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bergbryce
Mountain climber
Oakland -> SLT
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My sis is married to a retired one and there are others in the family.
The quintessential seal is wirey, lean and an endurance freak. Those burdened with excess muscle mass have a harder time surviving buds. Think cross country runner and not power lifter.
I've heard lots of great stories. Those guys are the real deal and even if they don't crush on the stone they can do a lot more and do it well as we've just seen. Hardy bunch indeed.
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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^ ^ ^
Hmmm, I don't know about the the above (bergbryce's post, not Locker's).
The retired ones I've seen on the news in the past few days always seem heavyset (to use the polite term). A little fat may help them survive the cold water swims.
Seems like it would be useful to have a collection of SEALs having different body types depending on the mission--high level endurance athletes are incredible at what they do, but I don't see most of them as fighter types. They don't have much muscle, especially upper body.
Who would win in a fistfight--marathoner or sprinter? Even if they're armed, I would expect sprinter to have the advantage due to fast twitch muscles.
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Crillz
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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No need for a fistfight if they just sneak up behind and stab 'em.
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Papillon Rendre
Social climber
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They're in a league of their own, that's for sure.
I read somewhere that a high percentage of these individuals played both water polo and lacrosse in school.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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I have had a few ex SEALS come through my station during their probation period trying to get on the fire department. The ones who really were SEAL's never brag or talk about what they saw or did, they were quiet and and very respectful to everyone.
I also ran across a few rookies who said they were SEAL's but turned out they were not, they were a couple of the most prideful, loudmouthed, arrogant SOB's. The direct opposite of what the real SEAL's were like.
My hats of and respect to the SEALs.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Navy SEALs are normally pretty beefed up dudes.
Cheers to my buddy Louis and a job well done.
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Conrad
climber
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Back in the day i helped Jay Smith with his guiding program. We would go climbing with Dano, Gerberding and a bunch of tough, multi discipline soldiers.
Best story was ice climbing in Rifle. Rule was no leading so they all started soloing. After three days
Wheelbarrow worthy.
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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A toast to started it all, no slack Colonial, you can sleep in peace now. Can’t say you failed on this one. Honour to have known you. 2nd/327 Charlie Company: No Fu#king slack
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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lostinshanghai, that's proud. Kudos to the 101st too!
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Trained in violence and killing.
Ideal human beings.
More like ideal warriors trained to defend us from them...
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marv
Mountain climber
Bay Area
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headshot
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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They are trained in much more than violence.
Many are medics.
Many are multilingual.
Many have highly technical skills.
All this talk over "Geronimo" is silly.
Geronimo killed a lot of terrorists.
(He actually hated the mexicans the most since they killed most of his family in 1858.)
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bergbryce
Mountain climber
Oakland -> SLT
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Okay, sitting next to a former SEAL right now (in VA Beach)... Says the huge guys usually didn't last the initial training. Some who made it through decided to bulk up after getting in. Hand to hand combat was more of an emphasis for some teams than others but not really a big emphasis.
Just told me about the 12 nautical mile swim using this "side crawl" stroke, said that was about the toughest thing he had to do.
Edited to add...
Just told me there is a lead climbing school that not all SEALs attend. The goal is for each platoon to have at least one person who could lead a climb. Some of the guys who attend do have some climbing experience, others have none and want to get a "qual". The instructors are experienced climbers. One of his buddies had a very humbling experience on an lengthy unprotected traverse.
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dipper
climber
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Some other seals to appreciate as well...
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WBraun
climber
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In the survival of the fittest the Navy Seal came in last place.
The climbers kicked their asses every time .....
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marv
Mountain climber
Bay Area
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SEALs versus Predator versus Alien -- I would pay to see that
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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In the survival of the fittest the Navy Seal came in last place.
The climbers kicked their asses every time ....
If you mean in that crazy proto-reality TV show from the early 80s, I'll take your word for it, I'm sure you'd know.
But if you mean in the real survival of the fittest, the SEALs would kick climbers' asses bad (except for Weld-It)!
Edit--are you sure it was even a real SEAL in the competition--my theory is that virtually everyone who goes around saying they are a SEAL is lying, so we don't even know who the real SEALs are. They're like Jedi/Lord of the Rings guys.
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WBraun
climber
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blahblah blahblahblahblahblahblah blahblah blahblah blahblah blahblah
That's all you know .....
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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There are so many claiming to be ex SEALs that at one time there was an organization that ran a web site called identiSEAL. It is no longer functioning, but an other site has picked up the slack.
http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies.htm
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