Lance Cummings, a Navy SEAL coach, breaks down military pentathlon training: obstacle courses, pool races in coveralls, rope climbing, and rowing. These events prepare soldiers for real field work like orienteering, swimming, and grenade-throwing.
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I think I've seen this video you're talking about it. It went viral on Facebook because these guys were flying through this course so fast. Is that the one?
Yeah. Well, you're coming off of about a 30 foot rope ladder from the top, you know, landing in pea gravel. But you don't want to spend any time coming down the ladder. So you just jump off the top of it.
Yeah, yeah. No. The speed with which these guys go through the course, and I'll put a link to it in the show notes for those of you who want to watch, because it is pretty nuts. It puts to shame, like the best Spartan sprint athletes I've seen competing. It's pretty amazing. So pentathlon, you got an obstacle race for naval pentathlon. At least you've got an obstacle race. And then you have a swimming race.
Yeah, you have two swimming races.
What are the differences between the two swimming races?
Well, for one you would have fins on and for the other you wouldn't. And there's actually an obstacle course in the pool that you're going over and under while you're doing a race. And by the way, you've got a set of coveralls on while you're doing it as well. So of course, when you're doing that, it starts leveling the playing field out a lot because you can't just come in and be a great swimmer, which we've had some people do. But, you know, when you look at the, the military pentathlon, all the events are, you're looking at what would a great courier be or something. What would they have to do in order to get a message through? They might have to swim, they might have to run and orienteer themselves from one place to the next and throw grenades and judge distances for accuracy. So all those things come into play for the military pentathlon and they make you a better soldier, they make you a better field operator by going through those events and going to those competitions.
Now, do they have anything like this for civilians? Like a pentathlon? That's very similar to something like, I mean, this one that you described that the navy does, like the obstacle race, then the swimming and then the seamanship part of that. That's rowing, correct?
That's rowing, yeah. But you climb a pole and put some pegs into the pole first and then you haul a big 3 inch hauler rope up onto the deck and tie a couple of knots on it. Then you take off on a rowboat and going in and out of this course, Sam.
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