11-21-2014, 10:21 AM | #61 |
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ventura CA
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Climbing
The USMC technique uses legs and arms to do it, I can't imagine doing it quickly enough safely without that technique.
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11-21-2014, 10:26 AM | #62 |
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Climbing
You can't count on every squad having a rope and a grapple when you are clearing a village or going over a hill.
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11-21-2014, 12:09 PM | #63 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Climbing
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I mean, stuff that is done to raise certain sub-attributes and sub-sub-attributes is not necessarily applied 'in the field': e.g. the training of a pole vaulter includes bits and pieces of weightlifting in regimes that are quite different from the stresses experienced during a vault, both in terms of technique and in terms of force magnitudes/durations/directions involved. |
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