Survivorman | New Episode | Fighting To Survive Pilot | Les Stroud

it should be no surprise the professional athletes enjoy watching survival programs they're tough already this is my world out here this is the world of wilderness survival so now they've got their opportunity to come out here and survive with me your ring tough this is bush tough it's a whole other world man but then they get their chance the next day and i'll go on the field and the ice rink and in the ring and i see if i can survive their world this is fighting to survive mixed martial artist official weight 184 as a fighter i think i definitely have not only the discipline but also somewhat the mental fortitude this might not necessarily be the 15 minutes of pressure that i get in a cage but rather you know the 24 hours of pressure and the many different elements if you will that i'll be dealing with my friends and i used to watch them all throughout high school when i told them what i was doing they were uber jealous so i'm really excited to get the full survival experience and more importantly survive on my own you've got to look at it like you remember the first time you went into the ring yep you prepare you train and even if you've got control of your adrenaline rush the opponent throws something at you that you weren't expecting when those moments start hitting in the beginning of survival it's like the first time in the ring you think you're all set and then mother nature throw something at you son i'm going to help mother nature a little bit here and throw some things your way that you're not expecting just to keep you off kilter bit okay that's survival everyone's got a plan until they get punched in the face yeah okay let's go you're about to get punched in the face i'm fascinated by the fighter's mind throughout many many years of teaching survival and how well would someone who is so disciplined so trained in very emotionally grueling intellectually grueling and certainly physically grueling challenges fights if you will how would they do faced with the challenges that exist in nature in the wilderness all right here's what i've done this is just for you elias first of all i'm going to walk through what we've got here okay a pot to boil water in amazing a chainsaw for cutting wood bug pants a flint striker duct tape fishing gear compass one match with a box a clear plastic bag some beef jerky emergency blanket folding knife belt knife i'm going to allow you to pick three of these items as i said in survival you really don't know what's coming at you until it's at you a lot of times you don't have a lot of time to decide what you're going to do with the situation so right now you've got 30 seconds to pick three items go now one two three four um chin size i'm gonna grab the water 10 sec okay uh striking match and then a knife oh god done yes i think so all right you did that within 20 seconds okay so you've got a pot to boil water in a knife and a flint striker you used a flintstacker before no okay that's going to be interesting these are your three items to take out into the bush a couple things are going to happen here i'm not going to tell you right now why these are good or why they're terrible choices we're going to find out out there fair enough if you made a good decision or not but for now the thought here is these are your three items and we're set to go out in the bush you're good to go yep my expectations are that it's gonna be tough uh obviously being out in the elements uh you're kind of at the mercy of whatever happens throughout the day but i'm sure the the further out that we get the more you know creepy crawly things that are going to be popping out of nowhere the big issue is going to be you know keep them warm throughout the night you know whether it's making my own shelter or potentially even finding whatever food sources are around you ever spent a night out in the forest without a tent no definitely not how about alone if you ever spent a full day and night just completely alone now so this is it this is the place we're gonna hike in up here along this creek one thing that's going to be good about this is for navigation i'd like to have it so that we never really lose sight of this creek that way we'll always know where we point of reference yeah so we've got a point of reference we can use the creek and that's a great way to do it whether it's a rock ledge or a road or trail or something like that keep your senses going you're like okay i know where i am i know where i am i know where i am and that's why we want to have that today first though before we head into the woods i want to see what's in that backpack of yours let's do it all right let's see the cheats you brought into the game here contraband if you will contraband yeah all right so face washing goodbye goodbye soap goodbye toothpaste goodbye i'm bug repellent oh no that's a big cheek right there got some hair products got a lighter we're gonna get rid of the lighter okay yeah yeah goodbye goodbye unless you have personal medication and it's just get into the whole thing there you go all right throw the socks away i'm gonna give you i'm gonna give you an advantage okay so hang tight stay right there thank you all right right we're far enough north that it's gonna cool down at night plus it may or may not rain so i'm giving you a little bit extra appreciate it all right other than that you're good to go man now now we start to survive all right now the [ __ ] gets real this again is me being nice to you all right so giving you the jacket that's going to help out when it's cold but what i want you to do before we go because we're not taking any water with us is hyper hydrate okay so i'm gonna it's actually funny because we do the same process in fighting it's called water loading so okay you drink a lot of water and it basically builds up your bladder and then you pee everything out so you're flushing everything out and that includes your weight look at that a