AUTHORITY
GRU special forces officer Sergei Nikolaevich Badiuk was born on July 3 on 1970 in the Shargorod district of the Vinnitsa region of Ukraine. In 1988-1990 He served in the military special service brigade of the GRU 8. After finishing his service, he entered the Higher School of the KGB, continuing his service in the FSB of Russia.
The master of martial arts of Russia, the owner of 8 is given to karate Kyokushin-Budokaykan, 5 is given by IKO, the master of sports of the USSR in kettlebell lifting and hand-to-hand fighting. Conducts master classes in hand-to-hand fighting at the Academy of the FSB of Russia.
The special forces recruits are recruited with the note: "Fit for airborne troops." These are physical conditions slightly higher than average (height does not matter) and (preferably) at least the first category in military-applied sports: running, parachuting, shooting or hand-to-hand combat. Well, since the main task of the GRU is intelligence, and the main muscle of a scout is the head, it is welcome if it has been pumped at school, college or institute. In addition, the special forces must have five basic qualities.
The Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation leads history from 1918 year. Engaged in all types of intelligence in the interests of the Armed Forces - undercover, space, radio electronic. The number and budget are classified.
GRU spetsnaz was created in 1950 year, the tasks of the divisions are reconnaissance in the deep rear of the enemy, counterintelligence, sabotage activities, the destruction of terrorists. The divisions of the GRU special forces played a huge role in the Afghan war and in operations on the territory of the Chechen Republic. At the moment - the most closed and possibly the most efficient unit of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Caution
Intelligence has the right to select a soldier from any part. When we recruit soldiers for special forces, we are sure to ask the boy with a question - what does he need in special forces? If you want to become a Hero of Russia - send to such a mother. No, he will definitely become a hero, but posthumously. And bury along with the whole group. Crazy is needed only when pressed to the wall. Then, shouting “Hurray!” He took the machine gun and ran to die. Victory is when you quietly complete the task and return alive.
From the first day a soldier who got into the special forces starts to drive the main commandment into his head (with words, hands, feet): you are the coolest. This is an important point of psychological preparation. And you believe it. If not, they will send to serve in the infantry. You shoot round the clock, run like a horse, you are constantly beaten. Beat is not in the sense of hazing and mayhem that is going on in the army. No “bring-serve” no. It's just that you are moving around the barracks, like on enemy territory. Or they can weigh the crack in the mouth, or they mine a bed - they put a stretch, or a noose around the neck is calculated. These are our jokes. This is normal. It makes you think, listen, look, be on the alert. Touch unfamiliar or, in principle, bright things wean quickly: here is a key ring with keys on the table, and under it an improvised explosive device, grabbed the keys - you can be left without a hand. After six months of service, your eyes aren’t growing up; you even sleep so lightly that you wake up at a glance. I still wake up.
Endurance
The paratrooper's bread is his legs. Because since the moment the intelligence group was detected, according to statistics, it will be caught up and destroyed in 6 hours. Out of breath? You remain to cover the whole group. I know a case when a guy in a combat situation said that he can no longer run. He left almost all the ammunition and ran on. That's how they become heroes. You do not have to be a master of hand-to-hand combat, but you must run like a race mare.
The first month in the special forces fighter sleeps 4 hours - less can not according to the statute. The rest of the 20 watch he injects. In 6 am rise. Quietly give stand up, wash, do stretching. There is no need to believe films, there is no hurry in the spirit of “putting yourself in order while the match is burning”. Then - put on knapsacks and ran. Lazy, most importantly, do not go to the sports step. Lazy does not mean calm. The commander constantly gives introductory tasks. Now we have an ambush, then shooting, so running is always in a tattered rhythm: with somersaults, crawling, walking with a goose step. After jogging - physical training, special tactical exercises, hand-to-hand combat. And so every day.
The endurance and stability of the psyche of a fighter who deigns to serve in the GRU special forces, is checked “at the races”. Horse racing look like. A group of soldiers is driven into the woods on 7-8 days without provisions. Commanders who change every 12 hours drive soldiers through the forest and keep them awake at all. Before losing consciousness, vomiting and other joys. Who could not stand it - goes "over the fence", that is, to the troops. Thus many people are eliminated. Horse racing is held every six months, it is something like an exam.
