HEY, SUPERMEN, what is your KRYPTONITE?

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Plainsman

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Since I see that we have many "SUPEMEN" on this forum all of a sudden (after seeing some of the responses to my WATERCRAFT THREAD), do you have a WEAKNESS?

Everybody has some kind of a weakness. For somebody it may be swimming, heights, firestarting without a can of lighter fluid, hot weather survival, COLD weather survival, etc.

So where do you feel the KRYPTONITE bringing you down?
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Plainsman :)
primitiveguy@hotmail.com

You use what you have on you, then you improvise! :)
 
The environment I would least like to be planted in would be the empty ocean, followed close behind by the arctic, and shortly thereafter by desert. Inner City without a car would rank up in there too...

As far as things I am not experienced in, wilderness food. Aside from the occasional trout, I have never gutted and cleaned game, nor have I eaten more than the occasional ant. I think I have a passable skill at plant-type foods, but when it comes to animals, I have little experience.


Stryver
 
Definately deep water. Anytime I cannot touch the bottom and still keep my head above water makes me uncomfortable. And being in a watercraft, from a canoe to a cruise ship, still makes me uncomfortable whenever I loose sight of the bottom. I CAN swim but no matter how good I have gotten I have not lost my "fear".
 
Hey dude, I hope I did not insult you with my response, I definitly did not mean it that way. If so I appologize.

But as you well know, HEIGHTS man was not meant to have his feet off the ground, it is unnatural!!! Put me on the steep side or top of a mountain where I would have to repel, or rock climb and I am toast. And running a close second or possibly first is needles, my skin just crawls when I think of getting a shot.

<pauses for laughter>

Besides the S on my chest definitly does not stand for Super, more like Sucker!!

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Lee

LIfe is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde

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Definetly not water. I do open water swims, triathlons, surf and SCUBA. Not heights, either because I rock climb and handglide.
Weaknesses include primitive firestarting (firestarting without matches, lighter, or Strike Force), shelter making, tracking, and fishing (although I am working on the fishing). -CAman
 
LEE: Don't worry, I sent you an email!
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Plainsman :)
primitiveguy@hotmail.com

You use what you have on you, then you improvise! :)
 
I have two weaknesses:
Vermont teddy bears( http://www.vtbear.com ),,, they're cute little guys
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And someone reading the Velveteen rabbit,,,,puts me in tears every time
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Big-Target>>>>>>SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM

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MY only weakness is the Diabetes that I was gifted with several years ago. I used to be afraid of heights. I got certified in Vertical rescue. I guess other than the physiological thing I hav no patience with stupidity or ignorance. I'd be just as likely to shoot the dumb BAS***D before he got me killed by accident. I have practiced and survived by using most of the primitive skills that were needed by the pioneers. I used to do a lot of buckskinning. That covers about all the foreseable contingencies.

Cheers,

ts
That covers the basics.

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Guns are for show. Knifes are for Pros.
 
Acknowledging your 'weaknesses' better helps you to prepare for emergencies. I have so many weaknesses that I don't even think I can begin to post them all.

Water
Heights
First aid
Plant Identification
HOT weather survival

Just to name a handful. That is why I visit places like this, to learn. I may be able to teach something along the way and that shows that I'm mastering that objective. Think of all things like this, "You REALLY know what you are doing when you are able to TEACH it!"

I'm sure Greg and Ron can relate to that!
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Plainsman :)
primitiveguy@hotmail.com

You use what you have on you, then you improvise! :)
 
Nothing......I am invincible......not rain sleet nor snow........I can survive anywhere anytime......jungle....no problem.....arctic......no problem.....I can start cooking fires with lightning bolts from my eyes..........can dig out of avalanches with my superhuman strength.......can run down gazell for food.


Wellll.....my ego may be sort of a downfall.....but it will keep me afloat in the ocean.......so it must be a good thing ?
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Frogman6

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Jeff,
I could not agree more.
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MichLee,
I know what you mean (about heights). I conquered my fears by taking a rope rescue course thru the fire dept.

As for everyone else, your KRYPTONITE can be overcome if your will to live outweighs the power of the KRYPTONITE. It is amazing what you can overcome when your life is on the line.

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Barry
Jones Knives

Do you hear that?
That is the sound of inevitability.
 
Well, I did my 4 year Navy hitch, passed the swim test and spent a lot of time at sea, but when I go fishing, I always wear a life vest. Swimming is not my strong point.

Funny, I never worried about drowning at sea when I was in the Navy, even when I was in a storm where waves broke over the ship and broke out the windows on the brige and put 3" of ice on the top side, making the destroyer tippy. This was mostly due to shear stupidity. What the Navy never told us about was the danger of hypothermia. If I remember right, most drownings are due to hypothermia (I may be wrong on this but I seem to remember it from some article I read.).

BTW, here's a link for tips on surviving hypothermia in water.
http://hypothermia.org/inwater.htm

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Hoodoo

No, I do not weep at the world--I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston

Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt.
Lao Tsu
 
redtape, taxation, and over regulation, and to be totally redundent sheeple, and democrats

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Sanity is overrated, simply a moonbeam spilling pearls on a dark and treacherous sea.
j . p hissom
 
Originally posted by JeffRandall:
A young female with a good body and long blonde hair. Married or single...it doesn't matter.
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Jeff, ya gotta get out of the jungle more often.
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Hoodoo

No, I do not weep at the world--I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston

Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt.
Lao Tsu
 
Personally I prefer redheads.

Cheers,

TS

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