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  • Special Forces Ultimate Hell Week – Anyone Been Watching It?
  • wanmankylung
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    I’ve found it quite entertaining in that it’s amazing how little self awareness some people have. Fair old collection of total knobbers on it.

    moose
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    Watched one episode out of idle curiosity. Apart from the entertaining reference, I agree wholeheartedly with your synopsis. 😀

    Ferris-Beuller
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    I’m not too certain as to whether it’s true ‘special forces’ training. Seems like standard soldering fitness……

    Some top clowns on there though.

    Drac
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    Watched last night’s it wasn’t bad. The Russian guy seemed like he would have interesting stories to tell.

    wanmankylung
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    That Russian guy was brilliant. I thought that he just saw right through the BS and got rid of the people he would never want to go into battle with. Plus, he like a vodka.

    MoreCashThanDash
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    Just watching last nights with my lad. Really interesting mix of trainers. Some interesting backgrounds I would imagine.

    bikebouy
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    Fair old collection of total knobbers on it.

    b’out right for dat kinda prog, dontcha fink ?

    wanmankylung
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    b’out right for dat kinda prog, dontcha fink ?

    I find it interesting that very few, if any, of the total knobbers have got to the final.

    MoreCashThanDash
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    My lad has just asked why the SAS have been kept till last, and were they “Extra Special” Forces?

    Found a clip of the ending of the Iranian Embassy siege on You Tube, and explained that this was central London, one Sunday evening on live TV in the early 80s.

    He was like – as the young people like to say these days – OMG!WTF!

    Anyone recommend a decent – not overly dramatic – book about the siege – think he’d enjoy it!

    wrecker
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    If he’s not too young, soldier I is a very good book. Covers a good bit including the siege, written by one of the assault team.

    MoreCashThanDash
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    He’s 12 – not a wannabe soldier type, but really interested in how things get done behind the scenes in all manner of situations.

    IanMunro
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    Parish lives just round the corner from me. It was nice to see the Spetsnaz guy saying he didn’t really want to boot him off but didn’t have a choice, and the proceed to explain to the rest that they were being dumped for basically being knobs 🙂

    beaker
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    I read this book on Spetsnaz many years ago link and I saw elements of it last night…. The blood and entrails and the race at the end following the arrows.

    Ninja edit…. Also explains in chapter one why the carried those little entrenching tools with them at all times on the program.

    wrecker
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    It’s not sensationalist, but it is “gritty” and detailed. He might find it a bit slow. Also deals with mental issues (although with a soft-ish touch). It ain’t hollywood.

    jimmy
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    I’ve been watching it, I like these programs to think how I’d fare. Then I bonked 5 mins into my stay commute home today and had to eat a sandwich, coke, chocolate bar… And a bag of chips! Worst ever blow-up, I wouldn’t have finished day 1

    B.A.Nana
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    This is a great story for your son to watch, not modern day SAS, but one story of their origation.
    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXusKM5uX0s[/video]

    kilo
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    watched it a couple of times mrs likes it I found it a bit tedious, lots of carrying heavy things maybe just get a wheelbarrow or something like that.

    This series is a good one, I don’t think they count as SF but it does show Special Forces Ultimate Hell Week up as just toss

    Behind the Lines – 1. Fain Would I Climb First transmitted in 1985, this series follows the progress of 25 prospective members of the Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre (MAWC), a specialist unit of the Royal Marines.

    fionap
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    Ninja edit…. Also explains in chapter one why the carried those little entrenching tools with them at all times on the program

    So why is that? In case they need a dump and have to bury it?

    kingkongsfinger
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    The toughest part of the challenge is the lack of sleep over the week, everything else looks a little tame, bog standard stuff.

    big_n_daft
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    Ninja edit…. Also explains in chapter one why the carried those little entrenching tools with them at all times on the program.

    you wouldn’t want to dig in on concrete hill with those spades

    FuzzyWuzzy
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    The trouble with these sort of programs is you never get a true sense of things, it’s one thing watching people sat shivering in the sea for a few minutes and to be told by the narrator they’ve been there hours but you don’t really comprehend how tough actually doing it for hours (when exhausted, sleep deprived etc. etc.) actually is. I did smile though when the women who’s never quit anything went in the first (or was it second) episode?

    thegreatape
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    I only saw the Spetsnaz episode, but I did chuckle at that ordinary bloke muttering ‘Copy that? Dick…’ when that other dude replied ‘Copy that’ instead of ‘OK’

    Drac
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    The toughest part of the challenge is the lack of sleep over the week, everything else looks a little tame, bog standard stuff.

