Hey Mick,
I was mostly commenting on the way the whole thing was treated as a joke, rather than the way or reasons he killed them (which were he in a real survival situation, would be valid). To encourage people to laugh at the method and think "haha, cool, bat tennis", rather than to see the scene as a potential survival skill, gnawed at me.
Who should constitute a role model is an entirely different debate. The fact is, he is, and the comments on the Youtube channel certainly suggest that many people thought it was funny, rather than a survival skill.
As I said before, I've met Bear several times and always got on well. It's not about the man, but the actions. Those actions have never made me feel like this before when watching them, which is saying something as I'm a herpetologist and the things he has done to live snakes in his programmes is very extreme. But he never took those moments as a joke and started skipping with the snake etc
I was mostly commenting on the way the whole thing was treated as a joke, rather than the way or reasons he killed them (which were he in a real survival situation, would be valid). To encourage people to laugh at the method and think "haha, cool, bat tennis", rather than to see the scene as a potential survival skill, gnawed at me.
Who should constitute a role model is an entirely different debate. The fact is, he is, and the comments on the Youtube channel certainly suggest that many people thought it was funny, rather than a survival skill.
As I said before, I've met Bear several times and always got on well. It's not about the man, but the actions. Those actions have never made me feel like this before when watching them, which is saying something as I'm a herpetologist and the things he has done to live snakes in his programmes is very extreme. But he never took those moments as a joke and started skipping with the snake etc