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ISIL Jazzercise: Odd Training Video Includes Human Pyramids, Leapfrogging

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The new footage reportedly filmed in an ISIL camp somewhere between Afghanistan and Pakistan has uncovered genuinely bizarre methods Jihadists are using to keep fit and ultimately prepare for battle: playing leapfrog and forming human pyramids.

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The extremist group claimed that 14-minute video was taken in the Afghanistan-Pakistan area, where terrorists hope to found splinter cells with the goal of taking control of the power in the region. The footage showcases how militants train to fulfill their ambitions for the future.

In the video, about two dozen militants dressed in identical grey and blue uniforms and wearing black bandanas with ISIL flags on them, perform a range of strange exercises in a grassy and wooded area.

The training opens with jihadists doing sit-ups together with giant rocks on their chests. After the militants fall into line, a man in green camouflage starts kicking them in their groins and hips.

​The events that follow make this training even more odd: militants form some kind of a human pyramid while one of the jihadists starts jumping over it.

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In another jumping exercise, jihadists are playing what appears to be leapfrog: one of the group hops over the shoulders of his tall accomplices.

However, the other exercise that was practiced by militants in their previous propaganda videos – jumping through burning hoops – is absent in this particular footage. But here, fighters can be seen training their shooting skills with Kalashnikov rifles.

There is also a moment in the video where one of the jihadists delivers a speech full of hatred while his fellows observe some fighting moves.

This footage appeared amid ISIL’s continuous attempts to enter and entrench themselves in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where they have to struggle with the Taliban, the Daily Mail reported.

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