Sylvester Stallone made US Navy Seals give his daughters self-defence lessons
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Sylvester Stallone recruited US Navy Seals to train his daughters in self-defence after they moved to New York because the rising rate of violent crime in the city made him fear for their safety.
Despite being a New York native, Stallone was “nervous” about his daughters, Sophia, 27, and Sistine, 25, moving to the city last year.
The pair endured gruelling, hours-long training boot camp sessions with elite special forces instructors, they told the New York Post.
“Sophia and I got our asses whooped by these guys. They were the real deal,” Sistine told the New York Post.
Stallone, 77, who made his name as the boxing hero of the Rocky movie franchise, appeared to have some fun issuing challenges to his daughters.
One of their tasks was to chase a chicken, in a scene reminiscent of Rocky II when Stallone himself ran around a yard attempting the same.
Family grew up in Los Angeles
Stallone’s daughters with his wife Jennifer Flavin, a former model, grew up in Los Angeles, California.
The siblings have been living in New York for a year, but the pair said their move to the east coast remained a source of anxiety for their father.
While crime rates overall, and particularly violent crime, have fallen in New York in the last year, the number of assaults has increased, according to New York Police Department data.
“I don’t think he’ll ever be less nervous,” Sistine said of her father.
“He’s like a classic, overprotective dad. Three daughters at an age where, you know, we’re kind of all over the place and we’re out and about.”
The daughters also revealed that their mother tracks their movements via an iPhone app.
Sisters not surprised
Sistine said she was not surprised their father put them through the ordeal, “because our entire life we grew up with him doing these sort of military-esque, self-defence trainings”.
“He made the perfect boys,” she joked.
Sophia described it as a “rigorous” childhood routine. “Every day at 6am, he would make us eat eggs with ketchup… to bulk up,” she said.
That was followed by “a lot of sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups,” she said.
Stallone’s youngest daughter, Scarlet, 21, is at university and lives in Miami.
The self-defence training was filmed for season two of “The Family Stallone” reality series, which premieres on Paramount+ on Feb 21.
