Yeah, I know I would of, I didn't see one person quit after 15 weeks; it was just injuries that forced people out.

It was something that, just like your friend, I really wanted to do, if he had been stopped at the last hurdle he would have been devastated I'm sure.

After this topic was posted, i remembered that i had a David DeAngelo DVD set call "becoming a Man". Its 4 DVD (about 1:30 each). I watch two of them last night, and they are very very good, all about this very subject and some men still being Boy-Men as they havent gone through a rights of passage type senario, and covers the qualities of a Man, subjects like handling death etc. and gives reference to some book he's read to gather the information. Defiantly worth a watch at some point.

Cheers!!