I've never been great at rope climbing, but have been doing pull-ups and push-ups daily. Anyone who has been through the school have any advice or pointers for conquering this obstacle? Don't want to be a "no-go" on zero day because I can't get up the rope; the last guy the unit sent had this happen to him.

Remove the two plus signs in front.

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For rope climbing as they said in the article it helps to practice and learn how to use your feet. If you look at the picture and visually scale it to people it's really not that much rope to climb.

If you need to work on your upper body strength for pulling up, lat pull-downs and losing weight are two strategies I would employ if I was waiting for the school.

My technique was lame and I passed. pull up with upper body while pushing with the feet and clasp the rope with the insoles of your feet like a clamp to get traction. So hold with upper body, lift up your legs to a squat position clamp on the rope with your feet and push up with your legs at the same time your pulling up with your arms. Thats the trick. If you try it all by your arms you will get exhausted fairly fast. So from the picture looks like you only have to repeat that movement three times to get to the top.

If you have a local Gym go there and get the help of a trainer.....5-10 min is all it takes to learn how to do it properly, if your worried about it go and practice it.

Really does not require that much upper body strength. If you can pass a PT test with Push-ups you should be able to rope climb.

BTW, on the zero day stuff. Sometimes they just get ticked off at you and find something to fail you for.

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BTW, on the zero day stuff. Sometimes they just get ticked off at you and find something to fail you for.

remember when zero day was a public humiliation event at campbell?

those were the days...

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Originally posted by hit_it:

remember when zero day was a public humiliation event at campbell?

those were the days...

Ha-ha-ha, yup.

My barracks was just down the road from the school we used to sit out on the porch after PT waiting for the AAS school to go running by so we could invoke the verbal harrassment on the fallouts from their run.

They don't do that anymore?

Truth be known though the Obstacle Course event was usually understaffed with Cadre back in 1985. They were so focused on the mandatory obstacles you could run past some of the non-mandatory obstacles and they wouldn't see you. They usually had predetermined by the start of the obstacle course who they were going to dog.

Same deal with inspection of the school packing list. If you got anything wrong with the packing list or your uniform didn't look right. It's one of the criteria they use to single people out after they arrive for special attention.

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They don't do that anymore?

Heck no, not in the kinder gentler....

They quit the zero day harrasment/spectator event when the moved the obstacle course from it's old location into the woodline. The school moved onto the slingload LZ, and everything is run there now.


You can't even go watch anymore.

I'm glad I went through when i did.

I didn't find anything hard about the obstacle course.

I don't understand why anyone would want to skip obstacles either... I thought it was fun.

I know the zero day was a bi-tch but, so long as you didn't stick out as a dirtbag you were good to go

inspections su-cked , so just don't get double gigged

I remember joes getting dx'd for overspray on their brain buckets or eyelets on their boots weren't blackened


I stll hate those rocks.

Zero day was pretty easy. But **** them dam rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by hit_it:

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BTW, on the zero day stuff. Sometimes they just get ticked off at you and find something to fail you for.

remember when zero day was a public humiliation event at campbell?

those were the days...

Yep the good ole days!

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Originally posted by hit_it:

Heck no, not in the kinder gentler....

They quit the zero day harrasment/spectator event when the moved the obstacle course from it's old location into the woodline. The school moved onto the slingload LZ, and everything is run there now.

You can't even go watch anymore.

Thats bad...

That was one of the fringe benefits of being in the barracks. I surmised in the article though some parts are easier. We had to do the inspection out in the wind and the cold on gravel / dirt....there wasn't any "hanger" around. Also, no inside classrooms. All they had was a "warm-up" tent with a crappy heater that barely worked.

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Originally posted by airdiablo6:

I don't understand why anyone would want to skip obstacles either....

Thats why they kept the 502nd on the other side of post.

Seriously though, Ft. Campbell was your first assignment of your first enlistment. Your going to look at it a little differently then someone that PCS'd there.

The best part about running around the obstacles is you get some of the newbies PVT's out of AIT pointing fingers and trying to snitch and the Cadre either ignoring them or smoking them for not knowing their place (ha-ha-ha).

The school was fun at times.

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Thats why they kept the 502nd on the other side of post.

They just keep us away from the REMFs

No sh-it though I walked to and from school everyday


WHAT'S UP STAYLOR!


AIR ASSAULT

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Originally posted by airdiablo6:

No sh-it though I walked to and from school everyday

Thats what I mean.

You did that everyday for the entire school and nobody in your Chain of Command or unit offered you a ride?

I was only 2-3 blocks away and I had people from my unit offering to give me a lift. I had a friend in the 502nd back then as well and he rode his Motorcycle over there somehow (he lived off post).

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WHAT'S UP STAYLOR!


AIR ASSAULT

Not much brother, been busy moving into our new house. Tired and sore!
I may have more free time now to check out the boards. So how's the windy city?

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Originally posted by airdiablo6:

No sh-it though I walked to and from school everyday

Thats what I mean.

You did that everyday for the entire school and nobody in your Chain of Command or unit offered you a ride?

I was only 2-3 blocks away and I had people from my unit offering to give me a lift. I had a friend in the 502nd back then as well and he rode his Motorcycle over there somehow (he lived off post).

Well I must be a lazy azz because when I went thru I was in the 123rd AVN BN right down the street from AA School, and I drove every day!

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Well I must be a lazy azz because when I went thru I was in the 123rd AVN BN right down the street from AA School, and I drove every day!

They didn't care if you drove to the school as long as you parked in the right area. I walked because the car would have taken more time. Listening to shouted out insults was a way to learn them for my turn after graduation, it's just sad they don't allow that anymore.

Too bad about airdiablo6, had I known he was walking all that way I would have driven by at high speed through a puddle.....then used my rear view mirror to snap the picture of him flying the bird.

Funny Erich,

I would have done the same thing passing you on the 12 miler, then laughed as you struggled in ,after I'd been sitting there an hour.


Sound great Steve, we're just getting ready for our favorite time of year here in Chicago

ST.PATRICK'S DAY!

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Originally posted by airdiablo6:
Funny Erich,

I would have done the same thing passing you on the 12 miler, then laughed as you struggled in ,after I'd been sitting there an hour.

Yeah, I'm taller then you....longer leg span.

I'd be waiting for you and picking my teeth from the portion of chow your buddies left out for you. Then I'd show you the brick I wrapped your poncho around in your backpack.

Yeah right. You could have put a small house in my ruck and I'd still out hump you Towjammer.