I’ve watched army KZfaq Channel for years, and your way back when my son started his army application process. This is the only channel I now watch that’s stayed true to giving a balanced and true reflection of what recruit training is really like. It’s an immense aid for getting reliable information when many of the forums and other marketing channels are either full of speculation and misinformation or not up to date, as its probably impractical to do so by an organisation of the size of the British Army. An individual initiative like yours is NB as KZfaq is not far behind Facebook in terms of being the most popular social media platform today. Your channel is a motivational and inspirational platform for new recruits or people considering joining. As a parent, I can say it’s been an incredible way for us and other families to feel connected and get a better idea of what our loved ones are and will experience. So impressed by the level of organisation, quality of the PTI’s and staff. Know making videos is hard work at the best of times, so hats off that you can do this with a full-time job, please keep it going.

This Trainer is dope tho, Fact that he didn’t want to lose the guy who dropped out. AND Good to see these vids back on my screen. 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿

Great encouragement from the Staff + Great effort from the Recruits = Great content 💪🇬🇧

My biggest regret was not joining the regular Army from school and making a career of it, all because I thought I was too good for the Army. Falklands war and Afghanistan has shown them to be consummate professionals, a credit to our country and something to be genuinely proud of. I'm both humbled and embarrassed by my snobbery.

I like how around five minutes or so the bald instructor in the gray PT sweater tells them chins up chest out (excellent advice) they do what he orders and he gives them just a little bit of a reward by telling them that the water break is coming you can see them all just get motivated. Excellent moment caught there Fabziy. I'm not sure you how you got the sound quality so balanced at that part either good work 👊

Getting an option to Heartbrake Hill? I remember the whole troop getting smashed up and down it coz one of the lads had a Mars bar in his webbing pouch 😂

Oh, SUCH SWEET SWEET MEMORIES. 20yrs AGO

Pure, great nostalgia. I remember Heartbreak Hill well. Well done lads, respect and good luck from Le Cateau Troop of 2000

The felling of dread when your handed a hi vis vest lol

Wow ! Heartbreaks still going strong .... I passed out of the ‘Guards Depot’ in 87, and I remember that run very well indeed, a little different to what I see on here, but you never forget the feeling and the SMELL of all that putrid stagnant water lol. (Those who know, KNOW ! 😉)

I didn’t believe the hill was that bad from what I heard until I encountered it during basic training, then i understood why it got its name 🤣😩

Good video thanks Fabziy. Nice to see the staff encouraging the recruits. Water breaks never happened when we were doing our 9 mile speed marches. Different era. One of the morale boosters we found was to keep the troop in step when double time marching. It gives a troop a sense of unity and cohesion instead of just a bunch of guys running. Our staff would call it out at the start of each change from fast march to double march as Left, Right, Left, Left, Right, Left, until we got the rhythm from then on we just counted to ourselves each time our left foot hit the ground. Counting steps is important in night patrolling and this would get the habit ingrained in us. It also worked to unify our troop and get us to work as one unit and allowed us to focus on something else other than the effort, and pain of the old 58 gear rubbing our backs raw. Well done, good effort guys keep it up.

I always like watching your videos as it lets me see what I have got to come in my training

The drizzle must be a blessing

Brings back memories. I can still feel the pain in my shins.

“Back in my day”, total BS; there is only so much the human body can take. If you get an injury, you get an injury. It doesn't matter how strong or fit you are, injury can effect anyone. The South African army used to expect all of its infantry to complete the 1.5 mile in less than 12 minutes whilst wearing their helmet, boots, webbing and carrying a rifle. Funny thing though, half the recruits got stress fractures, ok I exaggerate, but the instances of injury were ridiculous. For a conscript army these injuries can be absorbed, but, for a modern volunteer army you simple can’t get away with the losses. Absolutely no point in breaking recruits before they are even fully trained.

Fabziy, well done. Back on the YT. Well done Si, typical Viking for you in his back yard too. Bless

Cleall troop 96, remember two mongs in the troop getting into a fight about 100 m away from the end of a tab so our pti turned us all around and made us run up and down this hill ,he made the idiots who caused this punishment stand and wave at us as we ran, 1 mong at the top 1 at the bottom

"If its not raining than its not training" 😂 glad staff Illsley was my PTI .... nice video mana 🔥

Excellent content once again Fabziy and good effort troops.

