Are we thrill seekers?

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I mean I love to Rappell into caves and do all kinds of crazy $#!%.
Am I alone or are we some adventure loving sons of guns?
I love the outdoors and we can't be all that different.
Knives are part of our overall picture arn't they?
They are tools that keep us alive when the going gets scarry.

-Jeff

Best wishes- Jeff
 
Trudging through the Sierras at night, climbing through boulders and fallen trees to get to my favorite trout hole, taking the hard way to the mountain top off the beaten path...hell! these are a few of my favorite things. I do believe that being "knife nuts" sets us apart from the rest...who wants to follow the "norm" anyway?
 
I suspect BFC has more than it's fair share of "extreme sport" kinda guys and gals.

As for myself, I've done the rappelling thing, white water canoeing, sky diving, etc.
I don't know that I did it for the "Thrill" exactly, but I always wanted to do the things that "normal" people were afraid to do.
Wonder what that says about me?

I've slowed down some over the years, but not really because of my age, but just because all those "hobbies" cost MONEY.
Buying a house and getting all "domesticated" takes a lot of the green stuff away from you.
So go out and have fun now, you may not be able to later!


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i enjoy camping/packing, scuba diving, and climbing (when i can, which is rare). love to get lost. any weather, any terrain. i'll follow you into any hole you can find, and lead if your flashlight sucks.
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peace.
aleX.

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I think you are right. We are kind of a breed apart. I only slowed after a spinal injury. Knives are an important part of oour activities. When it hits the fan, its a knife that pulls us out a grat deal of the time.

But for me, my love of knives is based purely on the art of them. I have always been intriqued with the fact that we can take one of mans most basic tools, and add to it such form as to elavate it to the level of art. Take for example the Gerber Mark II, not really a high quality knife. But, the form of it is true art. And art at its most usable form. I look a guns the same way. A MP5K PDW in my eyes is not a ugly hunk of black death. All I see is an amazing piece of engineering, brought to the point of functional beauty.

Well, I wax on, time to wax off
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I love seeing how fast I can descend on my mountain bike through the gnarliest, rockiest, rootiest terrain possible. And I own a hardtail! But it's a GREAT hardtail. Each time I descend a known hill, I try to do it faster. What a rush!
Lenny
 
I don't think that there is any question that there are several common threads that run through the Forumites.I don't like the term "Extreme" sports because to me it sounds too trendy and made for advertising but I know what some of the other posters mean.

I find that people who knives are important to usually also have at least a background in hunting, fishing and outdoor type sports and skills.

Another posting thread on another part of the forum has been discussing "need" in the context of gun control. Well to put another slant on it I guess in our modern times we don't "need" to know how to set up a campsite. We don't "need" to know how to hunt. We don't "need" to know how to climb rocks. We don't "need" to know how to fish or do hundreds of other things that many of us take the time to learn.

However, I think in our society there are more and more people who don't know how to do anything that is really hands on or useful. In a day where kids want to grow up to be "management consultants" and "IT professionals" I think its good to train yourself to provide for yourself.
No offense to anyone of any profession intended here and I'm not suggesting that everybody should be a blacksmith or a farmer but I think most people here know what I'm getting at.

If you don't "need" something then its because you are relying on someone else to provide for you and in fundamental things like food and shelter I don't like that idea.

For the same reasons I don't like being without what is one of man's most fundamental tools...the knife.

I'm not what you would call a "survivalist" but I feel better knowing that if I had to I could build a shelter, hunt, fish, and do without some of our modern conveniences. I'll most likely never need to use these skills on a long term basis but I feel better about myself because I know that I'm not helpless. I know a lot of people that I couldn't say that about. (and I don't thing any of them carry knives.)
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I don't have to explain to you folks (as I did to the "ex") my rolling around in the mud chasing a white oval ball & having my face stepped on by 250lb ill-tempered louts on Saturday afternoons...

Give Blood, Play Rugby.

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Not me...I'm a Certified Couch Potato(e), but I'll probably out-live the rest of you "thrill-seakers", and die a less violent death...Unless a heart-attack from being fat & lazy is "violent"!
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Do you guys consider driving around in a Black & White car at night and chasing bad guys thrill seeking? If you do I guess I am in .

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He who sheds blood with me is my brother. Shakespeare Henry V I used to be disgusted .Now I am just amused....I feel much better now that I have given up all hope
 
I'm more Homer Simpson than a Tom Cruse, but I bet I am better armed than either!

I am evil Homer, I am evil Homer,I am evil Homer,I am evil Homer (whilst rattling a pair of marracas)

If you are a Simpsons Knut, you will get it!

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Wayne.
"To strive to seek to find and not to yield"
Tennyson
Ranger motto

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