What does Bear Grylls think about Ray Mears? 

6:12 for the people that dont wanna watch the whole video

Bear: Entertainment. Ray: Education

Ray mears shows you how it's possible to LIVE in the bush with the right gear, but you can bet he would SURVIVE too given just a knife. And his shows actualy give usefull details on how to make fire, shelter and so on in the bush, which is why I like Les Stroud too.

The question is if you were stuck in the middle of nowhere, how would you rather be with, Ray or Bear? No match! Ray all the way! ;-)

My thoughts after reading the thread of comments, is that both guys have an immense knowledge of the subject however Ray has acquired a lot of knowledge from living with local tribes and woodsmen, and that is how he puts his point across, as being very real very humble almost one with nature which is a better way of thinking in a survival matter, nature is with you not against, i find bear is more literal more extreme and sometimes not needing to be, he portrays nature more as a monster .

The truth is John 'Lofty' Wiseman leave them both standing

As comedian Jack Dee said on TV- "What a man is Ray Mears, he comes out of the wilderness fatter than when he went in!" Mears and Gryll's shows compliment each other nicely, Mears is all about "working with" nature, and Grylls is all about fearlessly overcoming and dominating it.

Bears answer about who is better was really nice. Just like he said they both do quite different things :)

@capnpaco Most of Bear's stunts are staged with a safety crew and often reshot many times until it's perfect. Most folks don't understand that Bear is an entertainer with a military\special forces background as opposed to Mears, who is a lifelong bushcraft and survival expert and enthusiast and was around way before Bear.

Bear seems like a nice guy. But for survival, half the things he tells you to do would probably end up killing you, seriously injuring you, or making you very sick in a situation where even if your perfectly healthy your still in great danger. It's all entertainment. That's what sells. So Bear is doing his job well. And I admit, I watch his show when I can and find it fairly entertaining.

the one aspect Ray also has over Bear is the historical roots with regard to the foods we eat and his teachings show how to endure for a length of time whereas bear seems to be very commercialised and is more aimed at self rescue ,imho i prefer Ray mears for the historical aspect of his work You would love Les Hiddins bush tucker man series ,have a look gives some great tales of survival with the settelers of our land

Bear Grylls wants to get out of a forest Ray Mears wants to get into a forest

They show different stuff, man. Bear teaches survival. Ray teaches bushcraft. Bear how to gat out of the wilderness, Ray how to live in it.

Les 'The Bushtucker Man' Hiddins has the best headgear and can get away with saying 'tucker' on a regular basis.

To start a fire you just have to chant "Ray Mears" three times

I like Les Stroud. Practical, sound advise on how to survive. And he does it all alone with no camera crew there to bail his arse out. I enjoy all 3 shows though.

ray actually teaches the sas

@Gijops Edward 'Bear' Grylls is from a very upper class English background. His father was an officer in the Royal Marine Commandos and a Coservative member of parliament. Bear went to Eton school and Bristol University. At that level of English society it wouldn't actually matter where he was from. His accent would be almost indistinguishable from anyone from such a privilidged background. They all sound the same. It's emblematic of the class system in the UK which is still very much alive.

my personal opinion on this from what ive seen of both men is that ray always goes into a situation with knowledge and tools any slef respecting outdoorsman should have an idea of and shows how to replace damaged equipment or in the cas of his making a canoe in canada a reliable way to get out of where ever you are and bear gives sound advice on life/death situations and as far as the bug commnt goes about bear F&S magazine put an article out that says bugs should be first on ur search for food.

Bear is entertainment, Mears is edutainment and Stroud is crazy. I prefer Stroud, but they all inhabit different segments. They've all manged to entertain, disseminate knowledge and raise awareness for the outdoors. Good on them.

ray is more like how to survive in wilderness over an extended period of time........ bear is more like your stranded and u must get back to civilisation.... do wats absolutely necessary and get out fast....

Seriously. I'm beginning to think the guy begins every day -- even when he's not shooting Man vs Wild -- by jumping out of a helicopter. We get it, Bear. You can jump out of helicopters. We're all very impressed. Why don't they edit in the footage of his 8-person crew carting the camera equipment, sound equipment and camping supplies out of the other LANDED chopper while Bear, still in his harness, sits and plays Tetris on his cell phone? Oh right. Not too dramatic, that.

Don't start this stupid war between these two people. They are both amazing and have the knoweldge to survive in just about anywhere. If you are true to survival and love watching and learning new techniques you'll like both of them. How can you hate one and not the other. That to me just shows the type of person you are.

if you want to know what bear grylls thinks of ray mears - as in the title of this video - skip to 6:12.

