US Marine reacts to the Finnish Brutality Competition (Polenar Tactical)

[@varusteleka]

Your pronunciation was pretty much spot on! Hope to see you do the match one day!

[@EvilGNU]

the legends themselves

[@CombatArmsChannel]

I will try to keep my calendar open!

[@pohjantuulet247]

Ngl would be peak epic to see Ian, Varusteleka boys and CAC doing joint-exercise.

[@lasselahti4056]

Gear-sledgehammer

[@lt3742]

Jesus Christ really loves you all but He is going to judge the earth soon! get right with Him NOW. it is possible by repenting from sins!

[@jackoneilsg1]

There's not only Finnish Brutality, but also Desert Brutality, which is organised by InRangeTV & Varusteleka in Arizona, so that might be a bit closer for you than Finland.

[@TheOz91]

Desert Brutality is what starts it all. And I think that like to hold it in Utah, too (this year is done in Utah).

[@RekzysTheTitan]

@@TheOz91 Utah sucks.

[@lucastonoli3256]

@@TheOz91The other way around, Finnish Brutality predates Desert Brutality.

[@Chopstorm.]

@@lucastonoli3256 Desert Brutality has been going on since the mid 2000s. Finnish Brutality is fairly new. Varusteleka actually states on their website that FB has been going on since 2018.

[@lucastonoli3256]

@@Chopstorm. Well, I was wrong, but so are you. The first Desert Brutality started in 2018 too, you can look it up in the official website: "... the first Desert Brutality was held in 2018...". It's a few months of difference between the first Desert Brutality and the first Finnish Brutality, both were sponsored by Varusteleka. The concept isn't anything radically new, there are/were other similar competitions (mostly 2 gun action competitions), just not as popular or "standardized" if you want to call it something.

[@mike9975]

Finnish Brutality was a two day event for the competitors...Range Officers who shot the match did all the 8 stages on one day before the main match. That was rather exhausting. In Finnish Brutalities so far there haven't been weapon specific divisions, just iron sighted and optics and some gear based, Armored etc. You CAN shoot with a bolt gun and revolver if you want to make it harder for you, but no specific awards. The Desert Brutality matches have had more varied divisions, like Classic and Cold war, that placed restrictions on what kind of weapons you could use. Welcome to the Finland for the next Brutality, planned for the next summer. There is also the Woodland Brutality, i think it was in West Virginia next spring.

[@LR-tr5cn]

Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää kaikille 🥳🇫🇮

[@fuzzyhead878]

Is it your guys Independenc Day? Congratulations! From your friends in the USA.

[@einar6229]

@@fuzzyhead878 It was indeed 🤙

[@CimiVEVO]

Hyvä video/ good video

[@moaahlgren5193]

You need to know that the Finnish are made of a harder wood. They keep going no matter the cold. Respectfully /a swede

[@oscarn-]

Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää! You might want to check out for example the Forgotten Weapons or Varusteleka series of this Finnish Brutality, they go over the match idea and the stages better, and Karl has pretty good interview with Varusteleka CEO Jari, who's in charge of this match.

[@waren3015]

I admire the Finns for their SISU!👍🇫🇮

[@0turi]

thanks for making a video on itsenäisyyspäivänä!

[@Hoscitt]

This looks way fun. I need to go to Finland!

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

Wtf

[@brickan2]

When I read SISU on the vehicle I laughed in awe, that is bad ass as fuck.

[@timi1710]

Hardest part is the afterparty with Finns

[@MKitchen75]

so true XD

[@VarvasNukka]

One of the things with the brutality events are that the round count is kept low and if possible, the stages are made so that you could potentially replicate them. The Kasarda drill being the best example of this. All you need is a kettlebell of sufficient mass, something to mark the boundaries like sticks, a target or two and a large enough space to shoot in. And would definitely recommend checking out desert brutality, the stateside sister event to this!

[@EmberTheShark]

Karl even Said He Designes the stages with Stock AK as the benchmark

[@arska77]

Kiitos👍 i have followed Ian, Karl and Varusteleka guys cooperate since beginning. They have been here in Finland many times. Maybe we can see you someday in those competitions and maybe here in Finland too 👍🇫🇮

[@Seek_Grass]

Well the Finnish Brutality is categorised as "SRA" (abbreviation of Sovellettu Reserviläisammunta), translation is something along the lines of 'Applied Reservist Shooting'. Which is why it closely represents "combat drills or scenarios" bit with the extra spice of it being a civilian competition.

