I Tested My Knives in the Amazon Jungle!
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- I spent 10 days in the Amazon jungles of Colombia and Brazil. Come learn with me.
I was a 90s kid, and thus, I played Oregon Trail. I've seen a lot of dysentery in my day. Imagine my joy in 1996 when the new Amazon Trail came out! No more dysentery. And Fishing! Photos! Creatures! It was super cool, and it planted in my brain a desire to float on the Amazon River myself. Fast forward 25 years and I arrived in Colombia in the Amazon jungle via Bushcraft Global Expeditions. I wasn't a carefree 11-year-old kid anymore, and I went looking for more than just an adventure. What I found was rich, vibrant, and inspiring. I'm glad you're here for the ride.
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00:00-- Let's go to the ungle!
00:58 -- Trip Notes and Explanation
02:02 -- Jungle shelters and how not to hang your hammock
002:57 -- Jungle walks with the Matis tribe
03:18 -- how to drink water from a vine in the jungle
04:57 -- the Matis tribe eye drop hunting ritual
06:50-- jungle sounds
7:28 -- Knives of the Amazon
10:07 -- Epic jungle bushcraft battle
11:04-- Eating caiman meat
11:44 -- finding food in the jungle
12:31 -- how to make tree bark leather in the jungle
14:26 -- net fishing in the Amazon
16:48-- Swimming with piranhas in the Amazon. Do they eat you?
17:49-- How to make a blowgun in the jungle
20:05 -- FUNAI interrupts the party
20:45 -- How hot is it in the jungle?
21:11 -- Electric eels in the jungle and how to eat them
23:01 -- Kambo ceremony and effects
23:05 -- Mariwin ceremony and whipping
25:25-- A jungle goodbye
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Wow! Loved every minute of it. Thanks for taking us along, Ben!
Just returning the favor, my friend. You’ve taken me all over the place.
you are great i love your video
Despite all the volunteered hazing, that looks like an amazing trip. Especially to slow down. Thanks for sharing!
That was realy amazing!🤘🇨🇦
Brother this was absolutely phenomenal and insightful! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Well filmed, funny, relatable, inspiring. Just well done, thank you! 🙏🏻 👊🏻🤙🏻
wonderful video, have a great day :)
It is nice to see humans act as humans and not as servants to social expectations or social pressures. Way to be real!
It really was a great video
Wow, fantastic video
Excellent video Ben and even greater experience I’m sure
😂 @3:15 the foot freaked me out
So cool you started your own channel!! And especially hanging out with the man Joe Flowers!!! How fkn awesome!!!
Whoa! I wasn't expecting this. Thanks for making this more than a light-hearted travel video!
You’re very welcome. It was transformative for me in really wonderful ways.
This was awesome, man.
Awesome 👊
Great video, Ben!
I've never seen a more glaring example of why a knife designer needs to also be a knife user.
I think this is an insult? Perhaps you could rewrite it to be more direct? "Ben should get out more and use the knives he designs" or "I'm sure glad Ben didn't cut his arm off with his knives". Either way, thanks for stopping by! ;)
That was awesome Ben! I Love your knives!
Thank you for the great content, and for sharing this experience. These almost 30 min made my day a lot better.
Great video
Thank you so much for sharing your trip with us! I don’t think I would volunteer for those rituals but the rest looks like fun!
Living the dream there Ben!
This was awesome ✌️
Awesome video!
Great video Ben. Always enjoy your enthusiasm.
What an excellent video!! Makes me jealous as heck but definitely appreciate all that you shared here for us. This was just incredible.
Awesome video Ben, would love to do that 🙏
Awesome video Ben!! Really enjoyed watching this edit of your journey.
Great Video! Looks like you had an awesome experience! Maybe a inspired Matis knife in the near future!
Thank you Ben I thoroughly enjoyed watching your amazon experience,,the lulu pulled through!!
Ben, that was amazing! Thank you for sharing your journey and giving a glimpse into an amazing culture. So many cool stories. Porter and I really enjoyed it! Malinda & Porter
So awesome!
Ben you are one of the good guys! Go Knafs!!! Thanks for sharing. Mark.
Thanks Mark! That's very kind of you.
What an amazing trip - and it's pretty intimidating, too. I love my quiet little life with my apartment and my cats. Thanks for sharing a wider world with us. :)
A quiet life is a good life too. I’m glad you got to watch and come along on this one.
The same trip is on my wish list
I love this video Ben! There is tons of great knife makers and knives out there to buy, but I enjoy your products because they are well thought out and because you are someone I’d love support!
