Forest Adventure Grand Course

Good morning to you blog,

I attended Forest Adventure Grand Course in Bedok Reservoir with my Young NTUC friends yesterday. Made new friends and was surprised that more ladies than guys attended the course. Look like the ladies are not afraid of trying out new things and guys are getting wimpy by the minute. Total of 4 guys attended the course compared to 12 ladies.

There was safety briefing conducted by the instructor before we set off for the course. The instructor briefed us that there were four sites to be completed. Each site will end off with a zipline which is actually flying fox. I looked around and realised that there are a lot of Caucasians bringing their kids for the course and having a mini picnic over there.

Site one is mostly like swinging to the net ala Tarzan and move to the platform for the first zipline. It ends off with the zipline to go to site two

Site two is where we need to make crucial decision. It is either we take the easier but longer route or harder but shorter route. Needless to say that I choose the latter as I wanted to take the harder route to challenge myself. The challenge is that you need to jump on the balancing logs with two supporting branches. It is energy consuming as you need to balance yourself before you jump to another log. After 20 minutes of balancing and jumping to logs, it ends off with the 220 m of zipline to go to site three.

Site three is the one where you need to complete a series of obstacles courses. It is easier than site two and we just need to complete one obstacle after the other. One of the obstacles is commando crawl where you need to crawl inside the obstacle and it ends off with a zipline to site four.

I was surprised to find an instructor for site four as the other three sites had no instructor at all. So I started on the site four and got confused on whether I should continue or just stand on the platform. The instructor guided me to say that I need to stand on the platform and will climb on a wooden pole. Practically, I needed to dig my toe in to climb higher. Then, I went for swinging to the net ala Tarzan but this time it is more frightening and I screamed as I never expected the difficulty level. By this time, I felt really tired but very energetic when I saw the final zipline to zip through the finishing line.

I felt happy that I completed the whole course as I love experiential learning rather than textbook learning.

We shall meet again blog :)