(EERIE MUSIC)
Aright, nice.
Turn to your left.
That's right, walk. I've got control.
(BANGING SOUND)
NARRATOR: Selection for the SAS is a test like no other.
On every course there's recruits
that come on the course and think, "Yep, I'll be there at the end,
"I'm going to smash it."
Do not come on with that mindset
because you will be disappointed very quickly.
We will get through it! (INDISTINCT YELLING)
(INTENSE MUSIC) Yes, they (MUTED) are!
Realise where the (MUTED) you are!
A new group of celebrity recruits have volunteered
to put their privileged lives behind.
As an AFL player it's about not letting your team mate down.
It's harder to quit when you have people around you.
Go! Go, Heath, go!
(SCREAMS)
(INDISTINCT YELLING)
They'll be put through a tougher,
more intense selection course than ever before.
Can you find the grit inside you to survive?
Your (BLEEP) place is questionable in this course!
Tonight, it's you or them.
Go!
Strike like a cobra!
In no holds bar...
He's not bad.
..hand-to-hand combat.
There will only be one man standing.
It's win, at any cost.
Ooh!
Fight, fight!
Sand...
Can't believe she threw sand in her face.
No offence, Dan,
there is no way I could have done that.
It's kill or be killed.
No, it's just a cheat to me...
to throw sand in your eyes.
And... (SCREAMS)
..a body crushing log race.
Argh, my back!
Stop winging and work!
Pull! Argh!
Will have recruits...
Argh!
Smash through it!
..dropping like flies.
Get up! (ECHOES)
Do you want to give up on your team?
Do you? Go on then!
Your anger isn't with me, it's with yourself!
(BIRDS CHIRP)
(EERIE MUSIC)
I'm so sore.
It's the final few days of SAS selection.
Obviously, I'm not dying, I'm not dead.
So, you can always keep going but I'm wrecked.
Yeah.
Broken, battered and running on empty,
only eight recruits remain.
How're ya, mate?
I (INDISTINCT) but my back... ugh.
Some of the recruits at this point
are almost on their limit.
They're dehydrated, they've been deprived of sleep,
deprived of food so they're already at a very low level.
Some people probably ain't gonna make the next part of this.
Breakfast's ready guys.
(DOOR SLAMS)
Ooh, just broke the handle.
Surviving on only basic army rations,
iron man Jett Kenny is struggling to fuel his depleted body.
I'm just grabbing an egg, that's all I'm doing.
OK.
I don't want to be vomiting up oats again.
Food for me is massive.
Training so much my body needs
as much energy as it can get.
Just come and have some oats, man.
Yeah, I know but I just...
Just throw 'em in there.
I'll have a little bit.
But there are some foods that I just...
I don't do well with.
Just a tiny little bit.
(INTENSIFYING PIANO MUSIC)
Yeah, that's heaps.
I have a bad gag reflex so very easy to vomit on some stuff.
Want one more mouthful? Oh, yeah, man.
Oh, you did it today! Yeah, some of it.
Good on you for doing it though, you need to.
A heap for you.
The... the little angel on my shoulder...
Saying, "Do it." Eat it.
Eat it!
When I don't get enough food its kinda like, ugh,
its draining.
Mentally I start to switch off.
(PIANO MUSIC)
Let's go.
(GRUNTS)
(BIRDS CHIRP)
Right, everyone jump on the waggons, let's go!
Come on guys, let's get in that headspace now.
Argh, (BLEEP)!
What?
(INDISTINCT), then jarred a second time.
What?
I just hit it.
Nothing man.
(LAUGHS)
(CAR ENGINE REVS)
(INTENSE DRUM MUSIC)
En route to the day's task the recruits are about
to be pitted against each other in a test of true grit.
Grit your teeth
and get on with things.
That's where grit comes in.
Oh, we're getting wet I think boys.
It's knowing that you're in pain,
knowing that you're suffering,
knowing that you're crumbling and you're going downhill.
Everyone out, single file, facing that way.
Come on, let's go.
Grittin' your teeth.
Finding that grit inside you, that steal inside of you.
That's what grit is.
Grit, grit and grit.
Another disgusting day in front of you.
You're going to have to dig deep.
Deeper than you've ever dug before.
This is an individual task.
I'll say it again; this is an individual task.
If you happen to find yourself in enemy territory on the run
by yourself, you're in the shit.
You probably got no ammunition, you need to get out of there ASAP.
You might come across obstacles but there's only one way across.
Today, that obstacle
on the other side will be each other.
Identify their weaknesses because you know each other, right?
No holding back. No mercy.
You are by yourselves, remember?
And all you have left is this, these.
(INTENSE MUSIC)
Last recruit to stand is literally that,
it's... it's about you or them, one against the other.
Let's go you two!
On a narrow log,
suspended over a torrent of rushing water the recruits
must fight it out using hand to hand combat.
Step down.
Right, it's all about winning.
On opposite sides, DS Billy and Foxy...
Yep, no, no, no, no, no.
..will act as corner men...
Step over.
..advising their recruits on tactics.
It's about getting the upper hand, anticipation,
being one step ahead.
