The Brutal Reality Of Navy SEAL Training - MrBallen

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  • Опубликовано: 9 май 2024
  • Chris and Mr Ballen discuss the hardest parts of hell week for a Navy SEAL. Why is Hell Week so tough according to Mr Ballen? What does Mr Ballen suggest for those who want to serve? What was the worst part of Hell Week for Mr Ballen?
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Комментарии • 152

  • @ChrisWillx
    @ChrisWillx  2 месяца назад +11

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  • @adamb2358
    @adamb2358 Месяц назад +64

    “When I have a worthy suffering, I can suffer for a longgg time” amen to that

  • @Justinsox39
    @Justinsox39 2 месяца назад +159

    Staying awake for days is a living hell that’s very hard to explain

    • @PS-en7wn
      @PS-en7wn 2 месяца назад +19

      The hallucinations are awful. At least in my experience. Even closing my eyes I see shit. Very scary after day 4/5 😬

    • @raymondqiu8202
      @raymondqiu8202 2 месяца назад +8

      It's not even healthy either. It's just stupid and doing it more times doesn't even help you get used to it for next time (as I assume they want to train it for real life situations)

    • @NateDawg3211
      @NateDawg3211 2 месяца назад +6

      @@raymondqiu8202It’s all a mind game.. The no sleep feature goes with keeping a person cold and sandy 24-7 it will break you. After you’re broken are you going to stay and dig or go home. It all needs to be tested to the extreme it’s the only way

    • @kennedysan1045
      @kennedysan1045 2 месяца назад +1

      Can you even train for that?

    • @d1heat206
      @d1heat206 2 месяца назад

      Then on top of that your working out all day and getting killed physically

  • @Mountains4ever
    @Mountains4ever Месяц назад +46

    I was surprised to hear that in buds, if you’re married you get to basically go home at night and sleep in your own bed. I always thought they all stayed together until the end of BUDS

    • @LeonelZamora-tr6hi
      @LeonelZamora-tr6hi Месяц назад +4

      I feel like this is a huge advantage! That atleast 4 hours a night to sleep….I thought they didn’t sleep at all. I’m shocked tbh

    • @Mountains4ever
      @Mountains4ever Месяц назад +5

      @@LeonelZamora-tr6hi same! I mean I know it’s still tough and pure hell but personally, I feel like it would make the day easier to get through knowing you get to go home to your wife and kids and sleep in your own bed. Even if it’s only for a few hours.

    • @Dhdjdjsjdjsjk
      @Dhdjdjsjdjsjk 9 дней назад +1

      @@LeonelZamora-tr6hinot an advantage man you gotta wake up at 3 am and you don’t get to go to bed til midnight.

    • @LeonelZamora-tr6hi
      @LeonelZamora-tr6hi 9 дней назад

      @@Dhdjdjsjdjsjk you right, I thought this was counting hell week buts it’s not. So if anything it is worse.

    • @DougCanney1
      @DougCanney1 3 дня назад +1

      Me too, that blows my mind. I wonder who quits more, on base dwellers or off base trainies?

  • @RafzanBFF
    @RafzanBFF 2 месяца назад +70

    Goggins: I missed the part where thats my problem.

    • @slantythecamel
      @slantythecamel Месяц назад +2

      Didn’t Goggins fail his first attempt?

    • @RafzanBFF
      @RafzanBFF Месяц назад +2

      @@slantythecamel yes

    • @lazye2360
      @lazye2360 Месяц назад +7

      It was due to medical reasons tho

    • @miskaiso-heiniemi7641
      @miskaiso-heiniemi7641 Месяц назад +2

      @@slantythecamel he failed the first 2 actually

  • @mattk751
    @mattk751 2 месяца назад +49

    the background and lighting - wowzer

  • @aaroncrandal
    @aaroncrandal Месяц назад +65

    Sleep deprivation is the single most difficult part of parenting no one talks about

    • @tylermontoya408
      @tylermontoya408 Месяц назад +7

      Underrated comment!!! Agreed 100%

    • @joeb2
      @joeb2 Месяц назад +3

      When my youngest was born, I had multiple anxiety attacks because I was so desperate for sleep. She was up every hour on the hour, every single night for months. Came to find out she has a dairy allergy and her stomach was constantly upset from the formula. I don’t wish that on anyone, seriously.

