Remember Colonel Hathi from Junglebook? Remember the scene where he lines up his troops and asks for volunteers for a ‘special mission’ – to take one step forward? Every member of his gang of course, hurriedly takes one step back! And why am I alluding to this? Well, if there…
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‘Cross country runs’ and ‘hell’ are surely synonyms
This post is dedicated to our dear departed course-mate, the ever smiling, ever positive, Joginder Chandna. Chandna was born to run and was, to my amazement, happiest when participating in Marathons, burning up the miles with his graceful and fluid running strides. May his soul rest in eternal peace. My…
Dishoom Dishoom
As I have mentioned in some previous posts, the National Defence Academy lays considerable emphasis on physical fitness. This emphasis sees the Academy organising a large number of activities such as PT, swimming, drill, troop games, etc. This post relates to Boxing. Boxing is introduced in the first term itself…
You think jumping is easy? Think again!!
I had made a passing mention of jumping from the 7 m boardinto a swimming pool inan earlier post here. Well, this post aims to delve deeper into this lifealtering experience at the National Defence Academy (NDA).To recap – The swimming test at NDA has two phases; swimming50 m and…
Swimming in infinitely fun. Learning to do so, infinitely painful!
If one is looking for logic, the Armed Forces is not the place to seek it. Take for example, the system of privileges that seniority bestows. Within the Squadrons (hostels) at the National Defence Academy (NDA), there are marked (some would say silly) differences in how one dresses, even in…
The exquisite joys, sorrows and pains of Horse Riding decoded
Training at the National Defence Academy has quite a large percentage of time devoted to the physical. This includes PT, swimming, drill, cross country, boxing, various troop games and (strangely) horse riding. One would expect, extrapolating from the movies, that horse riding is great fun –starting with hearty ‘yee haw’,…
How to book a Hockey field at NDA!
My magnificent alma mater, the National Defence Academy (NDA) paid considerable emphasis on sports. It goes without saying that the sporting infrastructure was top class and ample. To take hockey as an example, there were some dozen odd fields. But as with anything else in life, while they were all…