Naked and Afraid...

[Jared]

Talking of knives, no one seemed to take a high carbon steel knife/machete with them, so they could use it strike sparks off the back of it.

 

[FGYT]

WAiting for Animal Planets Catch and Release Survival game to come out see how many Dorset Woodland blades can be spotted

 

[rik_uk3]

Away from home just now and downloaded all seven episodes, not as bad as I thought and it passed the time. A couple of the women put the men to shame.

 

[david1]

just watched the first 4 of these, I must say all of them had a blade of some kind they all struggled to make fire. I doubt I could make a fire in the conditions they found themselves, well worth watching.
I am now taking a good look at any skills I think I had

 

[jackcbr]

While I am not a huge fan, I certainly see the value of the show. As we speak, there are probably several threads going on on this very forum with all sorts of claims being made about how people can survive in the wilderness using their buschraft skills. This show lets people put their money where their mouth is. So far most of the participants have not done as well as they imagined when they were writing about it online.

Very well said. I've only seen the one episode so far and will watch a few more. I'm interested in the mental side of it all TBH. I would like to know how I would fair, I'm guessing not well.

 

[DaveBoon]

Seen two episodes so far (1 & 5). I think it gets across how any real survival situation is an endurance ordeal, both physically & mentally. Shows how you spend all your time just keeping going, and lacking water & food quickly takes a toll on energy levels. Interesting theory on whether to take a risk on drinking spring water to stave off severe dehydration, or use your last moments of energy to work on getting a fire going so you can purify the water first. Refreshing that they don't always make it too - shows even people who think they're experts have a incredibly tough time when thrown into an unknown & hostile environment.

Seems to have been a 3 week ordeal, rather than any sort of fun they'd willingly do again.

 

[Bladeophile]

After a few days, they are typically too hungry and their energy is too low to do anything. As Jared pointed out, the biggest lesson seems to be that primitive fire lighting is very difficult under real conditions.[/QUOTE]


It's maybe not very obvious that those that have routinely trained their body systems to go hungry for a 3, 4, 5 days stretch will still have some energy to function with vital tasks such as setting up signal fires and collecting 5 X as much firewood as they THINK they are going to need to get them through the night. Those that have not, are likely to have nothing left when it comes to persevering with friction fire.
I can believe survivorman when he has to make fire in real non set up conditions and it takes far longer than he was hoping. Don't know quite what to believe when it just seems to happen on camera asif by magic.

 

[rik_uk3]

They ALL lost a lot of body weight and in reality would have died if the experience had gone on a few weeks longer.