SDP Episode 6: Stay alert to stay alive!
Mind Of The Warrior
Dr Mike Simpson
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Tim and Doc talk about what it means to be situationally aware, and how it can keep you alive.
Tim Kennedy’s legend began at his local Army recruiter’s office on September 12th, 2001. His training to earn his Green Beret was featured in the book “Chosen Soldier.” Kennedy is now a Ranger qualified Special Forces Sniper with deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and multiple other deployments around the world. He is the only soldier to win the grueling 3 day All Army Combatives Tournament three times. Kennedy has a black belts in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Modern Army Combatives. He is also one of the top ranked mixed martial arts fighters in the world, a position he achieved while simultaneously serving his country at the highest levels of special operations. He is currently ranked among the top Middleweights in the UFC. Tim has been featured on many television shows, most recently “Hunting Hitler” on the History Channel
Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.
Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars with Tim Kennedy on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody this is this is Doc welcome to the sheepdog project with me is my good |
| 0:18.0 | friend mr. Tim Kennedy good day to you hope everybody's having a great week today. We're going to talk |
| 0:26.7 | about situational awareness about being aware of your situation because as we all |
| 0:32.0 | know and as we talk about all the time you cannot adequately engage a threat |
| 0:37.6 | or adequately minimize a threat unless you're aware of a threat so unless you're aware of your |
| 0:42.3 | situation would you not agree my friend? I couldn't agree more. unless you're aware of a threat so unless you're aware of your situation |
| 0:43.0 | would you not agree my friend? I couldn't agree more. You know in in kind of the |
| 0:47.0 | hierarchy of the four a's that we drill I think tire, tirelessly, |
| 0:54.0 | tirelessly, throughout Sheepdog is the first and foremost is awareness. |
| 1:00.0 | You know, we really pound in the idea of being aware of ourselves being aware of our own assets |
| 1:06.2 | our own liabilities you know like today for instance I had a really really hard |
| 1:11.8 | training session strength and conditioning. |
| 1:13.4 | It was a max volume workload with sandbag getups and 150 meter sprints, push-ups, |
| 1:22.8 | atomic sit-ups, toes-to-bars, you know, |
| 1:24.8 | it was a brutal session. |
| 1:26.7 | So being aware of that, knowing the fatigue of my body |
| 1:31.1 | and maybe a little bit of my mind that level of hydration that I'm at |
| 1:35.4 | and then I went straight from there to the shooting range and at the range I |
| 1:39.0 | worked for another hour hour and a half in Texas spring heat really humid it rained yesterday. |
| 1:46.0 | See now that's that's a true assessment of your shooting skills because you're not |
| 1:50.8 | going to be well rested you're not going to get out of bed after nine hours of sleep, |
| 1:54.8 | have just the right calorie load, not too little, not too much, |
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