    • @Alexandra_Hill
      @Alexandra_Hill Месяц назад +3

      my youngest is 14 years old and I've never gone back to previous sleep patterns, I also have real insomnia, I go a few days with no sleep, during sleep cycles - I sleep max 3 hours a night.

    • @alphaomega1351
      @alphaomega1351 Месяц назад +2

      So all mothers are Navy Seals? 😳

    • @sofakingmoney4010
      @sofakingmoney4010 24 дня назад +2

      Try being a firefighter with young kids

  • @dangifford2710
    @dangifford2710 Месяц назад +6

    When I was in, we had a saying: "Embrace the suck"

  • @sunnni_
    @sunnni_ Месяц назад +6

    I remembered I wanted to be a seal and came across Goggins when he talked about his time as a Navy. But my recruiter told me I couldn't be a seal because I was a woman. Still hearing these perspectives are still so cool and interesting to hear. Being a Navy kid, I'll always still think about how it could have been. Love Mr.Ballen's and Chris's videos

  • @DreAmDocTa
    @DreAmDocTa 2 месяца назад +65

    Crazy Goggins did 3 of them 🔥 beast. Props to all seals! Y’all are animals

  • @romeosly4341
    @romeosly4341 Месяц назад +19

    I know the pain brother. Had constant two week, operations with little to no sleep in Afghanistan. There were days where i was so tired i would hope to just step on an IED lol

  • @ChannelForty2
    @ChannelForty2 15 часов назад

    I really admire this guy, best story teller on the planet and a low key badass!

  • @Diditin81
    @Diditin81 11 дней назад

    I liked that he talked about the suffering. Being a Ranger was the same experience. You think to yourself " why am I doing this ". One of my favorite motivational things was a sign in our Batt area that we often left to run daily said " You gotta want it ".

  • @IM4THACULTURE410
    @IM4THACULTURE410 Месяц назад +7

    Badasses that our country really need to look up too

  • @garydelgaudio5364
    @garydelgaudio5364 26 дней назад +1

    Yep if you can stand pain to a degree an no how get threw it ya make it ,,,great info from this Warrior,, ya gotta dig deep at times !

  • @Hawk-mb6em
    @Hawk-mb6em Месяц назад +3

    Sick backdrop Chris

  • @parkerj1232
    @parkerj1232 2 месяца назад +6

    No way! I just heard he talked about his seal experience 6 mths ago and I find a 6 hour old video? Synchronicity at its finest

    • @Creddz69
      @Creddz69 Месяц назад

      What? They literally have nothing to do with each other.....

    • @buernorboye-doe8513
      @buernorboye-doe8513 Месяц назад +1

      😂​@@Creddz69

  • @JCrashB
    @JCrashB 2 месяца назад +10

    I only did the Einzelkämpferlehrgang 20 years ago during my officer's training in the German Armed Forces, which I'm sure is just a walk in the park when compared with SEAL Hell Week.
    Nevertheless, those 4 weeks of pain and sheer misery still motivate me to go through any form of hardship that normal life throws at me, because of 'been there, done that'.
    It's amazing what a human body can endure if the mind is stubborn enough.

  • @JoshuaFlashman-oc3wm
    @JoshuaFlashman-oc3wm Месяц назад +4

    Now do Delta Force Selection lol. There’s a reason they call it “The Long Walk.”

  • @DrukMax
    @DrukMax Месяц назад +4

    This title is so funny, MrBallen in Dutch translated is something like MrCojones

  • @estebanguerra2573
    @estebanguerra2573 Месяц назад +6

    I love how well spoken he is. I would love to sit down with a ex-seals or spec ops guy and just have a conversation

  • @Dziaji
    @Dziaji 2 месяца назад +2

    This is awesome. So glad that I subbed recently!

