Sergey Bushuev @sbushuev - Twitter Profile

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about 1 month ago

Former Navy SEAL reveals the one skill that gives water polo players a huge advantage in SEAL training MRBALLEN: "There's two places where the most mentally tough people, in terms of success in SEAL training. One is wrestling, basically any level of wrestling. Wrestlers have an incredibly high success rate in BUD/S and water polo. Those are the two that they have determined through their studies are the grittiest, most resilient folks when it comes to SEAL training. And one of the guys that was one of my officers in one of the classes I was in was a water polo player from the University of Tennessee. And he's this big, big, strong guy. This water polo player, he blazes through that test, no problem. The other test is just the tread. That's all it's called, the tread. You spend five minutes in the pool with your twin 80 tanks on, which are neutral in the water. They're pretty heavy outside of the water, but they're cumbersome on your back. You got no fins. You got a weight belt on, hands up out of the water. Yeah, it's like five pounds or something. And you tread for five minutes. And that's the whole test. Hands out of the water so you only tread with your legs, no fins, tanks on. The only way to do it realistically is imagine hopping on a bike in the gym and just sprinting until you have full muscle fatigue, hold it for like three, four minutes. It doesn't even need to go that fast, but it's constant. That's the only way to do it." "Unless you're an exceptionally talented water polo player who's mastered the art of the egg beater, where they basically have found a way to move their legs. That's like the most efficient way to tread water. And this dude, I kid you not, who blazed through pool comp first try, no problems whatsoever, was like joking around after his test. He gets in for the tread and he could hold himself almost to his belly button, probably like nipple to belly button line, fully out of the water. Just no problem. Like practically smiling because he knows this is my domain. I can do this all day long. It was the most incredible thing I'd ever seen." ROGAN: "That's crazy. I would have never thought of that. First of all, I didn't know the water polo players had to tread the entire time, which is insanely impressive. Like, how long is the game?" MRBALLEN: "Well, I don't know if they can go to the edge and hold on periodically, but if you watch water polo, they're treading. Most of the time, they're just treading. I'm no water polo player, but my understanding is that the game is played while treading." ROGAN: "Yeah. I never would have imagined, but now that you've described it that way, like, that might be the hardest sport on earth."

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sbushuev retweeted

USA Water Polo

@USAWP

about 3 years ago

Thanks to Zak Kappos and Next Level Water Polo, the game is growing on Florida's west coast. Check out the latest in this feature from Spectrum News @BN9. #sportgrowth #JustAddWaterPolo