[@coolsenjoyer]

FB is partly inspired by SRA, but is not actually in itself SRA

[@pwleppa]

Nice that you remembered the 6th of December. Thank you. You are always welcome to Finland. :)

[@veltsu8870]

Thank you for making this and releasing it in our independence day. Much appreciate mate! Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää! I have to say it thought, i've never heard of this Polenar Tactical.

[@awmperry]

You could always attend the Desert Brutality competitions they have out in Arizona or wherever. :-D As for the stock, the cold could have made the metal more brittle. It’s getting nippy here in the Nordic lands. ;) The Kasarda drill, by the way - with the kettle bell - the idea is to throw and shoot alternately for a specific length of time. Yeeting just makes you run further. :-p

[@herrakaarme]

No, the kind of cold that humans can survive for any length of time does nothing at all to the usual metals (not counting here some exotic metals liquid at RT). In general, extreme cold making metal brittle like ice only happens in Hollywood movies. Polymers, of course, could be a different thing. However, if you are designing a weapon, you wouldn't use any type of material that can't handle a bit of cold weather.

[@awmperry]

Sssssh, don't tell him that! 😛

[@b-beale1931]

The more marks you pass on the kasarda drill the better, there's like time taken off for each stick passed I think

[@Aquelll]

I love Finnish Brutality because in the end it is about fun. Funny hats are an integral part of it. 😏

[@jediknight129]

man I want to do this event more and more every video I watch, training goals for after the amputation, the Kasarda drill is brutal, Karl is a sick sick mind.

[@peartree8338]

Adidas three stripes where purchased by Adidas from the Finnish sports company Karhu. So basically a finnish uniform 😄 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karhu_(sports_brand)

[@veli-pekkakultanen2353]

That is a fact. Three stripes were once Karhu sportswear.

[@jaeger233]

thank you for this. its our independence day

[@sh4dowchas3r]

The theme for this one was the Continuation War, earlier this year there had been a planned one which had the theme of the Winter War and it was properly snowy, but that match turned into more of a demo by just a handful of competitors due to restrictions due to the virus. The flashlight on the Bloke's Bushmaster was part of the requirements for the division he was in. The stage times par times are all 180 seconds so for the Kasada drill you just keep going for the whole time, or until you can't keep going any more. The stage 8 spinner was particularly stiff according I think it was the Bloke on one of the videos from the event - maybe on InRange

[@einar6229]

So many reasons why I love your channel/videos, such a good natured, down to earth guy, an absolute good hearted gem you are and always a pleasure to watch, thank you for your work, truly 🤙

[@CombatArmsChannel]

Cheers brother 🤙

[@ReijoRitari]

I think one of main reasons why that buttstock broke is because it's AR-style collapsing stock where buffertube makes it more ridgid where as in AK there is no tube going into that stock so it's empty and only connected to end of the gun with few screws, and if it's plastic... well plastic is plastic.

[@Dumber0]

loved watching this.

[@thespokenword6456]

The Water Obstacles remind me of some Phys we did at Chatham Barracks. Once we had gotten through the majority of the session, they took us to the obstacle course to the water-filled tank traps and had us jump in. The only issue was that it was several degrees below zero and we had to jump through the ice. Once we were all in there, they had us answer questions on Drills and Corps history and every time we got one wrong, that was a full squat :D within about 30 seconds we were just giving the dumbest answers to the questions so we could get more squats! The PTI's loved that, thought we were nuts :D

[@MAAP2920]

These guys and girls are mastershooters, even in distress they hit the target.

[@Joshua-ei7lo]

Being a Finn myself living here in the US I can vouch they are build differently in finland!

[@leka34]

Any plans on attending some of the stateside Brutality matches InRange organizes? There's Woodland Brutality in West Virginia some time in the spring, and probably a Desert Brutality in Arizona later in the next year. The weird bullpup Mike (Bloke From The Range) is using is a Bushmaster M17S. He talked about it in some of his own videos. Definitely check out InRangeTV if you like this style of competition shooting. Karl has his own videos from this and many other matches he has shot and organized. IMO you also get a better sense of the stages because they aren't as heavily edited.

