New Cold Steel Videos - they don't make them like they used to

GSM needs to immediately axe that goon stickman. The whole “learning”/character development thing he does is cringe. “T-rip” needs to go too. It makes it look like GSM is trying to market their products toward sex offenders. A teenage girl with tight spandex and tank tops is not what CS is about.

If GSM wants to fix the damage they’ve done and refresh the image, bring back Buck Medley and make him the front man. This is also a mistake that pre-GSM Cold Steel made, not giving him enough screen time.


ETA: Bringing in Buck will do several things: It will appeal to the purists, because of his past experience in the Proof videos, it will appeal to a wider audience because of his time with Animal Planet, Relentless Pursuit, etc., and it will also address the hunting/outdoorsmanship aspect of Cold Steel has been neglected in recent showings, and that is an integral part of the brand.

Just my opinion.
 
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While I've always been a fan of CS and LT, I really miss the whole shebang now. There was magic in Ventura Cold Steel. CS made its appearance when I was a young man, a poor young man😁. I made a few purchases here and there and never regretted a single one. I still have most of those, but wish I had bit the bullet and bought more. You don't know what you got, til its gone...

I search a few forums everyday, this being one, and often check the classifieds. This morning I hit one at the right time and snagged an unused early 2000ish Carbon V Trailmaster!!!! One of those I've regretted not buying when young, but really couldn't afford. Because of that, I spent the day going through CS archived catalogs on the CS site. It brought back a lot of great memories, but now I really miss CS, as well as my youth😭. Thank God many of the classic CS blades are still available secondhand.

Don't get me wrong, I have a 3V Recon Scout and its a perfect heavy use, apocalypse knife, but Trailmasters, LTC's, Twist Masters, etc., take me back to when I was a young man and the world was an adventure I had just started! Sorry for the long, sappy post. Good night amigos.
 
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CA504 said:
GSM needs to immediately axe that goon stickman. The whole “learning”/character development thing he does is cringe. “T-rip” needs to go too. It makes it look like GSM is trying to market their products toward sex offenders. A teenage girl with tight spandex and tank tops is not what CS is about.

If GSM wants to fix the damage they’ve done and refresh the image, bring back Buck Medley and make him the front man. This is also a mistake that pre-GSM Cold Steel made, not giving him enough screen time.


ETA: Bringing in Buck will do several things: It will appeal to the purists, because of his past experience in the Proof videos, it will appeal to a wider audience because of his time with Animal Planet, Relentless Pursuit, etc., and it will also address the hunting/outdoorsmanship aspect of Cold Steel has been neglected in recent showings, and that is an integral part of the brand.

Just my opinion.
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If that video is what salvation looks like ...Cold Steel is doomed ! 💩
 
ChuteTheMall said:
I just ran across this ancient Lynn Thompson video:
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the videos where they were spraying each other used to make me laugh......man were they suffering. one guy had his head in a kiddie pool trying to clear it and they asked him how it felt and he said it took all the fight out of him.....im paraphrasing, but classic cold steel testin.....
 
Well, the difference seems to be that Lynn Thompson’s, this is no joke, matter-of-factness approach to the utility of his blades as weapons, not just things that cut, sits inoffensively better upon my consideration of the same application than, say, a young-ish man’s poor-attempt-at-humor that comes closer to mocking the elderly and infirm than the humor it intended. I don’t begrudge the attempt to be humorous, only its failure (it really is harder than it looks, after all, to be funny).

Nonetheless, I now know that the sword cane can whack off the top of a man’s skull.

Missing from the new production, however, is Lynn Thompson’s description of the scabbard (“shaft” as Lynn called it) as an effective bludgeon in its own right, which demonstration I would have liked to see. Also missing, a description of the sword-cane as, you know, a cane...
 
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Well, the difference seems to be that Lynn Thompson’s, this is no joke, matter-of-factness approach to the utility of his blades as weapons, not just things that cut, sits inoffensively better upon my consideration of the same application than, say, a young-ish man’s poor-attempt-at-humor that comes closer to mocking the elderly and infirm than the humor it intended. I don’t begrudge the attempt to be humorous, only its failure (it really is harder than it looks, after all, to be funny).

Nonetheless, I now know that the sword cane can whack off the top of a man’s skull.

Missing from the new production, however, is Lynn Thompson’s description of the scabbard (“shaft” as Lynn called it) as an effective bludgeon in its own right, which demonstration I would have liked to see. Also missing, a description of the sword-cane as, you know, a cane...
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Lynn was the soul of Cold Steel. Him and his team. Campy products that backed up their tough talk, so to speak.
 
Yes, there was obviously an element of ridiculousness in his videos that Mr. Thompson spoke about in interviews. As I recall, he said these tests began as behind-the-scenes experiments, but since they turned out to be entertaining, and they showed his blades' functionality as weapons, they decided to put them on screen in their numerous "proof" videos.

And the world was better for it. :)
 
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