In this task, anything goes.
Spit in his face, go drop, duck down.
Whatever you want to take him out.
Recruits need to think about balance,
control and using whatever assets they can.
Their mind, their physicality, their skill set...
take that person off the log and win.
Over three elimination rounds,
Chief Instructor Ant will act as a referee
and will ultimately decide the last man or woman standing.
You're more...
aggressive than me and I'm stronger than you.
Yep, yep. So, let's...
we'll just both go hard and pull me off, I'll pull you off.
It's the same thing. Yes.
Anticipate... you gotta be in his eyes.
First to battle it out in Round One
is tennis legend Mark Philippoussis.
I have played my best tennis
when I've been calm.
I'm not the person
where if I get angry I play better,
I'm not that person at all.
But this is a complete different story.
And AFL player, Heath Shaw.
You get into many fights?
Yeah.
My hand eye coordination
is pretty good as an AFL player,
from hand to foot is pretty much what we're paid to do.
I've lasted 16 years so I reckon I'm OK.
I just want to get him to...
Get him to pounce.
Get him to pounce and then grab it.
Stand by!
Get ready, get ready!
Go!
Take your time.
Keep it balanced.
Don't rush into your own death.
Swoop his legs!
Come on, man! Let's move!
Grabbing hold of Mark's arms,
Heath works to unbalance him then lands a blow to the throat.
Ow! (MUTED) his balance.
Yeah, yes!
Oh, my god, his balance... It's extraordinary.
Heath confidently knocks Mark off the lock
and advances to Round Two.
Well done.
So, need clear separation, winners and losers.
Next pair, let's go!
Next to face off is NRL star Sam Burgess...
Go. ..and Iron man Jett Kenny.
Don't try to rumble with him. No.
Keep him at distance, distract him.
As soon as you got a second distracted
take the (BLEEP) out, OK?
Yes, Staff.
As a lifeguard I feel like I'm pretty good on my toes.
Being in surf stuff... stuff changes all the time
so you have to react to different situations.
Strike like a cobra!
And then once you're there, just over power,
he's a (BLEEP) life guard for (BLEEP) sakes!
Yeah, I know. Stand by!
OK, get ready.
Go!
Blood, you peanut.
Let him rush, let him rush.
Make him come to you!
Come on, get closer!
Hold it!
Take him to the right!
Strike him right!
Jett rushes at Sam.
Defending himself Sam uses his brute strength
to overpower Jett, pushing him off the lock.
Yeah, Sam won that.
A clear winner, Sam will go through to Round Two.
Let's go, number 16, all the way in!
What was the outcome, seven?
Got me, Staff. He got ya?
Yeah. How's ya nose?
Yeah, it's alright.
What happened there? Little jab, Staff.
Alright. Good effort.
You are a loser though.
I am, Staff. Next pair!
Up next, the only female recruits left on the course.
Track athlete Jessica Peris, and dual Olympian, Jana Pittman.
Move, move, move, move!
Throw dirt in her face.
Last recruit standing is not always the size of the enemy
that counts, it's what's up here.
Yep.
Sorry? Yeah. Yep.
Grit's something that you have
when you've... you've been through,
you know, a lot of shit in your life.
(BLEEP)
OK, alright.
Go, grab. Don't let her see you doing it.
I've got a lot of grit.
(LAUGHS)
Face her, hands come up, strike.
Yep. And take her out.
Sheer grit, determination,
that ability to just, like,
push barriers like there's no tomorrow
and never give up.
Comes about through surviving failures of your own
and just being able to come back and go,
"I don't like how that felt."
I just figure, if you fail, you get up and keep going.
I'd let her move first, see what she does.
Alright. Mirror it.
She ain't go a clue what's coming.
And that's what it's all about, deception.
Stand by!
Stand by, get ready to move.
Look into the DS.
Go!
Right, let's go, let's go. Nice and steady, come on.
Take your time.
Eyes on the prize. Come on!
Don't go too far, make her come to you.
Go to the middle and wait.
She's already off balance.
You've already got her!
Get her!
Go on then, get in there!
(INTENSE MUSIC)
Argh!
Coming up.
Get up!
The team log haul is (BLEEP) horrible.
Come on, don't let go!
The most notorious SAS task...
Jana, come on, pick up, mate!
I'm trying! Please!
Argh!
Puts Heath in the firing line.
Do you wanna give up on your team?
Do you?
Go on then!
Go!
Right, let's go, let's go.
Don't go too far, make her come to you.
Balancing over a torrent of rushing water...
Eyes on the prize. Come on!
She's already off balance.
..it's every recruit for themselves as they attempt
to knock one another off by any means necessary.
Get her!
Argh!
Using the sand to blind and unbalance her...
Ugh!
..Jessica has defeated Jana.
Oh, wow. Sand!
She threw sand in her face!
And will now advance to Round Two.
She took a little bit of dust.
Nah, man.
It's all about winning. There's nothing personal.
You alright? Not really.
You clean that out when you get up there, alright?
Can't believe she threw sand in her face!
I'm not doing that, bro.
I'm not throwing dust.
Hey, that was a bit left field.