  • @markb3451
    @markb3451 Месяц назад +3

    Sleep deprivation was my experience with the police academy but it wasn’t this extreme. Occasionally we would have a night shoot go until 2300 and have to be back at 0500. Only bad for me because I lived an hour away from my academy so I would get a max of 2 hours of sleep. They would always screw with us afterwards by forcing us to do PT first thing the next morning. Always thought that was dangerous and irresponsible.

  • @justinbowen1183
    @justinbowen1183 14 дней назад

    I remember coming off opiate withdrawal and going almost an entire week on 2 hours of sleep everyday due to restless legs and muscle cramping while attempting to do network security and it was absolute hell. Trying to remember which ports to open/close on a network I created and nobody else had any clue how it operated since they didn't create it so I was forced to figure things out it sucked really bad.

  • @boxofpears2
    @boxofpears2 7 дней назад

    It isn't that you are good, because you aren't, you are regular... Its the people who are kind enough to come on your show that make it good.

  • @Treevors30
    @Treevors30 Месяц назад +2

    0:15 I asked him on Twitter you know what was like one of the hardest parts of being a Navy SEAL and he said the water is very cold LOL. Honestly he's such a cool dude like he's giving me permission to use certain things like it's pretty cool like to take his time to just talk to a random person like me I was watching his channel before it blew up and I also asked him like how crazy is the change you know from going from like 10,000 subscribers to Millions and you know he liked it and he was like it's insane he's a really chill dude. That's why I like when he talks about him having trouble and being mean it's like I don't see that I can't see him being a dick I mean I've never met him or hung out with him but it's just really hard to see because anytime that I have had an interaction with them it's just extremely nice so I'm glad he has success

  • @DanielTee3001
    @DanielTee3001 2 месяца назад +2

    5:30 I am sticking that on the wall.

  • @AntiMason
    @AntiMason Месяц назад +1

    I have never been through SEAL training, but I reached a point of sleep deprivation that caused full on panic, fear, and hallucinations. I was talking to Rocky Balboa, and I would come in and out of reality. When i snapped back to reality for a minute, full-blown panic set in because I thought that I had permanently damaged my brain and that id be this way forever. I forced myself to go to sleep and i woke up completely fine... I think...
    Anyways, this only took about 56 hours straight to cause this. So i question when people say they have stayed awake for 3 days straight or 72 hours and this didnt happen to them. Maybe im an oddball but it surely taught how important sleep is. Not to mention, I was very young and was on summer break. I was just trying to see how long I could stay awake.
    When I was in college I was working in a factory for 60 hours a week usually. (Absolutely no less than 52, ever.) And i would get home at 1 am. Eat, shower, wash clothes, and would be in bed by 3am only to wake up at 6am. I did this for one full year and I got to the point where I could drift off to sleep standing. Also if youre like me and you have sleep paralysis, DO NOT deprive your sleep. It basically supercharges it.

  • @CornPop2
    @CornPop2 Месяц назад

    bro makes enough to get a couple new shirts. Also its hilarious that you can leave at nighttime and go home and come back daily

  • @jbirdtristar1
    @jbirdtristar1 Месяц назад +3

    Warrenhaven2216, that's exactly what happens when you assume there is some general archetype of what a warrior looks like. Remember what our parents taught us a children....NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER. that man is as deadly as and dangerous of a man as he was as an active duty seal. He's what they call a silent professional!

  • @Treevors30
    @Treevors30 Месяц назад +1

    6:06 is there any more or are there only two videos with Mr. Ballen

  • @DaRKfire-yz5im
    @DaRKfire-yz5im Месяц назад +2

    You forgot about the cans of Copenhagen for the instructors

  • @trailrunner9113
    @trailrunner9113 Месяц назад +2

    Comes across as such a regular guy, but is definitely made of something different.

  • @MrSpeedyAce
    @MrSpeedyAce Месяц назад +1

    Friend of mine just completed her Marine training. I was saying how that type of training requires a special “messed up” mind where you can just DEAL with the discomfort and be ok. Normal everyday people wouldn’t do that. But that’s what you will need when your buddy got shot in combat and you have to go rescue him when normal people would just let him bleed out, out of fear or lack of guts.

