Buschcrafting and smooth jazz

[bobobama]

Huh? What's he talking about?

I'll tell you. I was just watching a Youtube video comparing what could be considered two bushcraft knives, the Mora Robust Pro vs. the Heavy duty Hultafors. The reviewer Simon, who is Polish, was putting them through the usual routine- batoning, feathersticks and the like. It struck me that he was doing all the same things that the typical Youtube bushcrafters do, and it made me wonder. Are there a set of unwritten rules that bushcrafters must follow, and that they all know to adhere to?

Just like smooth jazz, if you're familiar with it. It's a very watered down version of jazz usually featuring a screeching alto sax along with other instruments. It's very bland, monotonous and tedious (my opinion) and features many practitioners that all sound pretty much alike. And its popularity never seems to diminish. Starting to sound familiar?

What amazes me is that with both art forms, if you will, the people doing it seem to know what they have to do to qualify for the genre, and rarely deviate from the standard. Again, without any written guidelines as to what they're supposed to be doing- they just know.

Forgive the rambling, but this just came to me while watching this particular video.

 

[BladeScout]

Many of these knife reviews are quite generic if not inane and boring.
Some try to spice up the genre by adding various antics and most often fail.
I try to not take most YT reviews too seriously.

 

[pinnah]

I've worked with sociologists who refer to such things as "competency displays". They're the sort of thing one does to show other that you're members of the same tribe.

Knife clips visible on the peoples pants pockets are a form of "competency display" in the same way.

 

[ChazzyP]

If you made a bush crafting video with smooth jazz playing in the background would that break the mold or doubly reinforce it?