Fatboy Slim joins Albion players to learn CPR at Amex Stadium
It's part of a new campaign between the team and Kent Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance to help more of us learn lifesaving skills
DJ Fatboy Slim has joined Brighton and Hove Albion players in learning CPR to encourage more of us to practice lifesaving techniques.
A new partnership between the club and the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance hopes to cut heart attack related deaths across the South East through free to access online and in-person sessions.
It comes as figures from the charity show that twenty four people have heart attacks across the region - yet only one in ten survive.
Fatboy Slim - or Norman Cook - said learning CPR was "much easier than he thought":
"It feels like a weird responsibility to take on to say 'I know how to do this' - and it feels like it's going to be a weird thing to do, physically.
"I think it's something a lot of us would shy away from.
"But having committed myself to doing it, I feel empowered that I now know how to do it - it's actually really easy."
Defender Joel Veltman also practiced defibrillation on a mannequin, which he said left him feeling confident "to do CPR and hopefully save a life."
"You hope never to do it, but it could be needed in your close circle, it could be in the stands, it could be everywhere."
Helping to guide them through the techniques was paramedic Lara Hammond, who says survival chances double with early CPR or a shock from a defibrillator.
She added that when she has been called out to an incident and been told "this patient's had CPR from a family member", she "immediately thinks this person's going to have an increased chance of survival."
"I kind of know everything they could have done for them has been done already, you're already thinking this patient's really got a chance.
"It's difficult if you know someone's collapsed somewhere and there's a number of people around and unfortunately no one felt confident enough or able to do CPR for them."
We're being encouraged to join the sessions in the lead up to Restart a Heart Day on the 16th of October.