After three episodes, I am still enjoying it.
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After three episodes, I am still enjoying it.
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I am a certified SCUBA diver but there is no way in hell I would ever dive in a cave, screw that ! just the thought of running out of air in an underwater cave just freaks me the hell OUT ! I want the surface above me ;)
Ummmm. Isn't the surface sort of above you by default? Follow me on this. The bottom would be below you. We okay so far? Then you have the middle half way between the bottom and the surface. And then above you is the surface. This, of course, does not apply to most aircraft or BP.
Umm Hello ,,, Not if you are in a cave ,, The top of the Cave is above you, all Together now, Cave Diving is scary !
Scary? Maybe, but with the some training and an experienced buddy, it can quite rewarding. PADI OWSI Emeritus
LOL, you can keep it, looks like fun but the whole thought of not being able to make an emergency ascent is just too much for me :blushing: (NAUI)Quote:
Originally Posted by Old GI
Here's a thought, In this episode they said that the only knife they were given was a "dive" knife; yet Cody was obviously wearing his Mora around his neck.
He was using it later when he was hitting the piece of rock to make a fire & "batoning" to cut down a sapling. The Mora is the only knife Cody ever uses & he sells them on his website.(http://www.codylundin.com/abo_store.html) the model he sells & uses is a "full-tang" model with a carbon steel blade. He states that he was turned on to these by Mors Kochanski. I noticed that the narrator never seems to mention Cody's knife in their list of supplies. :sneaky2:
Maybe Cody considers it jewelry :innocent:
Hoowee. I'm sure glad he includes shipping at that price!!
4 1/2 inch blade also, I think I would prefer a longer blade, do you stock a 5 1/2 full tang Mora Rick ?
Without me getting involved with this on the forum, I'll just say that Mora makes a number of large blades for various jobs. You can find Mora belt knives with blades up to 8 inches.
Yeah, but the rubberized handled one has his name imprinted on it! Ya gotta admit, it's a lot cheaper than the one Bear Grylls was trying to promote! Besides, he probably needs the money to buy a pair of shoes! :innocent:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
Okay guys, this was my bad! I should have known better than to post a link to a knife advertised for purchase in front of all of you! I wasn't trying to help Cody sell his Moras, but only pointing out that :
A.) He only carries a 4' blade Mora.
B.) It's a "full-tang" Mora which I find interesting as I still have egg on my face from an earlier time when I boasted that all Moras were "full-tang" only to have a member shoot me down with photographic evidence. :blushing:
C.) Discovery seems to omit the fact that he's carrying it!
That was the topic of my post. :cool2:
Oh, & Justin, Cody's last name is spelled "Lundin," not "Lundine." (http://www.codylundin.com/)
He used the Mora in Episode 3 he pointed out that he could use the baton technique to cut down saplings. I always thought Moras looked flimsy from a distance. I got my first one in a 2 for the price of one deal and gave a buddy the extra one. I abused the living daylights out of it and it still looks new. I've sharpened it just once. I strop it on cardboard between uses and it shaves dry hair easily. I don't believe in carrying only one knife in the field. I make sure that one of the knives in my kits is a Mora.
There are a lot of things we can pick apart with this show.
Episode three the announcer announces that the first rule of survival is never carry more than you need!???
But, it is a great show with some decent advice. The Belize one actually looked some what like South Florida. Some what...
I think that Cody proves out my earlier statement many moons ago that the Mora is a great quality, albeit, low-cost Survival knife. He learned about the Mora from Mors Kochanski who uses only the red wooden-handled one. (check out this early thread of mine for more info on Mors: http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...read.php?t=226)
I take info from both guys and also discard some from each. 1st I know that I will probably never be in the same locales that they're in, so a lot of the info does not fit me. Although I admire & respect Cody & his ways, I will never willingly go barefoot in the woods or eat insects. I do, however, like the way he hangs his Mora from a cord around his neck. I also see a new use for the little emergency space blanket.