    • @wingedhussar5528
      @wingedhussar5528 23 дня назад +1

      I went through it in 97. If you are in shape then it is really not hard, at least physically. The first phase is mentally draining because you will be yelled at all the time. After that it gets easier. The only time you miss sleep is during the crucible, which is at the very end. Honestly the hardest part was the marching drills because I pretty much got two left feet and could not stay in step for the life of me.. So phase one was my hell. Once I got my shit together it got a lot easier. Also in bootcamp they will do everything in their power to push you through. In special ops training, they will do everything to weed you out. Huge difference there.

    • @MrSpeedyAce
      @MrSpeedyAce 23 дня назад +1

      @@wingedhussar5528 That’s crazy. I’ve had asthma my entire life and only recently have gotten treatment for it. My biggest fear has always been to run out of breath. I can’t imagine being pushed to the limit and beyond. Kudos to you brother 🫡 (I just saw my friend after she just became a Marine two weeks ago. Super proud of her!)

  • @KO_please
    @KO_please 3 дня назад

    I’ll also say, the apple doesnt fall too far from the tree. In terms of a clout combination

  • @baravi1917
    @baravi1917 Месяц назад

    This guy is a seal? Whooaaaa

  • @JosephJoJoFlores
    @JosephJoJoFlores 29 дней назад +1

    Yeup the not sleeping is annoying lol

  • @AM2K2
    @AM2K2 2 месяца назад +4

    If you have to drive 40 minutes both ways...why not stay closer to base for the week?

    • @SawBlade11
      @SawBlade11 2 месяца назад +3

      You don’t go home during hell week. He’s talking about before they even started

  • @Jetblackt120
    @Jetblackt120 Месяц назад +1

    Oh jeez … gimme a break!

  • @mattmoose1
    @mattmoose1 Месяц назад +1

    With my father, I’ll bet my childhood was harder.

  • @joshhonaker3085
    @joshhonaker3085 Месяц назад +1

    I was in the navy just the test to qualify for the seals was crazy I was not a seal by the way

  • @xtrachillisauce
    @xtrachillisauce Месяц назад +3

    If you're living off base, how can they stop you sleeping? 🤔

    • @MsRotorwings
      @MsRotorwings Месяц назад +3

      During hell week he doesn’t get to go home. The instructors keep them up for 5 1/2 days during hell week.

  • @Mark70775
    @Mark70775 2 месяца назад +5

    The background is fucking bonkers

  • @sammyh2708
    @sammyh2708 2 месяца назад +5

    Try having kids - my youngest kept me awake for 9 months 🐣🐥

    • @Bbqluv7
      @Bbqluv7 Месяц назад

      Did you have to swim your kids through the cold pacific at night with great white sharks 😂

  • @donk3ysmash
    @donk3ysmash 2 месяца назад +3

    I didn’t realise you could live off site whilst doing buds?

  • @grifo3310
    @grifo3310 6 дней назад

    Sean Strickland is not surviving this. If someone dedicated their whole life to MMA training for 2 years, that's all he/she did they would be ok in a cage. An MMA fighter would most likely drown in that pool

  • @crystalken
    @crystalken 2 месяца назад +8

    Hell week? Completed it mate...

  • @SupremeBossMan
    @SupremeBossMan Месяц назад +1

    I went through SEAL training with 2 broke arms & legs. Broken neck & back. And a few other minor scrapes & bruises. Wasn't that bad!!!

    • @JosephJoJoFlores
      @JosephJoJoFlores 29 дней назад +1

      What class?

    • @SupremeBossMan
      @SupremeBossMan 28 дней назад

      @@JosephJoJoFlores 230, 1996

    • @Dhdjdjsjdjsjk
      @Dhdjdjsjdjsjk 9 дней назад

      Not even close man boss from 234?

