![]() ![]() ![]() A five-week mini-camp back home in Wales has seen players pushed to their limits in gruelling fitness tests, left dripping in sweat after leaving it all out on the training pitch. Such an approach is needed, having been given the huge task of turning around fitness levels that Warren Gatland said simply weren't good enough during Wales' dismal Six Nations campaign earlier this year.īennett hasn't held back, either, with his beastings already becoming somewhat legendary. He is as fearless as much as he is ruthless, prepared to put his own body on the line to keep his players in top condition, both mentally and physically. While he may not take to skies this time around, Bennett's willingness to pull such a stunt is quite telling of his approach in his new role as Wales' head of physical performance. READ MORE: Early starts, gruelling sessions and cable cars - Inside Wales' Switzerland World Cup training camp I don't want to replicate what we did then, but we might have something up our sleeve!" The boys were warming up down below and we came paragliding while Mission Impossible was playing. "It was nine days into the camp and I felt like the players needed some kind of pick up, so me and Bobby did it. "I did it up from where we stayed," he explained. The last time Huw Bennett was in Fiesch, Switzerland, he quite literally threw himself into the heart of the action.Īs the former Wales hooker addresses members of the media at the team's World Cup training camp, one of several paragliders occupying the sky above the small valley in the Swiss Alps swoops into view.
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