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Generally consist of a few planks, some rope and the old stereotype: shark infested custard.

Keys to success (for led tasks):

• Ask "has anyone done a task like this before?". Then find out how and did it work?
• Listen to others, then make your decision and act on it
• Appoint a timekeeper
• Don't get involved, stand back so you can command.
• Do not be afraid to change your plan if it's not working.
• Once your team are moving through the obstacle, keep yourself in the middle of the group, so you can influence the front and the rear of the group.
• Give praise to your group members who are doing well, and give encouragement at all times, not in the way which comes across as arrse licking the DS though.
• If possible, write down your instructions and check them with the DS.
• When you slip off the platform and land in the (alleged) minefield, badly spraining your ankle, don't scream like a little girl (personal experience that one)
• When the DS inform you it's a 1,000 mile long river filled with man-eating crocodiles, chuck the token bird into the water. They will then revise it to say "man & woman eating crocodiles" but you will have made them laugh.