That’s particularly good if you are working towards Quals and going out with friends who have higher Quals than you do as the cross reference will be looked at when you go on your course/assessment. (As long as the people you are mates with don’t have a poor reputation).
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New ACATIs 008 & 009 gone live today - Currency, competency & field assessment.
Personally I think they are a good baseline to work with going forward.
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I’ve had a read of both. Looks good. One thing stuck out in ACATI 9 though:
Are they aware of their capabilities and can they fulfil their leadership responsibilities within their physical limitations whilst also being able to manage their emotions and arousal levels appropriately?
My bold.
What. There are other issues at play if this is stopping someone instructing!
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That is very. very funny and will give me something else to try and look for when doing things.
Cadet activities haven’t had that effect on me since I was a cadet and girls first joined.
Educational answer - it’s coaching terminology. Arousal in the coaching sphere is to do with the amount of physical and psychological activation, between essentially sleep and ultimate excitement.
Essentially - if the instructor is having an exciting day, the chances are the group is terrified.
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Difficult in wales where you can only do exercise from your front door. Thought the rules were the same for the rest of the home nations?
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Depending on where you lived in Wales, this could still be possible (just) 
But no, Wales has the strictest rules - the other nations are more relaxed about travelling for exercise
Very jealous of the people I work with who live in Talgarth. Logging into Strava and seeing what they’ve been up to makes me very grumpy.
I know people who live in Llanfairfechan - they can walk to the beach from their front door, and up to the Carneddau from their back door, and folk who live in Llanberis can do some flat water stuff on Padarn and got the Snowdonia range to play in too
I know somebody who lives in Cardiff… He tries not to leave his house.
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Could be worse, it could be Swansea
On the weekend i walked to swansea. Then i walked home.
is this the welsh remake of I’m gonna be by the proclaimers?
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How dare you slander the finest city in the land!
And on St David’s Day of all days!
Quick question, CPD for AT - did this come in as an actual thing?
If so, is there a list of what counts towards CPD?
Sorry, I really should look on Bader but doing this between work stuff and Bader isn’t the easiest to navigate and well, ACC always returns better results 
My new Wing has asked for CPD in last two years for me to go on AT Register, I’ve done some online stuff but wondered how much that would count for and what else might be considered.
ACATI 008 is the document you need.
20 days over 5 years of doing the activity, in which you hold a coaching or leadership award including both personal and group leadership.
2 CPD units from training/other stuff. There is a list on the annex which details suggestions of what you could count but it says the list isn’t exhaustive and you can ask for something specific if you think it should count.
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This did come in January, so not sure if Wings should be backdating the CPD request, though.
I have challenged the need for CPD, as some NGB’s say “should do” and we are turning that into a “must” do CPD. Especially as there will be costs incurred, that may be substantial.
Consider, that you may have to travel for a course, accommodation, food, cost of the course, you could be looking at hundreds of pounds. The reply I got was that Wing’s might consider the cost of travel and that we could use our VA, but nothing else.
There also certain qualification like Powerboat Level 2 that don’t have any recognised CPD.
In our Region we were required to request peoples CPD but we could sign off for this year if they didn’t have it. (So as a wake up call that they must look to it this year).
The thing to remember is that the 20 days activity and 2 units of CPD is spread over all of your qualifications, so you need that in total, not per activity type.
The activity bit I’ve nailed with bells on. The CPD element is something I’m going to have to properly look into and I think it is time to have a serious look into what Quals I am going to keep current and continue with in the RAFAC world as to maintain everything is now becoming too time consuming, if I want a life outside too.
Just out of interest, what is everyone using / looking at doing to maintain mountain biking & hill-walking quals in terms of CPD?
It doesn’t have to be expensive or laborious; the list includes these “potentials”;
- Researching and presenting a lecture, magazine article or webinar on a new AT related topic. ½ Unit. 1 Unit max per 5 years.
- NNAS Tutor Training course 1 unit
- Online coaching courses 1-2 units eg. Open University. Coaching others to coach or exploring sport coaching and psychology (FREE… but only doable once… but take about 45mins to do)
- Observing/assisting an NGB training or assessment course. 1 Unit
- Web-based training module ½ Unit eg. Mountain Training
- NGB CPD Workshop - 1 ( full day); ½ (half day)
But this is the RAFAC’s potential list - there may be other ways of accruing it. The BC list includes being mentored, Supervised practice or Coaching observations in different environments. I’m fairly sure one of the original articles about it said running rivers you’ve not run before, then documenting the process of research, running it, risk assessment of it and learning points for others. I’m sure this could equally be applied to Mountain Biking.
For trekking, I’ve done a few MTA workshops over the last few years - delivered locally to me, covering an area of personal interest, and cheap (£5 plus a beer for the tutor). I did a more expensive workshop with them (£20) which was a full day at some posh public school - but included a free lunch… and elevenses. And afternoon tea. And some of the content was equally relevant to MB, Climbing, Caving or Paddlesport - it was all about decision making.
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