Looks like a stupidly fun trip that I wanna go on real bad now! Haha
😊👍
Let’s goooooo great job Ben
This was a really fun video to watch! Looks like the Lulu really held its own too. It definitely performed better than the Metallica record by the same name!
@@CarlMurawski thanks Carl! And duuuude! I’ve really enjoyed watching Knafs show up on your channel. I’m so glad you’re stoked about what we’re doing.
That was the best 30 minutes on UA-cam I've seen in a long time....
High praise. Thank you. 🙏
@@benbanters 🤣 not high praise ... You got a new subscriber (me) you truly come across as a good person.
If you were hiring and I had a skill you could use.
Been a fan since bladeHQ
Great video Ben, thanks. Now, imagine we bring these guys to the States for some wheeling in the desert, maybe just as wild a trip for them?
I’ve thought about that, and I definitely want to watch their eyes light up in a side by side. 😁
I've been waiting for this one, brother! And it was fantastic!
Thank you for bringing us along. This gives an extra bit of connection to the Lulu and Matis cordage that I have in my office :)
I'm glad you enjoyed it, my friend! Gotta' love that cordage.
WOW! What an experience man!! Fantastic footage. That’s a definitely a trip I could not make! I just spent a week camping in the UP if Michigan….the bugs were bad enough there hahaha!! Take care bud!
Someday I'll make it to the UP. It looks beautiful up there. Take care, my friend!
Very interesting trip! The Amazon has always been on my bucket list. I've been to Brazil a couple of times, but never made it that far north. Good to see people actually USE knives, instead of just flipping them open and closed and cutting paper (not that I don't do that...).
And use them they did! Not a lot of fidgeting down there.
Awesome trip! Thanks for taking us along.
What’s the deal with those dark hands on the other guy? He get told to wash his hands too many times as a child? He showed them!! Ha ha.
The dark hands: the Matis had a die that they use for skin painting, and all sorts of skin painting definitely happened. Nothing like appendages looking gangrenous.
You're awesome. Cheers Ben 👐
If I could press the like button multiple times I would. Thank you.
Thanks! That's very kind of you.
A grand time in the jungle! Thank you, Ben, for this timeless treasure.
Excellent video! I loved my time down there with Joe in 2019
Joe is a legend and one of the best humans I've encountered.
Excelente Ben
Not only a great knife maker but a really good guy. That video was awesome and it just makes me like your knives even more. I'm pretty heat intolerant so I wouldn't do well there but you made it look easy
Thanks for the kind words. The heat was definitely rough, and I'm not sure the video fully captures the sweat-fest of the ordeal. I appreciate you watching!
What an amazing adventure. A little bit of heaven and a little bit of hell all in one trip. Definitely a trip of a life time. Thanks for sharing.
A perfect blend of heaven and hell. My 4 year old now asks when I leave on business trips: “Dad are the bugs going to bite your legs on this trip?” 🤣
This was awesome. Sure, you tested your knives but I love how it really wasn't a focus. It really reminds me of something Anthony Bourdain would do
Thanks! I've been watching some old Parts Unknown episodes, and I'm fascinated by how food brings people together. I think knives have a similar effect.
Amazing video, Wish it had more knife content
Totally fair feedback. I realized as I was filming that knife use happens crazy fast. You almost have to stage it to get good shots because they all move so quickly. I wasn't particularly interested in staging it, so you see a lot of what I was actually able to capture.
such a unique and well put together video!!
@@plausible.deaniability hey thanks! 🙏
Great video, I really enjoyed seeing what you did after hearing about at Blade Show. P.S I love seeing Joe rock the vest I made him
Thanks Heather! Your vest was EPIC and it made Joe look like a jungle boss.
I love seeing me some Joe Flowers. Always been curious about what these trips are
More Joe: Watch Expedition from Hell on discovery. It is remarkable. And willlld.
Hablas español hoy vimos tu video nos gustó mucho somos de Costa Rica 🇨🇷 increíble el Amazonas.
Excelente! Algun dia voy a llegar a Costa Rica para visitar. Pura Vida!
I’m drinking coffee whilst sharpening my man daggers 🗡️ this video couldn’t have dropped at a better time. Thanks Ben “cheap sucker” Petersen. (Rumor is Ben flew to the Amazon on Spirit Airlines)
Rumor has it he haggled Spirit at the gate for more free in-flight snacks. 😝
Wow, lots to think about here. One of the things I thought of is how unhardening my life truly is. I don't mean I don't face hardship, just that it's like... corporate desk hardship lol. This life I have, it doesn't leave me with scars. And I have knives to break down the boxes so they fit nicely in my recycling bag. But I am not using them to survive. Modernized life is so removed from this, for better or worse. Felt like a TV show. Thanks for posting.
