🏄♀️Surfs Up!🏄
More of an idea to add to stuff to original obstacles.
The name Gnome Your Limits! actually comes from a computer game achievement where you had to physically carry a Gnome from the start of the game to the end without losing it. This idea made it to our first Tough Mudder in 2013, where every gnome runner we started with makes it to the end, no mater what!! No Gnome Left behind!!
Take an original obstacle and take your object through it and back without losing it.
Could be a wiggle worm toy (Like WTM 2022)
Could be a flotation device (Force you to take it under the water)
Could be a kitchen sink?! Get creative!
GYLx
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✍️Create Your Own Adventure💓
Get over to our Instagram page to see all our submissions for the Tough Mudder Innovation Lab!
Decide which path you want to take!🤯
Work together or go solo!😇
How many Mudders can you get on one poll? 😏
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I could do this all day 😎
GYLx
🧠 Brain Freeze 🥶
If Artic Enema, Tipping Point and The Slide had a Throuple. 💖
Ready for a head rush? Shock the body and then squeeze it into a dark tunnel that moves. I`m sure it won`t over stimulate and send your brain into reboot mode... 😬
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So as March`s Innovation comes to an end, here is a sneak peak for the first Sunday of April next week! How time flys!! 🥳
🧠 Brain Freeze 🥶
Can you take any guesses?
Check back on the 2nd to find out!!!
Innovation is always greater than just `more ice❄️` 📨🙊😅
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Ropey McRopeface 🐒
All you need is a bit of rope in your life to match our personality.
-Unstable🤪
-We like to hang around and help🤙
-And if you let us slip through your hands we might burn you 😲
Soooooooo, when can we come test a few of these designs... 😅
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🚴♂️ Handcycle 🚴♀️
Feel like everything is an up hill struggle? Come show us your inner Gladiator!
Let`s see if you can `Jet` over this one!
No `Wolf`s , `Shadow`s or `Rhino`s chasing you here.
I`m sure you`ll `Ace` it!!
Use your hands to peddle uphill and make it to the other side without going for a dunk!
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GYLx
The Atmore 2022 💨Wind Tunnel 💨 Simulator.
If you know, you know.
Can`t tell if I`m being serious or not with this one 🤔🤷🤷♀️🤷♂️
🙈🙉🙊
At this point I think I`m trying to get all the Gnomes free entry into WTM 2024 🤣 or at least a Gnome trip to beta testing 😲
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Another one from our `Pink Book`
🎸 `Rocky my Boxy` 🎸
Another Simple design and obstacle to give a fresh feel to the race.
A large box to climb up and over!
But beware! When you add weight to the front it rotates forward. When you pass the centre of gravity it rotates back!
The obstacle is weighted at the back to return it to the upright position for the next racer!
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GYL x
One straight out `The Pink Book` 😍 this Sunday!
Hook `n` Loop
A variant of The Classic Kong`s with a gauntlet feel. Everyone wants to feel like a ninja! 🥷🥷
Simple design, Simple Build.
Grab 2 Loops for each hand and progress through the obstacle, hooking them on hooks. Some of them are on chains or moving!
Plenty more ideas hiding in this book, you know, if anyone wants to approach us 😉🤣
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The obstacle innovation lab is your ticket to seeing your obstacle creations come to life 🤩🙌Here are just a few of the many incredible submissions we’ve received so far 🔥Will you design our next greatest obstacle? 👀
Click the link in our bio to learn more🔗
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This is “Ring-Ring-Ring”. Swing from the ring to the cargo net, then to the next ring, just out of reach, and repeat. All suspended 8’-10’ over a pool of water.
Easy for some, challenging for others.
If you would like to see this at the next toughmudder like this post!
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While we take a chiller approach this week like Tough Mudder with Obstacle Innovation this year..
Some of you might have heard us talk about the `Pink Book`😈
and
Even the lucky few have survived the `Gnome Shenanigans` where we test some of our ideas and generally have a laugh.
The Gnomes eat,sleep,obstacle repeat all year round. We have many ideas, not just for obstacles. Give us a corner and watch us grow! 😉
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So Tough Mudder has a wedding package now 🤷♂️🤷♀️, so why not a wedding themed obstacle to go with it?
💖 To Have and To Hold 💖
Normal version is Texas Hold`em reinvented with ropes for tying the knot together💦💦
WTM version has electrics involved to bring a bit of spice into the relationship ⚡⚡
The no water version will have you connected and could have a shocking outcome 😤 (2 player version of WTM`s operation obstacle)
GYLx
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Giles we can keep this up all year but we`re going to need some feedback 😉 or things are going to start getting weird 🙈🙉🙊
Sunday, Suuuunday. 🔥
🦆 Duck Hunt 🦆
You drag your family and friends to spectate every time... Force them to stand in a field full of mud and make them hold your stuff..
It`s time for some spectator revenge!!
With a sprinkle of twinkle toes over water.
