Ok Clarification time.
At NO POINT during the course did anyone get a 'beasting' you are pushed to see what your comfort zone is but never beyond it.
4 days of long class time, kit set up, dry practice runs and the dives is demanding both physically and mentally but I knew that before I went into it, there's enough infromation on the GUE web site and from your potential instructor to get a good idea of what you are going to experience, just ring anyone of them and they'll give their time up to help you FOC.
As to back slapping - fair comment we see things in our own way and from our own experiences, as far as I'm concerned if I want to say thanks for a great course, I'm going to say it publicly as well as privately, if you don't like it - deal with it, I don't care (no offence intended)
As for being a 'chunky monkey', that may be true but at least I can work on it - I was going to say something rude and heightist but your my pal so I won't (git)
