SAS: Who Dares Wins: Leadership Secrets from the Special Forces

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I’ve worked in a similar role training Special Forces for the last 11 years, so I’m used to working out every day. In preparation for the show, I upped my training and used the natural landscape to my advantage.

Melvyn joins Jason 'Foxy' Fox, Ant Middleton and Billy Billingham for the new series of SAS: Who Dares Wins (Image: PA)And with the series' popularity, he's expected to become one of the city’s most well-known exports.

Melvyn signed up for the Army Cadets when he was 11, even though he was too young to be allowed to wear the uniform. Life and leadership lessons from the Special Forces, from the stars of Channel 4 series SAS: Who Dares Wins - including Sunday Times bestselling author of FIRST MAN: LEADING FROM THE FRONT, Ant Middleton Are you up to the challenge of SAS leadership? Only the best will succeed... Britain's SAS (Special Air Service) has an unparalleled reputation for soldiering excellence. Their skills and techniques have been perfected in the most demanding environments imaginable, but many of these can also be used in our everyday lives.It's a little frustrating, but obviously understandable that Billy couldn't include details of any specific battle situations in which he found himself. But there are some general references, s o the reader is left in no doubt as to the stress our soldiers had to deal with. Fox, with his co-star of SAS: Who Dares Wins, Ollie Ollerton, co-founded a corporate team building, training and events company. In 2019, Fox and Ollerton went on to launch the fitness and wellbeing app Battle Ready 360 – which focuses on personalised plans for individuals looking to balance mind, body and nutrition.

Could you tell from the beginning which recruits would finish the selection course and who wouldn’t last the distance? When he was nine he stole a hat from an old man who surprised him not only by giving chase to him, but instead of thumping him or getting the police, he offered Billy training at his illegal boxing club and from there he progressed to a local boxing club where he was winning fights. But it was after a stint in the Cadets that Billy started to look at a military career, inspired by the story of a Falklands veteran who came to speak to them. So at 17, Billy was applying to join the Parachute Regiment and began his career there. I very much enjoyed him talking about his experience with the training as I always like finding out what they had to do. Of course, the civilian show is a lot shorter than SAS selection, which is over six months, but it does a great job of giving you a real taste of the experience. Is Jacob part of a plan that threatens world peace? As the body count rises, only Sam can stop these events from reaching their terrifying conclusion.If I didn’t go into the military I would’ve gone into another uniformed area, maybe the fire service, the police, or the paramedics.”