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How SEALS training tests even Olympians

submitted by SFOGuy

8 years 4 months 1 week ago

This is the 2008 Olympic Silver Medalist US Men's Water Polo Team that went on to win the Silver Medal in Beijing. Hard not to think of them as competitive and fit.

In this video, they spend PART of a day (Dec 2007)---I think maybe a total of 3:30 with 1:33 in the water --at the SEALS San Diego (Coronado Island) training base to work on team work and test their conditioning and commitment on a December day.

The water temp was 52 degrees; the air temp 58 degrees. Part of one day. Olympic class athletes who medaled.

If you watch (yes, it's long, but I was sort mesmerized by how difficult it was), it's hard not to draw the conclusion that by the time the survivors of the 90 day BUDS course graduate as SEALS, they must have been selected down to men who don't resemble anyone that I know. As athletes or warriors.

And good grief. Assuming that SEALS training is this nuts; what, pray tell, is Spetnatz training like? Given the Russian national character and presumption that multiple deaths in training would be acceptable?

BTW, edited to include NSFW because of drill instructor encouragement at one point.