    Swooooon!

    IanMunro
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    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5h8CYfGppc[/video]

    scu98rkr
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    have u watched all the episodes ?

    I’d say the people who made it to the last episode are all pretty tough.
    It was nt easy.

    Arguably the challenges have got easier as it went on.

    Now of the episodes have been too aerobically tough, although they was alot of carrying.

    But the first episode (with the nazy seals) just had them jumping in and out of cold water tanks at night, then sitting in the sea etc

    I know I could nt have done that, I’ve always found it you get wet and cold its very difficult to get your self going again no matter how fit + strong ur feeling.

    scu98rkr
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    in some ways I think the Russian episode maybe was a bit of a “rest” before the final challenge.

    Ewan
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    If that spetnaz book is the same one I read many years ago, the entrenching tools are razor sharp and they’re good at throwing.

    Can’t recall if it was the book with the horrific bit about afghanistain and splits in trees.

    Rockape63
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    The toughest part of the challenge is the lack of sleep over the week, everything else looks a little tame, bog standard stuff.

    That’s the point, they run you down, they don’t feed you, they make you cold…..and then standard stuff becomes very non standard stuff! Of course this is very difficult to get across to the average civvy who thinks that pushing themselves, is going for a five mile run!

    I haven’t seen the latest episode yet, but think the group that got through the first test in the cold water/lack of sleep would be extremely ‘strong’ individuals. VERY tough test!

    Teetosugars
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    going for a five mile run!

    Like these ‘special forces’ 😆

    NSFW…

    [video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nO9CbsiWqzQ[/video]

    Drac
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    Oooh! That’s near Quickening Cote.

    wrecker
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    That’s the point, they run you down, they don’t feed you, they make you cold

    I think KKF knows this pretty well, from memory he was a fellow student of CTCRM, so he probably knows it a fair bit better than you do!!!!

    g5604
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    The lass with the ginger hair is super tough, carrying half her body weight up hills etc..

    darthshearer
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    Miller she’s called, I think she has won one of the Tougher Mudder events about 6 times, right little hard nut.

    I’ve enjoyed it, been a good laugh.

    pondo
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    The two women have been fantastic, if I was wearing a hat I’d take it off to them – in fact I’d take it off to all the finalists, plus Parish and Hunter. I think they’ve done quite a good job of portraying how the contestants have been getting more and more worn down, insofar as it’s possible to portray something that I’d imagine you’d really have to experience yourself in order to grasp just how blinkin horrendous it is. And Flintoff has actually been half-decent, IMHO. That first guy out, what a div – glad to see the back of him.

    dannyh
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    Miller she’s called, I think she has won one of the Tougher Mudder events about 6 times, right little hard nut.

    Yep – she is as hard as nails (and a bit of a turn-on as a result)……. Ooops, I said it.

    Rockape63
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    Lol at the 5 miles……WTF! BTW, my comment was not aimed at the person who made the bog standard comment, it was an attempt to explain that it is probably a lot tougher than it appears!

    Loving the forces humour tho!

    CheesybeanZ
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    The final is about to start.

    kingkongsfinger
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    What a flaccid, weak, wet ending to a series.

    They should have least simulated the siege on the Iranian Embassy with live rounds and mortars and blown something massive up.

    And a bird lady won, I would have never guessed.

    davetrave
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    Of course this is very difficult to get across to the average civvy who thinks that pushing themselves, is going for a five mile run!

    When they could, of course, go try the infamous “5 miler of death” that’d allow them to go “toe to toe with the Paras and the Marines”… 😆 😉

    Bet Scouse Taylor’s never lived that down…

    firestarter
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    Haha that speech was brilliant dave 🙂

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