Bear Grylls

high desert

high desert

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I really haven't seen to many episodes of this idiots show. I lost interest when he tried to catch a wild horse to ride which had shoes. Now last night he was in Montana a took a leaky boat out into the middle of a large lake with his parachute to use as a kite to pull the boat across the lake and he didn't take a paddle or oar for backup. If you have seen the show you know the boat sank and he had to swim to shore leaving him soaking wet just before dark. Isn't management of risks part of a survival/wilderness strategy? He needs to do himself a favor and watch how Les Shroud does it.
 
You have to take old Bear for what his show is, entertainment only. He does some idiotic and dangerous stunts, but he is fun to watch.
 
tknife said:
You have to take old Bear for what his show is, entertainment only. He does some idiotic and dangerous stunts, but he is fun to watch.
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Agreed. I have to admit a guilty pleasure of watching the show, but I understand that it's purely for entertainment.
 
high desert said:
He needs to do himself a favor and watch how Les Shroud does it.
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So he watch other ways to not do things?

They are both tv shows, so to look at either one as more than entertainment (and the very occasional advise) is to do them both a disservice. You want to learn about survival, tv is not the way to do it.
 
Most of us realize that this is made for tv entertainment, but he is so far out there it just cracks me up. I bet that guy who was trying his survival skills and died was a regular viewer.
 
Didn't want to get into a Bear Grylls discussion but...
My wife gets really angry when I put his show on. She spends the entire time saying things like "What a jackass" and "I hope this guy kills himself". He never bothered me too much until the swamp episode where he needlessly bites the head off a snake, kills a huge catfish, and stabs a young alligator. I can see killing an animal if you have to eat it to survive but not when you've got a crew of 8 who probably have packs full of sandwiches and powerbars. I don't care what idiotic thing he does on his show but killing animals simply to demonstrate that you can kill them with absolutely no respect or remorse is sick.
 
I saw that show last night. I watched as he climbed that train bridge and threw a rusty old chain up onto the track to climb over the threshold. He had no idea how it was fastened up top, just that when he pulled on it, it seemed secure. Then up he went. If that had come loose he would be dead. As a kid, I saw plenty of rope swings, purposely fastened, break loose. I cant fathom betting my life the way he did on a rusty chain wedged into God knows what. Sometimes I think the camera makes people act crazy. Same theory as a large crowd watching and pushing for you to do something, odds are you'll do it. I'm just wondering why his wife doesn't say enough is enough. I'm afraid he is going to end up like the crocadile guy. Not to mention the deer horn grappling hook incident!
 
I just don't think you should bite the head off a snake and then discard it like trash.
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Yeah, especially with the global snake head shortage that is driving up snake head prices.

I'm just goofin'! :thumbup:
 
Sigh, another one missed the point.

Grylls is not out there to survive. He VERY CLEARLY has a camera crew with him at all times. Never once does he claim he's out there surviving.

What he's doing is showing you, the way a teacher or a performer might, cool things you can do if you end up in a survival situation that calls for it.

His priorities:
1. entertaining
2. useful in "ordinary" survival situations, if such a thing exists.

So yeah. Of course normally people wouldn't kill a small alligator or jump into a freezing pond for the hell of it! But the point is to show the (usually uninformed) viewer that it can be done, that it is something you can count on doing if your life depended on it.

I for one have learned loads from both Grylls and Stroud. More importantly, I, a flat-foot citydweller, got to be entertained and experience a little of this wilderness magic.

Say what you like about Grylls ("thank you! I will!") but he's got some serious credentials and I have a hard time believing in any case that the guy who can make Chief Scout lacks a sound head in real survival situations.
 
Have you seen the one where he tackles the wild boar and sticks it? I bet they ate good that night.
 
I understand that, I have learned alot from the shows too. More importantly for me, they rekindled and interest in camping and backpacking that I gave up a while back. I just think Bear is going to kill himself one of these days.
 
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Compared to the survivorman this guys a jackass. I laughed my lungs out when he drank his own piss out of a snake skin, because I knew his camera man was drinking evian.
 
Usually I take his shows with a grain of salt but last night was ridiculous the deer horn grappling hook thing was so faked and overdone I wasn't even entertained anymore.
 
Bear's show is there to entertain us. If you seriously think he'd try 1/2 the crap he does in a real survival situation, you're crazy. He's not necessarily there to teach because a lot of the stunts and climbs he performs simply couldn't be done by the average viewer. I love the show because it's entertaining.

Les Stroud's show is somewhat more realistic but it's BORING. There's a reason Man v. Wild is on 15x as often as Survivorman.

The bottom line is if you don't like Bear switch the damn channel. You're in control of what you watch.
 
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