Just found a VERY interesting Bear Grylls video

Bushman5 said:
is there an SAS site or office for reporting people who claim to be SAS?
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I am fairly certain the fact that he was an SAS medic (IIRC) is pretty well verified...

Edit: he was in SAS TA 21, a regular military unit, or Territorial Army. This is not the SAS 22, the elite unit that he sort of alludes to have been a part of.
 
The thing that gets me, is that Bear unrealistically represents the energy drain of all of his shenanigans. In real life you get fatigued, cold, and depressed. Your hands get too cold to work right or your brains starts to obsess on something unimportant. Your traps don't work, your rafts don't float, and wild horses don't let you get close to them. It's like Bear is presenting a Mister Roger's version of survival. Oh just hop off of Mr. Cliff, and remember boys and girls to roll a little when you hit the ground. That didn't happen, but that is the kind of impression you get after watching his shows. It's as if everythings easy and all you have to do run, jump, and climb everywhere you go. When you're tired, sore, cold, and disoriented, I'd say you're doing pretty well if you can find some cover and make a cup of tea. So in that way he's kind of, from his desire to make the show exciting and successful and not necessarily from a desire to deceive, he has left a body of work that makes you think that SURVIVAL is easy and fun. That's a fun picture, but I don't think it is realistic, and I definitely don't think he is covered by making some weasel-worded statement about "showing" how to do something that is a hair's breath away from outright fiction. I think that people who say his depictions of survival coping strategy as dangerous have a good point. I think some realism of what it takes to actually be battered by weather for several days 24/7 is more realistic. In some of his shows he isn't even forced to suffer the debilitating effect of a dirty shirt or an unshaved chin. So I wonder how that is showing us what can be done in a bad situation, when he is never personally experiencing anything vaguely like a bad situation ever? It isn't lying, but what Bear's doing is about as close to it as you can come and not get sued. So while I love to have a beer with the man, I would definitely not leave my change on the bar when I went to take a leak.
 
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Hey, maybe Bear uses the "coyote teaching" method :D

No honestly, don't believe everything that you see on tv. Actually, dont believe anything you see on it.
 
I'm pretty sure he recently broke something in his back trying to rush an expedition and whore some more publicity...

any updates on when i can watch wilderness jackass again?
 
Frostyfingers said:
I don't know, did he? Or did he only show how it would be done if one really did do it? :D

Seriously though, where is that coming from? Show me proof. :mad:
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I thought I heard it on the show:confused:

Easy killer.... in the end who really cares that much anyway? were all getting up and going to work this morning and dealing with life, and its just a tv show being talked about on an internet forum:cool:
Just FUN stuff to chat about. Were not saving the worlds children here or anything:D:D
 
LittleHairyApe said:
The thing that gets me, is that Bear unrealistically represents the energy drain of all of his shenanigans. In real life you get fatigued, cold, and depressed. Your hands get too cold to work right or your brains starts to obsess on something unimportant. Your traps don't work, your rafts don't float, and wild horses don't let you get close to them. It's like Bear is presenting a Mister Roger's version of survival. Oh just hop off of Mr. Cliff, and remember boys and girls to roll a little when you hit the ground. That didn't happen, but that is the kind of impression you get after watching his shows. It's as if everythings easy and all you have to do run, jump, and climb everywhere you go. When you're tired, sore, cold, and disoriented, I'd say you're doing pretty well if you can find some cover and make a cup of tea. So in that way he's kind of, from his desire to make the show exciting and successful and not necessarily from a desire to deceive, he has left a body of work that makes you think that SURVIVAL is easy and fun. That's a fun picture, but I don't think it is realistic, and I definitely don't think he is covered by making some weasel-worded statement about "showing" how to do something that is a hair's breath away from outright fiction. I think that people who say his depictions of survival coping strategy as dangerous have a good point. I think some realism of what it takes to actually be battered by weather for several days 24/7 is more realistic. In some of his shows he isn't even forced to suffer the debilitating effect of a dirty shirt or an unshaved chin. So I wonder how that is showing us what can be done in a bad situation, when he is never personally experiencing anything vaguely like a bad situation ever? It isn't lying, but what Bear's doing is about as close to it as you can come and not get sued. So while I love to have a beer with the man, I would definitely not leave my change on the bar when I went to take a leak.
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AMEN! my thoughts exactly.
 
I know someone already said this but I cant find it now. Bear Grylls is the Johnny Knoxville of survival. As in the "Jackass" movie.:yawn:
 
He is interesting to watch, but I wouldn't follow 99% of his survival advice.
 
If you look back at his first shows,He says he was in the french forgien leigon,spell check on that,If you notice they never show that anymore,because it was a show, that showed him and some other guys going threw what the FFL bootcamp was like,From his first show im sure guys were picking out, what was a fraud and what wasnt,I remember reading that Ron Hood,said the guy was fraud,and that Ron was a expert, on one of his shows,and didnt want his name or anything more to do with this guy.
 
Hi guys kinda new to this forum i tell you this if he was a legionnair he would be trying to hump the zebra then eat it :rolleyes:
 
runningboar said:
This is my biggest problem with the bear, besides him being a liar. He is not skilled, and he is not knowledgable, everything he does is staged and fake.

My favorite is the Rocky mountain episode where he made a friction fire. His hearth board has no notch to catch an ember was the first thing I noticed, then the camera cuts away and then comes back, the hearth board is literally covered with coals, they later admitted to scooping them out of an already lit fire. That is the same episode where he is ran out of the shelter that the crew built and goes charging into the night by a "Grizzly" that they later admitted was a man dressed in a bear suit. The man is a total fraud and is likely to get someone killed trying some of his stunts, he will do or eat anything for money, little better than a carnival geek. Chris

EDIT:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbi...ck-survival-man-fancy-dress-bear-costume.html
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if you read the link there is one part which says: "The tension builds as Grylls crawls out of his shelter and films a black shadow moving a few yards away. Back inside the shelter, Grylls says: "I haven't heard from it now for a few minutes. And it might well have just moved away, but sure as hell it knows I'm here. And it knows I've hidden food here."

If he a "SURVIVAL expert" dont he know that in a bear country all food should be hung? and the ironic thing... he is bear...
 
Its just a tv show.

Jack Bauer doesn't actually make knock-out gas from kitchen chemicals either. Thats just a tv show too. :)

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powernoodle said:
Its just a tv show.

Jack Bauer doesn't actually make knock-out gas from kitchen chemicals either. Thats just a tv show too. :)

:thumbup:
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Sure they are both TV shows but one of them is billed as non-fiction/instructional. I am pretty sure at the beginning of 24 Keifer Sutherland doesn't tell the audience that he is going to teach you the skills you need to kill terrorists. Chris
 
He served in the part-time United Kingdom Special Forces Reserve. Not sure if this is like a Natl Guard equivalent of a Delta Farce or what...
 
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