How to Tie a SWISS SEAT - Step by Step

If you are going to do a river crossing, some climbing, or rappelling, then you are going to want to know how to tie a military SWISS SEAT. Let me show you how in this video.
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[@Morrigan070671]

Anything by “Life Is A Special Operation” is of unmeasurable value, and this video is no different. Thank you so much.

[@rnbspowa7of69]

I learned it tie a Swiss seat in JROTC 37 yrs ago and I have used it a lot in my life.

[@dexextremeinfinity]

My grandfather served in the 101st for several years and when out joined with the boy scouts of America leaders he drilled this seat into my head when I used to go see him as a kid. He used to tell me how the 101st would test how fast each recruit could do these things in under 90 seconds. Part of why I bring two lengths of rope, paracord, and a solid carabiner with me wherever I go just in case. Probably can't make it under 90 seconds anymore, but it's still a very valuable thing to know if you need to abseil down anything in an emergency.

[@Dexxtrr]

That’s some weird stuff to carry around.

[@SuperhumanUnchained]

These are the true real men, trainings, mentality, and life real human's need to live i love this channel and thanks for uploading this great video

[@SuperShadow495]

Agreed

[@clarkclifford2338]

I never thought I would see this done again. Bravo.

[@sgtpickles1319]

Only had to do this in USMC bootcamp and got sent down the hell hole, no portholes, didn’t break hand fast enough, ate it, and was swarmed by three drill instructors I could barely see, good times 👍

[@InformalGreeting]

I decided I knew better and bounded off the repel tower. The DI swarm I got for that still haunts me occasionally.

[@KM-bs1gf]

Swiss Seat lesson from my DS. He showed us few times and reset, then on the final he said "you tie it... you'll ride it" best moment ever.....

[@beachboardfan9544]

Yea more vids like this! Theres a lot of crowdsourcing of combat tactics going on with social media given the current circumstances. A video series would be awesome!

[@4thbalanceofpower]

Thanks for the refresher.

[@0570965]

Thank you for the refresher.

[@dasdan2145]

This was such a great and simple tutorial, thank you!

[@sarnold1277]

Thanks for this video!

[@jordanwade517]

Amazing video! Keep up the great work

[@jimmyjones6497]

Appreciate the content. I am ready.

[@robertjackson1407]

Thank you 😊

[@tantan1626]

So cool and useful. Thank you sir for the good contents

[@1jbunceiii]

Thanks for the refresher!! Been many years!!

[@GypsyV47]

Great information 🙏🏻

[@pushing2throttles]

Awesome. Just like I learned, once upon a time. These are great refreshes... can you do more "technically themed" episodes?

[@johnhypaull.macate8967]

Thanks

[@sandpebbles]

Excellent. Thanks very much.

[@christopherpearson3511]

When you were discussing the inspecting of equipment, it reminded me of a jump master doing pre-jump and JMPI... lol. I served at 3/75th from 92-96 and 5th group from 97-05. I really miss it.

[@dc-py9dz]

Fantastic channel

[@k4dps]

Good work

[@renerocha7922]

Dam!!! I love this channel 👍!!!!!

[@Steven_Williams]

It's been years since I've done this. Thank for reminding me.

[@lanagorgeous9485]

I went to Air Assault School at FT Campbell when after my OBC. Fun times :) . Australian Rappel was the really fun one :)

[@FunkSoulBubby]

Feels like climbing the rocks during Beast. Nice.

[@davides6842]

Please more videos like this

[@terencebelprez8158]

These videos are great! I saw your other videos on how hard each school is. Can you do something similar for the Air Force SF pipelines? Everyone sees the fluff side of a certain job, but I’d like to get a picture on how brutal it is.

[@generalissimo1619]

Hey there sir! Could you do more videos about PT it would be quite helpful...

[@thomasesser856]

Yep we had to make those at mountain warfare training in the Marines.

[@roarkm.o.banjonjeffries3713]

And or main it's like Andover Maine but different.

[@emmanuelawosusi2365]

Nice

[@lovaravonimanantsoa8583]

Cool 👍

[@internetrules8522]

i think i actually managed to do this first try (granted, slow try) after watching your video, and saying "air salt, air salt, air salt" as i was doing it.