    • @SupremeBossMan
      @SupremeBossMan 9 дней назад

      @@Dhdjdjsjdjsjk That's Sir Man Boss to you 🐟
      Served 5 tours in the Middle East 💥
      Better show some RESPECT !!! 👊

    • @Dhdjdjsjdjsjk
      @Dhdjdjsjdjsjk 9 дней назад

      @@SupremeBossMan no way bro you were one of my favorites in the doc what class did you end up graduating with after the injury? I’m heading to buds in august!

  • @Treevors30
    @Treevors30 Месяц назад +2

    3:48 that's strange like mentally I made myself suffer for a very long time. I think it's because I had no self-worth and and there was kind of like a you know your voice inside your head you know you're worthless you're scumbag you're a loser why are you even here you shouldn't be here you should leave this place nobody wants you here anyways. I used to think like that as a child the first time I tried leaving this place I was in 4th grade and it wasn't until the age of 28 29 I think I had this just say stop and so anytime these negative thoughts would come into my head I would say stop and then I would think of something positive that I did for someone else in my life and I would continue to do this for 5 years then I would find things about myself that were positive so I think I finally got self-worth once I did the want for alcohol dropped off the want for other things dropped off. I never thought that I could ever control alcohol or beer because if I drink hard alcohol i blackout and I become someone else like it's bad but I always thought it was all or none like what nah says or AA says but for a year I didn't drink. Then one random day I'm walking down the street with my friend and there was a bar we went in I had one beer and I left. My brain was like by 12 pack by 12-pack by 12 pack and I kept saying no and eventually it stop and I was like holy shit I can control this. That was the first time I ever realized that I can actually not only put it down and just walk away forever but I can actually drink responsibly I never thought that would have been impossible in my life. I haven't drank since I think like last Memorial Day which is I don't know how long ago that is I don't count days. And I've been off of Fentanyl and H for over 9 years. So if you are a person that is struggling through substance abuse and you have possibly know self-worth and you tell yourself you're a loser know that you're not and you got to retrain your brain it's not easy but it is possible I guarantee you then everything else once you figure that out everything else kind of falls off I hope this helps someone out there

  • @DollyPocket
    @DollyPocket 2 месяца назад +2

    I think it’s wrong to call seals brutal. Yes they gotta eat but the pups are so so fcin cutie.

  • @shantanusapru
    @shantanusapru 2 месяца назад +3

    2:22 -- Yeah, try patrolling day & night the Siachen glacier! The Indian Army does that daily, and has done that for decades! And not even the SOF. Just regular soldiers........

    • @18MikeMitchell18
      @18MikeMitchell18 Месяц назад +2

      Are you trying to compare a regular Indian soldier and a navy seal?

    • @shantanusapru
      @shantanusapru Месяц назад +1

      @@18MikeMitchell18 Nope. Not "trying". Flat out saying it.🤣 That, an average Indian soldier serving at the Siachen glacier is better than an average SEAL.
      And, y'know what? A *real* SEAL (unlike so many keyboard warriors) would agree.
      Because they know that context is key & training is king!

    • @18MikeMitchell18
      @18MikeMitchell18 Месяц назад +2

      @@shantanusapru you're out of your god damn mind.

    • @shantanusapru
      @shantanusapru Месяц назад +1

      @@18MikeMitchell18 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Cope!
      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @18MikeMitchell18
      @18MikeMitchell18 Месяц назад +2

      @@shantanusaprulol no one coming to India for elite soldiers

  • @anorourke8682
    @anorourke8682 Месяц назад +2

    Are there any Navy SEALs who *haven’t* been on a podcast? 😆

    • @Dhdjdjsjdjsjk
      @Dhdjdjsjdjsjk 9 дней назад

      Almost every delta operator rn has been on a podcast bud

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 6 дней назад

      You make it sound like there is 25 SEALS total in the world. 99.9 % OF ALL SEALS don't have podcasts

    • @Dhdjdjsjdjsjk
      @Dhdjdjsjdjsjk 6 дней назад

      @@deathfire096 people love hating on the teams lol it’s ok.