slave to his cell phone cracks me up even here even though he's going in on a survival mission he's been on that cell phone since we stopped sometimes when i see that i feel old all right time to head into my world elias and i'll head in max is going to follow along getting shots as he can and we've got company we've got my dog rogue with us so this will be interesting to see how survival plays out when you got a dog along that beaver dam that is exactly what that is that's beaver dam up there but it's also our bridge never walked across beaver dam before this is definitely a first yeah i have fallen in just so you know it has it has happened just when you get cocky you think i got this and you find yourself six feet down in a beaver hole somewhere you can see the creek we really don't want to lose sight of the creek that'll keep us going in the right direction and i want to turn over where we go to you now so you're going to be leading the trail right right you're going to start taking us deep into the forest we're going to keep going until i've got something else for us don't get us lost yeah right a little bit of birch can go a long way later tonight this all seems dead and now dead is more flammable stuff so whether it was the birch that we had earlier but try and set this on fire if i can actually set some fire with my flint stick yeah this is thick thick stuff and it's nice and open but it's not getting us anywhere you know it's okay if we meander uh a bit here as long as we keep things in mind is where we got to get back to and and we can get back to it easily see right now the creek's over there so if i look like this the sun is hitting me here right so and if i turn straight 45 degrees i know that's the creek right there so that's that's probably gonna serve us for a while i mean when i say for a while i mean a few hundred yards not a quarter mile in a quarter mile we could be super lost you know what else is out here a lot more than in the forest deer flies when i think about my own enjoyment for the fighting sports i like to kind of back myself up and say oh yeah that's ring tough but this is bush tough when you get out in nature but pro athletes like i say man or woman hockey or fighting football or mountain biking there is another level there that they have to go emotionally physically and mentally and so if you take what i do wilderness survival which is a stripping down to the bare bones of existence pure survival food water shelter and then you throw in the toughness of heat and bugs or cold and wet is it a different level of surviving or do the pro athletes exist in that same realm all right water within sight you can see the water see water again it's to our right see how easy it is to walk away from it though yeah for sure i mean one little turn to the left and uh and we're all of a sudden a long way from the water i can see the water there all right my friend i have no idea whether or not you're going to need this see the stuff here that's your toilet paper huh it's better than toilet paper actually uh now we speak now they're talking about it or you can gather now if you like but that's your best toilet paper out here that's called sphagnum moss you can see how instantly just being in a open spot even for a moment just makes you feel that much better i know the deer flies are out here but just uh getting a break for a second from that bush man feels good what i want to do actually i want to put you here and just say you know what dude this is this is it this is your spot which brings me to the fact of the way i'm talking right now that's because i'm going to leave you here oh yeah you're doing this alone you got to do this alone it's two o'clock changes everything doesn't does that it does now the choices you made on what items you brought everything everything matters at this moment i'm gonna leave you here alone for the night that's the first part of this second part is i'm gonna come and check on you probably a couple of times i'm gonna come back in check on you see how things are and there might be some opportunities for you when i come back in deal you're gonna have to hydrate make sure you hydrate i don't want you dehydrating on me out here no one wants that can i handle this i think i'm gonna try this isn't this is bush tough all right your ring tough this is bush tough it's a whole other world man all right rogue let's leave the fighter to himself the thing about wilderness survival is the wilderness doesn't care it doesn't care whether you live or die it's not in a competition with you this is not the other hockey team it's not the other football team it's not the other opponent in the ring it's just the wilderness and it's the champion you can't beat it so there's a difference you have to learn how to go the distance you have to learn how to stick it out for the three rounds knowing that you're up against an unbeatable champion that is a difference between i think wilderness survival and a pro-athletic endeavor like fighting hmm just more or less uh the realization that i'm actually really alone now right no tips no heads up just start doing new unfortunately that includes all these [ __ ] bags hmm horse flies are worse than getting punched in the face this is a definite definite i watched a survivor man or two what i want to do is to try to get us a little closer to a real survival situation another way to do that is to knock elias off his mark a little bit i need him to not think he knows oh i'm getting bitten better uh what to expect in terms of survival ah the flies are killing me now these things will teach him far better than if i am out here saying do this do that go here go there pick up this pick up that he's got to do this on his own one mistake he's making already though is not noticing the fact that he's soaking a lot of sweat i'm literally naked right now drying all my clothes off because i'm going to want them to be dry for the evening i'm feeling bad for them it's hot it's muggy the