[@petesheppard1709]

Ah, memories! How tight do you recommend? I was trained to get it as tight as I could. When I was trained, we didn't have locking carabiners, so it was emphasized that the gate had to be up and the hinge closest to the body. THEN, proper roping in was heavily stressed, lest the rope pop the gate and you end up on a 'Polish Rappel', with the rope running straight through and no braking friction...

[@joshlower1]

Bro you know if your nuts don't pop, it ain't tight enough.

[@dc7884]

You should mention the types of carabiners to use for descending. Single actions from autozone are a nogo.

[@jchuck1737]

Sir would you be willing to show military tacticts on your channel like conducting ambush, raids, etc.

[@gokuusf]

One thing he forgot to mention was make sure it's good and tight. If it's comfortable then it's too loose. Make it tight enough to not be comfortable but not so tight you restrict blood flow. IIRC from basic you should only be able to fit a couple fingers under the rope, and test it by slowly lowering your weight on a line while still on safe ground so if it fails you only drop a lil bit on ya butt. It's been like 16 years since I did one of these at Ft. Knox 19D basic (then had to reclass after messing up my back) so thanks for the refresher.

[@DOGFOODACTUAL8541]

Do you prefer the swiss seat over the Ranger seat? I think the swiss is more secure for climbing and rope bridges but the Ranger is quicker for just repelling. From my experience anyway.

[@Izumiuo]

I already know how to tie a swiss seat, but watched it just cause you made a video on it.

[@adolfopiazza242]

It’s been awhile since I’ve done one or used it

[@justsomerandomasian408]

I have the swiss seat entrained in my mind. ik it’s probably annoying to hear but back in jrotc I was in the physical fitness team/raider program & one of the events was a rope bridge. but I was able to get my swiss seat on in under 30 seconds

[@deathkorpswatchmaster2414]

In the raiders A team rn ( got a competition in april) and 30 seconds is great time

[@justsomerandomasian408]

@@deathkorpswatchmaster2414 youre only as fast as your slowest team member. remember that. just because you can do something fast means very little in the grand scheme of things. and also remember slow is smooth and smooth is fast avoid the penalties

[@MojoRevelation]

Can you do one on how to make a ghillie suit? That would be awesome!

[@raymondruz9634]

You should make combat drills/survival videos

[@paivajcm]

Here in Brazil we call it "American seat", the only thing we do different, is the end of the rope Wich is on your rappelling hand goes twisting and following the front knot as the two were the same

[@templarioaph]

In Brazil it's called the Japanese Seat... wonder why. There's 2 differences, though. We do a square knot in the beginning too, instead of just wrapping the rope, and when it's coming around your waste back to the front, we make the right part of the rope go through the ropes that are going down to your private areas. Very simple, very useful, not that comfortable, though

[@barrymoore6642]

Been there and done that many times.

[@willmoore3537]

I absolutely love the content that you put out however I've used this method before and my God this will crush your junk.... That said there are some feasible alternative options out there what else would you suggest???

[@damoneblackman1702]

Would like to add another safety item that was done but not mentioned in the video. Keep the gate of the carabiner towards your body never away, hope that is useful.

[@NFLYoungBoy223]

After the rappel tower in bootcamp I feel like I can do anything I feel like I can complete college

[@jamesking3030]

What would you call that camo?

[@Jayseanderson5]

When I do river crossings in raiders that what he have to do

[@Halo47143]

TTLODAC next?

[@acha5571]

Great video but one little correction. When securing the back side, the two ropes should be tucked through the waist rope from the top instead of the bottom and then over the “butt” rope and out

[@Sean85Laney]

Easy

[@hirumbiffidum9145]

One of the videos I created does show how fix and set up shirt stays for continuous use, but listen to the colonel carefully about safety. I don't think my cheesy trick with electrical tape and blousing garters is such a great idea it CAN malfunction and would be most likely to dangerous being that shirt can snap off and you wouldn't be able to jetisen (discard them) doing something like that.

[@charlesritman1088]

The carabiner looks like it’s on the wrong way isn’t it? I think you want to see the lock screwing downward as you are locking it so vibrations don’t rattle the lock loose / open. Then with it upside down turn facing the opposite way so the gate is away from you where pressure is applied to the spine of the carabiner rather than the gate side. I recall gate sides have 10% of the carabiner strength and spines have 90% for D-shape carabiners. 50-50% for oval shapes.

