Individual Obstacles - Get 88

 Marks out of 44

I Got 74 Marks out of 44 but How?

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1. So far what so ever you have done in out door tasks, there were others with you and they shared the credit or discredit. You are alone in individual obstacles. Do well, the marks are yours only.
2. I will call it the most important aspect which can change your fate positively. There are 9 obstacles and 44 marks and time is 2 minutes. If one is prepared well, after completing 9 and if still time is there he can repeat and get extra marks. I repeated 5 extra, and remind you, my time of doing rope was just 7 seconds which was achieve with lot of practice before going to ISSB.
3. A repeater candidate must complete all the obstacles only then he will be able to improve his previous record. Must practice before coming to ISSB. If he is unable to do rope it means he did not prepare despite knowledge.
4. Now I will explain each obstacle:

1. Hanging Rope: (Girls are not required to do it)

1.  A rope hanging on 8 ft high bar. You have to climb over it from one side and get down from other side. you can easily get hold of the top bar with which the rope is hanging, but crossing from one side to the other becomes difficult for about 90% candidates.

• I consider it the most difficult task which requires strength and technique.
• If you have not practiced it before coming to ISSB, do it at the last.
• You need extra strong arms to do it.
• If you have mastered some technique only then do it early, else leave till end.
• If you still try to do it you will waste time, get exhausted and take a bad start.
• Don’t leave it altogether. Only do it after attempting other obstacles.
• DO NOT LEAVE ANY OBSTACLE ALTOGETHER, IT WILL LEAVE BAD IMPRESSION.
• Technique of doing ropes:

• Improve arm strength by hanging with some bar or branch of tree.
• Learn how rope should be fixed (caught) in between the legs/feet. If you are able to do it, it will become very easy for you to cross over.
• Learn from some army man the technique.

Boxing Ring:

2.  Three ropes, about 2.8 ft high and 7 feet apart. You have to jump over 1^st one, pass under the second one (your running momentum broken) and again jump over third one.

• An easy task, but candidates commit foul and waste time.
• What you should do?

1.    First rope is crossed easily.
2.    While passing below 2^nd rope, many candidates touched the rope with their back (Careless Candidates).
3.    At 3^rd rope, since running start is not available because of the rope behind, jump becomes difficult and foul is committed (not using mind or bad planning.

1.    It is easy task just do it carefully.
2.    While passing under 2^nd rope just remain careful and ensure that no part of your  body touches the rope (careful).
3.    At 3^rd rope, run for 4,5 step from rear corner to farthest cornet to avail more space and gain momentum (intelligent).
4.    It is very easy but ensure DO NOT COMMIT A FOUL.

Zigzag

1. Two feet high at the start and rises gradually, about 3-4 feet at end. There may be a small gap at each turn, not a difficult task; your body and mind balance is checked.

How to do it?

• Before coming to ISSB, walk on brick lines, railway lines (taking care of trains) and narrow bridges on small water streams.
• Extend your arms fully on both sides when you start the obstacle.
• You must have seen stunt men walking on tight rope holding a bamboo in hands. Your extended hands will act like balancing bamboos.
• Keep your arms fully extended till end it will keep your balance.
• If you fall in between, (ye sirf of sirf aap ki nalaiqi aur practice na karne ka nateeja hoga), must get back and redo it. Leaving it without doing it will have a big negative effect.

1. Tarzan Swing: (Girls will not do this)

• Lay out: One long rope is hanging with a tree. Under the tree one platform is made. In front of platform a goal post like structure made of wood but much smaller in size and height is there.
• Requirement: From platform, with the help of rope you have to take a swing, pass over the bar, leave the rope and fall on soft ground.
• Please note:
• How you would do it?
• If you commit a foul you will waist 20 precious seconds.

1.    A 4-5 feet platform (Stand) on which you stand climbing a ladder.
2.   Just in front of platform, is a rope hanging vertically with high tree branch. Its lower part is lower than your feet.
3.   A bar about 4 to 5 ft high is located about 12 ft away from the platform.
4.   Ahead of the bar falling place made soft with sand or wood residue.

1. Almost nobody ever got injured from here.
2. 95% candidates do it easily.
3. If you cannot do it that means you are afraid and fear has gripped you, it will be visible very clearly.