Next pair!
Let's go, you two!
In the last pairing of Round One,
world class sprinter John Steffensen...
Come here.
..will battle actor Dan Ewing.
I think I wanna...
hands down and maybe wrap my legs around the log
and kinda go low.
There is a thing as an actor,
it's quite weird when in the back
of your mind you're...
you're a 110% in it but you know
you've got the stunt guy
is looking after you.
On SAS, those safety nets that we have on film sets,
they're not going to be there.
It's all on me, so, I kinda like that.
Psyche him out.
Let him try and make the first move and then pounce on him.
Yep. Look at me.
Look in his eyes,
look for anticipation, be one step ahead of him.
(TECHNO MUSIC)
A lot of people won't believe it
but I hated running,
I loved boxing, I thought
I was going to be a fighter.
Whatever you need to do to win, you do.
It's like fencing, it's that art,
it's the dance you do with another man
that's trained to... to take your head off.
Grit, grit to win.
Yes, Staff.
A face full of (BLEEP) sand, it'll deflect him, won't it?
Yes.
It's... it's... it's chess, it's not checkers.
You know, when you're out there trying to figure out
how you can out think him, outwit him, outsmart him.
Strike him and strike off him, don't try and hold him.
Strike him off.
Stand by!
You're gonna win this.
After telling his fellow recruits he won't resort to fighting dirty...
Don't go too fast.
John approaches his opponent armed with a fist full of sand.
Let him rush into it.
Let him come to you!
Make him come!
Come on, number nine!
Come on then, let's go at it!
Come on!
(THROWS SAND)
John strikes with the sand
then sweeps Dan below the belt taking him off the log.
Let go of him, you're gone!
Let go of him! Aye!
He had you.
I think they gave it to Johnny.
Yeah, cause Johnny's legs were still on the log.
Yeah, he was the last one on.
Displaying ruthless tactics, John has pleased the DS.
Good effort, number 14, well done.
Good technique. Excellent.
Yes, Staff.
You (MUTED) thought about that, didn't you?
Yes, Staff. Away you go.
But not all his fellow recruits are impressed.
Did you... did you throw it in his eyes as well?
Yeah. Really?
He said you do whatever you have to do.
Far out. Yeah.
OK.
Hey, we're playing by their rules, right?
It hurts like hell.
Having shown the kind of grit it takes to defeat the enemy,
the winners of Round One will now face off in Round Two.
Jessica will go head to head with Heath
while John is up against Sam.
And a final round will determine the last recruit standing.
Good effort.
See, it's not about brute force, about tactics, alright?
Looking at that, now you gotta rethink,
recalibrate and re-attack.
Yes, Staff.
I hate being a loser.
Dog eat dog world, mate.
It is a dog eat dog world.
Hungry for victory, number 18, Jessica, and number 15, Heath,
will battle it out to start round two.
It's a thinking task, it's about outwitting the enemy.
It's not brute force, it's about balance,
how you're gonna use your body weight,
how you're gonna use your body weight against them.
Take it out, alright?
No mercy. Stand by!
Go!
Let's go, come on.
There you go, let her come.
Hold her there!
Bat her off!
(FIGHTING SOUNDS)
Heath easily accounts for Jessica
and is through to the final.
Well done, good effort.
Off you go.
Let's go, you two!
Last recruit standing,
you need grit for that.
But ultimately you need to react to whatever's happening
on that log.
If you're hungry for him, take it.
I'm hungry always, Staff.
This is important as it shows us as the DS
that they've got a flexible mindset and they can roll
with the punches and the doubt.
Stand by!
Alright, here goes.
Go!
Hold that centre position as soon as you can.
Get out there and hold him!
Slow it down.
Whack him!
Take him out!
Come on then!
Take him out!
Ooh, round the neck!
Sam makes short work of John earning his place in the final.
You're gonna go up against big Sam next.
Do you reckon, he ripped his shirt? Yeah.
Oh, my gosh, look at that.
How good does that look though, 'cause there's all these
big muscles rippling out!
He actually looks like... Looks amazing!
(LAUGHS) Go.
Number 15!
In a clash of the football codes,
NRL star Sam Burgess will now go head to head
with AFL legend Heath Shaw.
Hopefully you've been watching each other, monitoring,
looking for weaknesses, looking for gaps.
There will only be one man standing.
Make it be you.
Follow me.
Who's for 15, then?
Yep. Who's for 16?
I always back the underdog.
Let's go 15.
There we go, the final.
They all want to try and beat you, didn't they?
Yeah, oh, well... Hey, you've got a title.
Yeah, they wanna get me off...
You've got a reason to win, you're gonna destroy it.
I'm gonna take his legs.
Even punch him, if you have to punch him, punch him.
Yeah, yeah, alright.
Grit, I think
it's an important quality.
Especially if you just play sport,
there've been times where I've been down and out,
I've been busted to a point where I can barely breathe
and something will happen and I'll find something
that I didn't know was there and push myself.
Strike hard. One strike. Strike hard.
Yeah, yeah. Alright, break him.
I'll go in close and then step back one and then...
that'll be my plan.
