Your knife might, but can you really survive?

look at that "old man" who won survivor this time. he whooped up on all those kids.
 
I wish "Survivor" was really a show about survival. It would be very interesting. I think the general public would just get bored watching true survival, but we'd enjoy the heck out of it.

Drop some poor schlub in the middle of nowhere with a knife and let's see what happens. Maybe give him/her some sort of objective past just staying alive. Something like, there's $1MM hidden and here's a rough map. And you have 7 days to get there. Needing to provide himself/herself with shelter, food, water, etc., along the way.
 
josywales3 said:
Drop some poor schlub in the middle of nowhere with a knife and let's see what happens. Maybe give him/her some sort of objective past just staying alive. Something like, there's $1MM hidden and here's a rough map. And you have 7 days to get there. Needing to provide himself/herself with shelter, food, water, etc., along the way.
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That's actually not too far off from some of the drivel on now! I don't see why that wouldn't work, particularly on OLN.

Fox would carry it, but it would have to have Paris Hilton as a contestant. And I for one, would like to see her given a bad map and no knife.
 
About survival fitness, this book is very interesting:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...103-1276517-6813418?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Author is an adventurer and physician. He explain a lot of things about suvival metabolism, stress, group psychology etc in extreme environnements (desert, ship wreck, arctic). A side front that it is also very accurate on venomous animals, sharks etc. All that with an athlete/physician eye and backed scientific explanations and arguments.

Now all that said, most practical oriented people might consider it boring, it's very light on some subject (trapping is only two drawing pages - the same from Army survival manual), it is outdated (1988) on some subjects, and it is quite expensive.

I won't say it would concern everyone but persons interested in subject may find some useful, or at least interesting, informations about survival fitness. It doesn't have all that most survival manuals have, but it has many infos you won't find anywhere else.

EDIT: read first comment on amazon.com it's a good description.
 
I had mentioned this book a long time ago on another thread but wish to plug it again.. 'DEEP SURVIVAL" by Laurence Gonzales..it isn't a how to manual, but a very interesting study of real life situations, and how the physiology and psychology of the brain (learning, andrenaline, fear or flight etc.) effects people, sometimes even highly trained people in survival situations. Sometimes mother nature isn't right, and sometimes all the kit and training in the world dinna help.
A great read.
 
josywales3 said:
If you're bored, here's a fun topic. I posted a topic with regard to a tactical/EDC knife and it led us to my final comment which was this:

"I agree and have posted that running is always the best strategy. Can you recommend a good treadmill?? Kidding! But it brings up another good point.

I see a lot guys discussing survival knives on this site and others. I can't help but wonder, are they in the kind of physical shape that one would need to be in order to improve chances of survival in the outdoors? I can tell you that with 4 kids, from infant to teens, I have at least 20 pounds I could shed..."

So how bout it? How many of us are in good physical and cardiovascular condition? Are our knives better suited to survvie than we are? After all, we're more likely to die of a heart attack than from being stranded off the Pacific.
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No problem in that department, I can run a mile in 6 minutes or I can run 10 miles in 1 hour and 10 minutes. :D
 
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