A few Uses of the shemagh

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In this video i Take a look at some of the uses of the humble shemagh. decided to cut a few bits out of this in order to make a decent video on each part!

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I feel that this piece of equipment is kind of underrated and what are we looking at is this traumatic so today I'm using this kind of desert-y yellow one just to make it a little easy to see what it is and if you don't want to show that sure like is basically a square piece of the - I think stop 1 foot by 1 foot I think quite big and the reason that I love this music it so much is because it is a really really versatile piece of equipment considering it's just a comfortable nice soft piece of fabric they actually has quite a few users so the use that I predominantly use my slack for is requires me to fold it diagonally across into a triangle just like this let's demonstrate this at first we'll take right out to my office I'd swear this is a scarf now I could fit my top up here but I actually find this look with restricted at times where's the sumac can give you nice walk for your neck whilst you can keep this open and it's not very strict it's all just very quickly to demonstrate that but to Pele's it's quite cold out yesterday

so what I'm gonna do she's very popular so he's pretty straightforward stuff but it's worth demonstrating

so a fall it into a triangle and then the little you know wrap it around my face

right now I've saw two corners here I can pull that reasonably tight I could put a little bit but not in there if I wanted to though I tend not to because what I'm now going to do is I'm going to put my dick jumper back on over the top fucking against is quite chilly as I pull that down you can see now that that's your mag is giving my neck a lot of coverage and warmth but it's not restricting I find this collar could be quite restrictive this type of quality practice trip too when you're breathing and it was really windy if I had a hat on or whatever I could then also I can pull it up over my face to keep my nose and my mouth and my cheeks warm just be careful if you breathe into it - what if you get a use for this is to see I'm next to a river here and I have got drinking water with me but if I didn't what I could do is slip some of this water or need filtering it's quite fast flowing and you can also use this as a filter however one thing you would have to do is you need to double this up above a few times because I'm not sure the camera will pick this up properly but can actually see and it's a pretty it's a pretty loose weave and there it still makes a reasonably effective water filter but you just have to make sure that you fold over a few times you pour your water to it that will move any sentiments of things to follow the water so though the use for it is a water filter one last little use for this which I found to be quite invaluable is you can actually use this having potentially fragile items so I've used this for cutting out my gas lamps in our carrier to Basecamp so I wrapped my gas once in this and spit the lantern inside my cooking pot and it's nice and soft and it stops the mantle within that so yeah it's a really burst have a piece of kit and this is the kind of stuff you really want to be looking out for about things that pretend to have multiple uses depends on the situation there and another great thing about this rag isn't it packed up to almost nothing so you fold up the times see how small it is there you go it's working the same size as a large pair of socks where I come from here in the UK you can pick these up for a fee between 5 and 15 pounds if you've got to get one make sure you get the proper military-style ones there's a lot of fashion shoe mags out there they're not very good they fall apart very easily really easily they're usually overly bright colors and neutral colors and and that they're just not as big a lot of the military ones now also come sprayed with I believe but I could be wrong on this dark normally I believe they come sprayed with a kind of insect repellent which is quite handy I have used this to you to prevent mosquitoes are subjected to in the past by soaking in various nuts for insect repellents so yeah if I get yourself a smoke or two thank you you