Getting over the 5 foot wall

[michelleds]

Hello,

I've been practicing the suspect chase portion of the application process. Ours is a 5 foot wall, a 3 foot wall, sprint, clear a window, sprint back. I'm good on everything except the 5 foot wall. I can get over it, but it's not pretty and it's not time-effective. my right inner thigh and right forearm are covered in bruises from savaging my way over.

I'm 40, female, and in pretty good condition (300# deadlift, 250# squat in competition) but cannot do a bodyweight pullup without assistance. I'm working on losing some more weight but in the meantime...any suggestions on getting over that wall quickly?!

I'm sitting the Aptitude Test tomorrow morning and after that should know more about the timeline for when I'll need to run the suspect chase.

thanks!!

[exComptonCop]

I'm 40, female, and in pretty good condition (300# deadlift, 250# squat in competition) but cannot do a bodyweight pullup without assistance.

Good Lord, how about going straight through the wall? All kidding aside, what's your current technique for scaling the wall? If it's getting one of your arms hooked over the top of the wall at the armpit, swinging and hooking the corresponding heel over the wall, then rolling over the top of the wall, that's about as good as it gets for female lacking in the upper body strength department.

BTW, a five foot wall sounds like a pretty good deal, six foot is standard in CA.

[michelleds]

I would MUCH rather go thru than over. LOL what you described is pretty much it altho i get my foot hooked first. I've been looking at the Parkour site and the "wallrun". it looks like if i could master that technique, i'd be golden. it requires planting one foot high, which i do now, and then following thru with the second a little higher which gives further momentum and boost up and over.

[DalMTaylor]

The technique used would depend on your height. Obviously the taller you are the better but I find it easiest to scale walls by jumping and pushing my body up until my waist is even with the top of the fence then throwing my leg over.

[lionheartednyhc]

Watch this video. Its an overview of the SDPD PAT and at the end it goes over a few techniques for getting over a 6 foot wall. Hope this helps

mms://videos.sandiego.gov/vod/course.wm

(if that link doesnt pop up a video, its also on this page: http://www.sandiego.gov/police/recru...n/recpat.shtml)

[michelleds]

thanks everyone! I passed! 42.72 seconds (less than 47 to pass)

[Iraqivet]

Congrats. No sweat.

[CPD7297]

Our wall in the academy was 8 feet. A 5 foot wall should be a breeze. What's next, stepping over a stool?

[mikeymedic]

Our wall in the academy was 8 feet. A 5 foot wall should be a breeze. What's next, stepping over a stool?

LOL good point, if your bigger than 5' then i cannot see a problem. Best i can say (even though i know you already passed) is running at the wall and planting a foot in the middle whilst springing upward for clearance.

[Musicats78]

Michelleds, have you been accepted into the academy yet? Hopefully I'll be joining you in January.

[eternal911]

Wow, mine is a breeze then... Ours consists of:

3 minute step test, minute later your heart rate must be less than 148 beats per minutes
20 sit-ups
1.5 mile run in 16:32
Benchpress 44% of weight
14 push ups
300 meter sprint in 84 seconds
Vertical jump of 12 inches
Pull trigger 36 times with strong hand and 13 with weak