I don't like losing.
Once I, sort of, get out there
and there's competition
and there's opposition I just wanna win.
Stacks of aggression.
Yep.
He's a big lump.
When he makes a move it will be a big one.
Yeah.
Arrogant or not, I always thought coming up
against an opposition that I was better than them,
that I could beat them and I'd back myself against guys
that were bigger or whatever, even if sometimes I'd get beaten.
It's very well matched, actually this.
So well matched.
Stand by!
Here we go.
Go on then! Go!
Let him come to you. Hold the position.
Strike him off!
Take him out, take him out!
Oh! Oh!
Oh, my god, his balance is unreal!
Yes! It's extraordinary.
He is extraordinary! I know. Yeah.
Brilliant.
15, well done. You are the last man standing.
Awesome effort.
Thank you, Staff.
Exactly what I wanted to see from you,
exactly what we expected from you.
You're only as good as your last task
and you're right up here now.
OK, so we stay there every single time
we lead by example.
Yes, Staff.
You are the last man standing, well done. Move.
Let's go, let's go!
You just can't beat sound tactics, can you?
Always listen to me and you'll come out on top.
That was an experience.
What about Jess?
Throwing sand in someone's eye...
she got Jana, full face.
Ah, that was horrible. I'm so sorry, Jana.
Only you two did it.
I just didn't expect it from you to be honest.
These are different... these are different rules here.
I would have expected it from him...
'Cause I'm shitting in hole at the moment
putting sawdust on shit, haven't showered in six days,
seven days, so these are different rules.
Argh...
It is a split second decision.
Oh, it's done now.
It's just different personalities, too.
I've never been a particularly aggressive person, like...
How can you not be aggressive and run the final and win medals?
I thought... I'm aggressive in a run.
Yeah, but not when I... not against an opponent. I'm not...
just not like that. Whatcha mean?
How you winning gold medals then?
There is no...
no offence, darl, there is no way I could have done that.
Just... look, maybe that's my weakness.
So, how can we bring normal society
and how we normally are but shit in a hole, have dirty fingernails,
rip our bodies apart, wake up at 04:00, be stinky...
Hey, that's just a cheat to me. That's just as bad.
To throw sand in your eyes, like... it's... it's a...
But it's a street fight, Jana.
We have to get across by all means necessary.
But it's your own moral code.
You wanna win this show?
But I would not if it compromised my morals, no.
How is that compromising though, you questioning my morals?
It's just me, babe. It's mine.
But you saying that, you underline me saying that.
I think what Jana's trying to say is she'd rather win...
A different way. ..the way that I... I won.
Yep.
All I'm doing is playing by the rules they're giving me.
I'll tell them straight up,
I'm running on empty.
After a brutal task and limited food during the course.
The recruits are fading fast.
But before they can refuel...
Let's go all the way in.
..chief instructor, Ant, has a word of warning
about the days ahead.
Sheer grit.
All of you should have no teeth by the end of this,
getting so hard that they've bounced out of your skulls.
The days will get longer, more relentless, more brutal.
Get in there, feed yourselves, water yourselves.
Your kit should squared away.
Stand by. Go!
Disappear! Move!
Let's go! Staff.
What are you doing, number seven?
Ah, not that I want to do it, Staff.
Well, why are you doing it?
But I'm running on complete empty,
mentally I'm not there anymore,
physically I'm
in all sorts right now.
OK.
I'm not getting enough food into me,
not eating last night, not really eating every morning.
It's just kept, caught up to me.
Listen, outstanding job.
Thank you, Staff. You're a strong, strong man.
You're a phenomenal team member, you're a phenomenal individual.
And since you vented about your sister as well
I've just seen a spark in you.
Yeah.
I see this outdoors, capable individual
that just needs to open up a little bit more.
Listen, number seven,
been an absolute pleasure having you on the course.
It's been an unreal opportunity.
I thank you for it, it is one thing I very look forward to doing.
Oh, brilliant. Listen, come with me, follow me.
I'll take you, to the... to the medical room.
As Jett gets ready to leave base camp
the seven remaining recruits dig in to their afternoon rations.
Just down to the rows, obviously.
Leaving by the... oh, 'cause of the...
'cause you're an actor?
No, because we call out, 'cause we had, um, it was Jett,
Izzy and I in our group of three.
Hang on, where's Jett?
He's gone. He's gone.
Oh, I didn't know that!
Told you he broke his breath delivery.
That's what he said.
Sorry, that just happened. I did not know that.
Yeah, I thought he was gonna get to the next thing
but he, um, I think he just...
Sorry, I... I... 'Cause I was listening...
Sorry, missed that.
No, he didn't say, he just said, "Oh, I think I'm gonna go."
Said, "I've just got no energy."
OK.
(DISHES CLATTER)
Love yous all.
Nothing but love, mate. Thanks, mate.
(BIRDS CHIRP)
Having withdrawn from the course,
Jett makes a call to his mother, swimming legend Lisa Curry.
Hi! Hello!
Hi, mountain man, how are you?
Yeah, I'm good. I'm, ah...
there are days where it was physically...
physically hard
and then there are days where it was more mentally hard.
