Our staff were kindly invited to the launch of the sit-ski at Cardiff Snow Centre last month. As part of our ongoing commitment to developing youth sports, we had the pleasure of sponsoring the new sit-ski, giving assisted access to the slope. As our head of UK Operations and National Ski Manager headed to the…
St Georges Park – The 105m home of England’s 24 National teams opened in 2012 and has since hosted the England rugby league squad, Montserrat national football team, ECB coaching conference, key partners of ours FC Porto, and even Barcelona CF. After a short team meeting discussing the coming summer term and events that are planned in the diary, a quick change of clothing was needed as we made our way outside to the activity centre.
The activity centre opened in the summer of 2014 and has hosted a number of high profile teams at the centre, including England Women’s team! Tackling 2 activities in our teams, we went from suspended heights to studying our foot patterns, before jumping into the hydrotherapy pool at the Perform Spire centre on site.
Going through a standardised warm up in the main pool, the group of volunteers were then asked to spend 12 minutes alternating between the cold (9’C) pool and the hot jacuzzi. We were even given the opportunity to run on the under water tread mill, used to analyse the foot strike and help identify injury.
Watch our video from the day here…
Yet again, with your help, we have managed to operate our highest number of tours ever across March and into April! A huge thanks goes to our party leaders for their commitment to taking their players on tour, to parents for financially supporting your children to go and to the players for their good behaviour…