flies are bad and he doesn't really know what he's doing i think i'm going to go through a lifeline [ __ ] there's so many flies i'm running right up my nose it's gonna happen it's gonna happen should have got the candle sucks but as soon as i get it we'll get going just gotta focus like i do in a fight you up here elias oh dude how are you shirtless how you doing man okay i want you to stop for a second yeah okay i want to uh i want to give you a little bit of help here so it looks like you're concentrating on fire is that correct yes okay uh no shelter no shelter just yet just yet okay i don't know what it's gonna be like for rain but concentrating on fire is a good thing one thing you haven't done that i kind of want you to do i'm worried about that sweat on you if you're wet with sweat that's going to chill you down tonight all right what i want to do is actually throw you a lifeline we've got three items for you you can pick one of them let me lay them out you decide which one you want don't don't don't guess don't don't say what you wish it is i know right because if it's not one of those things i'll be crying on the inside you'll be crying all on the inside no question about it okay in survival sometimes luck happens and you do get an advantage it's not all disadvantages it's not all surprises that take away from you sometimes you walk around the corner you find a cabin first item i'm gonna offer you up is the match second item is a piece of cheese cheese is glorious third item serious advice from me potentially life-changing life-changing advice potentially life or night changing advice exactly okay last item is a bug jacket oh god your call my friend well the instance gratification of having a light is huge there's enough dead things around that i could probably keep it going and then that would help with the bugs long term with the smoke so that's kind of my thought process the bug jacket is glorious but i think i wrap myself up get a fire your advice would be great too took thousands of years to figure it out i think i'm gonna go with the light you gonna go with the match interesting call interesting call all right elias remember with only one match only one try it's all you get at this okay you can't blow it there's your lifeline can i call a friend i think giving elias a lifeline also gave him a psychological boost and that was really the point of it it wasn't so much to advantage him physically in the surviving that he has to do but just show him that you know you can have luck out here too it doesn't have to all be bad luck should have really worn for the bug no requirements i don't plan really on making a shelter there's such a nice breeze coming through here i'm hoping this breeze will keep the mosquitoes down the breeze can die and then i'm in trouble but a shelter's not going to change anything when it comes to mosquitoes i've already used the lifeline um having the mental stamina to push through the toughest challenges has to make somebody a good fighter there's no question how does that feel oh i currently feel the flies disappearing even if it's mental all right we gotta stop a fire flies are still here fire's still going also have my water boiling i know i'm supposed to be hydrated but i don't feel uh brave enough well i feel brave enough to sleep out here but not brave enough to drink the water so give me the old broil once night falls all of the horse flies go away and then bring on the mosquitoes right but uh horseflies are just ginormous and just itch itch on contact um whether they bite you or not and still no clown in the sky which makes it seem that i won't be uh rained on which is good because i have a very crappy uh very crappy uh shelter over here i'm not suggesting that i being a wilderness survival guy has a lot of character i'm just simply saying that i do know that it's taken a lot of mental toughness to to survive in the wilderness as i have and elias has that mental toughness that absolutely that is what makes him a good fighter there's nothing that can beat you like your own mind a bit of a gnarly gosh oh if i had a dollar for every time i slept on a rock i forgot to tell you what i chose as my three items from that pile of survival items that i put down in front of elias i chose bug jacket i chose a flint striker because i know how to use one really well so for me that's a pretty much for sure of fire and i chose the what they would call the space blanket or emergency blanket because i know that it's fairly large and i can use it kind of like a tarp roof if it does come on the rain if it doesn't come on to rain and i'll just use it as a blanket over top of me and hope that it keeps the heat in i better start getting some firewood together elias needed to go through what i've gone through which is why a i wanted to leave him alone b i wanted to leave him disadvantaged with the the tools that he had at hand and the only way to do that is to do exactly what it did here's your a your b and your c now deal with it that puts him on a level of understanding what i go through when i'm out there and that would set the stage to enable him to put me on his level of what happens in the gym and what happens in the ring welcome to shots of elias let's see my newly made minted hammock now we'll be sleeping above ground both to avoid the bugs and potential snakes cougars and everything else that could be coming out of here at night got myself some water from the river that's not too far from here don't really trust it uh typically honest although see how desperate i get in a little bit definitely makes me miss cold cold water out of a tap so i guess when it's all said and done i'll at least appreciate the little things that i take for granted back home like no bugs it's not that bad it's better than sleeping on the floor all those other bugs i saw a spider that was clearly pregnant it scared me so much i'm like oh my god i'm gonna sleep with my mouth open and then i'll wake up with a mouthful of roommates