I'd say you would've loved it but you would've struggled here
and there but...
Yeah, so proud of you, Jett.
Really, we're all really proud of you and also really proud
that you're such a great person.
I... And I just...
I love you so much. Aw, I love you too, Mum.
And we just...
I'm just so proud of you, your such a good boy.
Cool. My favourite boy in the world.
OK, alright, see you soon, mate. Alright, I love you.
Bye, darling.
See you, bye.
Bye, love you, bye.
(PHONE BEEPS)
(JETT SNIFFLES)
I think the biggest thing I've learnt is not to doubt myself
as much or not to set my standards so high.
If I don't achieve them then shouldn't be so hard on myself.
I came into this trying to find where my limit was,
I wanted to see if I could break through that mental barrier
to push yourself and even further that your body can then go again
and I think I really did that over the past two days.
I think I did put my wall down and, well,
I'll keep testing that limit and make myself either
a better athlete or a better person.
Back in the dorm...
Far out, bro.
..Dan and John try to lighten the mood.
What's the funniest DM you've ever gotten?
Weirdest request.
Ah, man.
I'm bad at social media, I don't even check that shit, man.
So, like, what's the thi...
like, thirstiest you've ever got?
You would've got some thirst, right?
Crazy shit like just girls asking me to sign their titties...
Yeah?
I don't know... I got, here's one for you.
I got hit up...
You would have a gang of it, man.
Right. The best one I ever got was a foot fetish guy.
What? Yeah.
Gay guy, no issues, great.
All about it. But he was like...
it was just like a weird foot page and like, Dan Ewing,
and tagged my...
like, a picture of my feet in a magazine, like,
in ripped jeans, sitting on a beach, it was a photo shoot.
And... and he inboxes me...
he's like, "I will pay you to take photos and video of your feet."
And I was like...
I was like, "OK, bro."
I was like, "OK.
"You do you, all good, lots of love, but...
"no."
Like... Ah...
that's (BLEEP) hilarious.
(LAUGHS)
You gotta be born with that, right?
That's like ah... Huh?
How do you find out you got a foot fetish,
or is it just like a...
I don't know, I think it just creeps up on you, man.
Before you know it you're...
you're getting horny over some feet.
(LAUGHS) You know what I mean?
That's weird.
Fix that.
Serious. Alright.
Move.
Next, which recruit... Smash through it!
Get it on your shoulder, get forward!
Get forward! You need to get forward!
..is next to crack?
(GROANS) Number 11, get out of it!
Let's move! Out of that sand!
Move!
(PANTING)
Staff.
As the new duty recruit,
it's number 18's responsibility to take all requests to the DS.
Hello, Staff.
Who the (BLEEP) put you in charge?
Um...
It's all gonna go to rat shit.
Hope not, Staff.
Um...
Give me the note pad.
Sorry, the pencil's really bad and I...
ah, I need a new sharpener if possible.
You can't see, I told you, first task as duty recruit.
Ah, it's terrible. I know, sorry, Staff.
You should give me a (BLEEP) used tampon.
Um, but just in regards to the shirts, ah,
they just wanted to know whether or not we had time
to wash our shirts?
No, just wash them out anyway.
OK. That's what I thought.
Wash your shirts and if they're wet
it's not the end of the world, is it?
OK, no worries. Thank you, Staff.
Sorry, the pencil's really dodgy, I...
if I could get a sharpener.
And what's this for number four?
Um... needs new rope, sorry, just as above.
Ropes? Ropes.
Yeah, just the black rope that we had in our bag.
Paracord.
Sharpener...
Just for pencil, sharpener.
They've... literally that's... can barely even write.
Has no-one else got a pencil that you can borrow?
I've asked. No-one... no-one's...
everyone's pencils... What's the shirts for?
Ah, the shirts was just me,
just to remind to ask about the clean shirt but don't...
just discredit, disregard that one.
Just clean it. Thank you, Staff.
(OWL HOOTS)
(BLEEP) hell.
(WATER SPLASHES)
There's a paracord and a pencil sharpener.
Thanks, Staff. Thank you. Thank you, Staff.
Should've been a (BLEEP) cautionary word.
(OWL HOOTS)
(BIRDS CHIRP)
Move it! Come on!
Go, go! Hurry up!
With the new dawn comes another punishing task.
My back is killing me.
One, that will test the very limits of their grit
and determination.
Ah, (BLEEP) hell.
I've got those massive bruises here.
Aw, I forgot about those!
So, every time I move...
Yeah. ..just... my legs just hurting.
Let's go!
Leave your bergens where they are!
On me!
Let's go!
Move it!
Number 18, let's really move!
Do not walk!
Move!
Before the task has even begun, Jessica can barely keep up.
Run, number 18!
Ow!
Hurry up!
Ugh.
Ouch.
Number 18, let's go!
Come on!
Alright, number 18 come to the front.
When I was training for the commonwealth games...
I was definitely pushed to my limits.
Let's go.
You're just in absolute agony and you just have to find
that little bit of, you know,
something in reserve to just be able to give your all.
