Survived Hell Week 4 Times & Built the Combatives Program That Changed NSW Forever | Ep. 290 | Pt. 1

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Mike Ritland

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🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Randy Rozzell is a retired SEAL Chief with 22 years in the teams, multiple combat deployments with Team Seven, the guy who rewrote how Naval Special Warfare teaches hand-to-hand combat. A small-town Texas kid who ran away from home at 14, fought his way into and out of BUD/S more times than most guys even attempt it, then went on to build one of the most operationally relevant combatives programs in special operations history — Randy's story is one of the most raw, honest, and flat-out relentless journeys I've had the privilege of putting on this show. This one's worth every minute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.5	I struggle with everything. The runs, the swims, the old course was the only thing that ever came
0:37.0	national. So I'm going through Hell Week and I end up getting pneumonia, so I'm The runs, the swims, the O-course was the only thing that ever came nationally.
0:38.3	So I'm going through Hell Week and I ended up getting pneumonia.
0:41.3	So I went back in the next day and I regretted it immediately.
0:46.3	I had never quit anything in my life.
0:49.3	I ended up going back to Buzz.
0:51.3	My package got accepted right away and I'm going through Hell Week again. I'm actually doing pretty well. But I come home that Tuesday and the apartment's cleaned out and my wife is gone. And my little bill is gone. So now I'm just a zombie. So this one, this was my second Hell Week, so I didn't make it as far. But it was different. I knew exactly what I had to do. I'm like, I'm going to become a city.
1:14.7	All I want to do is go to Bats. So go back in. I'm passing all my runs now, passing all my swims now.
1:21.9	This is going to be different. And in Hell Week, still Pira got me again, and this time it was psych.
1:28.3	So they rolled me.
1:29.3	And you have to start all over. And I got to start all over. And then I became the OPO of the next class because I was in the 6th. And I made it through that Hell Week. No problem. And then I had an amazing career in the sale teams. Did any of them stand out as being harder than the others for the periods that you were in or was it pretty consistent?
1:47.3	Uh. career in the sale teams. Did any of them stand out as being harder than the others for the periods that you were in or was it pretty consistent?
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