so once dark comes i'm just gonna close this up then go to bed so that's kind of my game plan right now just wait till light goes out and then uh let's hope a bear doesn't come a lot of wishing and praying like again i kind of kept an open mind um obviously every fight isn't an easy one some are easier than others but some of them you have to push through um case import would be my fight against tiago santos um he's a tough individual a madman if you will and it was my first loss but one of my proudest fights even the ones that you don't necessarily win uh you come back with uh potentially a winner's mentality i was uh kind of going in that realm in the aspect of surviving um because hit me with everything i got even to the point where i was peeing blood after the fight you know i survived to tell another tale and came back stronger hey now we're talking how you doing not too bad yeah it's always been worse looks good though do you need the candle now no you wanted the candle so bad you're thinking i should have took the kettle i should have taken the candle why did you want to well i thought maybe like again um it would help with the bugs if i kept it closer i didn't i could no it's tempting see the reality is these guys are also just like not drinking you know wilderness water is is overplayed candles are overplayed in survival situations they're really good for getting a fire going you can scrape the wax that sort of thing light this and then get other things but for the most part you know they're they're not that helpful i'll make you trade though see i haven't got my fire going yet now i do have a striker but it'd be a lot easier if i could use the knife so i'd be willing to make a trade for that knife to help you get through the night if you don't think you need it the answer is definitely yes i have to go definitely yes the answer is definitely here let's go man i'll give you that night the answer is definitely yes a little piece of me cried on the inside i had a feeling you might react that way awesome that's a fair trade good deal it's like christmas it's funny how often the term survival gets used for fighting you know you know you're going to survive in the ring yeah kind of thing survival mode survival mode yeah when you get hit sometimes you just gotta get a hold of your your your opponent you get rocked just gotta get ahold of them just to survive that that moment yeah where they they can knock you out right oh how's my back i didn't know what that was it's your backpack attacking you it's gonna be good it's gonna be an interesting night so tough this spidery is well after all this bragging about being able to get a fire going with a flint striker i better be able to do it this is some stuff i gathered nice and dry dry dry dry dry grass but since i'm going to be using just the spark i gotta peel this birch bark really thin thinner it is much easier it will be to ignite into flame all right so i've got the the knife that he traded for the bug jacket and this i've never tried this one before so it's a new one to me so that's why i wanted to make the trade for the knife because this is actually a good scraper i just know with a knife i just have a feeling i'll be better if i have the knife all right hmm almost but not quite that was tricky got it all right now let's just keep it so never been so nervous to drink water i mean it tastes good taste definitely tastes good because you know i'm thirsty as hell but it's just that in the back of my head just terrified what i'm ingesting tomorrow at the gym i'm not gonna be as mean as i thought i was gonna be obviously since liza gave me that net at the end it's gonna be a lifesaver tonight so i'll save his life a little bit tomorrow um but uh with an inch of his life again i think les has that survivor mentality inside the cage now definitely have that shown tomorrow when i push them and make sure you know it's sweating every single second oh my my ears and my my head feels a little um it's hot from uh from fly bites my fear is happening the wind has completely died down and i was hoping if i stayed out here that uh i'd have that advantage over elias breeze to keep the mosquitoes down breeze is gone completely so we'll see how this goes without a breeze if the mosquitoes do happen to like this temperature and i can hear them buzzing right now then it could be a long bad night of mosquitoes and if you think oh that makes it easy guess again you try sleeping with a million mosquitoes hovering right above your face as they land on the screen and they want to get you buzzing all night long i'd rather be cold than covered in mosquitoes this is the wrong time of year to go out and do any kind of survival excursion if you will this is the bug season now granted it's northern ontario and the black flies are gone but the deer flies the horse flies the no seems and the mosquitoes they're all still here and they're here thick and what happens is the deer flies take it to you all day long along with the horse flies then they punch the clock and the mosquitoes and the museums move in this was going to be bad i knew it was going to be bad and it was awful i mean i don't mean this in a condescending way or a patronizing way but it was really bad even for me and i'm not that bad with the bugs the way elias is in the gym in training that's how i am with bugs i'm like yeah yeah we got this not for him and i knew it would be like that for him it would be horrible and it was horrible uh tonight is upon us and so are the mosquitoes this will be probably the hardest part darkness bugs the unknown so we'll see how much sleep i can get um you know i'm already itching but i've been itching all day so i'm just gonna have to push forward and finish what i started uh as you can witness i didn't get any sleep i'm always proud of individuals when they make it through a wilderness survival situation because it's no small thing all right well it's probably about 5 15 a.m and my brother has made it as