Best British Army training Videos on You Tube, Thanks for posting Fabziy

I like it best when they're doing the log and stretcher race up the same hill, the one between the paras and guards. Top stuff 💪💪

Every recruit that went through pirbright has there own story of heartbreak 🤣🤣🤣 good to see its still in use 🤣🤣🤣

In 1966 I was stationed in Queen Elizabeth Barracks Pirbright as a member of the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards. We would go for a run in Battle Kit weekly & I remember we would have run up this hill. It was a struggle but we all used to make it. We didn't have water break or rest breaks but then we didn't have to do the calesthenics that these recruits had to do.

Brings back memories of me training at pirbight in 97 good old Heart break hill and the seven sisters

Brought a fresh memory when I did all those thing. Prepare well before joining army, you will have no drama.

Lad at the front wishes he chose RAF

The memories! I can feel the burns just by watching this!

I don’t remember being allowed to take my kit off for heart break hill, also remember it 3 to 5 times haha

The staff was amazing!! Encouraging them all the way

I first ran up there in 1972 as a 15 year old junior Guardsman

Staff are moving well considering they, have those burgans full of duvets and pillows on their back.

Heart break hill got nothing on the land of nod now that was a hill 😂😂

First went up heartbreak in 1984. Went up there last Saturday. Called heartbreak for a reason,!

Heartbreak, The Seven Sisters, Figure of 8, all character building!!

@FabZiy ahh heartbreak Hill . good times another great video bro 👊

Inspiring Staff/Leader, showed with his troops performance. Good to see again

I remember doing this back in 2000/2001 with Le-Cateau troop. Brought so many memories back

I ran heartbreak more times than i care to remember, it was one of my cross country and marathon training hills SI CAREY APTC 1970 TO 1986

7:40 looks like that guy on the left needs to piss real bad

Wow this takes me back to my time in pirbright in 99 the heartbreak hill route was a killer as it's not just 1 hill there was around 4 or 5 different hills on the route heartbreak being the killer 1 but dam it got your fitness level up I recall 1 of the hills we used had a recruit die on it it was a bad one it was basically a massive sand berm but it was closed due to the death I then went to deepcut for trade training where recruits were commuting suicide supposedly the staff were bullying recruits I was on the gaurd shift that a female shot herself in the head it was all over the news brings back memories

Guess what mi gonna do now, go for a tab! Motivation up 👊🏾🆙

I literally took out my water bottle from my pouch and poured all the water 💦 over the top of my head. Everyone just stood still staring at me at the bottom of that concrete hill, my troop captain asked "what was that" and I answered "I'm cooling my temperature🌡️ down" and that's what we do in Africa. This was quite emotional story... I will leave it here.

Yeah this video is laid back. When I was at pirbright we had a guy called paddy, he used to smash us at heartbreak hill for full sessions then the circuit ring at camp. The guy loved a good sesh of hill reps and tbh I fkn loved it haha

Now for an actual thrashing. Respirators ON...up the hill GO! :D

They use a different face now than when my training platoon did it in 82 (Guards Depot). We had a sandy face to traverse. Straight up and then the instructors got to play Space Invaders. The recruits were the Invaders and the staff (L/Sgts Remington, Wilson, Thompson et al) threw water bottles to "destroy" the Invaders. I remember this being called Heartbreaker, I guess the name changes as each different intake progresses. The hardest training session was the Bayonet assault course.

I simply cannot wait to join the army. All the way from kenya. I am in love.

Hospital Hill at Shorncliffe was way worse, also Sugar Loaf at Crickhowell back in the day. Both were monsters. Those who know, know!!

Anyone here who's endured this shower of shitttttt 😂🤦‍♂️

Had a female psi on my Senior Brecon - she was the toughest, meanest, hardest but fairest instructor I have ever met - went to her wedding - stunning....

Great video and great instruction. Nice flow. We send guys to Phase 1 (Reserve) every month so really good to see the quality that is delivered. Brilliant.

Everybody can laugh & joke on the internet but go ahead give it a try, all this is no joke & will test you to your limit. Big up fabziy on all the content you make as usual one love 💯💪🏾🔥. - Kingz #RKA -

My troop was up and down there all the time with full kit on till someone did actually have a suspected heart attack. Loved the place and really bonded our troop and got rid of the shit lads.

Very different experience from my time there in 89 when it was the Guards Depot!! (I was in Waterloo 6 Coy) .. ‘Beasting’ is evidently a thing of the past .. which is a good thing. I remember the Sand Hill too… some instructors were sadistic pricks..

What sticks in my mind are the 7 Sisters and remember "it pays to be a winner" 😉

Heartbreak hill always a killer but the lads look like there up for anything!