[@RogiTbf]

i think he's stationed in asia iirc

[@leka34]

@@RogiTbf He was, now in the States though.

[@RogiTbf]

@@leka34 aw sweet, wasn't sure when he returned

[@CombatArmsChannel]

Yeah hopefully I can make an event at some point

[@TheOz91]

@@CombatArmsChannel I wanna see how you'd deal with the spinner target which had been consistently talked about as one of the most difficult target to clear under time stress

[@demonofthemojave7689]

I know Ian from Forgotten Weapons said that at Finnish Brutality they do not paint the targets. Which is most likely why he couldnt see the targets even with the magnified optic. The targets just blend into the background

[@sleigh4019]

I live in Maine ..weapons manipultions in the cold suck..either gloves witch kinda suck or cold hands

[@herra5153]

Thanks for this vid. 🇫🇮

[@thamor4746]

You pronounced "Varusteleka" very well, was impressed as a finnish person.

[@E3W2A]

It is now three events every year. Finnish Brutality, Desert Brutality in Arizona and starting in 2022 a Woodland Brutality in West Virginia. All are hosted by Varusteleka in Finland, InRange TV in Arizona, and Pegasus Tests in West Virginia. I believe they all compete at all the events best of my knowledge. I know all three know each other and have competed with each other. Woodland Brutality will be in May 2022.

[@chrismartinez8393]

Do you have a link?

[@E3W2A]

@@chrismartinez8393 unfortunately I don't. I've seen the promotions but not info as to how to sign up thus far.

[@chrismartinez8393]

@@E3W2A Thanks for trying anyways

[@radzik662]

You must watch when they go to Polish Light Infantry Compatition in this year, the competition in Poland take 36 h🤣

[@thounilo]

It was fun watching this with you, never seen this before

[@splinterrad1963]

I Watched it last year. Some u tubers i like were in it. It encompassed some of the day to day rigors of a soldier, not just shooting. I like your stuff as well. Maybe try and go next year.

[@zewalon]

So about Finnish Brutality. I have been military my whole life been there once and that thing took the living hell out of me. Do not try at home but i recommend it.

[@Tounushi]

"Big spark where his ejection port is" Unspent propellant burning during ejection. Happens.

[@mightyfinland8118]

Both the pronounciation and event are very solid!

[@reht1]

Hyvää itsenäisyys päivää! 🇫🇮

[@Dev_Six]

This specific weekend the competition was on had a strange weather of rain, snow, and everything in between. If you intend to come to Finland, could offer ya a beer or some such.

[@lenzikka]

@CombatArmsChannel Are you planning on checking / reacting this years competition? Some 140+ participants there I think and almost tougher event even

[@Enterperse]

AUK 1/07 coastal brigade here. That bit where they got wet brought back so many memories of pure hell. Good stuff to watch on my day off in a comfy chair.

[@AllenKamp-p8m]

Some things about Finland that you should tell your audience. Finnish is not an Indo-European language. It is similar to Hungarian and Turkish. Finns are not Scandinavian. My Norwegian grandparents and great aunts and uncles regarded a Finn and a Norwegian couple as “mixed”. Finnish was invaded in WWII by the Soviet Union. The Finns did a credible job resisting. Then the allied with Germany. They did lose 10% of their territory. Finns are a tough people who hate the Russians. Finland is a great place to visit. Helsinki has great architecture.

[@BenjaminWeimer]

its over 2 days, but the ROs does it in 1, the kettle bell is 20 kg, the hypothermia patch was for everyone that did the water trench,

[@ottohonkala6861]

Thanks for the Independence day shout-out to Finland. God Bless the USA.

[@matkahenkilo8554]

Nice! Thanks! The remote brutality stage is easy to recreate. Instructions and inspiration is easy to find if you search it. And if you don't have a kettlebell you can use a rock, or Vickers ammo can 😉

[@sh4dowchas3r]

Rich from the Vickers MG Assoc was a lunatic for trying it with his Vickers gun on it's tripod.

