AEE: Selection Series Australia

The Battle for the Golden Road Series Joining Instructions dispatched to all veterans of the Fan Dance Aus Edition.
Train hard pilgrims

Battle for the Golden Road Virtual Series launching for Australia & USA soon
Here's a taster of Cycle 2 of Test lll

Our 2018 event dates & locations will soon be announced.

At the deepend will be a SEAL & SBS Selection and training event staged in Queensland with 6, 12 and 24 hour plus residential elite option

The event will be land and water based (closed and open) with a range of DS led training serials, physical evolutions and testing.

Although the DS team strive to give only limited information on the course content as soon as the event registration opens we will be sharing training advice/programs and top tips for arriving in good condition and making the grade

''The Only Easy Day was Yesterday''
By Strength & Guile''

This is what our Aus SAS 20 Clicker looked like in the UK.
Recon required for equally stunning terrain down under

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The SAS 75th Raid Anniversary and inaugural AEE & SF Fit joint special edition event series

Thanks to all who supported this incredible event and helped make our vision become reality. These images belong to you.

The next Special Edition event is already being talked about and will have to be something pretty extraordinary to live up to the 20 Clicker, Fortunately, we're motivated and inspired and the next challenge is already looking nasty and spectacular

We'll privately email out the high res picture files in due course. There's a follow up file to come so watch this space

Congractulations to you all and we hope that what was a first visit to the Green Desert of Elan Valley and our AEE HQ for most of you was a memorable one.
DS Stu is formulating a few interesting adjustment to the 20 Clicker route and we promise to do it all again in the not too distant future

March timings to be emailed and published later today

Enjoy and thanks on behalf of Gaz, Stu, Steve, Bryn and Lee to you all for making the 20 Clicker happen and giving the team an excuse to spend the weekend in the hills

Results and timings soon to be published. These have deliberately been delayed so that you can reflect upon and absorb the memories of your experience rather than concern yourself with placings and who you did and didn't beat. Nobody ever beat or won Selection!
The team are working hard on the SEAL and 20 Clicker tests as well as their respective patches.
Standby

Fan Dance Australia Inaugural Edition event images.

Thank you Hannaleese for these blockbusting captures

Fan Dance 2017 Photo collection by Brink of Photography

AEE post event update: P1 is to de-service all clothing & equipment stores. Event timings and finisher's patch photos to be released tomorrow. The route photographer (Hannalise Paris) who captured the mountain action will also be uploading images in due course.

Following paper work assessment and investigation we'd like to offer our congratulations to Leanne Doroszuk who today learned that she is the Fan Dance Clean Fatigue Main Field champion. One of the AEE DS will be making a visit to her police station to make a personal prize presentation.

Standby for further announcements.

WDW

Today was the end date for categroy changes from Load Bearing to Clean Fatigue and vice versa. Mountain log sheets and registration pages have gone to print.
A few of you have sneaked in and edited the spreadsheet to confirm attendance after the established deadline of 30th August. This means your post march hog roast and tee shirt are no longer. First piece of advice we gave everyone: Admin is not a place in China.
The Fan Dance is not a fun run where you can crack on with your own routine. Be on top of your drills and be where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to be. Don't give the DS any stories as they're not interested and simply won't entertain them. The team are past masters at this game and have heard every excuse in the book.
See you at the FOB for rego, bergen weigh in/kit check,a heavy duty meal and cold drinks followed by a talk. Then it's action stations for Ozzy's ball tearer and time to earn that patch.

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Who Dares Wins
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Fan Dance water carrying requirments

Load Bearing: 4 litres in addition to official weight. To be confirmed.
Weights are set at 25lb & 35lb

Clean Fatigue: 3 litres of water

Water and food to be consumed on the march is not a part of your weight

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Bavard Bar - 06/07/2017 - Matt Shore - 'A right old dance' Matt describes his epic endurance adventure on Pen Y Fan in the Brecon Beacons of Wales

If the hat fits wear it..
We've always maintained that your greatest challenge is getting to the start line and already that looks to be defeating a sizeable chunk of the Fan Dance field. There's some solid and convincing reasons for withdrawal out there but there's others that clearly fall into the field of excuse making owed to not having done the required training and an extension of that; lack of backbone.
Multiple emails, text messages and phone calls have been sent out to those missing in action requesting that you fill in the spreadsheet, still to be met with no response but finding time and energy to post on social media. Tomorrow is the deadline after which you'll get no tee shirt or hog roast as we hit our order deadline In a further 4 days our mountain safety log sheets go to print, which means you are no longer a part of the inaugural Fan Dance Australia.
Excuses will always be there for you in life, opportunities won't.
The Fan Dance is a Green On and soon to be unleashed.