Like Dave Canterbury I'll wear boots/shoes & eat cooked red meat or fish. You get the drift. Still, it's all very entertaining. :cool2:
Just watched the desert in Peru episode.
Car broke down.
Good episode, but one question, Why not FTR? (Follow the road).
Cody used the phrase "The more you know, the less you need".
Sound familiar? (No I didn't come up with it, just agree).
And as if we didn't get enough of Cody upchucking his socks (Well he would have if he wore them) they had to come back from commercial and show it again. I was really hoping for finding water in lower places, watching for birds or whatever. The river was kind of anti-climatic.
I watched the rerun of the jungle episode today, Dave pulled a condom from his pack to put water in ??? Why would he have a condom in his pack ? when He Knew Cody was going to be his shelter mate ? hmmmmmm YIKES !
Same reason he had cigarettes. They had a bag with some common items you might find in them.
I'm thinking the cigarettes were for afterwards. Just my thought.
Yeah, Dave and Cody didn't have a choice of what they got in the pack. I am sure the contents would have been much different if they had a choice.
I sincerely hope that some of the melodrama was hollywood driven. I don't see either one of them acting in some of the ways in the show. Oh, don't get me wrong, I've learned quite a bit from it (unlike a certain other show, Bear). Another example of a "reality" show that gets mired in the soap opera mode in Top Shot. Whoever thinks up their shooting tables is very effective and creative, but the ego and whining distracts adversely.
I can see Dave getting wrapped up in it more than Cody, just based on personality and style alone. He wants to do some bear stuff, you know he does.
Swamped was a lot more like the areas I hunt, camp and ride.
Dave played with the gator too long. Also, it can be real tough to sever the spinal column on a gator. They tighten up and it is damn near impossible to get the blade through. I had to hammer the blade through the bone. I noticed they cut away a couple of time and wondered if he didn't have the same problem.
Also, lots of people take the tail meat like Dave did. There is a tenderloin of meat that I can pretty much pull out with my bare hands and it is very lean with out all that skunky fat. Kinds like the back strap. Then you have a simular cut inside the body cavity. Then I go for the jowls next. I try to stay away from the fat in a gator.
Liked the show. Learned a way to make an improvised gig. Looked like cypress Cody made the bow drill with. I'll be trying cypress soon.
I think Cody said Dave told him cypress was good for the firebow. If Cody had sent me off to get food and I had crossed that gator you would have known it. I would be the one screamin' like a girl and running a muck through the swamp. My swamp bed would have been about 30 feet up one of those oaks!!
I had no idea who Cody Lundin was before this show. Sorry Sarge but, Cody seems gay to me.
Mom! Mom! Rebel said Cody seems gay!!!!
But he is a happy person, dear.
Oh, yeah.
Now, go watch your show.
LOL LOL :lol:
Why apologize to me? I just like his book! Besides, I think Dave is the "Butch" one. :innocent:Quote:
Originally Posted by rebel
I think the show is really good, it's the best on TV. It's entertaining but with a lot of info. I wouldn't endorse everything they do, you have to know your limits. Both Dave and Cody have unique styles and their diversities make for great learning.
I like the idea of having more woodskills shows on TV. Many of us agree that Americans are starting to lose those skills. I asked a ten-year-old the other day about Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, he had no idea what I was talking about.
I have borrowed a motto for dealing with gators --- "RUN, FOREST, RUN!!!!!"
OK, I just watched the 4 episode rerun of this show yesterday. In Laos, Cody was constantly getting his feet injured. In the Peru desert, Cody put on a pair of flip flops because he was hobbling around getting his feet cut up on rocks, and I thought he might be getting the idea that shoes are a pretty standard Prep item. I didn't see the socks-on-a-glacier one... but he is clearly smart enough to know to guard against exposure... clothing is one of the big ones that we learned in grade school- food/ water, clothing/shoes, shelter. I don't know why this bothers me so much... he could have cut up a part of the tire to make sandals and avoid all that potential infection right from the beginning. Get cuts (and infections) in the bush and things get bad quickly, so whatever can be done to take care of yourself is generally a pretty good thing. Guess I'm just being anal retentive, but intentionally going without shoes in hostile environments goes against the self-preservation attitude/ common sense. Wanna stay in touch with the earth, dig a cathole. OK, I'll stop obsessing now..maybe.
