Homemade Robocop Suit

Expert with a knife will always take a man with a gun within 20 feet, always, on the draw. You won't draw leather on your nine Glock before I draw leather on my knife and kill you. Simple fact. I mean, you're not going to pull it out straight out. That's in there. You're going to lean on that. You're not going to do it. That's how deep it goes in. And that's a Bowie. That against any man would've been dead. He'd have been dead already. That's a lot of knife coming on you. I have two sides. I have no middle ground. I am pure light and pure darkness. I cry for people in the streets. I hate poverty. I hate children that don't eat. It drives me crazy. It breaks my heart to see children suffer. I love people. Walk on the wrong way-- yeah, I'm one dark ***. I didn't choose when I got attacked. The only thing experts agree on is-- with a black bear, you never run. A black bear, you never play dead. A black bear, you always show aggression. This is 100% of the time. Not so with a grizzly. Your best chance, if it's a female, you see the cub or not, yeah, play dead. Whether it was my martial arts. Whether it's just-- I'm one pissy son of a ***. I don't know. I don't know anything about grizzlies back then. I'm still a teenager, you know? And I can feel the sense for days, you know? It's quiet. It's a stillness. I look at this grizzly. And then he just moves in on me-- just smash, right in the chest. All of sudden, something hits me. One of my senseis said, there will come a time in an individual's life where anger supersedes fear. And that's when you stand or fall. And it was beautiful, it really was. Just let the knapsack go, looked at this animal, and said, *** on you. It ain't going to happen. I had my Bowie, and I had a machete. And I walked up to him. I said, man, your fighting prowess is 50 times mine. But pal, I'm good enough to stick both these in you. And he just gave me that look, and his head kind of went back and forth. And he turned 180 degrees, and he was just gone. I just watched him walk off. And it was almost a-- oh man, the stillness, the quiet was unbelievable. You see, that's the wilderness. That's what brings us. You can get those-- it's like, wow, OK, this is cool. This is what it's all about. So I wanted to learn more about this bear. I wanted to know why. I went back to college. I had quit in grade 10. So I had to go upgrading all over again. And what I found out, there was not a damn thing known on the grizzly. You can't get close enough to study them. They'd kill you. Well, I'm watching RoboCop. And I'm telling you, halfway through that movie, it just all came together. I just looked at that and said, that's it. You give me the time and the money, I'm going to build a suit. That's how it all started. 1987-88, I watched Robocop, I started building the bear suits for grizzly bear research. I am the world's foremost authority on deterrent sprays sold to the public. So I started building it-- the Mark III, the Mark IV. It's all soft material for flexibility. You learn a lot, 25 years at this. I mean, I've got 25 years ahead of anybody out there. And by the time I got to the M VII, you're looking at $150,000, straight titanium. Again, only about 20% flexibility, 135 pounds. But I only need to be able to stand there, raise the arm. There's a trigger device that sends off the spray. That's the research I do-- and in aggressive behavioral research, what happens afterwards, if it gets through, what does the bear do. [INDISTINCT SHOUTING] Troy goes to McMaster University. That's our MIT. And I go to doctors in physics. So I present the problem to them, and they love it. Wow, that's brilliant. Wow, how do we simulate the power of a grizzly? OK, let's break this down. After two days' research, they look at me, and they say, OK, here's what you've got to do. If you can handle that pickup truck, dead impact, at 50 kilometers an hour-- got no problem with a bear. Well, they see that and assume, what an idiot. Jumped in the suit-- no, buddy, that's four years. That's five suits, starting at 3 kilometers an hour, pop. 8 kilometers an hour, pop. 15 kilometers an hour, pop. All the way up to 50 before I got there. Do you know why I never broke a bone? Do you know why I've never sustained so much as a concussion? Because I know what I'm doing. People, this isn't a big reach. I don't want to get hurt. So you're talking three years and another four suits later before we got to the M VI. And that's how it does it.