Challenge the Chief - 03-10-2010
This October, Chief Scout, Bear Grylls will be coming to Kent. You’ve seen him on TV, you’ve read about him in the papers, now it’s your chance to really put him under pressure.
Registration has now closed - the booking contacts should have now received an email with joining instructions for the event.
Confirmed challenges
- To fold away a Decathlon pop up tent.
- Tie a 'Monkey's Fist' with one hand!
- Identify three different kinds of wood by smell
- To wear a Kent Network fleece!
- Fly our biggest 8.5 square metre monster POWER KITE without falling over (too much!)
- Can Bear write his name using his left foot?
- Tie the six basic Scouts knots (reef, clove, sheet bend, sheep shank,round turn and 2 half hitches, bowline) wearing ski mittens
- Explorers, timed at lighting some straw from a single spark on some char. Beat Bear Grills time.
- Say the Scout promise with a mouthful of ice cubes
- Tower of Hanoi
- Pitch a Decathlon type tent with roll mat and sleeping bag and get in.
- Can bear grylls put on a frozen t-shirt in 30 secs?
- Can the Chief balance 16 4inch nails on the head of just one?
- Consume a tea bag in under 30 seconds
- Given a list of map co-ordinates, how many can he find in the time
- Can Bear get through a 6-8 ft sellotape wall using only his hands and a potato peeler?
- Do a handstand for ten seconds
- Do a mini gymnastics display (handstand, cartwheel and forward roll)
- How many knots can you tie in spaghetti
- Light a fire with flint & steel
- Do a square lashing in 30 secs
- Assemble giant nuts and bolts...while blindfolded
- Put the Scout Laws in the correct order
- How many water balloons can you juggle (or just hold in two hands)?
- Sharpen a knife
- Scylax drink
- Stack Plastic cups 1 on 1 to over 1m in 30 secs
more events...
10th February - Winter Survival 2012