How to get selected for the SAS with Billy Billingham | Private Parts Podcast

the selection process of the sas i know you probably can't do it but how hard is it it's it's not impossible that's for sure but it's close to it's hard i mean i think 283 of us started and seven of us finished so that gives and on day two 80 went 80 people gone on day two did they tickle you in the person what happened because i would give up after that what do they do especially if you touch my feet yeah just tickle me yeah but um i think a lot of it though is people psyched the self out yeah you know you can do it proven you can do it but the difference between selection and anything else in the military is it's all about self-motivation yeah yeah and you don't you're not used to it so where you see on the show we scream and shout at them that's not the sas let me tell you that right now they will ask you to do it if they're asking you they're telling you i'll just say right okay be on pray tomorrow morning five o'clock with a bergen weighing 60 pounds this time ready to go if you decide it i can't be asking about the don't come scream get out they go okay no problem the truck will be here this afternoon and take you back to wherever you come enjoy no if so but that's not done there's no encouragement or discouragement and i went i was a ds as well that's the difference so it's down to you yeah yeah so you've either got to want it or you don't and he's for the first time in your ministry career no one's screaming at you and shouting and dragging you wrong because they don't it's up to you there's no problem you don't you don't want to keep up the front i've told you if you're up the front you'll pass if you're not it's over you they're not going to kick you up there let's go that's self-motivation that's the hardest form of motivation so that's why people all have personal trainers that's why people have teachers because that pushes you to go forward it's very hard to motivate yourself that way and so that's what i find super fascinating because holy it's it's that that like pushing yourself is like the hardest thing in the world to do right it is you've got to want something to do it and i wanted to do it i wanted to be in the sas and i wanted to pass i wanted to prove i could do this and it was hard you know physically and mentally probably some of the toughest stuff i've ever done in my life and also it's because i i watched this i think i've said this before i mentioned there's a really good documentary in a book actually about called touching the void which is about yeah have you yeah everest ever yeah no no k2 sorry he's just he climbs k2 and he drops down anyway story is it's katie or everest maybe it is everest where two buddies climb up uh up like a mountain everest okay to anyway storm hits one of them they wake up in the middle of the night and one of them is being dragged over the edge by his partner and he has to make the decision to cut the ropes he falls into a ravine or not he cuts the rope the guy falls thinks he's dead and he leaves and that's why he leaves his mate that the guy who felt survives and he has to drag himself to safety and the way he got through it is he looked 20 meters ahead every single time he said if if i get to that rock 20 meters ahead i can do it he dragged himself to that rock broken legs broken spleen frostbite all over the place and it was bit by bit and i suppose that's the mentality that you have to do you can't if you look at the whole thing and you say this is how far i have to go it's impossible to do it you have to do it bit by bit right mate you've just nailed it honestly that's exactly what it was like sign me up this man's past election he could start a fight with a nun so and i'd win you'd literally do that the thing with with says let's you start and you go right you kind of look to the future and then you go you take it week by week day by day and as the chips go down you start getting hour by hour minute by minute by the end that hand seriously but but what let's the phase one is like over the mountains and all this and what i used to do is i see somebody in front of me and i go that's my target just like you were saying there that rock that guy in front of me is my target i've got to get to him so i'm not thinking about anything else other than get to him and get past him so that's what i do and i do it and i had the ocean that you know ain't never going to break my stride that song i was trying to die in my ear on my head all the time saying it to myself when i'm i want to get there i want to get there and i would and that's what i do and who's what's next in front of me how to go and just keep going and going and going and i remember by the time you do endurance my knee was the same size of my waist and i thought there's no way i'm gonna i'll i'll cut my leg off and drag it really when i'm doing the pistol you were like that you were like yeah i ain't gonna stop now i'm gonna i've gotta do this and i'll do it and i did it well and i did a good time but it wasn't easy it was painful but the fact is i wanted it and you've got to want it and so again [Music] self-motivation

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Length: 4min 44sec (284 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 03 2020