Special Forces Soldiers Train People With Disabilities

Brut India

These former special forces deep dived to make adventure sports accessible to all.  CLAW_Global

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00:00So on land, they're bound by gravity, they can just, you know, probably roll forward

00:09or backward on their wheelchairs.

00:14In water, they're free.

00:21You know, everything around, you know, India, when you travel, otherwise also, it's very

00:26inaccessible for people with disabilities.

00:28There are a lot of barriers.

00:29The moment you are in the sea, it's accessible, there's no barriers there.

00:34When you are on the shores, you can walk in the water, okay, otherwise I can't walk.

00:44If a team of disabilities can be trained by us, right, if we train them, we can break

00:50three world records in land, sea and air.

00:53Ninety-nine percent of the people in this world have not done what these guys, we will

00:58help these guys to do.

01:23Till now, people with disabilities are perceived as vessels of pity, you know, give them some

01:32money or some, you know, something like that.

01:34They're treated with pity and given handouts.

01:38What people don't understand is what these guys are capable of.

01:41If they can go and scuba dive in the open sea, they can jump off a bloody plane and

01:44they can climb Mount Everest, they can bloody well sit in a job and, you know, get employed.

01:53I volunteered for the special forces, like the Navy SEALs are there in the United States.

02:00We are the Navy SEALs of India.

02:02We go kill the bad guys.

02:06We train in certain very specialized skills like combat skydiving, combat underwater diving,

02:13military mountaineering.

02:14And during one of my, one of these combat freefall, I had an accident, my parachute

02:21kind of wrapped up around my leg in mid freefall and I had a bad accident.

02:26I managed to get out alive, but I had a spinal cord injury.

02:41So, he came up to me and he said, sir, you are a commando, shamando and all, so you must

02:48be doing scuba diving.

02:49So, I said, yeah, I do scuba diving, yes.

02:52So, he said, sir, can a person like me also do scuba diving?

02:56So, I thought there must be so many people like him.

02:59Somebody who wants to do scuba diving, somebody who wants to do skydiving, somebody who wants

03:03to climb a mountain and things like that.

03:04So, it all just started coming together later on and this, it just captured me so much.

03:11I resigned from the army and I just wanted to do this and nothing else.

03:19But it's not like a, you know, like a, like a, like a inspiration poem.

03:50There's a fine line between that, but one is very cautious about what you are saying

03:54and how you do it and how you are able to keep in mind the dignity of the person.

04:01They are not trying to portray disability as something one should feel sorry about.

04:08It is trying to show that, you know, disabled people are also one of us.

04:14They also have the right to be part of an adventure activity or a leisure activity.

04:20And because there is a will, because some people thought that we can do it for people

04:24who are in a disadvantaged position in our society.

04:27This message that if we all get together and we do our bit, no one will be left behind.

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