Determination
When a group of recruits begins to be shot from the bushes with blank ammunition at the time of entering the forest, panic begins among the fighters. It is curable. The best cure for panic is hand-to-hand fighting. The fighter is dressed in defense, put up against an order of magnitude stronger and more experienced fighter - and beaten. This is how the fighting character and determination to go to the end is formed. Do not confuse this with non-statutory relations, the soldier is always given the opportunity to fight back. Even so: a soldier who does not fight back - goes "over the fence." The peculiarity of the special forces hand-to-hand combat is that any fight comes down to one thing - to destroy the enemy. We do not have operations to apprehend dangerous criminals, we have a war. Hence the special forces ’motto:“ Only idiots fight with their bare hands ”. First of all, soldiers are taught to use available tools: machine gun, knife, sticks, stones, fragments of bottles, pieces of glass, tightly folded newspaper. Now we are sitting with you in a cafe, talking. Before me are two deadly weapons - my beer mug and your kettle of tea. I first scald your face with tea, then with a blow to the temple I would break your head with this kettle. With a mug is even simpler: you break it on the table and cut the neck with a broken edge. We have one task - to inflict fatal injuries, and this is exactly the region of the head and neck.
And only then, when they mastered all the essentials, they train a very compact set of percussion equipment.
In addition to hand-to-hand combat, spetsnaz has a whole range of “boldness exercises.” In our unit, for example, we used exercises with a rat. A big rat was launched into the washstand and the naked fighter was locked with it. The task of such a date - to strangle the rat. When the rat has nowhere to go, it starts attacking. And this is a real tin. In short, if you can beat her with your bare hands, you are no longer afraid of any person.
Aggression
The main thing in a soldier is aggression. The commando is afraid of the sergeant more than the enemy. And to the enemy runs with a clear desire to devour him. During classes in hand-to-hand combat, blood is not complete. Sergeants deliberately inflict injury on the fighter. A fighter must get used to the blood, let's say, satan. You are probably used to engage in the gym under energetic music? For a fighter, the best soundtrack is the three-story mate of its commander. In a state of such cruel pressure, the feelings are aggravated so that everything invested in a soldier for six months remains with him for life. This is not 15 years in light mode to go to workouts, and then become a world champion. A paratrooper is immersed in a state of war and makes him feel a real threat to life - and this is his advantage. Here you have the answer to the question, what the hell to calm down three drunken paratroopers, cause a company of riot police. The secret is in psychological readiness to kill a person.
Here, of course, there is an important social problem. Objectively, what is not in our country is the rehabilitation centers after the army. We carry out our task, prepare the fighter, he is serving, but after returning home, he cannot adapt to a peaceful life.
Cleanliness
In spetsnaz paranoia about hygiene. Since intelligence is constantly outside the point of deployment, the fighters are obliged to keep themselves clean in all conditions. Any fighter, arriving at the location, must first wash the uniform and change into a clean one. Whatever shit you crawl in, be kind to the task of getting yourself in order. I do not remember that any of our fighters ever hurt. Apparently, this is also because of the psychological attitude. There was a story when I, as a young soldier, at the training exit were accidentally cut my head with a grenade launcher. Me, the wounded, just in the mud, dragged two hours through the swamp. We went to the river, washed our heads, bandaged it, and that was all, no infection to you. Contrary to logic, the soldier does not get sick - never!
PRINCIPLES OF TRAININGS
The bulk of the time the special forces soldier is outside the points of permanent deployment. Accordingly, all physical training is based on the use of available tools during training. The main thing in training is the development of endurance and the preservation of strength as long as possible. And you, if you do not guess yourself, endurance is useful, for example, when you are going to the mountains or to the bike ride.
So, the workouts are daily, the course is not designed, as usual, for six or eight weeks. Work will need at least a year. You will be surprised, but I joined the army - weighed 86 kg (my height is 190 cm), and after three months the scales showed 103 kg! And all this within the framework of the program that is now before you. And yes, the special forces have one diet - to eat more.
Fighter training is based on four pillars:
1. Jogging and crawling
10 km every day. On Sundays, we sometimes have a “sports festival” - run 40 km. But while you are not in the army, you can rest on Sunday. Remember, the fighter runs 10 km in less than an hour in full display (additional 50 kg). Running must alternate with creeps. They work well on small groups of muscles and ligaments. There are three ways: in belligeoning, on the back and passing the minefield (the fighter lay down, felt the bumps with his hands, pulled himself forward, again felt the bumps. If something on the surface is suspicious, it shifts to the side).
2. Circuit training
In the Ryazan Airborne School at the special department of physical training proved that the highest level of strength endurance gives precisely circular training. The principle was borrowed from the Soviet boxing and sambo schools. Circuit training develops endurance, explosive power, “dries” and raises anger to the authorities. The number of repetitions in any exercise - until the sergeant is bored.
