Why So Few Actually Survive Navy SEAL Training - MrBallen

[@ChrisWillx]

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[@adamb2358]

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

[@Justinsox39]

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

[@PS-en7wn]

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

[@raymondqiu8202]

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]

@@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]

Can you even train for that?

[@d1heat206]

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

[@mattk751]

the background and lighting - wowzer

[@simonmakgoba2466]

almost through that was real though

[@Mountains4ever]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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]

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

[@DougCanney1]

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

[@AdrijanoJ]

Goggins: I missed the part where thats my problem.

[@slantythecamel]

Didn’t Goggins fail his first attempt?

[@AdrijanoJ]

@@slantythecamel yes

[@lazye2360]

It was due to medical reasons tho

[@miskaiso-heiniemi7641]

@@slantythecamel he failed the first 2 actually

[@aaroncrandal]

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

[@tylermontoya408]

Underrated comment!!! Agreed 100%

[@joeb2]

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]

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]

So all mothers are Navy Seals? 😳

[@sofakingmoney4010]

Try being a firefighter with young kids

[@romeosly4341]

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

[@tubu1ar86]

That is the most badass backdrop I've ever seen in an interview to date

[@Diditin81]

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 ".

[@ChannelForty2]

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

[@DreAmDocTa]

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

[@ethaneveraldo]

Because he failed the first 2 times

[@doliague2590]

​@@ethaneveraldo Failed because he didnt really have time to prepare properly but he never quit, just got rolled

[@dangifford2710]

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

[@leighboardman184]

I met you in Norfolk, Va years ago at a book signing. I thought you looked familiar. It's great to see you doing amazing things. Keep it up, babe!

[@sunnni_]

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

[@jordynmiller7383]

Women are actually able to be SEALs now 😊

[@sunnni_]

@@jordynmiller7383 REALLY??? Wow, thats amazing. I doubt I would want to now that I'm older but thank you for telling me 😊

[@alghanekar313]

the first female graduated BUD/S in 2022 i think. They opened it to women in 2015

[@mehitabel1290]

And did you make it?

[@sunnni_]

@ at the time no, it wasn’t available. So I had to let go of that dream. But I found out you can now but I no longer want to be a seal

[@parkerj1232]

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]

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

[@buernorboye-doe8513]

😂​@@Creddz69

[@garydelgaudio5364]

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 !

[@JCrashB]

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.

[@estebanguerra2573]

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

[@Treevors30]

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

[@AntiMason]

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.

[@smitty1218]

Dude I watch videos of BUDS and it makes me exhausted just watching. This is by far the hardest job in the world, no argument.

[@boxofpears2]

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.

[@DrukMax]

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

[@JoshuaFlashman-oc3wm]

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

[@crazyralph6386]

Apparently French Legionaires ain’t no walk in the park either? More like 10k hikes in the Alps 😂

[@MrSpeedyAce]

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]

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]

@@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!)

[@Hawk-mb6em]

Sick backdrop Chris

[@jbirdtristar1]

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!

[@xusmico187]

SOF vetting is for a reason. If ypu die during training you would die on operations. It is made to fine weakness and actual physical problems that will affect your performance on ops. FOR A REASON...

[@justinbowen1183]

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.

[@DanielTee3001]

5:30 I am sticking that on the wall.

[@xtrachillisauce]

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

[@MsRotorwings]

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

[@j9717j]

Don't underestimate coming up with a comic every day after hard work and no sleep....

[@Treevors30]

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

[@ramsfan1st43]

The past two years I worked nightshift. Meetings during the day, plus kids, and a free loading "wife". Five days with two hours sleep total was normal. At the end of the week you are broken. I'd come home Saturday mornings, and by lunch I'm asleep...until 6AM Sunday morning. Did that for two years, and aged 20. Get some sleep guys, you turn into a basket case if you don't. No job or woman is worth your health...they won't even respect your efforts.

[@markb3451]

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.

[@DaRKfire-yz5im]

You forgot about the cans of Copenhagen for the instructors

[@SupremeBossMan]

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]

What class?

[@SupremeBossMan]

@@JosephJoJoFlores 230, 1996

[@Dhdjdjsjdjsjk]

Not even close man boss from 234?

