Dressed in skimpy bikinis, these Chinese women could be going for a day out at the beach. But these trainees are in fact being put through a gruelling regime in Sanya, Hainan province, on the road to become female bodyguards.
Twenty women, most of them college graduates, were kicked, dunked, near-drowned and forced to carry a heavy log between them during a tough boot camp run by professional bodyguards.