[@ronprichard6145]

All that snow reminds me of training in New Zealand. The training must have worked because none of us got frostbite in Vietnam.

[@greencreekranch]

Karl said, the stages are designed, so they can be completed with an iron sighted ak, as that is sort of the minimal setup people are currently running successfully in combat, but hard enough, that you can tell the advantages of more capable setups. Seems like Jari follows the same philosophy. Thats why the ranges are relatively short for the most part. The reason the targets are hard to pick up has more to do with the color. While in three gun you often have red or orange Targets, in Brutality matches they mostly are grey, which is hard to pick up on greyish backdrops. Also your glass may be pretty dirty by the time you actually get to shoot

[@pamelakilponen3682]

I live close to the Varusteleka shop, I buy lots of things for my husband there. Great socks, the best.

[@TelaKalleoy]

heartbeat monitor on side of the film would be awsom....

[@samspencer582]

I like your videos and that you make so many about Finnish Defense forces is so great.

[@ETRTriad]

"My vagina is freezing" 😂😂😂!

[@wittsullivan8130]

They didn't get to change clothes between stages. Ian said he was more comfortable wearing a kilt with wool socks because everyone else had wet, soggy, cold, and clammy pants legs after going through the pool party stage. His kilt and legs dried in no time in front of a heater.

[@mahbriggs]

The Scots come from a wet and cold country! They learned how to keep warm.

[@victoralexanderkangas8756]

Functional reservist shooting competitions usually have two different classes, open class (use whatever red dot or other sights you like) and regular class (iron sights only), it will show in the results but otherwise bring whatever guns you like and the course is the same, dont know if leka has different rules to it but this is how these competitions generally would be divided. Thank you for recognizing our nation, i personally really appreciate a marine taking time to post so much content about us.

[@Xenophaige_reads]

If you watch a brutality match on inRange. It is presented by the person who started the brutality matches with more explanation.

[@mattiaseriksson6422]

Check out finnish brutality 2019 and 2018 if you want to see Rudy Reyes in action

[@mjolnir72]

Cool. Nice vid, by the way, I was the range officer at stages ”contact front” and ”escape from tarkov”

[@Xerdoz]

It's a two-day event and yea, it's not a super serious event. Atleast not for most participants. You could try Desert Brutality in the US if you can get to Arizona. Wouldn't have to worry about cold.

[@tapioperala3010]

That was actually pretty good pronunciation, actually. Much better than I thought :P

[@jankrusat2150]

The guy with the Mosin-Nagant was probably the "Chap" from "Bloke on the Range". He came dressed in WW2 Winter War gear. His friend, the "Bloke", as a former british Army officer, at one time, dressed in British WW2 gear, with a Lee Enfield.

[@BenjaminWeimer]

Yay.

[@MrMasapoika]

As a fin, you pronounced "Varusteleka" almost fluently :-)

[@reht1]

That Adidas guy is my favorite 🙌

[@MelenaSweB2]

Great React Vid 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🎄❄️☃️Havnt seen this ever or didnt know it so- great!!! They were fun n great!! Great Channel as always ⭐️💫☃️❄️🎄🙏🏻👍🏼🌟👋🏼😃👍🏼

[@andrewrobertson3894]

The Gopnik in the tracky was a beast with his open sights

[@markomakela2360]

Oh man Mr Combat Arms! If you ever come here, I would definitely want to witness that. People are polite to foreigners and everything works as a clock or Glock:) And very cool touch there to know our Independence day. As we are a quite small country anyway!

[@MikkoRantalainen]

This kind of sand is very common in Finland and that's why Finnish Defence Forces have their custom made RK-62 and RK-95 rifles. Basically a top quality AK-47 design which works in snow and sand and still shoots accurately.

[@stas7378]

You should definitely react to their infantry competition video. It's way more combat orientated.

[@Pappa_66]

Thank you for this great reaction! Have you checked Finnish soldier Olavi Alakulppi? A Three war officer and US Army Lieutenant Colonel, Korean War veteran.

