What is Bushcraft?

I'm going to be honest with you guys for a minute, I'm going to be real, I hate the word bushcraft, okay? I hate everything that comes along with it, the implications that it implies, the stigma, the attitude, I don't like it. I use bushcraft in my name for my channel so that I can have a category. I think that a lot of the things that I do are not bushcraft, I think that some of the things that I do are, but who's to say? obviously people like maybe Mors Kochanski, Ray Mears, what about the Australian outback people place where it originated from bush the bush out in the back in the bush it's bushcraft crafting from the bush taking things from the woods and making things to make yourself more comfortable with right makes sense to me but i didn't make this in the woods i didn't you know and i didn't have my billy can that's pretty bushcrafty that's a zebra pot right oh grandfather's Gränsfors Bruks axe though so maybe I'm not a bushcrafter. Who knows? Or on the other hand, I have expensive knives, so maybe I'm not a bushcrafter. Maybe bushcraft is only doing more with less. The whole doing more with less thing, right? You don't need all that gear, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But you know what? I don't care if it's called bushcraft. I don't care if it's called monkeying around in the woods. I don't care if it's called survival. I don't care if it's called camping. You know what I mean? I really like going out into the woods by myself, with my dog, with my friends or with my family it doesn't matter if you can somebody asked me on Facebook the other day a dilemma they wanted to they wanted to go to the woods for the night but their friends wanted to party it's not even a dilemma whatever you want to do man bring your friends to the woods and party if you want you know what I mean it's just I would choose I would choose going to the woods over partying anytime you know what I mean because that's what I like to do but I'm getting a little bit off track here the whole bushcraft thing it's just I feel like who cares what it means you know I feel like if somebody wants to say I'm not doing something right because I call myself a bushcrafter or I I have a channel a YouTube channel with the name bushcraft in it and I go on a backpacking trip for a few days and I don't do much bushcraft or I'll cook on a cat stove instead of a fire I'll bring my my Swiss Army knife instead of an axe you know what I mean where's the line honestly and who cares why does it even matter why does does everybody have to try to label things and just be caught up in this this this labeling game of like you know you're not what you say you are because this word doesn't mean what I think it's supposed to mean you know what I mean like does it make sense what I'm saying go to the woods and have fun stop being so nitpicky stop stop again I saw another video the other day by a guy stop telling people what to do that's that's basically what he was saying who cares you know I mean obviously some if somebody's being uh dangerous in the woods they're not being safe yeah you have an obligation I think maybe to just speak your mind and tell them hey maybe the way that you were doing this wasn't so safe point in case I was splitting on video a piece of wood between my legs the Ray Miers way and a couple videos ago and a person wrote me in the comments and told me listen you had the wood too far up if it glances off you're gonna hit your shin and the first thing I thought was, okay, buddy, whatever, you know, and where's your videos? But then I think about it. It's like, okay, maybe I just need to listen to this person instead of jumping to like, oh, he's just trying to tell me what to do. So I did. And I watched it back and I, it was unsafe. I had, I had the wood way too, way far up, uh, too far up. So if I did hit it and glance, it would have hit my shin and that's bad. And I'm, and I'm, and I'm showing other people that on my videos. Um, so I feel an obligation to not do that obviously, or to correct that. So thank you for the person who corrected me in the comments and we went back and forth and actually it was good you know it was a good exchange rather than like oh yeah whatever you know what i mean me thinking he's a troll or a hater or something which he's not you know i mean just telling me this is how it was um i don't know again i'm getting off track listen bottom line don't worry about other people go to the woods if you want to or don't watch other people go to the woods online or on tv there's nothing wrong with that either you know what i mean i think the rant is over i hope i proved my point i hope i got my point across maybe somebody won't agree with it i'm sure let me rephrase i'm sure some people won't agree with that and that's fine you know what i mean it doesn't matter to me i hope you guys enjoy this video i hope you understand what i'm trying to say thank you for watching and i'll see you soon