Overview
This event uses a mechanized device that measures cumulative force and a 10-pound sledgehammer. It simulates the critical tasks of using force to open a locked door or to breach a wall.
This event challenges aerobic capacity, upper body muscular strength and endurance, lower body muscular strength and endurance, balance, grip strength and endurance, and anaerobic endurance.
The Test
- For this event, the candidate uses the sledgehammer to strike a measuring device in a target area until the buzzer activates
- Feet must be kept outside the toe-box at all times
Failure
- Failure results if the participant does not maintain control of the sledgehammer and releases it from both hands while swinging
- A warning is given for stepping inside the toe-box; a second warning constitutes a failure