Bears answer about who is better was really nice. Just like he said they both do quite different things no need to say which one is the best :)

Bear reminds me of that action hero in the Peter Jackon's King Kong, the smiling charming guy, who people warm to, & who has supposedly faced *real* death & danger many times. Yet when it came to it he was as clueless as anybody else, holding onto the coat tails of people who had some real experience, and *know* what the hell they're talking about, without any drama or cudos expected - like Ray Mears.

For those of you who only care about what he has to say about Ray Mears fast-forward it to 6:12

"I think he's great" there you go.....

At 6 minutes 13 seconds he finally mentions Ray Mears.

Ray does bushcraft and stuff. More useful to people who cap, hunt , fish ect... It's more education of living/using things within the out doors. Bear does survival, so after someone has crashed or got lost ect... That helps people to understand how to survive in wilderness, whilst trying to find 'civilization' or until you are found. Different things is what they do.

Bear: Eat it raw purely for television macho drama Ray: Teaches how different cultures cook/hunt/gather food and survive etc Bear is a great guy though but how can someone take his tv shows seriously

If they were both put into a jungle, within 2 days Ray would have a huge treehouse built. He'd even be thinking of knocking up a conservatory while bear still knawed on plants and bugs.

@looneycrewvideos .lol..that scared my buzz away..i had just tucked a bit of roach somewere between the ''print screen'' keys (for safe keeping) and thought i had somehow created a bad input signal.

@AACBrit his bio didnt say he was a survival instructor, where did u read that?

@Roflmeat Indeed. Whether or not it's all put in scene, he still does everything you see. Simple as that.

@LedZeppelin13k7 you are aware that Ray Mears has taught the S.A.S for around 40 years survival training, the very training bears had. difference is Ray Mears = Master/Teacher Bear Grylls = Student Master wins every time

@TheFerret1337 Must I redirect you to RitchiePowell's RU-vid videos?

Nice to see BG after the shows, cool guy. Very genuine, topping it all off with a compliment to RM at the end, well done.

Yup. I agree les is badass, I have both seasons on dvd, any idea where I can get my hands on some ray mears dvds?. oh and for everyone reading this... Grylls is a shock value kind of person, I have no doubt he can survive. But as for his show. There is nothing to learn.

Where, when was this? I would love to see that?

anyone know what Ray said about Bear?

what kind of watch is he wearing?

6:11 is when he starts talking about ray mears

what part of the video does he talk about Ray mears?

@Interestsmayvary agree, its a shame that sooo many videos have pages of frivolous comparisons.

@looneycrewvideos Its 2:07 and i think they are bleeping out Bears swearing. Not 100% sure though

where?

He doesnt really comment about other survivalist. As I mentioned in my other comment about what Bear said about Ray. To quote Ray from his lecture: "Well, im not conna comment about other peoples programs. Umm...what I will say is that programs that you have seen over the years, are now being shown all over the world. And i go to great lenghts to show things as they really are. And the measure of that, has been for me...its wonderful for me to see

what convention was that video taken at?

hard pick i will say though if i wanted knowledge and fun and to learn proper bushcraft i say Ray but on the other hand if it was a live or die and i had to put my life in my hands and to trust em to get me out in mostly one piece i will say Grylls.

@econnofoot check out his website.. He's got lots of "ray mears" products with his logo on them. That's not necessarily a bad thing but some of the prices are outrageous.

When in doubt, pinky out!

@amazingbrimble i feel exacly same way. Just like Bear said him self they both of these guys do quite different things.

@donnyab i think you still need to eat...... just not as much as you normally would cause water doesnt have carbs and your body will be eat its self even if you eat a little of food

@KXrhyder547 : Yes i agree 100% !! You know when the show starts ?

@misternylon Sensation hungry generation.... Well put!

Well the ideas of the two showers are different. Bear Grylls is showing the survival skills needed if you get into the most extreme of situations, where as Ray Mears is showing the more mellow side of survival! He shows you how to go camping and use different equipment whilst out in the bush. Bear Grylls uses things that are found in the wild (plus his knife/flint and anything he is wearing) Mears uses actual metal camping equpiment so it is impossible to make a comparison between the two shows!

@misternylon im taking that you are saying from it your many years of surviving in the wilds and you have a great knowledge of the outdoors and years of instense military training right ? i think the point hes getting at is if u had no other choice life or death survival scenereos which is the whole point of the survival videos not bushcrafting videos

@blkcpdconure granted I'm not in the military, but what could you possibly learn in the military that you cant learn as a civilian regarding wilderness survival?

at 3:30 he says something like a hanging bibawack or so... what does that mean?

@Callofdutyboys Mate, Ray Mears was a bushcraft and survival expert when Bear was just a kid, you don't have a clue what you're talking about. I respect Bear's Special Forces service and his Everest climb, but Bear has been caught several times staying in hotels during the show when was supposed to be spending the night in the wilderness surviving.