1. You climbed to platform using small ladder.
2. A soldier standing on ground gave you the rope.
3. You got hold of the rope with hands as high as possible so that you can pass over the bar in front of u.
4. The part of the rope below your hands grip is hanging in front of you; throw it on your back, so that it does not bother you when you leave the rope in the air to fall on soft ground (mentally alert and good planning.)
5. Take 2-3 steps back, push the plat form hard backward with your feet and take the swing.
6. Once you are over the bar, leave the rope.
7. You will fall on soft ground.
8. The rope will swing back, as it was on your back.

1. Hanging Tyre:

• The tyre may be hanging with a tree branch of a high tree.
• You have to pass through it.
• Near the tyre take a jump and grip the rope with which the tyre is hanging, as high as possible.
• Pull up your feet up and put into the tyre hole.
• Take care; your toe should not go into tyre cut.
• Loosen your hands and automatically you will pass through the tyre.
• 100% candidates do it.

1. Hanging/Swinging Plank:

• Wooden plank. length about 8 feet, hanging over a ditch with 4 V shaped ropes two on each side of the plank.
• You have to cross the plank from one side, length side, to the other without using hands.
• You will not be able to cross, if you run slow because the plank will swing.

  Come running fast, and run over plank as you are running on ground. It will give less time to plank to swing.

• If you hesitated, it means you are coward and you will not be selected.
• Just put one or two steps to cross the plank. It is very very easy.
• Important: Do not hesitate while jumping, just jump else you may be tipped as coward.

1. High Jump:

• Three ft high jump, not difficult at all (For girls height is 5 feet 9 inches.)
• Still candidates touch the top bar which falls on ground. On repetition every candidate clears it.
• Practice, before coming for ISSB.
• Inability to do an easy event 2^nd time mean lack of requisite preparation, negative impression and wastage of time.
• When you come running come from a side ie at 45 Degree Angle.

1. Ditch Crossing:

• Very important, it can get you rejected.
• Mark two parallel lines on ground 6 fit apart.
• Jump over these lines; see how easily you have jumped.
• Now dig a well between these two lines.
• Now again jump over it. Will your mental state remain same as in the case of 1^st jump?
• No, certainly not, now fear of falling into the well is added.
• If you do not jump at all, you are totally coward.
• If you jump 9 ft instead of 6 ft you are still coward.
• Coward is not selected at any cost.
• So rest assure, 6 ft jump is nothing. Cross the ditch in normal way. Just do not hesitate for slightest moment.
• In the above photo, Army Men are crossing 9 feet wide Ditch.
• Ditch at ISSB is 6 Feet.

1. Monkey bridge: (Girls are not required to do it)

• Two ropes, one over the other, 5 ft apart and about 25 ft long. Lower rope is about 12 ft high from ground. Both ropes are tied to two trees/pylons on both ends. The length is about 25 ft and 2^nd rope is 5 ft higher than lower rope.
• You climb from one side using a ladder, put your feet on lower rope and hold upper rope with hands.
• You move to other end sliding your hands and feet and just before the 2^nd tree, a rope is coming down, you hold it and come down.
• You are allowed to go from starting end to finish point, just by using one rope (clarify from GTO). If your arms are very strong and you have practiced it, you can save about 10 to 15 seconds here.
• Be quick, to me it is the most time consuming task.
• 100% students do it if they have time.

Individual Obstacles – Important points

1. Very important aspect from your selection point of view. If you are able to do all or have repeated few chances of your selection are very bright, provided your leadership and integrity are OK. Doing all individual obstacles means you are brave, can take risks, have physical courage, motivated, physically fit, determined and dedicated.
2. If this much is the importance, why one must not put in his best and prepare well. In my view one can very easily do all and repeat few more if he has carried out his preparation ( I told you , first time I did 7 and 2^nd time 9+5=14, my preparations made the difference).
3. Marks and minimum time required to do each obstacle is as follows:

Individual Obstacle Videos:

 Video 1  (In Video 1, see the energy, confidence and determination with which he is doing the obstacles and repeating)      Video 2         Video 3        Video 4   (Youtube Ditch crossing Video)

Important Tips

4. obstacles are installed in a ground in a zigzag fashion, you have to decide a sequence which will involve minimum running and time consumption while going from obstacle to obstacle.

