Bushcraft bad for your health?

[Goose]

Just noticed how many threads there have been lately to do with injuries and bits of us falling apart!
Is it that Bushcraft is bad for your health, or are we all of a "certain age" and well past our best by dates?
Discuss....

 

[Toddy]

Crocked, absolutely crocked
But it was archaeology not bushcraft!

Cheers,
Toddy

 

[sodajoe]

It might be bad for your body but, hell, it's great for the soul.

 

[JonnyP]

I think your second explenation Goose, past our use by dates. I need regular hot baths to take away the aches and pains........................Jon (poor old chap)

 

[Seagull]

Wintergreen ointment and high-proof rum.
Great at any age.

Still waaay too early for the slippers.

Who was it, now, ? about "rolling up sleeves and showing scars"

And Gentlemen in England, now a,bed ................"

Ceeg

 

[elma]

In Jan I scalded my leg on the welsh meet and laast week after giving my son and friends a lecture on knife safety I proceeded to slice open my thumb with a very sharp SFA
In the words of swmbo who doesnt appreciate the fine art of bushcraft "Ray Mears your not"
But it's fun trying

Ian

 

[Longstrider]

I see bushcrafting as a pretty benign activity when it comes to injuring myself. Ok, so my back is a mess at times (old biking accident), my knee cartlidges are shot (too many dislocations during martial arts training) but when I look at the other things I enjoy doing in life, bushcrafting seems pretty tame. I fly power kites and buggy with them (so far that accounts for innumurable scrapes, grazes and bruises, one clean K.O. and a rib broken in 2 places) and I used to ride motocross (too many scrapes and bumps to count).

I grew up playing with edge tools of one sort or another, taking chances with silly manoevres of one sort or another, and shooting with both shotguns and rifles, so I guess I've come to view them as everyday items rather than risk factors. The worst cut I've had so far from one of my tools did require 8hrs of microsurgery to save and almost severed finger (slight mishap whilst clearing brush with a bowie ), but so far I seem to have got off pretty light in my view.

It does have to be said that as I get older I find that I'm tending to look at things with more cautious eyes. Whereas when I was younger I would leap into things with hardly a thought for the outcome, nowadays I'll stop and think to myself "If I fall off there/ in there/against that etc etc, I'll be damned sorry I was daft enough to try this... So I won't " Age getting the better of me? Perhaps, but I'm still dafter than your average brush most days

 

[bushtuckerman]

Nothing to do with age mate! my hands are a living jigsaw puzzle, i have back and knee problems...that's because i'm lazy and don't exercise enough though, and tend to expect my knees to be able to take the strain of high falls, which they no longer can without permanent regret!

body and mind an' all that, the cheesy bond girl line 'there's no point in living if you can't feel alive' comes to mind, sadly pour moi

 

[bloodline]

Im fine with the bushcraft it was the Greek horse that ruined me but the fact it has slowed me down has made me more observant and patient and definitely more appreciative

 

[BorderReiver]

Ankylosing Spondylitis and the ravages of time have slowed me up.

I can't lay any blame on bushcraft,you can go at your own pace and set sensible limits as to what you do.

 

[Toddy]

It might be bad for your body but, hell, it's great for the soul.

Oh yes!,
Cheers,
Toddy