Could a human do hand-to-hand combat against a grizzly bear?

[Peregrinator]

Are they an endangered species? Aren't there laws protecting endangered species and making it a felony offense to hunt them?

There's a lot of argument over protecting them. I'm not sure what the current status is. There's no question that their essential hunting habitat, the edge of the sea ice, is melting out faster and that's going to be a problem for them.

Usually, even with endangered species protection, indigenous people who rely on hunting are given some sort of limited permission to hunt them anyway. That's how it is with whales.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

You could sucker punch him in the nose

but grizz are notoriously hard to sucker.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I understand, to many, all words are relative...

...that's why God made coloring books just for boys and girls like you.

God did not make words.

 

[semen4her]

A "paw" "swipe" wouldn't kill...

...a claw "swipe" would definitely do some damage.

No.

A 'paw' 'swipe' could very easily kill you.

If you don't think so, go get 'swiped' by one, dipshit.

Please.

I will pay the air fare.

 

[Peregrinator]

swipe (swp)
n.
1. A sweeping blow or stroke.
2. Informal A critical remark.
3. A lever, especially one that raises the bucket in a well.
v. swiped, swip·ing, swipes
v.tr.
1. To hit with a sweeping motion.
2. To pass (a swipe card) through an electronic reader.
3. Informal To steal; filch. See Synonyms at steal.
v.intr.
To make a sweeping stroke.

 

[semen4her]

One swipe to his melon and it would pop like a grape.

 

[thør]

There's a lot of argument over protecting them. I'm not sure what the current status is. There's no question that their essential hunting habitat, the edge of the sea ice, is melting out faster and that's going to be a problem for them.

Usually, even with endangered species protection, indigenous people who rely on hunting are given some sort of limited permission to hunt them anyway. That's how it is with whales.

At my cabin, one brown (or grizzly) bear per regulatory year, during season, with no tag required. Three black bears per year, no closed season.

The taking of sows with cubs is prohibited.

 

[kiba]

Chuck norris could

 

[eyer]

swipe (swp)
n.
1. A sweeping blow or stroke.
2. Informal A critical remark.
3. A lever, especially one that raises the bucket in a well.
v. swiped, swip·ing, swipes
v.tr.
1. To hit with a sweeping motion.
2. To pass (a swipe card) through an electronic reader.
3. Informal To steal; filch. See Synonyms at steal.
v.intr.
To make a sweeping stroke.

Key word in your provided definition is "sweeping"...

...as in "swipe", both are enabled by less resistance, which is not the case with a direct strike - which is maximum force meeting maximum resistance...

...which = more impact, which = more damage.

If you were a boxer, would you prefer to be hit with a knockout punch to your jaw...

...or a "sweeping", glancing blow off the cheek?

If you were a painter, would your "sweeping" "swipe" of a brushstroke be gentler than a harsh, direct jab?

You encountering violent confrontation with a grizzly bear would be comparable to you driving a Volkswagen Beetle violently encountering a Kenworth 18 wheeler on the road...

...which would you prefer: that the semi side"swipe" you or slam into you head-on?

 

[semen4her]

Key word in your provided definition is "sweeping"...

...as in "swipe", both are enabled by less resistance, which is not the case with a direct strike - which is maximum force meeting maximum resistance...

...which = more impact, which = more damage.

If you were a boxer, would you prefer to be hit with a knockout punch to your jaw...

...or a "sweeping", glancing blow off the cheek?

If you were a painter, would your "sweeping" "swipe" of a brushstroke be gentler than a harsh, direct jab?

You encountering violent confrontation with a grizzly bear would be comparable to you driving a Volkswagen Beetle violently encountering a Kenworth 18 wheeler on the road...

...which would you prefer: that the semi side"swipe" you or slam into you head-on?

A bear is not a fucking human, ya dumb fuck.

A bear cannot punch.

Bears hit in a 'swiping' motion.

Were born retarded or did it develop over time?

 

[Super-Surprise]

This guy may just scare a bear off!

http://galleries.adult-empire.com/76/7669//351/nude/ebony-3.jpg

 

[badbabysitter]

Key word in your provided definition is "sweeping"...

...as in "swipe", both are enabled by less resistance, which is not the case with a direct strike - which is maximum force meeting maximum resistance...

...which = more impact, which = more damage.

If you were a boxer, would you prefer to be hit with a knockout punch to your jaw...

...or a "sweeping", glancing blow off the cheek?

If you were a painter, would your "sweeping" "swipe" of a brushstroke be gentler than a harsh, direct jab?

You encountering violent confrontation with a grizzly bear would be comparable to you driving a Volkswagen Beetle violently encountering a Kenworth 18 wheeler on the road...