[@vamsterr]

Desert Brutality would deffs be something you should try and go to. they have all kinds of classes from a more Open-do what you want_ class to stuff where you must wear armor and helmets, Classes that run old school/period correct gear

[@fisharefriends598]

They doing it in t shirt base layers and no gloves… they are seriously used to the cold

[@pukinsarvi.studio]

Good stuff. Hyvää menoa #varusteleka !!!

[@Joonatan75]

i think you would get used to the snow pretty quickly. In Finland, it's dark in the winter and the snow helps with how you move, etc. When I was the so-called the end of the war in 1999 i was. 48- celsius degrees what is Fahrenheit 118.4 degrees Fahrenheit.. So they complained about a little snow and a little frost. ;)

[@kimie7479]

Awesome vid!

[@BulldogMack700rs]

The guy with the funky rifle is Bloke on the range, he tends to turn up to these wearing vintage issue kit and weapons along with Ian. cos you know it's not difficult enough so throw in some 50s pouches and wool uniform just to make your life even harder.

[@septimor32]

Hyvää joulua From Finland!

[@sterdi7344]

well the brutality part is spot on

[@AnnaMarianne]

Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää!

[@MikkoRantalainen]

I'd recommend reacting to year 2023 video by Polenar Tactical, too. That's 50 minutes worth of awesome editing and you get much better idea about the tasks they need to do. (The title of the video is "Finnish Brutality - best shooting competition in the world".)

[@Dr.H.Marmot]

A new video was just released by The Finnish Defence Forces combat camera, It's called "Maa ja sen voimat" :D Would love to see you react to it :)

[@Betoniporsas75]

Hieno video tähän iltaan, hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää!

[@psttech4290]

not 100% sure but that bullpup looks like the old bushmaster m17 the aussies used back in the 90s

[@Joshua-ei7lo]

Get use to a sauna! I had to build one my self here in the US

[@sepposavinainen2660]

Different weapons means they are reserve. Finnish use AK 62, 95 and their variants. 7,62mm But nice vid :D

[@peartree8338]

Oh and Theo...she was behaving when she mentioned her frozen body part. Finns tend to "color" their language quite a lot. 😂 Makes our innocent swedish ears burn bright red.

[@peartree8338]

Polenar Tactical are from Slovenia however. Can't make excuses for them. 😂😂😂

[@leka34]

Manca is Slovenian though.

[@CombatArmsChannel]

😅

[@chongxina8288]

I guess it was these sort of guys that gave the Russians a hard time in WW2. Skiing around ⛷ Gettin the White Death to snipe doods. Scary stuffs.

[@whitesage3448]

They gave both the Soviets and the Nazis a hard time

[@ThaStrum]

@Combat Arms Channel Tickets are for sale if you want to attend.

[@lasselahti4056]

"Varusteleka" in English is kinda brutal also: "GearSledgehammer" (

[@lasselahti4056]

Oh. And that truck

[@lasselahti4056]

Combat Arms Channel, try this finnish pronounce: "Ärrän kierrän ympäri orren, ässän pistän taskuun." R must be said like in old english. Want to see video of that! OR "Vesihiisi sihisi hississä" :O)

[@LuGer212]

As god as Ziga and all the other ran - the camera man, the walking beast: Jan. So, soooo good at all times that dude

[@archer721]

😎👍retired 3BDE2ID- SBCT... thats a tough run! Would have been a lot of fun to do 20 years ago!... but too old and broken to play like that anymore!

[@Miku-2020]

It's terrible but great experience. sounds just like my Scout experiences.

[@xyuxyuxyus5510]

The brutality is having a week or two in the forest, keeping up the guards and getting a sleep deprivation of the third kind, and after that doing a hardcore orienteering drill in a competitive way. Before the finishing line, our team leader was out and was puking in the swamp. Just standing and puking. We carried him across the finish line. That's just conscription service, basic stuff. It was nasty and demanding in so many ways. But I see the point of that training now.

[@MrBanaanipommi]

cheers from finland!

[@Nevis1988]

BTW Ya should check some "SRA" videos too to check "normal" SRA-competitions :)

[@kirby1225]

that water must've been freezing, holy shit i would've stood there still for a few minutes before i could even move

[@Wijammi]

Im from finland

[@victoreem2]

please go to finnish brutality 2022 🥳

[@TheJere213]

I gotta say the polenar guys always have amazing camerawork