My motivation is for my son to be proud of me
and for him to see, you know,
how strong his mother is and no matter how many time
you get kicked down in life you always keep getting up.
Disappear to the DS.
Let's go, number 18.
Go!
(BIRD SINGS)
Grit,
no test defines or determines whether someone's
got grit more than the log race.
That, is what you are now gonna move over some very difficult terrain.
Weighing more than 150kg,
the recruits must haul the log a tortuous five kilometres
through unforgiving terrain
to a rendezvous point high on a mountain peak.
All, in just one hour.
I wanna see some grit and determination from all of you.
Yes, Staff. Alright.
Let's get on the log!
Move at the speed of a thousand gazelles.
That log should be a (BLEEP) blur.
Everyone got one?
Move!
There's no time to waste, let's go!
Big rock, there's a rock.
Taking the toughest position of the lead is number 15, Heath.
A job the recruits must share throughout the arduous trek.
Argh! Shit. Ow!
You OK?
On me.
It's not a walk, you should be running!
Let's go!
Aw, this hurts!
Let's go, you're on a flat!
Lean forward, everybody leaning forward!
Your arms should be straight! Pulling it, pulling it! Move!
Shit! (INDISTINCT YELLING)
Here we go, in the water!
Go. Follow the DS!
Argh, my back!
Stop winging and work!
If you don't want to be on that log, (BLEEP) off!
Barely a kilometre into the back breaking task
Jessica's body is failing her.
I can't keep going.
Come on, Jessie, we got it!
Why is that log still? Move!
I'm done, I can't do anymore!
Argh, sorry!
And she separates from the group.
Jess, Jess, Jess, Jess!
Keep going, guys! You gotta keep going.
(INDISTINCT YELLING) Nah, I can't.
Sorry, guys.
What the (BLEEP)?
Keep going!
Keep pushing!
While the others push on, Ant finds number 18.
It's your moment now.
Exactly what I wanted from you, to look at the task,
commit and finish on a (BLEEP) high.
Yes, Staff.
You've been outstanding on this course.
Thank you, Staff. You have been my morale.
Thank you, Staff. Honestly.
Seeing you progress, seeing you develop,
seeing you grow each hour,
each task from that "I can't" to "I can."
Amazing. Thank you, Staff.
Thank you.
Go over and see the medic. Yep.
Chuck, chuck us your number. Thank you very much, Staff.
Listen, hold your head extremely high.
I will, Staff. Thank you.
I'm proud of you, you should be extremely proud of yourself.
I'm proud of myself, Staff. Thank you.
Well done, number 18. Thank you.
The DS saw potential in me that I have failed to see in myself.
I think that's why they pushed me so hard
because they needed me to see what they saw.
It was like no other pain that I have ever felt.
All my past traumas,
all the past shit that I've been through in my life,
I left it on that mountain.
Ah, I'm done.
Next... Come on, Heath!
My back's (BLEEP).
Can Heath come back from the brink?
Get some sweet bits about you!
You're a (BLEEP) AFL player, remember that.
Or will the course claim its third victim?
(BIRD CHIRPS)
One man down, let's go, let's go!
Come on! (YELLING)
Move! Don't slow down!
Let's go, let's go!
Move!
In a test of grit,
the recruits are engaged in an excruciating
five kilometre log haul through rugged terrain...
Move!
..with just 45 minutes left
to reach he rendezvous point.
Get on your feet, let's go!
We don't have time to (BLEEP) around!
Move!
Argh!
Smash through it!
Come on! (INDISTINCT YELLING)
Get up! Get up!
Move! Move!
Come on, Heath!
The team log haul is essentially replicating
moving difficult kit over difficult terrain.
Let's go, come on!
I've done it as a royal marine where I've had to trek up
a mountain carrying water bombs,
carrying missiles.
Move! Argh!
Your hips hurt, your back hurts.
Argh!
When you're (BLEEP) number 15, you swap!
It's horrible.
Make up this ground!
Jana, come on. Pick up, mate!
I'm trying! Please!
Move it!
Number four, take the front.
Take the front, get on the log now!
Lead! Take it from the lead. Let's go!
Let's go, let's go!
Let's have a fresh drive, let's go!
Let's go, guys!
Come on.
The last female recruit remaining in the course,
number four, Jana, now takes the difficult lead position.
Get it over your shoulder and get forward, get forward,
you need to get forward!
You're the leader!
Let's go, let's go!
Move, god (MUTED)!
Move that... Come on, guys!
Move!
Sheer grit, determination and that ability to just, like,
push barriers like there's no tomorrow
and never give up, I think is... is very innate.
Sometimes my son
doesn't understand that in mum,
like he looks at me, like,
"Why are you doing that?
"Why are you pushing so hard,
it doesn't make any difference?
"Why do 50 push ups when you can do 44?"
Big stick!
So, that is showing me that it is something
that's ingrained in you.
Let's go! Let's go!
Dig deep now, dig deep! Let's go!
Move!
Lift it up number four, lift it up... let's go!
Ready?
Run for it now, don't make her run for it!
Drag it!
I genuinely believe that I have a lot of mental toughness
and resilience.