...which would you prefer: that the semi side"swipe" you or slam into you head-on?

bears are boxers?


news to me

 

[Very_Bad_Man]

A friend of mine, who was a heavyweight college wrestler, wrestled a muzzled black bear for a charity event. He would assure you that a human would not stand a chance against a black bear much less a Grizzly

 

[jomar]

I saw Anthony Hopkins take one out with a sharp stick once.

 

[semen4her]

Is eyer ready to admit he is a moron who made a stupid comment and backed it up with even dumber crap than he originally posted?

No?

Not yet?

 

[KingOrfeo]

The taking of sows with cubs is prohibited.

A she-bear is called a "sow"? Did not know that.

 

[catinthehat123]

Davy Crockett supposedly did do this. But then again that was Davy Crockett he supposedly did a lot of things.

 

[semen4her]

Davy Crockett supposedly did do this. But then again that was Davy Crockett he supposedly did a lot of things.

Yeah, hulk hogan did it too.

Shut the fuck up.

 

[Very_Bad_Man]

This guy would would fuck a Grizz up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki5A4Q3hVuU

 

[thør]

A she-bear is called a "sow"? Did not know that.

A male is a boar.

 

[jomar]

Davy Crockett supposedly did do this...

And at a mighty young age.

 

[oddity83]

Engage in combat, yes, win, not so much.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

A friend of mine, who was a heavyweight college wrestler, wrestled a muzzled black bear for a charity event. He would assure you that a human would not stand a chance against a black bear much less a Grizzly

I've got a similar story. I wasn't there, so I can't swear it is true, but I tend to believe it.

When I was in high school, I took weekly judo lessons. One of the assistant instructors supposedly out with the boys one night got soused pretty good. They come along some county fair or some such with the same sort of muzzled, de-clawed bear wrestling show.

All the guys are daring Big Mike to take on the bear. By this time Mike is probably seeing three or four bears, none of which are standing still. But what the hell.

So he gets in the ring and starts dancing around with the animal who the trainer has on the leash. Just as the bear is leaning his massive bulk on the comparatively-not-so-Big Mike, Mike instantly pivots 180 degrees and places his hip squarely in the bear's mid-section. Extending his right leg out in front of the bear's right hind quarter just below the knee, Mike keeps pulling the bear forwarded (which was the direction he was headed anyway). But the bear can't walk forward to regain his balance because of Mike's braced right leg.

If you understand judo at all, you understand it's not based on strength, but on speed and balance and orienting yourself relative to an opponent's position of imbalance. It is this and only this that make's the tale plausible.

In any event, over Smokey goes, so they say, landing squarely and loudly on his back.

Well, muzzle or no muzzle, claws or no claws, Smoke's is pissed!!! Up he comes making a bee-line for Mike as if he was a Girl Scout changing Tampons in a pup tent. Rumor has it that it was all the trainer could do to hold the animal off Mike while he wisely took the trainer's suggestion to promptly get the hell out of Dodge and not return anytime soon.

God, I hope it's true!

 

[Sonny Limatina]

Is eyer ready to admit he is a moron who made a stupid comment and backed it up with even dumber crap than he originally posted?

No?

Not yet?

If it hasn't happened the previous 5,460 times, it ain't happening this time.

 

[Peregrinator]

Key word in your provided definition is "sweeping"...

...as in "swipe", both are enabled by less resistance, which is not the case with a direct strike - which is maximum force meeting maximum resistance...

...which = more impact, which = more damage.

If you were a boxer, would you prefer to be hit with a knockout punch to your jaw...

...or a "sweeping", glancing blow off the cheek?

If you were a painter, would your "sweeping" "swipe" of a brushstroke be gentler than a harsh, direct jab?

You encountering violent confrontation with a grizzly bear would be comparable to you driving a Volkswagen Beetle violently encountering a Kenworth 18 wheeler on the road...

...which would you prefer: that the semi side"swipe" you or slam into you head-on?

For fucks sake, eyer. I tried to be diplomatic at the start. Bears, as at least two other people have pointed out now, don't jab, throw crosses, or uppercuts, or paint in pointillist style. They swing their paws, claws or not, in what most reasonable people not given to medieval seminary-style hairsplitting would agree is a swiping motion, a sweeping blow. Their skeletons and musculature are specifically evolved to maximize the force of such a blow. They have additional attachment points on the bones their chest, upper arm, and shoulder for the huge mass of shoulder and chest muscles that perform that motion.

Other examples of sweeping blows that are actually somewhat applicable to the comment you made, as opposed to your example of a car accident:

Baseball bat
Battle axe
Crescent kick

etc.


All you really had to say was "I meant a glancing blow."