Corporate desk hardship leaves emotional scars instead. ;) Different types of hard for sure. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Ben Ben Ben Ben Ben thank you sir!!! I’m enjoying a lander 2 right now!!!!! 👍
Nice video.
Smart move passing on the whipping. Those whip marks remind me of my childhood. My parents took it too far, too often...
It's strange how some unnecessary hardships can be welcomed within a group/culture that is already awash with unavoidable hardships.
I suspect it is something about the elders in a society wanting to prepare the young for what the future holds.
Yet within your travel group, members welcomed the opportunity to experience a manufactured hardship, as if the heat and bug bites were not enough to fully bond with the travel experience.
"Manufactured hardship" is a good way to put that, but I also think they do it to toughen their people up. The jungle is pretty rough, so increasing pain tolerance probably helps? Hard to say.
@@benbanters I suspect you are right about them wanting to toughen their people.
This sure is a crazy strange world we share.
What an amazing experience. Learning amazing skills from amazing people.
Man, this was an amazing video thanks I bet it felt amazing to sleep in your bed again!
Thanks! It was pretty great to be home, particularly because the hammock tends to get obnoxious after a while.
That's awesome! But if we're talking about the Amazon jungle, I'd probably prefer a machete over a shorter knife like a LULU.
Have you considered visiting a machete shop? ;)
Bro, I just left Leticia like 3 weeks ago. We headed out to some of the Takuna communities around Puerto Nariño. Beautiful area.
Have to say, it feels like a “let’s get paid to mess with gringos” opportunity for them…
We work more with communities for humanitarian purposes (medical, school, etc)
Very cool! Your trip sounds a lot more helpful for society than my pleasure/pain trip. And yes, the indigenous definitely get a kick out of the gringos willing to try stuff. I think half the fun is watching them laugh at us. ;)
@@benbanters oh no, Your trip seemed equally important for other reasons! Helping you too find a healthy rhythm in life and develop some more awesome knife designs, which will bless many people 👍🏼
Ugh….talk about Call of the Wild. Legit. Cheers Ben
Jack London is my spirit animal. ;)
It looks like a very nice adventure but you can leave that up to Joe Flowers. As for the knives presented the only ones that made sense to me in a tropical rain forest were of course the local machetes and the stainless steel Mora Companion. Jimping on a knife is useless. Carbon steel in a tropical rain forest is not a good idea and also leather sheaths or wooden handles are not a good idea. Granted I only spend a month in Colombia but so far 5 months in Thailand. And just like in Colombia and Thailand when it rains it really rains. So I was surprised about some knife choices. I would bring an SAK, the Fallkniven Scout (in Elmax) and always buy a local machete. But it was a nice video so I subscribed and liked it.
Nice! Thanks for the knife notes. My leather belt started turning into a stink-fest on my body, so I hear you on the leather. As for carbon steel, I think I realized a lot of folks are not as particular about the steel type. It's a "use your stuff" mentality, and they don't mind the patina or oxidization. Full send.
@@benbanters I don't mind a patina or corrosion on a big chopper or machete since I'm not using that for food prep. But the small camp knife I use for food prep must be stainless. A leather sheath looks nice but will rot in a jungle. When the leather sheath gets wet the carbon steel knife will rust and the sheath will also stretch and lose tension with the danger of losing your knife. I want my knives to be low maintenance and not having to dry and oil the knife after every river crossing or downpoor only to put it back in a still wet leather sheath.
During my time in the jungles I have brought a Mora Basic 546 or Hultafors RFR (both stainless with a plastic sheath) for all small tasks and food prep and they needed zero maintenace. If you want something a bit stronger the Mora Companion HD in stainless. If you want even stronger the Fallkniven F1 or R2 Scout in the zytel sheaths come to mind. But that's just my opinion of course and some people don't mind cutting their food with a rusty blade. They seem to go for traditional looking knives over praticality.
Which tattoo shop did they get their earplugs put in at?
Jungle Joe's Jolly Ink Joint
Expedition From Hell
Are you watching that thing? It's WILD. Micky is a crazy man. My trip was so much tamer.
@@benbanters ㅇㅐ yes I watched the whole thing. He truly was being a really gross man on that trip. Even that poor girl. He was so rude to her. I had no idea that Joe Flowers had ever endured such a thing. Although I didn’t see him being the target of the abuse. Definitely a binge worthy documentary I would recommend. 😂
@@StarDarkAshes We just finished it over the weekend. What a plot twist at the end. Crazy.
Awesome video, Ben!