You`ll Dodge, Duck , Dip, Dive and Dodge;
wet sponges,
foam balls and
maybe even supper soakers.
As spectators take their 5am wake up call anger out on you from trying to get to the event on time.
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So as we head into the first Sunday of February, Tough Mudder have been quiet... too quite!! (January is now a distant memory for a Gnome 🥴)
As we push deeper into 2023 we want your feedback. Each time you tell us what you like and dislike, This helps us refine our ideas into bigger, better and more likely to be seen obstacles! That goes for you as well Tough Mudder!!! Don`t be shy we can take it... I think.... 😭
Tomorrows obstacle isn`t for the runners btw 🤷🤷♀️🤷♂️ Yeah go figure 🙊
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Another stab at the #tminnovationlab because this idea was in my head and I had to bust out some MSPaint level skills to realise it 😂
"The Wushu Wall Run"
I`ve always loved those scenes in Kung Fu movies where the action hero runs across the wall like someone switched the gravity off and looking pretty graceful whilst doing it. This would be your opportunity to do the same.
It`s basically a set of ropes attached to a zip line style pulley. Grab the rope, take a running jump to launch across the water before running along a vertical wall. Survive the wall run with enough speed to clear the remaining gap and land on terrafirma.
Mission achieved. Slow motion optional.
Additionally to make this tougher -
Maybe make this a few walls with gaps in between.
Or better still, multiple walls, multiple ropes.
You`ll have to leap for your next rope making this even more epic.
Someone much cleverer than I can figure out how to make the ropes return to the start once the weight is released (I`m sure there`s a way to do this, but it might as well be magic or me!)
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My entry to the toughmudder obstacle design competition. Using the pinnacle of graphic design media.... Windows Paint! 🤣 I would also add on water cannons for other Tough Mudders to shoot water at their fellow runners! #toughmudder #toughmuddereurope #obstaclecourse #bouldering #tminnovationlab
So this is my second obstacle design entry after the other years wrecking ball submission.
Welcome to haze maze!! A giant hay bale cube that has a maze inside of different options. Dug into the ground to get down and ditty but to also climb up inside the hay bale maze itself and go up in a dark confined space. Mudders take their route and it can either go down or up more so its a lucky dip!
Can also be scaled down for even the Lidl mudders too!
Simple but fun! Who doesn`t like launching over and up hale bales?!
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This weeks Sunday Obstacle Innovation is a simple creation using material we know Tough Mudder have a few of!
Over-Under-Through but Tough Mudder Style 😎
Utilizing their love of tubes we bring an idea from 2 races together to make you feel aquaphobic, claustrophobic and feeling UNBREAKABLE after your done 💪💪
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A new take on Funky Monkey! Wooden boards with holds on them that are hanging from chains so they move as you do. You slowly get higher above the water as you make your way sideways across them. Ending with a rope climb down to solid ground.
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Not the best drawing, but here`s another idea for the #tminnovationlab obstacle challenge.
Slanted walls with climbing holds on them for your hands and small wooden slats for your feet. Gotta traverse across the wall, then lean behind you to get to the next wall. Repeat until the end.
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My #tminnovationlab submission for a new obstacle at Tough Mudder! It`s a pretty basic picture but I`m pretty proud of myself 😂 I`m no artist, that`s for sure.
Nothing But Net - a rope swing over water into a cargo net climb and then a nice little slide as a reward 😁
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HOW IT WORKS
The Innovation Lab is your opportunity to make the best obstacle course in the world even better – one incredible obstacle idea at a time. Here’s how to jump on in:
- Post an image and description of your idea on Instagram, including the hashtag #tminnovationlab
- Generate support for your concept by getting as many ‘likes’ as possible.
- TMHQ will review the most liked concepts monthly, looking for ideas that can be feasibly constructed while delivering an incredible experience.
- Selected concepts will be passed to beta testing, where we’ll build and test them with live participants.
- Exemplary concepts that succeed in beta testing will have the chance to be added to the permanent Tough Mudder obstacle menu.
· Top Voted – The concept with the most new likes within a month will receive a free Tough Mudder entry.
· Beta Tested Concepts – Concepts that are selected for beta testing will earn a free entry to World’s Toughest Mudder
· Roll-Out Concepts – Designs selected for permanent inclusion on the Tough Mudder menu will win a Season Pass Plus.
Some months may see multiple ideas approved for testing; others may see none.
1. Post an image – or multiple images – of your idea on Instagram, using the hashtag #tminnovationlab
2. Use any imagery you’d like – digital mock-up, hand-drawn pictures, scale models; whatever you’d like to sell the idea
3. Include a detailed description of how the obstacle is intended to work
4. Keep in mind the pillars of the Tough Mudder brand when crafting your concept: grit, camaraderie, and accomplishment
5. Promote your idea to get as many likes as possible
A HISTORY OF INNOVATION
Creativity and change have been an integral part of Tough Mudder’s DNA since our inception in 2010. Check out where we’ve been, then help us find where we’re going next.