@TheFerret1337 Ray is an expert at not just surviving for a few days but actually living in remote areas. He´s dedicated his life to bushcraft/survival skills. Bear doesn´t know his head from his arse, which is really strange considering his background. No one within his right mind do what Bear does on his 100% faked show. Jumping into unknown waters, climbing cliffs, swimming in cold water, eating and drinking from dead animals etc is a sure way of getting yourself killed.

@norse27 Thanks for that post Norse27

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@survivingwilderniss bivouac: basically a shelter. Probably a hammock of some kind with mosquito netting and some kind of tarp for cover from the rain. They seem quit popular with bushcrafters in UK. Knowing Grylls his is probably wicked expensive since he must make good money.

what did ray mears say about bear

They should make a show with bear grylls ray mears and les stroud, i would be a crazy combination

@oosyaoo yes finding nutrition from the crew's portable buffet.

@tommygg5 they are both actors.

Bear for the win!

'im not so sure why he is so nasty to me but i think he is great' omg it makes me feel sorry for Bear I like Mears too though - and i thought Mears respected Grylls?

I like em both. Les Stroud isn't too bad either. Cool video and Bear seems like a cool guy

@AACBrit you do know he was in 23 sas the ta version were anyone can join

WARNING IF WEARING HEAD-PHONES: extremely loud bleep at around 2:10

both are quality in there own way meres teaches u how to live in the wild bear teaches how to survive emergancy situations

yeah but Ray does more tame stuff that people would try to do in a normal situation, Bear does things like if you're stranded and have nothing else to do but do that

Bear is so humble and gentle. Doesn't say one bad thing about Mears yet mears does the opposite.

@SIMONSIMONDO well said

ttthat was verry lloud

@Dalemoooooon Yep totally agree. Though I really think a lot of what Bear does puts theatre before *actual* surviving, I still said I'd approach this ad lib interview with him with an open mind. I guess i wasn't very surprised to hear him 'impressing' everyone with all the 'fantastic' places he's been too, and of course he caught a reindeer only 2 days ago. Hmm. Doesn't making something current, really make it real...

He said Ray is nasty to him? What's he refering to?

@evildeathmonkey1 yes its true, bear grylls just did survival training to pass selection, ray mears has done it non stop for almost 40 years all over the world....there is no comparison.

that bruce lee quote is awesome. and i'd take them both really. bear is all brawn and a lot of brain, really; ray is all brain and a lot of brawn. there's a lot to learn from both of them. they're also both very entertaining in their own respects, which at the end of the day is their purpose on tv regardless of how existential ray gets (which he tends to) or how much bear presumes that we trained to be stuntmen. lol

Bear all the way!

6:13 what he thinks about ray mears

One of the best bushmen on t.v. check out his videos if you want to acctually learn stuff. :)

@TheChromeCatastrophe I agree man. lol. and bear seems more commercial/sensational to me. But they both have their place. Ray FTW, and I'm an american, not british... haha

I think Bear is kinda cool. Someone asked on a forum page "Would you hang out with Bear Gyrlls?" and I said yeah.. sure I'd hang out with him, He seems like a cool guy. I like his shows even though he gets a lot of flask for this or that. I'm entertained, and that's all I care about. I take from his show what I want.

No bear grylls performs in an action movie setting, if any normal man tried to do what he does he would die instantly. He doesn't teach you anything useful. But he is one hell of an entertainer and he clearly knows what he is doing.

@misternylon He is doing that because he wants to find help faster than usual

@KeeperPeace he teaches it.

I know which dinner party I'd rather be at...

ray mears has skill, and i aint gonna lie i watched ray mears long before i even heard about bear, ray was around first, and ray knows his stuff thats for sure, hes not as "hardcore" as bear, and is more calm about survival, they're both good, but as much as i love Bear i think Ray has more knowledge about survival and more skill, but bear is more extreme survival, like last resort stuff, but i like both of them, they're great.

Bear has always been fun to watch. A lot of the things Bear tries is extreme but its to entertain as well as teach. Younger generations of viewers would probably fall asleep to a Ray Mears program even though you learn a ton of great information from Ray.

@MetahneGoblin real survival skills are what gets you out alive... and BG is still here. The difference is more RM ephisizes the technical aspect of survival skills whereas BG demonstrates the extremes.

@LedZeppelin13k7 I agree with you. I'm also a Marine and in the military you learn things that you can't learn as a civilian. Everything you do as a Marine is all about survival. In the Marines you learn how to make do with less than adequate gear and Bear being SAS he takes that to the next level. Though in a real life survival situation you will probably be alone and possibly injured and that would be difficult no matter who you are.

is that your son your holding hands with in the middle of the clip?

A good and humble man!

ray teaches bushcraft and that is about being comfy in the woods.

Grylls and Mears complement each other by their different styles, Grylls shows that nature can be fearlessly socked on the jaw, and Mears shows us survival skills in more detail.