Over 5000 people gathered in Perton, Staffordshire for an immense Tough Guy Contest. The competitors braved mud, the bitter weather and fire on an assault course that would put the likes of Rocky and Rambo through their paces.

As if the gruelling assault course wasn’t enough, some competitors decided to wear fancy dress costumes. The fancy dress ideas were rather fitting with Superman fancy dress outfits, Robocop fancy dress and even a Spartan Warrior style fancy dress costume. The competitors (including those in fancy dress) had to run through a field of fire, crawl through ice underneath barbed wire and even combat and electric fence – ouch!

The event was so popular that over 1000 people were turned away. There were plenty of policeman and military personnel taking part, commenting that the Tough Guy Contest is one of the hardest tests of physical and metal endurance. With plenty of broken bones, bruises and blood shed loads of fun was had – fancy dress or no fancy dress! Rather them than me…..