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Extreme SEAL Experience<br />
When: Saturdays, 8 to 10:30 a.m.<br />
Where: Moonlight Beach, Encinitas<br />
Cost: $30 to $60<br />
Info: 760.942.3000, frogsfit.com<br />
anything in life without teamwork.”<br />
When a team reaches the buoy, they must tip the boat over, right<br />
it, get back in and paddle to shore.<br />
“It’s extremely hard,” Roberti says. “Even if the waves aren’t big, the<br />
ocean’s unforgiving and the currents can shift at any moment.”<br />
The course is taught in four consecutive weekends, though people<br />
can sign up for single sessions. Those who complete the four-week<br />
course receive a certificate of completion signed by the SEALs.<br />
Though it’s mostly men who enroll in the course, women are<br />
encouraged to participate and almost always meet the challenge.<br />
According to Frog’s Fitness Director Brian Bartolomei, no one has yet<br />
dropped out of the course.<br />
“Nobody really<br />
wants to quit in front<br />
of the SEALs,” he says.<br />
“I think they want to<br />
impress those guys. They<br />
know what they’ve been<br />
through and they know<br />
who they are.”<br />
The class meets at<br />
7:45 a.m. Saturdays in<br />
the lower parking lot of<br />
Moonlight Beach for<br />
a briefing. Participants<br />
should wear a white<br />
T-shirt and running<br />
shoes, and bring plenty<br />
of water. Camo pants will<br />
be provided.<br />
Navy SEAL Nathanael “Lalo” Roberti<br />
Age: 27<br />
Military experience: Involved in Operation Red Wings (inspiration<br />
for the book Lone Survivor), a counter-insurgency mission in Kunar<br />
province, Afghanistan, which took place on June 28, 2005.<br />
Three SEALs were killed<br />
during the initial operation,<br />
as well as several other<br />
American Special Operations<br />
soldiers whose helicopter was<br />
shot down while flying in to<br />
rescue the team.<br />
“Five-and-a-half minutes<br />
before our helicopter got<br />
shot down, myself and seven<br />
others got off the helicopter because it was too heavy to get up to that<br />
altitude,” Roberti says. “We would have been dead as well. I went back in<br />
and recovered all the bodies and then got back out of there. Basically, 75<br />
percent of my platoon was killed.”<br />
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