With her face grimacing in unbearable discomfort, this is the moment a trainee bodyguard has a bottle smashed over her head.
Amazingly, the recruit has to stand there and take it if she wants to qualify as one of China's first female bodyguards.
The training session, which took place in Beijing, involved 20 women, most of whom are university graduates.
Extreme methods: An instructor smashes a bottle over a female recruit's head during a training session for China's first female bodyguards in Beijing