you can see man we're worse for wear here it's just been a night of onslaught of the many vampires all night long having the mental stamina to push through the toughest challenges has to make somebody a good fighter there's no question as you can see the bug shirt that uh i got a little later ripped a couple times i'll be honest i truly wondered am i gonna get the shout in the middle of the night like dude i can't do this i can't do this like is there any way is there a shorter way out of here i ca i can't do this because i've seen that before i've been there when people have done that before where they've quit this is where the mind of the fighter comes in well you did it though man yeah i mean you made it surprised to tell tale yeah that's that's serious this is this is the real deal here this is not you know this is you just you just completed the third round man standing up that was it uh obviously you know i didn't get the any beauty sleep but uh it's about that it's about surviving like we talked about surviving the third round and that's what i did he wasn't about to give up i wanted him to because i wanted to get out of there yeah i was kind of hoping for the call yeah okay let's go yeah sorry you couldn't uh make it through the night but sure i'll lead you out of here unfortunately he's a fighter and he stuck with it and we had to stay till the morning you ready to get out of here let's get out yeah yeah there's no time to waste crap now it's my turn isn't it yes sir i'll see you guys at the gym here we are yeah my office so we're gonna start with wrapping your hands get a strong wrist it's also to make sure we don't injure our knuckles when we hit always remember that the first two knuckles are the strongest ones and that's where i want you to constantly make contact whenever we're doing whether it's a pad or my face i always say with these two knuckles remember i was talking about how much you value your gear you your your net ripped apart on you during the night well that's exactly why just like this you take such precision such care and be very precise about everything that you do everything you have because your survival depends upon strong feel good awesome let's do it your eyes kind of give you tails if i want to hit you in the face i look in your chest right right if i want to hit hit you in the chest i can look up the other aspect is constantly trying to hide behind our shoulders because what that does is anything i come over and try and get you're protective it's always an aggressive dance to who leads that's what a fight is firstly let's be clear here both of us are coming off of no sleep a night of being tormented by the bugs rough rough hiking into thick canadian wilderness we step into the gym and all of a sudden it's like he's had a couple of coffees and a good night's sleep and he's ready to go i'm i'm trying to figure out how he's standing on two feet still but that's because that's his world okay so i didn't really have a fear of getting clocked i don't know if he's gonna try to teach me a lesson and in many ways i didn't want him to be too nice i gotta feel it there you go oh great one great round reminder i gave you the bug jacket last night and the match in the match in the map i was very nice to him last night i'm just i want to point that out before he pushed me down on the floor when we were in the wilderness i was pulling punches i could have made him hurt a lot more but i pulled some punches gave him the bug jacket talked about his fire that's me pulling punches and of course he pulled his punches in the way i mean i'm up against a top fighter he could have destroyed me but i got one shot in and that's all that matters elias made it through the night that's all that matters i got one good technical punch in it was an uppercut and he's told me four times you got a perfect one in man he's like that's it i'm good i can go home now i survived good i think he's going to take away two things one thing is just the sheer fun bragging rights enjoyment saying yeah i did that oh you think you know mosquitoes you don't know mosquitoes this one time i was out with less stroud and he's got bragging rights there in this situation elias can take this and it it's another notch up another notch up so when he goes back into the ring he's got this in his corner now too i'll take the mosquitoes yeah fair enough i'll take the punches that's it man clearly i've got some training to do i'm going back to the bugs how was it obviously fun now that it's all over and you know completing what we started there's definitely levels to the game and i i i saw that firsthand the bugs definitely uh were above expectation we all took our shots today there is nothing like that i i'm bitten hundreds if not thousands of times all over my body and i could feel them working away on me i kept the fire probably to keep my sanity and there's a couple times i'm pretty sure three o'clock in the morning four o'clock in the morning i'm breaking a branch and i fell just because i'm just giving it all my might and just so frustrated the situation you know there was a lot of a lot of me that wanted to quit a lot of me that was just so frustrated there are a lot of variables in fighting and there are a lot of variables throughout the last 24 hours out in the bush regards to that mental strength and have this is an experience that will push me into understanding you know how what kind of limits the the mind and the body has right and obviously it's different than a fight but uh still fighting through it uh definitely helped in my own martial arts experience you

Channel: Survivorman - Les Stroud

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Keywords: Survivorman TV Series, Les Stroud, Survivorman, Survivorman Les Stroud, Survivorman TV Show, Survivorman TV, mma, martial arts, fighting, elias theodorou, kickboxing, joe rogan, temagami

Id: ZMm-FT35OZ8

Length: 47min 17sec (2837 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 28 2020