Knife used in "Man vs Wild' series on Discovery

I remember when Survior first came on TV. Guys here made similar comments as on this thread.

MY thoughts then were its a game show folks like Wheel of Fortune........

A show of a guy sitting in a lean to waiting for help would be well like watching pbs.
 
I remember when Survior first came on TV. Guys here made similar comments as on this thread.

MY thoughts then were its a game show folks like Wheel of Fortune........

A show of a guy sitting in a lean to waiting for help would be well like watching pbs.
 
In June 2005, Bear broke a world record by hosting a dinner party at a table suspended below a hot air balloon at 24,500 feet. He rappelled from the balloon's basket to the table, where in full naval uniform he ate a three-course meal before saluting the queen and skydiving to earth. His goal was to support the work of two charities: the Prince's Trust and the Duke of Edinburgh's Award.
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You gotta admit... The man has style.

As for his show and his antics... They guy is providing entertainment. Period. And at the same time he is giving examples of survival skills he has learned through training and experience. I highly doubt that in a real survival situation, he would be inclined to take the risks he does and place himself in the situations he does for his show.

Bear was hesitant to go in the water during an episode? I didn't see that one, but perhaps his back was twitchy and walking around on slippery footing might not have been the best idea.
 
The knives he uses seem to have serrated backs or sawbacks, and gut hooks. Not really practical for batoning or hitting with a stone imo (he used a stone in one episode in the man vs. wild marathon yesterday). Not to criticize, but his shows are obviously made to entertain.

He has good basic survival skills like making fire and shelter, but also, he's basically an action figure :)
 
i like man vs wild and the guy in it. yes he does the most hard part but thats usually because hes given a time limit. its just a show, and he does seem to have real knowledge.
 
I hear there will be a Yeti and a Sasquatch to deal with.

IN THE CAST !!!

Maybe even a Yeti "prostitute with a messrag " (still laffin on that one)

:D
 
David Schott said:
he pisses me off. If everyone lost acted like he did, 90% would die. He takes the path of most resistence, chooses to run through deep watered rivers just for camera effect, and in general is SO irritating. You'd think he advocates everyone lost running across unstable ground, scrabling as fast as possible across wet rocks, and taking risks that are completely unnecessary. He would go into new york city and say "the shops dont upen until 6am and I NEED food, so im going to wring water out of this prostitute's messrag and it will keep me alive until morning"
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lol he sounds like the fans of that other guy who does a survival show, the pudgy guy with red hair, think his name is les?
 
David Schott said:
If everyone lost acted like he did, 90% would die.
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Unfortunately, many people lost in wilderness areas are injured or killed because they do things that those of us with experience and training would not do.

I side with the "Bear is entertainment" camp NOT because his 'teaching' is 100% thoughtful and accurate -- it's not -- but because even if he (or Les Stroud, or Ray Mears, or Tom Brown, etc. etc.) were able to present only 100% practical, logical advice on a 60 minute cable TV show, most people wouldn't listen, or learn if they did. Only a tiny minority of the "Man vs. Wild" or "Survivorman" audience is really concerned about wilderness survival, and that minority is a majority here on Bladeforums.

In other words, folks like BF members are not really the MvW audience.
 
MG_Saldivar said:
Unfortunately, many people lost in wilderness areas are injured or killed because they do things that those of us with experience and training would not do.

I side with the "Bear is entertainment" camp NOT because his 'teaching' is 100% thoughtful and accurate -- it's not -- but because even if he (or Les Stroud, or Ray Mears, or Tom Brown, etc. etc.) were able to present only 100% practical, logical advice on a 60 minute cable TV show, most people wouldn't listen, or learn if they did. Only a tiny minority of the "Man vs. Wild" or "Survivorman" audience is really concerned about wilderness survival, and that minority is a majority here on Bladeforums.

In other words, folks like BF members are not really the MvW audience.
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Well said. It's meant to be entertainment, plain and simple.
 
will say if nothing else bear has the stomach of a, well lets just say its "heavy duty", i was gonna say a stomach like a buzzard but then again i have never seen a buzzard eat a skunk and bear will eat them, made me wanna gag.

the real question is "if someone had a gun to your head and ya had to either drink your own urine outta a old snakeskin, eat bar-b-q'd skunk, or sleep with roseann barr, which one would ya pick"??? pick one of the 3 or ya get a 9MM lobotomy, which one to choose?

now THATS a question lol............

of the 4 choices, i might would go with the 9MM lobotomy lol.
 
i like when grylls shows you how not to do stuff, like going down a steep rock face of shale. "you definitely want to be careful when doing this", then he runs full bore down the face , sliding on his ass when it gets too steep, falling down and whatever till he gets to the bottom. Just wait till he shows us how to take down a grizzly with a sharpened stick and some stone dust. at least he stays on the move. survivorman likes to walk around in circles, sets the camera down, films himself walking around a lake, then comes back to get his camera, walks around some more, then freezes his ass off trying to make a camp with the two twigs he found cause has to carry all his stuff and films himself shivering all night long. grylls probably uses a custom knife, he's been arond them long enough.
 
The u tube above is hilarious. I knew Bear had his crew with all the comforts of home with him, but to be 200 yards from a highway is really funny. Oh, the wonders of TV.
There's no way I could do the stuff he does but he is obviously a fraud. It appears that the stuff Les Stroud does on Survivorman is real but who knows.
 
muddog49 said:
The u tube above is hilarious. I knew Bear had his crew with all the comforts of home with him, but to be 200 yards from a highway is really funny. Oh, the wonders of TV.
There's no way I could do the stuff he does but he is obviously a fraud. It appears that the stuff Les Stroud does on Survivorman is real but who knows.
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Everything I've read concerning Les Stroud states that he's the real deal. No support crew, no cameramen.

He's less popular with sheeple because he doesn't do all the idiotic/entertainment stunts Bear performs.
 
i suppose its just entertainment, but bear just seems so "dramatic" about everything, on thursdays show i was pulling for the bees, rattlesnakes and the skunk.

and i say again, eating a skunk? i wouldnt do that even if starving, what about little things like, oh say rabies? not to mention the savory aroma roasting skunk must have.

he's one nasty so & so to eat skunk.
 
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