Navy Seal with CS Recon 1

I saw that and was really surprised to see them with a folder? is this seal specific or is that what the gov. gives them?
 
I was hoping someone would post those vids. I DVR the show from Tues., but d/n get to see it until Wed. And when they showed the SEAL weapons lying out on a table, they showed a fixed blade Recon Tanto and either an ODK or SRK.

I noticed the tip of the blade broke off, too, but as Cold Steel's website says repeatedly, what that SEAL did to that Recon 1 "constitutes gross abuse of a knife". Bottom line, though--the lock held, and knife did its job.

Even as a CS fan, though, what that huge guy DID w/that knife was much more impressive than the knife itself--WOW!
 
Yeah, his hands were super fast.. They placed sensors on his hands to measure the the speed and power. They said his hand speed ranked right up there with an olympic boxer
 
Deadliest warrior is not a science show :)
And when it comes to speed - with knife you dont need so much power as in boxing.

But last thing - mess with me and I will tear your head off :D with a knife :d
 
Hah. Thats such a stupid show. They twist facts and over exaggerate things to make it seem more cool and power ranger-esque to 10 year old kids.
 
ThornStrike said:
Hah. Thats such a stupid show. They twist facts and over exaggerate things to make it seem more cool and power ranger-esque to 10 year old kids.
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Your comment might as well be "it's a TV show," because you've just described 99% of them.

But are you also of the opinion that SEALs are just special forces which are "over exaggerated [a redundancy]" and only SEEM "cool and ranger-esque to 10 year old kids"? Contrived show or not, dude, what those guys can do is impressive as heck.
 
so i wasn't seeing things! that tip did break off. :) it is an interesting show, but unrealistic some times! :D
 
idaho said:
Deadliest warrior is not a science show :)
And when it comes to speed - with knife you dont need so much power as in boxing.

But last thing - mess with me and I will tear your head off :D with a knife :d
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So . . . the speed sensor was inaccurate? It is what it is. DW d/n claim to be "a science show"; they just told you what the sensor readout was as to hand speed.

And as for your first sentence, "when it comes to speed," you talk about power?? :confused:

You can brag about being a bad man w/a knife if you wanna, and you might very well be able to slash all the rest of us posting in this thread for all I know, but if it comes down to you versus that Navy SEAL in real life, forgive me, but my $$ is on the SEAL being able to mess w/you all he wants to and still retain his head just fine, thank you. For Pete's sake, the other SEAL there, the demolition expert by trade, even looked half scared of him.

C'mon, now, is this Gecko45 posting under a new pseudonym?
 
hissatsu1 said:
There may be another thread on this already, but I thought this was pretty cool.. This navy seal goes crazy with a Cold Steel Recon 1 Tanto on the Deadliest Warrior..

At the end of the second video, you can see where the tip broke off the knife during the fury...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20540mcBjU0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRccv62UqUg
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We're yacking about that in prac tac too...

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=760778

That was wild, wasn't it?
 
How did he break the tanto tip by just stabbing a soft plastic dummy? Or am I missing something. You would think a thick tanto tip like the recon could stand a bit more abuse. Anyway that was pretty hilarious to see him flip out on that dummy.
 
dobervol said:
Your comment might as well be "it's a TV show," because you've just described 99% of them.

But are you also of the opinion that SEALs are just special forces which are "over exaggerated [a redundancy]" and only SEEM "cool and ranger-esque to 10 year old kids"? Contrived show or not, dude, what those guys can do is impressive as heck.
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Well I think all of the warriors they investigate are pretty awesome, and the SEALs really are amazing, but the way the show distorts facts just bothers me a lot.
 
kawr said:
How did he break the tanto tip by just stabbing a soft plastic dummy? Or am I missing something. You would think a thick tanto tip like the recon could stand a bit more abuse. Anyway that was pretty hilarious to see him flip out on that dummy.
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There are "real" artificial bones inside.
 
This has been debated elsewhere and the thought is that the show producers buy certain material (blades) for the show and that does not mean those in action actually use any of those brands. Who knows if any SEALS actually use Cold Steel?? The guy who appeared on the show and is a former SEAL wrote a book on SEALS and inside that book he has a picture of one SEALS gear that he carries daily. The only folder in his gear was a ti framelock Emerson CQC-12.
 
ThornStrike said:
Well I think all of the warriors they investigate are pretty awesome, and the SEALs really are amazing, but the way the show distorts facts just bothers me a lot.
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That's a fair criticism. The show IS contrived. Who knows what's in that computer program; who knows whether the overall skills of a unit or historical figure are represented accurately by the skills of the folks in the show; and they have to work at it to be sure and find an even or almost even mix of who wins each of the weapon against weapon tests so that it will appear in doubt as to who will win the final computer sim. Even the last is a legitimate criticism in terms of a search for truth--who is to say a computer sim. can come even close to that? And how do you measure whose tactics are better, or who's smarter?

But as long as you know all that while watching and don't take any of it as gospel, I think it's fun as all get-out to watch. For example, there's no way the average Shaolin Monk (and he was on another one, too--Sun Tzu's army, maybe?) was as quick as that tiny Chinese martial arts expert they clocked with by faaar the fastest punching and stabbing speed. Simply blindingly fast. OTOH, they've had a couple shows where the only "experts" with a historical figure and their weapons were desk jockeys like me, whose expertise was historical rather than with any regard to strength, speed and actual USE of the weapon in question.

However, there's really NO way to make these types of determinations with any real degree of certainty, so if you can't have a show with some speculation, opinion and showmanship thrown in, you could never have any "Deadliest Warrior" show at all.
 
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