For this new exceptional Riding Zone challenge
we have Clément Dumais, a professional free-runner and an important player in the French parkour scene,
and Major Gérald, member of the iconic French Foreign Legion
and record holder of the fastest run on a military obstacle course.
Rendez-vous at the Military camp of Carpiagne, near Marseille.
"Hello Clément, I'm Major Gérald, sport officer
of the 1st Foreign Legion Regiment.
We are glad to welcome you here today to present you this military obstacle course."
A course known for being technical and especially long that will challenge our participants.
"The official French assault course is 1640ft long and has 20 obstacles.
You have obstacles playing of height, depth and length.
They represent all the obstacles that a soldier will encounter during his progression."
"Individually, the obstacles are not that hard but the most complicated will be to carry on for the whole course.
A few of them are slippery, some are very physical and others are more technical."
"When you arrive, you go under this and crawl until the end.
This is a very tiring one, demanding a lot of energy."
 
"There you go, this is the military technique.
You have to take into account that the course is 1640ft long and that resistance is the key.
All the energy that you will spend doing long jumps,
you will automatically lose it somewhere else on the course."
"I might be more agile than the Major, he has more experience.
We will see how it goes on the field."
Agility Vs experience, the civilian against the military serviceman,
let's the course begin!
Our challengers start on a good rhythm while not wasting all their energy.
They don"t have the same crossing technique but they stay together.
Under the grid, Clément crawls for the 1st time in his life.
The race is tight.
Clément take the advantage, running away from the Major.
He is still on the front but he takes the wrong path...
Fair play, the Major puts him back on track and the competition is on again.
The obstacles are more and more impressive and the men have been running for 2min now.
 
Clément starts to wind and the Major takes the lead.
 
Last obstacle of the course for the major,
he almost failed down!
But he's the first to pass the finish line.
A few seconds later, it's Clément's turn, completely exhausted...
So we have 2min49s for the Major
and 2min54 for Clément!
"To become a sergent, you have to finish this assault course in 3min15s.
 
He just did a remarkable performance ,
knowing that he never run on this obstacle course before.
Less than 3min, it's really a reference so what he just did is truly exceptional."
"You will always be welcome at the French Foreign Legion,
and if you want to join the Army, we will do something special for you!"
"Thank you and congratulations.
My cardio just exploded,
Major Gérald was going so fast, it was really hard to keep up,
I tried my best but experience won, he went faster.
 
I have a huge respect for him because it's rare to make such an intense effort,
 
and I think it's one of the hardest one I've ever done in my life."
Congrats to our champions,
and many thanks to the French Foreign Legion for accepting this Riding Zone challenge.
