All jumpers complete a course of ground training and are tested as to their knowledge of the safety principles before ‘they are allowed to ‘fly‘. This sport is directed at the soldiers who are non—sport gladiators and yet are looking for excitement with a difference. We have several suitable airfields close to us at
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SQUASH During the 78/79 season virtually no regimental squash has been played due to the Northern Ireland tour. One friendly match was played against a Belfast club. The Regiment lost 1-4. We are now well into the 79/80 squash season and to date we have played one match against HQ 4 Armd Division. This we also lost 1-4. Not a good record so far but we hope to improve on this and stand a good chance of getting through to the semifinal of the 4 Div Knockout competition with the favourable draw that we have. Our only success this season was when Maj Reed-Felstead won the Divisional Individual Championships in November. Our team is headed by Maj Reed—Felstead. At number two comes Maj Smith-Bingham who had a long and exciting game in the first match of the season losing 6-9 in the fifth game. Our numbers three and four Capt Hadden-Paton and Ct lnnes-Ker will have left us by the end of November. Sgt Blake our PT] will move to three closely followed by CoH Kennard at four. which leaves a question mark for number five. There are plenty of aspiring players to fill this space and we might even witness a comeback by 50’] Adams who has been plagued with arm trouble so far this year. Squash has become an increasingly popular game. The average age of our team this year was 33. We still need some young talent for next year.
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