Viewing as it builds
 

I've been viewing this thread as it builds, popping in and out.

I can only shale my head in Pure T Wonderment.


Pete

Since this is Christmas Eve and I am feeling generous... Listen up.

Do you think we would have given our opinion if we didnt feel it was the best course of action for you to follow? Thats a rhetorical question; there's no need to answer. The Reaper and I weren't typing for the practice. We have answered your questions based on our experiences with preparing for SFAS as well as watching others prepare, or not.

My advice is rest the knee for the 6 weeks. Continue, or start upper body and abdominal exercises as well as calf raises. Once you are given the OK by your MD, run and ruck your ass off for the next 4 weeks. If the knee isn't good-to-go by 1 week out from your ship date you can extend at that time. It is entirely too early to worry about it now. Remember, you have 10 weeks. ;)

Now I have a question for you Sean; how badly do you want it? Do you want it bad enough to do what it takes? If you want it badly enough you will do what you have to. There is no half-stepping here.

Crip

Misunderstanding
 

Sorry gentlemen,

In no way was I questioning your advice (not that I'd have any right to as a newbie)....I was simply seeking clarification for myself on the course of action you had suggested.

I can't stress enough the assistance that your site has given me and I'm sure 1000's of other newbies in more easily accessing invaluable information that could otherwise be unobtainable.

Like I have said to other SF guys who have advised me....it is not your job to assist us....yet you do....thank you (seriously)

In regards to your question....How badly do I want it?

I want this bad enough that I was asking weather due to a minor knee injury I should extend my ship date to insure I am 100% prepared for SFAS, so as to not waste my time or SFs time. I plan to pass SFAS the first time and if I do fail SFAS, I am determined it will not be due to lack of preparation.

Hope this wasn't a rhetorical question

How many push-ups and sit-ups have you done today, Sean?

How much searching and reading have you done?

That will tell us how badly you want it far better than words.

TR

Copy that
 

Hear you load and clear Reaper,

Will cease to post and get the F**k on with it

Out

It is the knee
 

Your PT sucks but can be worked on.

Don't know about your heart. No way of telling there.

Your knee is the big issue. FACTS ARE FACTS: SFAS will bring out that old injury. You won't like it. Heal that knee and come back.

Z

"You've had your whole life to prepare for this moment. Why aren't you ready?"

Christmas is definitely over...

Funny you say that...stats have it that the JAN SFAS has a historically higher attrition rate....

Could it be the cold weather? or too much cookies and not enough PT? :munchin

Or could it be a free ticket from Uncle Sam to the East Coast of CONUS?

LOTS of guys from Korea and Germany used to request that class, and fail the PT test at their first opportunity before they stopped that.

TR

Sure you want to pass on that idea here?

Besides, no one would do that... :rolleyes:

LOL

Newbies!! LOL

Read more.

I'm thinking it might just be that cold weather... Jan 04' consited of temperatures dropping down into the teens. Jan 03' I was told had major ice storms. All I can say is that I'm glad I had my Gortex lined boots because my feet would've been wet and frozen without them.

I just finished the Jan/Feb SFAS class... I am pretty sure it is the freaking cold that worms its way into your head firmly plants itself there and starts to sap your motivation. It starts to make you forget what you are doing there and why. Then it causes you to feel sorry for yourself. The cold was the biggest mind game out there if you ask me.

As for Scimitar... Bro, even if you are in incredibly good shape when you ship to basic you will most likely be brought down a couple notches because you will not be scaling your PT. You will be doing lesser PT... you may be able to maintain with the PT there, but that requires you to smoke yourself during PT and during smoke sessions. Always make it hurt...

SFPC 1 (previously SOPC) - Is an incredible program, if you give 100% there you will be in great shape. The PT there is designed to build you up they give you plenty of rest and food... The combination will allow your body to build up and prepare you for SFAS.

I never believed anyone when they told me that SFAS was 80% mental.... but now that I have been through it... it is all about your state of mind. I saw guys the first week that were absolute studs... I did not see them the second or third week. No matter who you are or how in shape you are, you will physically be destroyed and the battle will move to your mind. If you can not win that battle, you will not make it through. I don't know many guys that didn't think about quitting while they were out there, I certainly did... You can think about it all day, so long as you keep moving while you do it... then you will look up and realize you are closer than you were before. Then your mind might wander off to sandwiches... a blissful distraction. What separates a selectee from a non-select or a VW is that when you look up from your apparatus and think there is no freaking way we can make this... you think that while you are pushing, pulling, clawing and scraping to complete the mission... no matter how impossible it seems, we are just too stubborn to stop. That is my 50 cents worth hope it helps.

Ice.....
 

The "Ice Storm Class" was Nov/Dec '02, at least as I remember it. I thought it was great, but I came down from Alaska. There were many folks who just couldn't motivate themselves to get away from the fire pits and go out and work. It is all in your head, just go and get it, and oh yeah, have a good 'un