    • @deathfire096
      @deathfire096 6 дней назад

      @@Dhdjdjsjdjsjk I know. LOL.

  • @distancejunkiemonkey4491
    @distancejunkiemonkey4491 2 месяца назад +5

    they let these guys live off base during BUD's ???? Thats actually surprising

  • @kodeshministry4612
    @kodeshministry4612 День назад

    Ngl this is really badass but something about doing all this to be a killing machine for the american government really is depressing lmao

  • @Sidelinefighter-expert
    @Sidelinefighter-expert Месяц назад

    I hate those comments not bugs features, bro youre a podcaster, calm down

  • @Mitchell162
    @Mitchell162 6 дней назад

    Had no idea he eas ex military let along a seal wtf

  • @LC-in5or
    @LC-in5or Месяц назад +4

    Hes still mad about filling the instructors coffee and shit. 😅

  • @1ice3690
    @1ice3690 Месяц назад +2

    Bro how many times are people going to make vids on buds lmao. Stg seals are media boys today more then ever before. PJ pipeline is way harder but no one talks about them. All buds is RASP with dive indoc and water. It's not some magical selection.

    • @Dhdjdjsjdjsjk
      @Dhdjdjsjdjsjk 9 дней назад

      Bud buds is hardest selection in the world, rasp is easy man you have 10 year olds crushing rasp 😂 that’s why buds has a less than 0 percent for high school kids to make it. You run 600 miles in one week and swim over 80 in a week with no sleep and it’s 6 months, PJs is only hard because of academics it’s not physically hard whatsoever and rasp isn’t even harder than recon selection rasp is only 8 weeks and my grandmother can graduate. You wouldn’t make it through prep at buds I don’t even think you can pass a PST

  • @billpoole8541
    @billpoole8541 Месяц назад

    Dude, you lived 40 minutes away?! Well, there is your problem right there. You added another obsticle to BUDs training as if it weren't already difficult enough. Props to you!

  • @cruseodoyo8098
    @cruseodoyo8098 2 месяца назад +3

    kenyan boy scouts can survive at least 3 hell weeks. those mf are real tough

    • @18MikeMitchell18
      @18MikeMitchell18 Месяц назад

      lol yea, we will see how they do in the freezing pacific waters with no sleep and perform their tasks

    • @Dhdjdjsjdjsjk
      @Dhdjdjsjdjsjk 9 дней назад

      Doubtful man 200 miles running, no sleep and 60 miles swimming in the entire week I don’t think they can float

  • @treeherder2201
    @treeherder2201 Месяц назад

    Embrace the suck.

  • @carlcounts1
    @carlcounts1 Месяц назад

    Navy Seal training is a walk in the park especially hell week

    • @Dhdjdjsjdjsjk
      @Dhdjdjsjdjsjk 9 дней назад

      Not true rasp is basic infantry training my mom made it through rasp

  • @MassiveLib
    @MassiveLib Месяц назад +1

    What a pointless existence

  • @warrenhaven2216
    @warrenhaven2216 2 месяца назад +9

    I don’t know why but I can’t see him as a navy seal, he doesn’t look like the type.

  • @checkdown3774
    @checkdown3774 Месяц назад

    Try working for a living.

  • @bogdan0402
    @bogdan0402 2 месяца назад +2

    For some reason I don't like his energy

  • @tiomoidofangle102
    @tiomoidofangle102 2 месяца назад +4

    I have no respect for anyone who thinks that wearing his hat backwards makes him look 'cool'.

    • @deathalid342
      @deathalid342 2 месяца назад +18

      Go through hell week and say that.

    • @sym3690
      @sym3690 2 месяца назад

      🤓

    • @donk3ysmash
      @donk3ysmash 2 месяца назад +21

      I have no respect for anyone who thinks stupid insults in comments make them look hard 😂

    • @raymondqiu8202
      @raymondqiu8202 2 месяца назад +10

      K he don't care bout u either. Let him do it if he wants. We aren't his boss

    • @sym3690
      @sym3690 2 месяца назад +9

      He does look cool tho