[@thefunnybuddy4138]

Excellent use of the cap to hide your face.

[@grayow1787]

new vid

[@MrJamesD]

a necessary skill for anyone who spends time on a rope. Regardless if you have enough harnesses for you and your climbing , rapelling, tyrolean traverse , team; you should know how to tie this. Let me elaborate on why. (Gear fails. one harness is none, two is one. {like most essential gear and equipment}) if you need to perform a rescue, extraction, or other task involving rope work, the Swiss Seat is not the most comfortable, but can be tied using rope or webbing in an emergency.

[@erics362]

Face reveal? 🙏

[@shawnsolo5572]

Whooooaaaaa! We did something like this in basic training!!! They didn't tell us what it was called, but it was similar to the "Swiss seat"...only more complicated. The drill sgts; and what's called the "cadre" showed us every little step, and checked us at least 4 times, to make sure the procedure was correct. We repelled from what's called the "warrior tower". It's 40 feet tall, and it's one of the few events in basic training; that can for real fucking kill you, if you're not cautious. I'm sure that theres people who watch this channel, who have never had military experience, so I have to mention there's a saying "embrace the suck"....and trust me-THIS SUCKED (until the end) The ropes were QUITE TIGHT. The lower half of my body was partially numb. Any place where blood could flow- I felt PAIN...those ropes REALLY dig into you. I was one of the last people to repel down the warrior tower, had to use the bathroom, and it was AN HOUR AND A HALF before I reppeled. Patience is a virtue. Once it was my turn, I reppeled; it was dangerous, but fun. I got to take off the bridling ropes, then had one of the BEST pisses EVER😎

[@grayow1787]

pog

[@briancunningham3283]

Lol I remember doing this for repelling for fun and killing time training. We had a few women in our unit and boy you talking about hound dogs. They were meat gazing at all of us lol fair is fair to be honest. This was early 2000s when the government had company's doing homeland defense using the national gaurd. That was a fun week

[@matthewbrandon931]

Good to know. I hope I never have to use it.

[@reallyhappenings5597]

You have to do a video about Ukraine.

[@griffin_5979]

I think I could easily do it with my eyes closed at this point.

[@jasonkav]

Air Assualt!!!! Lol

[@lonewolfx303]

Have you ever saw someone fall at training course because he hasn't tied his rope correctly?

[@Kitsune1989]

And this was the one time I was glad to be female. Apparently the men had a tough time of it. I've heard ball-breaker, anti-child seat, and numerous others. Personally never had a problem with it

[@devinh1611]

Half hitch improper

[@kimreiher2872]

Meters? Ten Feet back in the day

That rope is not orange tho

[@PPPumpkineater]

It's all fun and games until your junk gets pinched when you don't break consistently or fast enough.

[@jamesmiller4515]

Freaking daddy bondage over here..

[@roarkm.o.banjonjeffries3713]

Yep so basically waving yourself a harness. Skydiving 101. Besides the part where you shouldn't have your laundry packed in your deployment shoot that's s h u t e

[@whitedragon007]

Your carabiner is upside down from what I was taught in the military, gate to the bottom always...

[@DevilDog0351]

99.999% of the viewers does not know that the location of your intro is in Bridgeport, CA. home of the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training center. BTW, your seat is waaaay to loose. They need to be real tight to your butt and waist to the point that its almost hard to walk.

[@DAMitAlI]

The priorities of the videos this channel makes is so baffling. You sell a workout program and can’t put a simple video showing the basics of the exercises that are actually useful, I had to go to other channels and still had to guess on two exercises. Then you go and make this? Useless.

[@LifeisaSpecialOperation]

What exercises do you need explained? Please contact me at [e-mail] and I would be happy to explain anything to you.

[@DAMitAlI]

@@LifeisaSpecialOperation I will send an email to you this weekend.

[@joekestel909]

Teaching these lessons to civilians. Could bring you liability for the ones who make a mistake with your lessons and goes splat.

[@loveforever5687]

What's the difference between the Ranger seat and a Swiss seat other than the name? 😂

[@potatokitty]

Thanks