Tips on boot camp and dive prep?

[frosty1823]

He has been in prep school since 7/9/14...they started with 29 & now, down to 18... my son worries the most is that treading with holding a 25 lbs. plate... i don't think he can lasts as long as 4 to 5 minutes...

if he doesn't go for 4 to 5 minutes, do you think they will drop him from the program?
either tomorrow or monday, they are planning on doing a full blown PT & he worries that the instructors are going to drop him because of this issue...

[FutureND]

They have already lost 11 people after only a week and haven't even done a full pt session yet?!?! That's crazy, we had only lost 4 up until the last week.

The first time we did weighted treads with the plates we were all put in 5 lines in the pool and were just treading. The first person in each line would swim up and grab the weight and tread for a minute then woul go to the end of the line. This would continue to rotate through until everybody went through 5-6 times depending on how we did. Everyone is treading the entire time either with or without the weight. The next time we did this we would tread with weight for 1:30, then 2 mins, it would kind of go like that. If he can't tread for the full time yet he has some chances to work on it. Make sure he is in the pool on his off time too, we would go fairly regularly on our own time.

[frosty1823]

yeah...it's crazy...

he said that they did about 5 rounds of treading every time they do this... i just hope that he has some free time to do practice on his own... they give 6 to 8 daily, computer-based assignments that they have to complete & they take test on these materials... the other day, one guy didn't pass the re-take & got dropped... so he says it's tough enviornment out there...
i hope his inner strength will kick in & endure the training until the end...

[mike]

Great thread. Does this apply to SO as well? I don't think Prep gets many guys in the SO pipeline but I could be wrong. Definitely going to buy some weights to practice this stuff too.

[FutureND]

Ya the BECC courses he is doing in the computer are horrible... Long, boring days of clicking through the computer. He should have plenty of free time still, we were done at around 1630 and off on weekends. Dive prep is designed to weed out people and it's tough for a reason. It has about a 40% passing rate. Good news is that very few people fail out of dive school after making it there.

SO prep does their own thing. We shared a barracks with them but that was about all. They don't do the computer classes or anything, their classes are mostly fitness and nutrition related. The majority of people who don't make it through BUD/s prep are med dropped, injuries and all that. But the weeding out process for SO takes place after prep.

[frosty1823]

thanks for the informaiton; i will let him know to practice & i am sure he is trying his best to stay with the school & not quit...

[mike]

Originally Posted by FutureND

SO prep does their own thing. We shared a barracks with them but that was about all. They don't do the computer classes or anything, their classes are mostly fitness and nutrition related. The majority of people who don't make it through BUD/s prep are med dropped, injuries and all that. But the weeding out process for SO takes place after prep.

Yea, it is surprising that they fly everyone out to Coronado before making cuts though. Good thing about BUD/s is all you have to do is survive three weeks a long day and you are through Hell Week and into the "Training phase" instead of "selection phase".

You got any good tips for treading water? Is it more about practice or technique? I've done some treading with arms out of the water but I need to get better.

[FlyNavy]

Originally Posted by mike

Good thing about BUD/s is all you have to do is survive three weeks a long day and you are through Hell Week and into the "Training phase" instead of "selection phase".

Pretty sure Phase 1 is still 8 weeks long...
And you're just as able to be dropped on day 1 as you are the day before you get that pin. So your idea that once you pass hell week that your "in" is entirely not true.

[mike]

Originally Posted by CTT1(SW)Griffin

Pretty sure Phase 1 is still 8 weeks long...
And you're just as able to be dropped on day 1 as you are the day before you get that pin. So your idea that once you pass hell week that your "in" is entirely not true.

CCT1SW, If you make it through HW you won't quit so you are probably going to get pinned. Side note, how come you don't put in a BUD/s package? 20 spots for fleet guys per BUD/s class, if you fail out you go back to your old rate.