Comes about through surveying failures of your own.
I missed out of getting into medical school the first time
and I failed the Olympics multiple times so I started
losing belief in my ability to achieve something
even if I wanted it so much.
Whereas I always grew up with the mentality
that if you want something, you try hard enough, it happens.
Let's get on with it, move! Argh!
Come on, let's get it over! Move!
Gonna take a little break, Sam, when we get it across.
A little break? Come on.
Want another day do ya?
(BLEEP) that log should not stop moving!
(INDISTINCT) Staff. (INDISTINCT YELLING)
Launch the thing, let's go!
Number 11, jump on the front!
With time slipping away, number 11,
Mark Philippoussis
is next to lead the haul.
Let's go, move!
I'm grabbing it.
Number 11, run with that log!
You're the path finder, get them through it!
Get up and move, stop floundering!
Get up!
Get up, Mark!
Number 11, get with it and move out of my sight!
Move!
Get that log and drag it up!
Come on.
Lead. Drag, drag, drag, drag!
Argh! Let's go!
I know I'll be pushed
to the absolute brink
mentally and physically.
It's like you're taking a (BLEEP) dog for a walk!
Let's go! Let's go!
Move!
The weakness without a doubt for me
is my six knee surgeries.
It's bone on bone on both knees so the pounding on them,
carrying weight, running, it hurts.
Why is that log stopped?
That log should be moving constantly!
Move!
But, that's not gonna stop me and my "why?" is my family.
For me, it's looking into my son's eyes when I get home
and it's important when he's sitting there
and he's watching no matter how tough
it was that Dad never gave that number in.
Argh!
Move, number 11, pull it!
Pull it! That's it.
Pull! Argh!
Move! Move!
Come on!
Move!
Having slogged their way through the ravine...
Move this log fast right
till you see the ground in front of you.
Now, move! Argh!
..the recruits must now haul the log up a steep incline
to the rendezvous
in just 15 minutes or the task
will be deemed a failure.
Yeah, at the front!
Move, number nine! Go!
Grit is a form of aggression that you must muster
when everything else
is telling you to stop.
Three, two, one.
Let's go! (INDISTINCT YELLING)
It's when you're on the bones of your ass.
Come on, let's go up there!
Move!
You almost have a second wind acknowledging
that I can't go on, but I must go on.
This way, let's go!
Ugh.
I must go on in order to complete this mission,
I must go on to keep myself alive,
I must go on to keep my oppo alive.
Come on, time is against us!
Your window of opportunity is getting smaller.
Come on. Move, you lot!
Swap? Yeah, take my rope.
Come on, come on, come on!
Look up there.
That is your transportation.
Hurry up!
With just five minutes
and the rendezvous in sight,
the recruits can barely move from exhaustion.
Oh, I gotta pee, come on!
Alright, let's swap sides, swap sides.
Can we take a break?
I'm fairly confident
in my own ability,
especially sporting wise.
Get it moving, get it moving!
Get up! Let's go now, come on!
Here we go.
But there's always times where you have sorta moments
where you think, that wasn't good and...
am I good enough?
(RECRUITS YELLING)
Come on!
Get up!
Let's go.
I think this is gonna be over and above anything I've ever done.
Keep going, get it straight.
My ego would feel definitely a little bit bruised,
um, if I didn't make it towards the end.
Let's go!
I'm a bit of a perfectionist, I always aim for perfection.
Um, even though it's sort of never going to be achieved
but I'm looking to push myself to the edge.
Come on, keep it up! Come on.
Come on, Heathy!
Home stretch, let's go!
Hurry up, let's go!
Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go!
There it is, it's your choice, 30 seconds!
All the way! Let's go!
Come on. Run. Run!
Achingly close to the rendezvous
every second counts.
Move it!
Into me!
But as they finally reach the end
so does their time...
Alright, look down.
..arriving five seconds late.
Stand up and look into me.
The vehicles have been compromised.
As punishment the DS create a false finish that will force
the recruits to haul the log even further.
The idea of this is
replicating a battle.
No-one ever knows when it's gonna stop
and it's always being prepared to go the little bit further.
Anyone who doesn't want to carry on, (BLEEP) stay here.
Anyone who does, pick the log up.
I'm done.
What's wrong? I'm done.
Go.
Alright, the rest of you pick the log up!
Let's move! Let's go!
Let's go! Move!
Just raging to go! Come on!
(INDISTINCT YELLING)
Number 15 has just let you down!
For someone like me,
if it's a physical challenge
and I have a little break I can go again.
But if it gets to a point where I don't have a break
the option to end it at that point is the hard and scary part.
Let's go!
Come on. Keep going!
Keep moving!
Stop!
Put the log down!
Heads up!
Look that way.
Take a moment.
But what Heath doesn't realise is that the recruits
only had to run an extra 100m.
And now watch on to see if he will rejoin the group.
What're you doing?
My back's (BLEEP).
It's not that (BLEEP).
It is.
Stand up.
Suck it in.
What're you doing?
I (BLEEP) couldn't go.
Huh?
My back's (BLEEP).
Get on your feet.
Get some sweet bits about you.
