With just three days to go I have taken a look back at the journey I’ve been on to get in better shape for my inspireslam charity challenge – a timed race over the highest mountain in the middle of Wales, along the same route the SAS use as part of their selection process. There…
DetailsWhile the arguments for touring with a youth side outweigh the stress often associated with taking young players abroad, touring with your team is none the less both demanding and challenging as a party leader. To aid the process for you, we’ve come up with a few key points we’ve learned across the past 10…
DetailsTaking young players on tour and away from home for a number of nights can be a daunting task! That’s why we have decided to launch our very own resources hub. Resources to help you, the party leader, at every stage of the tour and beyond, tried and tested by us to ensure we are…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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With less than one month to go before the half marathon, Lydia has given us a brief update on the race, training and her expectations. Having run the Cardiff Half Marathon route for a number of years’ now, I am fairly comfortable with the upcoming race. Towards the end of last year, I joined a…
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Inspiresport has joined forces with Snow Sport Wales, to increase participation in snowsports for pupils across Wales. The two-year partnership hopes to engage more young people in the sport and aims to develop the next generation of talented performers in snowsports.There will be several events throughout the year where Welsh schools can get involved, including…
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Inspiresport has agreed a two year partnership with the Dallaglio Foundation, a charity for disadvantaged young people, which includes a commitment to raise 100,000. With UK offices in Cardiff, Manchester and Glasgow, inspiresport organise bespoke school and club tours to iconic sporting destinations around the world. Rugby is one of 5 core sport development tours…
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Part of the funding agreement will include the purchase of the ski centres first ever sit ski which will be available for use from mid-February. The sit ski, designed and made in the USA, allows physically impaired skiers to have full access to ski facilities. Richard Hughes the Manager at the Cardiff Ski Centre said…
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