Cody Lundin depiction in Dual Survival

Just wondering if you guys thought the show was great since watching it!

I loved all of the episodes I've seen so far, and it turns out Dave and Cody really did work well together even with their different styles. I didn't think I could learn a whole lot more about survival before watching it, but you can definitely learn from those two.

I bet even though Cody lives off the grid in the Sonoran desert I could probably show him a couple things he doesn't know, I have a LOT of experience camping/hiking in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts... although who knows, he'd probably surprise me lol, he is similar to me in his love of nature and knowledge of desert wildlife. I definitely learned some things from him!

I'll never forget hiking with friends in the Huachuca mountains in Arizona and betting them $5 a piece that I could catch a lizard with a piece of grass and a stick. They were like "no way". Of course I found a nice strong flexible green piece of grass (near water), stripped the leaves off, made a noose out of the slim end of the stem, and then tied it to a stick with the grass leaves. They were shocked when I successfully noosed a big lizard with it on the first try, and I made $20. It actually held up for several lizards that I made a shishkabob out of too. ;)

I also showed these same friends how to find a tarantula hole, tell if it was occupied, and get the tarantula out and boil the hair off it to eat it (Native Americans consider them a delicacy, and they are actually rather yummy!), and how to set snares for Coatimundis, although those came up empty. :(

All said I'm still more of an armchair survivalist than those two guys, kudos to them for showing a lot of survival techniques and philosophies that really do work!
 
Hey, I never expected to see this thread resurrected!

I completely enjoy the show for its entertainment value, although I agree with a lot of people who say that some of their stunts, like cauterizing a self inflicted wound with gunpowder, is foolish and flat out the wrong thing to do, medically.

Both come off as highly competent, although with different approaches to dealing with nature. They both can be weird when they want to, one drinking water from his socks and the other biting down and eating the leeches that were feeding on them. They still cooperate most of the time and even complement each other under certain conditions.

They're in my age group, so I get a lot of their humor. All in all, I look forward to watching their show :thumbup:

P.S. Whammy: Sounds like you have the skill set for desert survival! Lassoing lizards doesn't sound easy!
 
I always felt that Cody's 'method' of survival training is just not for everyone. The shoe less thing, while a great gig for him, has taken most of his life to perfect. If perfected it is.
Most folks just are not going to put that much into that sort of life style change.
 
Haha, I'm in their age group too (I am 40 now) so I get their humor as well. ;)

I agree that some of the questionable things they do are purely for entertainment value but how else are they going to compete with Bear and Les for ratings? ;)

Lassoing lizards is definitely not easy if it's windy, but luckily they usually won't be scared of a noose - they will look at it and smell it with their tongue 80% of the time, so you just have to be patient, but if you move very slowly you can get several attempts in even with the wind before they run off. Too bad it takes half a dozen to make any sort of meal...

BTW I am a guitarist so I usually carried used guitar strings for lizard noosing (with the ball end you can just slip the string through it, no need for a hangman's knot) or making snares, that was a one-off that I couldn't believe worked as well as it did. :P
 
Mannlicher said:
I always felt that Cody's 'method' of survival training is just not for everyone. The shoe less thing, while a great gig for him, has taken most of his life to perfect. If perfected it is.
Most folks just are not going to put that much into that sort of life style change.
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Hey if I had been barefoot when I was hiking in the desert I would have fallen over a cliff once. Only my hiking boots saved me, so I agree. :)
 
On the OP, the show was far more sensational than I would have liked. Too much emphasis on exotic locations and contrived scenarios that I felt took away from the better parts of the show that just demonstrated them dealing with the more mundane things that 98% of survival and outdoors is about. I would have liked to see far more of the latter and less rope work, climbing, hunting pigs/turkeys etc. But as others point out, they do need to compete for ratings and the two stars are pretty much at the whim of the producers and editors when it comes to how they are portrayed and what they have to work with.

As to the OP, did Cody Lundin lose respect? I think his techniques and philosophies were put to a lot of scrutiny in places like this and others but really its an insignificant audience relative to the general masses he has reached. I think he and Dave codified their expertise to the general public. In the grand scheme of things, his school will be running for a long, long time if he chooses to continue running it. Whether a few folks on bladeforums or other survival places disagree with him won't change the fact that he broadcast his story out to a far larger audience than he could have reached with just his books and the odd news special he was featured on before. Thats my take, just like Les Stroud will always be survivalman even when he switched shows.
 
Props to Cody for being himself after a successful 1st Dual Survival Season. He cuts the BS and calls things for what they are (@ 8:20 for example...and check out 9:00 ....what more should he say?) . I also assume it's not an easy thing dealing with any sort of celebrity status. He got that down pretty well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07sHTEyF4bY
 
Whammy,

Sounds like you and I have stomped some of the same ground. I have hiked all over the Huachuca area, Coronado Valley, and relayed a story on this forum of being trapped for two days in an ice storm while near Miller's Peak.
 
What days and time does this show come on? I always catch it late at night randomly but id like to watch. Anyone know?
 
Just noticed there is a new episode of Dual Survival, that is airing on Tuesday May 24th, instead of Friday, 8pm cst "Out Of Africa".
 
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