You're a (BLEEP) AFL player, remember that.
People look up to you.
Get in there.
Give up on your team do you, number 15?
I don't...
Do you want to give up on your team?
Do you? Come on then!
No, Staff.
See that side of you just then? Let's have some of it.
You needed it then, not here.
You (BLEEP) quit on your team.
Now, what I see in your eyes right now
is what I wanted back there, not here.
Your anger isn't with me, it's with yourself.
Get in your team, now.
Move!
Every single one of you,
are relying on each other to get home,
to get back, remember that.
Don't start slacking now.
Leave the log where it is.
(BLEEP) off over to the waggons.
Move, now!
Move!
It's a lot harder to quit when you have people around you.
You've got the option but you sort of don't
because you don't want to let your team down
or your team mates down.
My back was seizing.
That last 50 was hard.
The last 50 was (BLEEP) hard.
I was ready to stop half,
like half way up the hill and then I said I can't stop
until I get to the top of the hill.
I couldn't buck.
Have one less person bringing that up.
That's all I was saying to myself.
I just need to get us to the top.
You did that, brother.
You didn't give up half way. You got us to the top.
A little moment of weakness, we all got 'em.
We all got 'em, mate.
Oh, well, I (BLEEP) that up.
Ugh.
Your effort was huge.
No, I'm (BLEEP), aren't I?
Can't go back now.
If you do something wrong in football
and you do a punishment session,
it's usually the whole team gets punished and you get left out
so you're not actually going through that pain.
But the rest of your team mates are and it's your...
it's your fault for... for them doing that.
So, you don't want to let them down.
It's frightened me.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
Having voluntarily withdrawn during the task,
Jessica calls home to her dual Olympian Mum,
Nova Peris.
Hi, Jess.
Hi, Mum.
Hi.
Aw, that was... You alright?
Yeah, I'm alright it's just been absolutely brutal
but it's been awesome.
Yeah.
Yeah, so I'm happy I was...
yeah, one... one of the last girls so, I did really well.
I'm really proud of myself.
Yeah, you should be, Jess.
Yep.
Everything that I thought I couldn't do, I did.
Yeah.
That's what you said you wanted to do,
you wanted to push yourself, you know,
beyond your comfort zone and you can't ask
for anything more than that.
Yeah. I jumped out of a helicopter.
Ugh. Sorry, I'm...
You can't even train for that stuff, that's amazing.
Yep, no, it was awesome. Alright, mum.
Well, I'll let you go but I love you and I hope I'll see you soon.
OK, love you, darling.
OK, love you. Bye-bye.
Bye!
(PHONE BEEPS)
I never thought that I was going to VW
but I know that I made the right decision.
I have no regrets.
I have no disappointments.
I know that I gave absolutely everything that I could
and I'm just so immensely proud of myself.
The lessons that I've learnt throughout this short journey
will be something that I'll cherish forever.
It is life changing.
What I've experienced is something that I'm gonna be able
to take home and to share with my son,
which I'm truly grateful for.
Returning to camp after the torturous log haul...
That's it. You know the score by now, let's go.
And debrief the recruits after number 15's attempted VW.
There's no finish line in our world.
We sign an oath to keep going till the job is done,
till you don't know about it anymore.
That way, victory is always ours.
When you're willing to give the ultimate sacrifice
on the battlefield, nothing hard out there,
because you've already (BLEEP) got it up there
and willing to go that far,
willing to push that much beyond any comfort zone.
When you do that,
you'll be amazed at what you achieve.
It's not gonna get easier.
As you can see, it's ramping up,
it's ramped up every single day until now.
You've all proved physically that you (BLEEP) got it,
way past that stage.
You're running on empty.
We know that.
Put your heads back in the game.
Sort yourselves out.
Get amongst each other 'cause you're gonna need each other
over the next couple of days.
Disappear into the accommodation.
Go! Let's go!
Let's go, number 15, let's go.
No, it's done.
I know... I know I'm empty.
The body's (BLEEP).
(SAD PIANO MUSIC)
What's wrong? Head up, head up.
Now, what's wrong?
What's wrong?
No, I've got to go.
I had a go.
(BLEEP) hell, but you've still got more to go.
No, I can't. Honestly.
You can though, you can.
That's it. You're done?
Yep. (CRIES)
Head up.
(BLEEP).
The group got me up the hill and I was (BLEEP).
I was gone at the bottom.
I said I need to get up there, uh,
with the team and then I was, yeah.
I've just got nothing, I'm empty.
I'm frustrated.
Empty.
I've given my all, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you. I appreciate it. You're not sounding great.
Good effort.
Today, physically, I really,
really battled with the log, and in my mind I was...
I needed to get there to the top with the team
and then that'll do me.
I'm a 35-year-old that sometimes still thinks he's 25, um,
and... and that football will last forever, but it doesn't,
and you're sort of looking forward that... that next phase
and I think doing something like this,
it's something that I can say that, that I achieved.
I've learned that,
when you think you're done you can go a little bit more,
physically.
If I could sum up my time in this course,
I'd say it was the hardest most uniquely positive experience
I've... I've had.