[@SupremeBossMan]

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

[@Dhdjdjsjdjsjk]

@@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]

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

[@donk3ysmash]

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

[@thelifeofpieman]

Buds isn’t just hell week.

[@Jackmerius_Tacktheritrix5733]

BUDS is 6 months

[@shantanusapru]

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]

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

[@shantanusapru]

@@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]

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

[@shantanusapru]

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

[@18MikeMitchell18]

@@shantanusaprulol no one coming to India for elite soldiers

[@captzoom1778]

He must be talking about other portions of buds where they get to go home at night during hell week they can't otherwise they would all sleep

[@Dziaji]

This is awesome. So glad that I subbed recently!

[@jackwuotila4895]

Is this a green screen? This is crazy cool.

[@OhNoNotAgain42]

Nobody ever told us about drawing comics and prepping the copy machine. Where’s the bell?

[@trailrunner9113]

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

[@Hey.its.Lala95]

I knew Mr.Ballen. Was badass

[@user540000]

wut, they let him live of base during BUDS? im actually pretty shocked

[@joshhonaker3085]

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

[@Golden_Frieza_TO]

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

[@CornPop2]

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

[@mattmoose1]

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

[@Hey.its.Lala95]

😂😂

[@crystalken]

Hell week? Completed it mate...

[@niallfitzpatrick6568]

You've dated an irish woman then...

[@donk3ysmash]

Alright Jay 😂

[@burneraccount9359]

they had em doing pledge tasks 🤣🤣

[@JosephJoJoFlores]

Yeup the not sleeping is annoying lol

[@baravi1917]

This guy is a seal? Whooaaaa

[@Jetblackt120]

Oh jeez … gimme a break!

[@Mark70775]

The background is fucking bonkers

[@DollyPocket]

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

[@LC-in5or]

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

[@anorourke8682]

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

[@Dhdjdjsjdjsjk]

Almost every delta operator rn has been on a podcast bud

[@deathfire096]

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

[@Dhdjdjsjdjsjk]

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

[@deathfire096]

@@Dhdjdjsjdjsjk I know. LOL.

[@grifo3310]

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

[@distancejunkiemonkey4491]

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

[@Dhdjdjsjdjsjk]

Gets more people

[@kodeshministry4612]

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

[@sammyh2708]

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

[@Bbqluv7]

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

[@billpoole8541]

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!

[@Mitchell162]

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

[@Sidelinefighter-expert]

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

[@cruseodoyo8098]

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

[@18MikeMitchell18]

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

[@Dhdjdjsjdjsjk]

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

[@carlcounts1]

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

[@Dhdjdjsjdjsjk]

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

[@1ice3690]

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]

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

[@treeherder2201]

Embrace the suck.

[@warrenhaven2216]

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

[@warrenhaven2216]

Nvm totally see it now.

[@lamartruth6601]

What does the type look like to you?

[@7891jjkk]

that's the point

[@bogdan0402]

For some reason I don't like his energy

[@andriesbritz6061]

Nobody asked .lol

[@mr.smithsgovermentclass4556]

Thanks for sharing

[@checkdown3774]

Try working for a living.

[@robertcummins1437]

Wow you sound like you really suffered in training? No disrespect to U.S. service people but you seem like being a seal is easy. I did my military training in the U.K. trained on the brecon beacons,sleep deprivation done it cold hard hell you really give special ops a bad name. John.Then you talk about the stress of making you tube video's. What the F. I wish you could have trained with me back in the day would love to see you deal with that? And getting to go home in training my god that is one cushy number, bet you wife ironed your kit for you to make it easier for you too.Well here you are playing on being a navy seal, now your worth millions. Other Seals just do their service and don't make issue with it. Plus i believe Navy Seal training is in a nice warm place from your account Virginia beach?

[@tiomoidofangle102]

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

[@deathalid342]

Go through hell week and say that.

[@sym3690]

🤓

[@donk3ysmash]

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

[@raymondqiu8202]

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

[@sym3690]

He does look cool tho

[@michaelraines93]

1st ya gotta want to. I never wanted to. Content to be bosnmate!