Other Primates don't wear shoes ,,, just sayin :innocent:
Agreed, we split with other primates something like 100,000 years ago because we were smarter (in theory) and could use tools better... to better take care of ourselves. Other primates don't know about shoes... or shorts, shirts, or Bic lighters, or firesteels, or backpacks. The shoeless thing is a distraction to the real message that could be coming across... and at best (to me) just shows a lack of preparation, and seems to be ignoring the "improvise to survive" message. In his native Arizona, it is probably fine in most locations (but I've been really cold in northern Arizona, and glad I had boots, too). In Nova Scotia or Peru or pointy-bamboo-ridden Laos, maybe not. The socks and the flip flops show that he recognizes it. Anyway, it is more about my OCD nature than a real problem I guess, so I'll hush... maybe.
Yes, I know what you mean, and i agree,, I was just thinking that primates have feet very much like Humans and they seem to do fine without shoes, I know the Human foot will callous quickly if you run around barefoot all the time,, anyway, it was just a thought :)
Welllll..... I think it funny that you would point out Cody's knife.... But not notice that Dave also had his knife......:innocent:
I just think it's fair to assume, that Like us, They are NOT going into these situations without their preferred blade at their side... Now some of you that can knap might, but I can't knap, so I'm taking a blade EVERYWHERE the law will allow. Several....If I can.
Now, even National Geographic "stages" things, but only for the sake of preserving time. In Realm of the Alligator the 'Gator eating a snake was staged. I know this for a fact because I worked in the Okefenokee where it was filmed.... They even had to get more snakes for the 'Gator to eat because of all the takes they had to do, to get it right..... There was a guy in a tree with a bag of snakes. Does it make it less factual or less entertaining? Not to me....
I have worked with Camera crews while in the Okefenokee.... Before the Travel Channel there was a segment on CNN called "Travel Guide". I worked with a crew for 2 days....for a 15 minute segment. IMO some of the best stuff was left out. Oh well, I'm not the Editor.
My Point? Just that there are many "behind the scenes" shots that we will never know about. That there are some things WE would not do if we were put in Cody's or Dave's shoes...... Well Dave's anyway, since Cody doesn't wear them.:innocent:
Personally? I love the show. I think it is the best one Discovery has done to date, on the subject of survival. I know Dave from a couple of other "Internet Sites". Can't say I know Cody though. I think that Discovery chose very well in choosing these two.... I believe that both "Survival Philosophies" have some very valid points. The friendly Banter is entertaining, you know all that contention about the whole Barefoot thing? But it is also realistic in the fact that no two people with Survival training are gonna' agree on everything. Including those of us here. It does a GREAT job in showing how differences can be put aside, to work on a common goal...surviving.
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Originally Posted by Pocomoonskyeyes3
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I liked Cody's threat to filter the water through the crotch of his shorts if Dave didn't stop griping about the water quality.
Dave showed how to use a digital watch in conjunction with an altimeter to find South. For those of you that don't sky-dive, here's an easier way: Using a paper & pencil or pen, simply draw an analogue watch face on the paper with the current time that's displayed on your digital watch; then point the hour hand of your drawing towards the sun & you have the same thing. :cool2:
POCO: I can't figure out the make & model of Dave's knives, any input?
well, Cody didnt have his trusty knife with him in the AZ episode, he had to make one from a rock, then he cut the cactus with the rock knife, Personally, I would have borrowed Daves , LOL .and Dave managed to travel 2 days and 10 miles without water to find Cody, and he didn't even look thirsty ...hmmm, Welcome to Hollywood,,