Standard training takes 40 minutes. After the mentioned 10-kilometer run, rest for 5 minutes, then do the 5-6 circles in which the exercises are performed one after the other without rest. Rest between the circles - 5 minutes. The standard special forces circle looks like this:
Push ups on fingers (20 repetitions)
Jump (10 replays)
Fist pushups (30 reps)
Jump (10 replays)
Push ups on fingers (5 repetitions)
Jump (10 replays)
Fist pushups (30 reps)
At the end of each circle swing press to failure. You can also include training throwing stones (see the photo).
3. Constant load
The principle in the army is one - a constant daily load. That is, on the day you have to do a certain (constantly growing) number of pushups on your fists, a certain number of times to press the press, pull up with a wide grip, etc. You can not do it for one workout - collect the amount per day. This is a constant combat readiness. In addition, during the day, do isometric exercises with a belt on the system of Alexander Sass (see photo).
4. Hand-to-hand fight
Hands Side left and side right of the boxing technique. Direct attacks are very difficult to teach to hit hard, I almost never saw for my entire service of fighters who beat direct well. Such a blow requires the highest level of training. We proceed from the assumption that we need to quickly and well prepare a fighter. Since there are no restrictions, under this side impact can bring a bunch of varieties and variants. He beats from all positions and angles. Moreover, it is desirable to first strike the enemy in the throat. In the melee beat elbows. We knock out the knockout force of the exercises with a sledge hammer (see the photo)
Legs The whole technique of kicks in the special forces is reduced to one thing - a strong blow to the groin. Here you are not a sports ground.
Head Turn on the head (and turn off the brain for a while) in melee combat. We beat the upper frontal part solely in the nose. With the capture of the back beat in the nose with the head.
Stalling Here for this exercise strength and grip. Dumped the enemy due to the strength of the hands - hit the back of the head like a soccer ball, or step on the throat.
Before stepping on a soldier, the OFFICER CAM MUST Squeeze out five times his size.
When the rat has nowhere to go, it attacks. kill it with your bare hands - no one is afraid of you.
Special Purpose Training
In a state of cruel pressure, feelings are sharpened so that everything invested in a soldier for six months remains with him for life.
carrying the wounded
Himself die, and help out a comrade - the main principle in the army. An indispensable element of training - two fighters dragging the "wounded." I was lucky in the army, I was the hardest, so they carried me all the time.
The sergeant commands: "The wrench was wounded! We carry!" - and so every day.
jumps
Jumping up from a sitting position with a pop. It strengthens calves and ankles very well. It is caviar that gives stamina when running and is responsible for the impact force - it is from them that any shock movement begins.
A paratrooper is always visible in the calves - they should be like a horse.
stones
Throwing stones perfectly trains a jerk for a strong throw. Find a couple of heavy stones and put them on the platform where you will train every day. After each round of training, do a few throws, then hold the stones in your outstretched hands for a few seconds.
belt
In the army, there is no time to make a technical fighter. The main thing - to make it strong, using what is always at hand, a belt, for example. We take an army belt and try to break it: right, left, gap behind. The delay is a maximum of 6-7 seconds on the 3 approach on each hand. It is important not to hold your breath, otherwise the heart is overloaded. Exercises give a monstrous increase in strength. Perform them after a circular workout.
Hand-to-hand fight
Hands Side left and side right of the boxing technique. Direct attacks are very difficult to teach to hit hard, I almost never saw for my entire service of fighters who beat direct well. Such a blow requires the highest level of training. We proceed from the assumption that we need to quickly and well prepare a fighter. Since there are no restrictions, under this side impact can bring a bunch of varieties and variants. He beats from all positions and angles. Moreover, it is desirable to first strike the enemy in the throat. In the melee beat elbows. We knock out the knockout force of the exercises with a sledgehammer
Legs The whole technique of kicks in the special forces is reduced to one thing - a strong blow to the groin. Here you are not a sports ground
Head Turn on the head (and turn off the brain for a while) in melee combat. We beat the upper frontal part solely in the nose. With the capture of the back beat in the nose with the head.
Stalling Here for this exercise strength and grip. Dumped the enemy due to the strength of the hands - hit the back of the head like a soccer ball, or step on the throat.
sledgehammer
Beats a sledgehammer - it's about special forces. It is with a sledgehammer that we train the knockout power of the blow. It is better to take a sledgehammer with a welded handle so as not to fly off the cutting. The work is carried out on a recumbent or dug tire. Three basic exercises: hit the top, left, right. A sledgehammer puts into operation all the muscles that are involved in any type of stroke (side, uppercut, top) and any type of throw. For each exercise on the 3 approach and on the 10 repetitions.
