Mountain Biking with Kings College CCF

Today I was out on the Quantocks delivering Mountain Biking to the Royal Marines section of the Kings College CCF as part of their field day.

The sun was shining and the trails dusty, Perfect!

We ran two sessions with 6 cadets in each session, I also had the assistance of two upper sixth form students who are keen mountain bikers and looking to complete their trail cycle leader award.

We looked at ascending, descending, braking, gear selection and slow speed cycling as well as getting in a few miles across the northern commons.

Archery at Kings College

Back at King's College, Taunton this afternoon working with the Royal Marines section of their Combined Cadet Forces. 

As the 6th form and the year 11's are on study leave I was left with the year  10's which I decided to do some archery with. The students got to grips with it quickly and as you can see by the last image were hitting the centre of the target regularly.

I was also given a quick mini-bus familiarisation test in the King's buses today ready to take some students canoeing off site after half term.

Intro to Power-kiting with Kings College, Taunton - CCF Royal Marines section

I was back at Kings College, Taunton today after a two week break due to the bank holiday weekend and once again working with the Royal Marines section of their combined cadet force.

I have been brought in to offer some alternative activities as part their adventure training programme.

Today I ran an introduction to Power-kiting, teaching the basics of set up and set down, basic flying with 2 and 4 line ram air kites and a bit of theory around the wind window.

We started by discussing the wind window, wind direction and strength and quickly moved on to the students flying some small 1.4m 2 line kites. It took a little while to get used to the techniques but once mastered we moved onto some 1.2m 4 line kites where the students managed to fly the kites in smooth figure 8 cycles and some even had a go at using the brakes to turn the kite.

If the weather conditions are right in a few weeks time I aim to let them loose with a range of 4 line kites from 1.8m - 3.8m.