Silver

Finally IPPT silver. 

You'll have no problem in getting silver/gold if you are

1) naturally a frog

2) been in life and death situations where you're hanging from a cliff

3) able to run for your life.

pull ups and running aren't my problems. anyway, pull up is train-able. or at least, if you keep pulling, someday you'll get there. it's not that far away. even two months in a realistic goal from zero fighter to pass status. (0-6 FYI). subsequently, every pull up more isn't really very hard. And biceps pull ups are allowed which makes things easier. 

Now, running is my trump card. I usually pass IPPT, but without gold or silver. but i used to be able to get Gold timing (under 9 min 44) second for 2.4km by putting in some effort. my best BMT timing was 930. I have ran about 9 minute flat at secondary school. Even at my unfit point of my life, I think 11 minutes would have been manageable. I think it has to do with my lungs. 

Now, my nemesis- a few markings on a lame mat lying on the floor. it ain't even something that look glamorous or interesting . If that was the opening of two cliffs and you had to jump, you would have took a few metres back, then run and leap. no one in their right mind would try to charge in a stationary swinging position and fling themselves across. It may have been a test of leg power, but it is really about technique (as they all claim). some people just seem to be not able to jump that 225 for silver and 234 for gold. It is just ThAT hard. I have seen people fat and flabby with considerable bellies and quite lumpy thigh muscles fly across the mat. this is ridiculous. I hate Standing broad jump. If not for this damn little mat on the floor, I would be aiming for Gold. 

My current results are.

Pull ups 8

Shuttle Run can't be bothered 5 pnts

Sit up cant be bothered 5 pnts

SBJ 225

2.4km 9 57 (I know it's not 944 yet, but I stopped to walk quite a bit.)

I have cleared the once impossible ATP (range) and also the once impossible ippt silver. now it's time to conquer the impossible SOC.

It's possibly the hardest thing ever. it ranks even harder than gold. If only the low wall would be relative to a soldier's height, and swing trainers would really be trainers and not swing KILLERS and the low rope is really a LOW rope. then maybe it's possible. and please don't call run downs run DOWNS when they are uphill.