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For an alpine skier like Jett Seymour, 23, working with former service members as instructors was invaluable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOne thing that really struck me was the perseverance and the drive that those guys have to get through anything in their life,\u201d said Seymour, who grew up skiing at a young age in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That type of determination did not come easy for MARSOC veteran Staff Sgt. Prime Hall, the co-founder of Deep End Fitness. Hall served in the Corps from 2005 until 2017, when he was medically discharged after being blown up during an attack in Afghanistan. Following, Hall went to business school and started Deep End Fitness and Underwater Torpedo League with fellow MARSOC Staff Sgt. Don Tran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deep Water Fitness now runs programs across the country with 200 instructors, roughly 30 to 40% of whom are veterans, according to Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re both kind of fascinated around training and human performance…we started going down the path of performance training and what would make the greatest impact and how we can set up a program that could be what was missing for us,\u201d said Hall, who shared he also deployed to Iraq and parts of the Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the big takeaways for the U.S. Ski team members was an appreciation for the teamwork the former troops build together during their service and learning how to incorporate that into their work as athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI really appreciate that hard, gritty work that those guys do,\u201d said Luke Winters, 25, an alpine skier on the team from Gresham, Oregon. \u201cI honestly wish that we can bring that into our sport because there\u2019s really nothing like it,\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The U.S. Ski team athletes will compete at the FIS Ski World Cup in Soelden, Austria this October. The next winter Olympics will be in Italy in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI think the really cool part, and one of the biggest takeaways that I have from the group, was watching them go through some of the team workouts and team challenges that we put them through.\u201d said Hall, adding, \u201cMarine Raiders we have a saying called \u2018gung ho\u2019 \u2014 work together \u2014 that comes from World War II Marine Raiders. We got to see a little bit of that with this group where they got into that \u2018gung ho\u2019 spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Olympians trained with veterans at a program called Deep End Fitness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":33855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-observation-post","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":69,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":{"2":{"categories":["your-military","news","left-column","home","military-culture","off-duty"],"primary_category":"your-military"}}},"categories":[101,23,92,12,25,69],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3284],"class_list":["post-14685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-home","category-left-column","category-news","category-newsletters","category-your-marine-corps"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"JTSOQODK5RBR7KAQBANR56X6NI","arc_canonical_url":"\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2022\/08\/01\/top-athletes-train-with-special-ops-veterans-in-off-season-program\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"observation-post","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4937.jpg.jpg\")