i garuntee that everything he does is researched, set up, and rehersed ahead of time
i garuntee that everything he does is researched, set up, and rehersed ahead of time
marijuologist wrote:
i garuntee that everything he does is researched, set up, and rehersed ahead of time
It is as if Sol Richards has taken over your spelling.
I agree. They should blind fold his ass and not even tell him where he is going. Oh yeah, and I always carry a flint with me...right.
He eats live bugs and snakes, not to mention drinks the fluid out of elephant shit, that is pretty hardcore. He was also in the SAS and has summitted everest so he is a pretty bad ass dude no matter how you look at it.
All these survival shows are setup in some way....its a show, it has to be otherwise it wouldnt be any good to watch.
Obviously he is not an expert in every type of flora/fauna for every place he visits. There are local guides and experts that help out the show by providing some of that type of information.
He is however a highly trained ex-soldier who specialized in survival technique. Also, he's an expert climber, skier, etc....basically Bear is a badass. And while his show can be a little over-the-top sometimes, he admits this and says that most of the stuff he does is for extreme situations only. If you want to watch a more realistic, slightly less entertaining, yet still cool show, watch Survivorman. Les Stroud is good too.
i couldn't take it anymore after they dropped him into a swamp in the middle of the everglades. water up to his waist and probably five alligators to an acre. nobody would do that if it wasn't set up
obviously he's not going to do anything that jeopardizes his life. for instance, jumping into a glacier-ice river in Iceland is not something you would do. they've got to find the balance between verisimilitude and entertainment.
You don't think he really creped up on the rabbit and killed it?
Sure it's set up to an extent and often over the top, but you can't deny that Bear is a bad ass as others have stated. The show is also entertaining, and a few of the things he demonstrates could be useful in a real survival situation.
The real hardcore survivor show is Survivorman- he tapes all of his own stuff and never needlessly puts himself in danger - i.e. jumping into frozen water.
Agreed Survivorman is the best of the bunch...
Doing your own filming as you hiking around for a week surviving off the land is more badass than haveing people with you taping your stunts...
Lee stroud is my hero...i'd kill to have the chance to do the things he does.
This guy really know his stuff. You cannot give him crap for carrying around a flint and steel because the situation he is trying to recreate is one where a person was hiking or camping to begin with, so it would not be unreasonable for said hiker or camper to have more than a flint. Also, I carry a knife everywhere with me (unless I am running).
Bear obviously studies the area in which he is going to be dropped into before he actually goes in. He could buy a book on local plants and animals and study that before he gets dropped into wherever he is going.
The purpose of his show is to INFORM the viewer about wilderness survival, and I find much of it very useful. It is not some reality show where they take complete doofuses and drop them in the middle of the Amazon. Bear is a survival expert, so he should know his stuff and seem like a professional while doing it.
I once got lost, really lost, while running (and I am an Eagle Scout). It was kind of scary, and know I try to inform myself on how to survive in case I got lost where I was in way over my head. It could happen to a lot of people in an instant. (I also recommend "I Shouldn't Be Alive")
if bear gryll and the dude from survivor man got into a fight, survivor man would rip bear's guts out.
survivor man is the real deal, he actually doesn't have a camera crew and shit following him around, he does it all himself
The camera crew films Bear but they are not allowed to interact unless he is in mortal danger. Don't bash on Bear; he's more of a badass than you'll ever be.
Wes Mantooth wrote:
The camera crew films Bear but they are not allowed to interact unless he is in mortal danger. Don't bash on Bear; he's more of a badass than you'll ever be.
True he is more of a baddass than I'll ever be
But he is still not better than survivorman who goes by himself. Having that camera crew with him makes the danger less real.
Even faker than the moon landing? Or that doesn't count because it wasn't a series?
How come no one is questioning the validity of survivorman? Because its common for him to set a camera up in the snow as he appraoches and no footprints seen? Or how about when he films himself across across a river or lake? You think he really retracks his steps just to capture a scene?
I apologize about my spelling - little drunk.
Man vs. Wild is amazing. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know what is going on.
Did you see how he caught that little chicken like bird on Greenland by tying that cheap as little loop and the bird just walks into it I guess-ha! I laughed for an hour about that..I knew there would be a bird in one of those little loops he tied..just walked right into it..reminded me of one of those Andy Griffith episodes with Barney.
I just watched two episodes, and I've seen a couple others as well. It's an AWESOME show. He doesn't just show you what to do if everything goes right, he shows you what to do when things go wrong. Imagine you're walking around in the ice covered mountains and you happen to fall into a small icy lake -- he's probably not stupid enough to make that mistake, but maybe the viewer might be. He could probably go without food for longer than he does, but he shows you ways to get some if you need it. He's trying to teach you how to survive -- not document how HE survives. He gives two different ways to tell direction from the sun (using a watch, or the shadow from a stick), he has a couple different methods of climbing trees (including tying your shoelaces together -- which I never would have thought of), and in an episode where he had a flint he also made a fire just by rubbing wood to show you how it's done. I guarantee that a lot of it is staged, but the point isn't for him to go on some ego trip and show you how cool he is, it's to teach you about survival.