Royal Marines Lands End Long Jump ..Behind The Lines

Clip from the excellent series "Behind The Lines"

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Royal
• marines
• lands
• end
• cliff
• jump
• behind
• the
• lines
• british
• army

[shiner0302]

I'm Bill Wright, former Royal Marine and the and the instructor in the film clip. The clip is taken from a BBC series called "Behind the LInes" which was made in 1982/83 and Produced by Michael Begg. The voice over is Ian Wooldridge. The Lands End Long Jump is most certainly not part of the recruit training syllabus and never has been. No-one to my certain knowledge has ever been killed or seriously injured making the jump.

[Yushinoka]

this man's testicles have their own time zone 

[40bravoandy]

hideous old school bootnecks . great stuff

[TheGlowingKnight]

There is a docu about this. These guys are royal marines that are training to be mountain leaders which specialize in mountain/arctic warfare, sniping, recon, and survival.

[thehammer1675]

@danwormald no lady has ever completed the royal marine course not even professional athletes failed at it :)

[GREATBRITISHGAMER]

I'm joining next year after i finish my exams, three cheers for me :D

[mcreature]

The episodes are on BBC I player

[danwormald]

@jammy764 Being x Forces (3 Para) i respect Royal marines commandos big time , just saying that P.Company is NAILS compared to the Commando coarse. lots of blood, sweat and tears.

[jammy764]

@danwormald Fair enough, well i can't comment because I don't know anything about it. We could argue all day about who's better, but lets face it, they're both elite and both make me proud to be British.

[danwormald]

@jammy764 yes same woman, she sprained her leg, she hasnt tryed it again since tho, she probly thought no way im gona try that again, i will stick to the marines commando coarse instead lol

[jammy764]

@danwormald Was it the same woman to attempt the Paras course though?

[khalsasikh]

@RogueRM Do you know how far across the jump is? How much of a drop is it as well?