5. You should decide about the sequence of doing obstacles when GTO is showing you these. When you come to do, you will have no time to decide.
6. You saw, it takes 63 seconds to do the obstacles if you add 20 seconds for running between each obstacle. The time comes to one minute and 23 seconds. Still 37 seconds are left with you to repeat the obstacles.
7. You can still save 10 more seconds by doing Monkey Bridge by using lower rope only on hands only.
8. Remember: You must have never taken such intense activity in 2 minutes in your life. You will be exhausted. You will find many candidates walking highly tired after doing obstacles.
9. Now you are exhausted and still have time to do more obstacles. The good thing is you can repeat any one obstacle any number of time. This way you will save time which is wasted while running in between obstacles. So which one to repeat?

• Choose the one which takes min energy and min time, because you are exhausted.
• In my view jump on ditch, this way and that way (bravery even when exhausted). You can jump 10 times in 20 seconds so 20 marks (44+20 = 64 marks.)
• It will also show you are not fearful of falling into ditch even in this state. Believe me 6 ft jump, just nothing for a young man.

1. How you should prepare before going to ISSB?

• I will not recommend you should join any academy otherwise you will give a false certificate at ISSB and your entire service will be based on a False Certificate.
• Go to some children park at odd time, you will find slide, places to climb, hang and move while hanging do these regularly (do not start 2-3 days before going to ISSB, your muscles will be pulled.)
• If you live near some cantonment, or can go to a cantonment to some relative, you will find all these things there. If you do not have a children park or cantonment, then do following:

1.    Find some suitable place to hang, with some suitable tree branch or goal post. Pull yourself up so that your head is about your hands and the bar. Practice daily. It is known as chin-up, make it to 10. ( I could do 25.)
2.    Tie a wooden piece between tow close by trees. you may tie a rope and practice.
3.    Daily push ups about 40 in 2 minutes.
4.   Find a 7 or 8 ft high wall (your feet should not touch ground when you are hanging) now pull up and cross to other side.
5.   Take two wooden planks, bullies or girder 4 to 6 inches wide. Secure these 2-3 above ground and walk over these. Give some gap between two. Or get about 50 bricks put these on ground and walk or walk over brick lining, curved stones in parks.
6.    Create your own high jump (3 ft), ditch (6 ft), boxing ring and practice.
7.    Procure a thick long rope. Tie it between two trees and move from one to other side.
8.    Get a smaller thick rope, hang it with thick tree branch:

1. Hold it in your feet in such a way that your entire weight is on your feet and rope and your hands are free. Learn the technique from any ex army man. If you could do it you can cross over ‘hanging rope’ very easily.
2. Try to cross over the branch from one to other side.

 iii. You can do it with a foot ball post but:

• It may be weak and dangerous.
• Its diameter is about 4 times less than at ISSB.

1. Improve your hand and feet grip as hard a possible. It will help you at many places.
2. It is not difficult to get a tyre (front tyre of tractor) hang it and practice. You can do all this in your school in evening.
3. I told you, you will get exhausted. So daily twice or thrice under take intense activity, running, push ups, chin ups, reach ups, hanging rope, monkey rope in 3-4 minutes.
4. At ISSB the physical work of arms is more than legs and in most of the cases arms are weak, so improve arms.
5. If you are unable to do an obstacle once, try once more and if not cleared move to next

IMPORTANT:

• DO NOT INJURE YOURSELF DURING PRACTICE.
• DO NOT TAKE INTENSIVE PRACTICE 3-4 DAYS PRIOR TO ISSB.
• SUGAR IS IMMEDIATE ENERGY. EAT 2 OR 3 TOFFIES BEFORE INDIVIDUAL OBSTACLE.
• WARM UP BEFORE OBSTACLES.
• BE BOLD AS THIS IS AN ENDURANCE TEST
• DO NOT HESITATE TO DO THE TASK AS IT SHOWS LACK OF COURAGE.
• THOSE WHO TRY ARE THE ONE'S WHO GET SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE. THEREFORE YOU MUST ATTEMPT ALL THE OBSTACLES IRRESPECTIVE YOU SUCCEED OR NOT
• IF YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO COMPLETE ALL THE OBSTACLES THEN DO NOT GET UPSET
• CONCENTRATE ON YOUR TASK AND GIVE YOUR 100%.

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