Keep them videos coming, very informative.......preparing for my phase 1 early next year.✊

Such a gorgeous perspective

Another quality video Fabziy. Great interview with the PTI. Thank you

Phase 1's getting UBACS now?!

These instructors and pti, s are good lads, all ours wanted to do in 1986 was beast us to see how many they could lose, times have changed for the best in that respect.

Done that a few times when I went through Pirbright but was known as the guards depot back then......and there was also the sand Hill another body killer.

Yes, Fabziy, thanks for the much appreciated content. Pls invite me for your award ceremony as I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be recognised for the amazing work you do for Pirbright and the Army overall! Your bosses must see the proof in the comments!

This brings back old memories having done Heartbreak hil a good few times and twice with a small log for one person. Then the next hill Crucfix which was just sand and shallstones this was the hardest of them all and is a killer these i did in the 1980's and it was good fun too :)

Back in my day, Hungry Hill was the beast we feared, go for it fellas!

Loved my training at Pirbright. Good times.

Remember the hills and Seven Sisters. All to well in 89 when pirbright was the home of every Guardsman and home to the household division Septum junca in uno. As all guards know this Latin phrase. As well as their own regiments history. 🇬🇧🇬🇧💂🏼‍♂️💂🏼‍♂️

What a brilliant PTI. Brought back some found memories

I remember when I went through phase one and the PTI's had you terrified lol every sessions. Great videos fabziy

Fast up, slow down and steady on the level 🤘

I remember that place....and getting smashed up and down it for messing about....though I was gonna die...just got super fit

Good video, I remember doing this back in 2013 with Cook Troop.

I remember that hill well, our (Lucknow)troop was smashed on it for what felt forever. Good to see the PTIs platitudes are going strong also💪🏻😀

We had a nightmare one in Osnabruck it had a false crest, normally did it after the 3 sisters trail.

I got Beasted up and down there a few times, also the seven sisters when doing a few days in the guardhouse 🤣. Good Times.

Copral hyssley was a section commander at catterick earlier this year, top bloke

As a 16 year at Pribright in 1974, we didn't have a choice between going up Heartbreak Hill or not it happened and with full kit, and what's with all the repeating of commands? If you had the energy to shout back you wasn't doing it correctly!

Heartbreak Hill - I remember it well 1973 - 1992

Nice to see Jonny vaun Still working

Big up @Fabziy always doing good work💪🖒

I remember doing Sandhill ,Sheep dip, Crucifix, Seven Sisters to name a few. I cannot recall being asked if I fancied a little run up and down the hills. Modern Army for you. Well,at least when they got back to the block they had to bumper the floors and make up bed blocks.

I've got a video of my mate (British CMT) running up this hill Everyone else looks damn miserable, and he runs up with a toothy grin with a spring in his step the jammy bastard

1971-1972 , Welsh Guards Pti ( Bunny Hop Jones ) Now there was one twisted man

Wonder if they started using sand hill again.. up heartbreaker down concrete. Love it.

Lol this takes me back was there in 96, remember the walking part murdered your shins the running murdered your thighs

Haha the fear on the faces when the PTI talks about the pace 🤣. I do not miss that place at all

Isn't that first hill Hospital Hill? I remember that term being thrown around a bit when I was there. Gave me goosebumps watching them go round the route. Plus.. Daysack down before Heartbreak Hill??? We never got that choice! For us it was, 'this is heartbreak hill.. We're going to go up it now. 1 2 3 GO!!!' Good times. Enjoy everyone!!

Well done Troop

Easier than when I went it...... 8 mile speed march in 35 deg heat, no water breaks, and no water, then had to do the huge obstacle course twice at the end of the March, where one bloke fell and broke his back......

I know this hill untimely, and it’s really lives up to its name. I wouldn’t want to be there now.

You wouldn’t want to do this on a warm day... looks intense

I remember as a recruit when Pirbright use to be the Guards Depot running up and down Heart Brake hill (which was Sand then) carrying logs mind you it still looks like a bitch going up and down now.

Oh😢 pets you should have joined RM Commandos it’s only 8 months basic training eg 9 mile speed march and a 30 mile stroll across Dartmoor

Was this the old Guards depot at Brookwood ? If so I did my training there in 75/76, and I remember that sandhill well..Especially when done in No2 dress uniform as punishment..

My memory of Pirbright was the dreaded Sandhill

Such a great video this, well made

Thank you Mr. Fabziy

March 98 was there. One of the Sgts from another platoon blew his brains out whilst we were on exercise

Is this RM or P Company?

Why are there always swine who dislike good, informative and educational videos!