SAS: Who Dares Wins

[jammy-git]

pidsy said:

Saw a pic on Instagram of Ant looking all tough and angry.

Makes a change from all the cute photos with puppy noses and floppy ears he's been posting on Insta.

[Halb]

pidsy said:

Not sure what the plan is for next season but they’re filming on an old base in Australia at the moment.

Saw a pic on Instagram of Ant looking all tough and angry.

They're filming it already?

[Scabutz]

Halb said:

pidsy said:

Not sure what the plan is for next season but they’re filming on an old base in Australia at the moment.

Saw a pic on Instagram of Ant looking all tough and angry.

They're filming it already?

It must be something else. None of the others have posted anything and applications for next series are still open.

[Halb]

anyone going to apply?
The rules are as follows:

1. You must be between the ages of 18-44
2. You must be a British Citizen, Irish Republic Citizen, British Commonwealth Citizen or hold dual nationality with one of the afore-mentioned
3. If you are a British Commonwealth Citizen you must have legitimately resided int he UK for a period of 5 years immediately prior to applying to be on the show
4. Must be at least 158cm (5.1”) tall and weigh at last 50kg (8 stone)
5. You must not be serving in the armed forces
6. You must be in peak physical and mental health

On top of this, there are several interview stages before the 25-hand-picked recruits are selected.
This includes various fitness tests, which you must pass.

1. Press-ups – a minimum of 44 in two minutes
2. Sit-ups – a minimum of 50 in two minutes
3. Static jump onto a platform 1.45m high.
4. Jerry can test – carry two 20kg weights over a distance of 120m in two minutes.
5. A Beep test with the level of 10.1 (1.5 mile run in 9 minutes 30 seconds).

Edited by Halb on Wednesday 5th February 11:31

[pidsy]

Scabutz said:

Halb said:

pidsy said:

Not sure what the plan is for next season but they’re filming on an old base in Australia at the moment.

Saw a pic on Instagram of Ant looking all tough and angry.

They're filming it already?

It must be something else. None of the others have posted anything and applications for next series are still open.

[Halb]

An Ozzie series maybe?
What number series has just screened?

[768]

Or a celeb one again maybe.

[lemmingjames]

Halb said:

1. Static jump onto a platform 1.45m high.

Im guessing this is going to be aimed at the youtube fitness people

[Ayahuasca]

lemmingjames said:

Halb said:

1. Static jump onto a platform 1.45m high.

Im guessing this is going to be aimed at the youtube fitness people

All the other tests look pretty easy, but this one seems tough.

[CardinalBlue]

768 said:

Or a celeb one again maybe.

They are reccing an Australian Celeb version.

https://twitter.com/antmiddleton/status/1224298014...

[lemmingjames]

Ayahuasca said:

lemmingjames said:

Halb said:

1. Static jump onto a platform 1.45m high.

Im guessing this is going to be aimed at the youtube fitness people

All the other tests look pretty easy, but this one seems tough.

Yep, im a shorty at 1.78cm, so thats the equivalent of me jumping to my shoulder height roughly static, i imagine for alot of the gym/fitness going population, thats still pretty tough unless its scaled i guess.

I still think they should take them somewhere 'exotic' where theres the potential for civil unrest, which could make the interrogation interesting. The flipside of it would be them having to prove they are soldiers as civilians = spy = execution. Or go to the Middle islands of the Philippines thats safe but close to the hotspot south, or the Middle East/Africa and pretend to have been captured by Pirates/Jihadi's

[RDM]

Ayahuasca said:

All the other tests look pretty easy, but this one seems tough.

Think it’s more than tough! 1.45m. 4 foot 9. !!!! Static. Jump

[PHuzzy]

Ayahuasca said:

lemmingjames said:

Halb said:

1. Static jump onto a platform 1.45m high.

Im guessing this is going to be aimed at the youtube fitness people

All the other tests look pretty easy, but this one seems tough.

The other tests are the absolute minimum Army PFT standards. (Apart from the 1.5 mile run, which is 10.5 minutes)
I'm not sure on the static jump one and how it fits in but that certainly was never part of the PFT going back 5 years.

Edited by PHuzzy on Wednesday 5th February 13:07

[LeighW]

RDM said:

Ayahuasca said:

All the other tests look pretty easy, but this one seems tough.

Think it’s more than tough! 1.45m. 4 foot 9. !!!! Static. Jump

That must be a misprint surely? Unless they're expecting Zebedee to apply... (Younger readers may have to google that)

[pingu393]

PHuzzy said:

Ayahuasca said:

lemmingjames said:

Halb said:

1. Static jump onto a platform 1.45m high.

Im guessing this is going to be aimed at the youtube fitness people

All the other tests look pretty easy, but this one seems tough.

The other tests are the absolute minimum Army PFT standards. (Apart from the 1.5 mile run, which is 10.5 minutes)
I'm not sure on the static jump one and how it fits in but that certainly was never part of the PFT going back 5 years.

Edited by PHuzzy on Wednesday 5th February 13:07

It was a BFT in my day.

I think the 1.45m must be a misprint. I can't think what it should be, though. 0.45m seems too low to be a proper test and 1.45m jump down is a test of "bottle" more than a test of fitness.

I'm surprised at the 9'30". It seems fast. It is getting into the elite runner pace. Although I was always old enough to be exempt the 10'30", I was only over it once (10'31" in horizontal sleet). That said, my fastest was 9'45", so Ah'm Oot - shame, really as I would have shown them all a clean set of heels .

On the real selection, the first thing they do is a CFT. IIRC, it is 10 miles with 30kg and rifle in 1'50", immediately followed by fireman's carry, a standing horizontal jump, and loading two 20kg water cans onto the back of a Bedford. This is a basic infantry standard and the recruits should piss it. To a REMF like me, it was a real shock to the system.

[jammy-git]

1.25m? Seems a bit more doable?

[lemmingjames]

maybe this is the first stage of selection, all us saying its not possible just dont have the material to make the jump, as opposed to someone saying yeah i can do that (even if they cant...)

[jammy-git]

And like most interview processes where they have a high number of applicants, they may put difficult requirements in the advert to try and discourage people and then just take the best/most watchable candidates who actually turn up for the selection phase.

[mcelliott]

Halb said:

anyone going to apply?
The rules are as follows:

1. You must be between the ages of 18-44
2. You must be a British Citizen, Irish Republic Citizen, British Commonwealth Citizen or hold dual nationality with one of the afore-mentioned
3. If you are a British Commonwealth Citizen you must have legitimately resided int he UK for a period of 5 years immediately prior to applying to be on the show
4. Must be at least 158cm (5.1”) tall and weigh at last 50kg (8 stone)
5. You must not be serving in the armed forces
6. You must be in peak physical and mental health

On top of this, there are several interview stages before the 25-hand-picked recruits are selected.
This includes various fitness tests, which you must pass.

1. Press-ups – a minimum of 44 in two minutes
2. Sit-ups – a minimum of 50 in two minutes
3. Static jump onto a platform 1.45m high.
4. Jerry can test – carry two 20kg weights over a distance of 120m in two minutes.
5. A Beep test with the level of 10.1 (1.5 mile run in 9 minutes 30 seconds).

Edited by Halb on Wednesday 5th February 11:31

I did about 3 yrs ago.

[bangerhoarder]

1.45m static jump is mental for most mortals. 1.25m is hard enough from standing.

Doing a cross-Google search suggests that it's a static lift instead. http://armyfitnesstest.co.uk/training-guide/soldie...

Edited by bangerhoarder on Wednesday 5th February 16:28