Bear Grylls: Born Survivor

Tchaikovsky

Anyone else a fan? My God that man has balls!

brennaldo

yeah im a big fan of bear grylls, i think he's great, and the amount of critisim he gets doesnt bother me, i simply say to anyone who doesnt like bear grylls..... "if ya dont like him, then dont watch him, plain and simple"

havent seen him ina while though, i wonder when he's gonna make a new series, id look foward to it.

Beekay

I like the show too,really entertaining!Find this funny though!

Tristram

:rolleyes:

minxie

hes just a mans man i love it
and dont care about anything said
about him,the show is brill

SoupyNorman

I said it before and I'll say it again

RMD

He might sleep in a comfortable hotel each night after shooting, he might have a complete set of professional staff supervising what he does to ensure his safety, he might be dubbed a phony, but christ he does somethings none of us will ever do.

I'd like to see those who call him a fake, a phony or whatever go through all the stuff he does and be so intelligent at the matter that they can shoot a show in extremely hard to survive in areas throughout the world. I think it would be rather hard to pull off.

He's pretty much the reason why I plan on studying extreme climates, history and pyscology (sp?) at university, then join the Para's afterwords:cool:

SoupyNorman

RMD wrote: »

He might sleep in a comfortable hotel each night after shooting, he might have a complete set of professional staff supervising what he does to ensure his safety, he might be dubbed a phony, but christ he does somethings none of us will ever do.

The whole point of being a survivalist is that you have no or limited safety and definitely no comforts. Grylls is a joke.


Only T.V. survivalists worth their salt is Ray Mears and Les Stroud. People who like Bear Grylls are people who need their T.V to be packaged up nice for them at prime time.

And also, when the time comes for us everyday folk to use what we were taught I can guarantee that BG followers will be sitting in the rain aimlessly wacking two sticks together while I'll be feasting on roasted boar which I cooked in an eathern hot stone oven covered in Lichen - oohhhh tender it will be!

GiftofGab

Bear Grylls was made famous for climing mount everest a year after breaking his back in three places. He was also the youngest person ever to climb mount everst and come back alive Just to let you know that for every 10 mountaineers who make it to the top, one will die. So i doubt he is a phoney or a fake. I know he has alot of specialists in his crew but he really is a survivor.

starn

RMD wrote: »

I'd like to see those who call him a fake, a phony or whatever go through all the stuff he does and be so intelligent at the matter that they can shoot a show in extremely hard to survive in areas throughout the world. I think it would be rather hard to pull off.

He's pretty much the reason why I plan on studying extreme climates, history and pyscology (sp?) at university, then join the Para's afterwords:cool:

Im sorry I cant tell if your pullin the p1ss or not. If your not you should go have a chat with Biggins.

I cant understand why everyone is so quick to defend Grylls, regardless of what the evidence says.

Ive always wondered about Ray Mears. Is he really that good. Some shorts in his show require cran work and other stuff. So Id imagine he must bring a big crew with him were ever he goes. Is he the real deal ?

Ruu_Old

I prefer Survivorman. I think someone beat Bear Gryll's record for Everest recently?

starn

GiftofGab wrote: »

Bear Grylls was made famous for climing mount everest a year after breaking his back in three places. He was also the youngest person ever to climb mount everst and come back alive Just to let you know that for every 10 mountaineers who make it to the top, one will die. So i doubt he is a phoney or a fake. I know he has alot of specialists in his crew but he really is a survivor.

No one is saying he is not a survivor. Just that his show is staged. Which you seem to agree with in your last sentance

SoupyNorman

GiftofGab wrote: »

Bear Grylls was made famous for climing mount everest a year after breaking his back in three places. He was also the youngest person ever to climb mount everst and come back alive Just to let you know that for every 10 mountaineers who make it to the top, one will die. So i doubt he is a phoney or a fake. I know he has alot of specialists in his crew but he really is a survivor.

I have a great deal of respect for him personally, he's mans man this is not in question.

My problem with him is that in the field of being a survivalist he is not a subject matter expert (everywhere he goes he has a local expert onhand) and therefore he should make programs about climbing mountains, that is his domain. You dont see Ray Mears and Les Stroud trying to run backwards up the Matterhorn.

claiva

I have to say that a couple of years back I poo-poo'd BG.......
At the time I was watchin Ray Mears etc and was very impressed with him.
I've started looking for BG now though and I must say that his show is very entertaining.
Ok, so it's a little staged, but ALL television shows are staged....even the so called reality ones.
He is kind of a caricature of a survivalist....but he does know his sheet and he does do some mental stuff most of us would never do.
He brings a lot of humour toi this genre which is different and entertaining.
Big deal.
If you dont like him switch.

liam7831

fraud

Big Wave

I can't understand how people can say "I know his stuff may be staged, but the stuff he does is still amazing" - it's a total contradiction: how can it be amazing, if he didn't do it??
He pretends to be in the middle of nowhere, and the camera pans around & shows a main road 100m away! He then claims he's gonna spend the night in the desert sheltered only by rocks, and then turns off the camera & goes to a hotel! How can you be amazed that he did these things....when he DIDN'T?

Indie18

I've said it before and I'll say it again, with a name like that he should definitely endorse a line of grills like George Foreman, it sells itself really.

He could even throw it into the show every now and then like when he kills some little rat or snake or whatever for food he could turn to the camera and say something like, "what you should do now is just take out your trusty Bear Gryll and fry this bad boy up". Followed by loads of shots of the grill for the next ten minutes of the show.

claiva

Indie18 wrote: »

I've said it before and I'll say it again, with a name like that he should definitely endorse a line of grills like George Foreman, it sells itself really.

He could even throw it into the show every now and then like when he kills some little rat or snake or whatever for food he could turn to the camera and say something like, "what you should do now is just take out your trusty Bear Gryll and fry this bad boy up". Followed by loads of shots of the grill for the next ten minutes of the show.

Class. Now this is what I like. Humour.
Bravo.

smares

Big Wave wrote: »

I can't understand how people can say "I know his stuff may be staged, but the stuff he does is still amazing" - it's a total contradiction: how can it be amazing, if he didn't do it??
He pretends to be in the middle of nowhere, and the camera pans around & shows a main road 100m away! He then claims he's gonna spend the night in the desert sheltered only by rocks, and then turns off the camera & goes to a hotel! How can you be amazed that he did these things....when he DIDN'T?

Finally someone talking sense!!

His camera crew is with him so when he says he hasnt eaten in days and then eats a bug that will keep him going what does the crew eat?? I don't believe a thing on that programme and don't get me started on his annoying voice. Watched it a few times won't be doing that again