Gymnasts in SEALS reality Show

[Peridot]

It is. I don't know what I hate more -- DWTS or Special Forces -- each for different reasons

At least on DWTS they learn a fun new skill.

Rolling around in mud and doing exercise whilst wet in the middle of the night just sounds ridiculous and pointless. Obviously challenging, but still….

 

[Passion]

Season 4 with Shawn Johnson and husband Andrew East - Episode 2

We begin with everyone waking up in the bunk. Shawn and Andrew have cots next to each other. It shows them holding hands upon waking. Andrew says "Just remember the good news is, today is not yesterday." They share a quick smooch walking out of the room.

Everyone gets dressed and they're called to line up outside with their packs on. They get in SUVs and are driven to the first challenge. They are told to climb up the face of a 250ft. dam. There's staircases so this is just them all running up a lot of stairs with their big backpacks on.

1st Challenge: They are going to be sitting in pairs of two inside of an open backed husk of a small airplane that they get inside at the top of the dam. It will then be lowered with ropes down into the water. The plane will be submerged (just under the surface, not deep) for 20 seconds. They have to hold their breath for that time. After 20 seconds they will receive a signal (a staff member reaching in the window and squeezing their arm) from outside the vessel and are supposed to swim out to exit through the rear side door (not the open back of the plane.) They have medical personnel on a raft in the water nearby.

The very first pair are Jussie Smollett and Eva Marcille. They sit for the 20 seconds, they both swim out, Eva through the correct door, Jussie through the back, and their heads are up out of the water outside the plane. Then Eva just.. passes out and starts to sink. The medical team swims out and pulls her onto their raft. She wakes up on the raft and is physically fine but rattled. They fail because Jussie swam out the wrong exit. A bunch of other pairs fail for panicking before the 20 seconds are up and swimming out early. There's an uneven number of contestants so Jussie volunteers to go again when it's Christie Pearce Rampone's turn. He swims out the wrong exit again lol so they fail as well.

Shawn and Andrew are paired up. They're sitting under the water calmly. They cut away to Shawn saying "I always strive to be perfect. So obsessed with the idea. Nothing is going to change that. " They receive the 20 second signal, they both swim out the correct exit, and pass. Staff compliment their composure. Only one or two other pairs besides them passed.

They get back into the SUVs and head back to base camp. They kill some time talking and staff doing one-on-one conversations. After that's over they're all called out for the 2nd challenge. They are driven to what is called a "fortress" in an old empty village. It's just kind of an open outdoor courtyard. They are going to do milling/military boxing.

Shawn is called up first to fight against Brianna LaPaglia. Cut to Andrew saying "Seeing Shawn fight, I'll probably be more nervous than she is. But she is stone cold. I mean she stands up to pressure situations like nobody I've ever seen." The fight begins: Brianna is a head taller than Shawn so Shawn is whaling away at her torso. Brianna is kinda waving around not really aiming well but manages to land a shot to Shawn's head (they have boxing helmets and gloves on) and Shawn is bleeding. The fight is stopped and Shawn is sent to medical. For extra drama they keep showing a shot of her bloody mouthguard on the ground, then show Shawn holding her nose with blood running down her face. Medical clears her as being okay, just a bloody nose. Staff calls their fight a draw. Shawn is standing there still bloody like an angry little statue.

Brianna is crying because she says she hates violence and fighting (Shawn appeared to have no such qualms and if she were taller may have taken Brianna's head off.) Eva starts having a panic attack from watching Shawn and Brianna's fight and goes to see the psychologist, they let her sit out the boxing challenge. When it's Gia Giudice's turn to fight, Teresa Giudice instantly says quits because she says she can't watch her daughter fight. Gia does fine against Christie. They just flashed by Andrew's fight real quick, I don't even know who he was fighting. The rest of the fights were unremarkable.

Back at base camp, Eva is still worked up. The staff decide that it's unsafe for her to continue, so they ask for her armband and withdraw her. She gathers her belongings, says goodbye, and with that the episode ends. We're 3 down with 15 contestants left going into day three. Doing better than last season when multiple people had been injured out by this point.

 

[makam]

So in the military, they gear you up, no lesson, no training, and just slug away at each other?

I guess panic attack for the passing out? At least it makes for "good" tv...

Thanks for the summary.

 

[JaJa]

So in the military, they gear you up, no lesson, no training, and just slug away at each other?

I guess panic attack for the passing out? At least it makes for "good" tv...

Thanks for the summary.

well, this is not the military

and I do not see it as good tv either

More like a new low point in trash tv

 

[cftmoonlight79]

This sounds like a horrible show. That being said, thanks for the summary