Sport and Adventure

As a Welsh Guardsman you will regularly be able to be play almost any sport you choose at any level.

Playing sport and going on adventurous training trips such as skydiving in Arizona are a vital part of life in the Welsh Guards. Sport and adventurous training help team-building, test and develop people's courage and, just as importantly, are good fun.

The Battalion currently has a strong rugby team as well as football, boxing, athletics, skiing teams.

Thousands of pounds are spent by the Battalion each year sending Guardsmen on adventurous training expeditions. Recently, our soldiers have gone scuba diving in the Bahamas, skydiving in America, skiing in the French Alps and sailing around the world. These expeditions increase the confidence and talents of all those involved and thereby make them better and more professional soldiers for operations.

The most recent adventurous expedition was Exercise Iron Guardsman. This was initiated as a challenging way of returning from Operations in Bosnia, and involved bicycling from Bosnia to Calais, Kayaking across the channel, and then running from Dover to Wellington Barracks in London, which all took 31 days.