Survival JMHO

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

Tags: Bushcraft,Survival,David Canterbury,Dave Canterbury,Pathfinder,The Pathfinder School,Archery,Hunting,Fishing,Camping,Primitive Skills,Fire,Water,Shelter,Navigation,First Aid,Search and Rescue,Signaling,Prepper,Preparedness,Self Reliance,Survivability,The 10 C's,Knives,Axes,Saws,Bow Drill,Ferrocerium Rod,Ferro Rod,Tarp,Hammock,Canteen,Cooking,Longhunter,Trapping

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morning guys dead Canterbury the Pathfinder school out here at the cabin today I've got some better ambient light it's actually attached to the camera I'm hoping that that's going to give us enough light to film in this cabin as we go without sacrificing the traditionalism of the oil and lanterns and things like that I don't want to hook electricity up out here to run lighting if I don't have to and have the generator running and things like that in the background it wouldn't keep from what I wanted to do this morning was I've just hooked it up we're heating up some hot water here on a transient stove with just a open top stove grill situation in my bush pot so I can have some hot chocolate and I wanted to discuss with you guys for a minute just my humble opinion on survival and I think that survival is a term that's used very loosely in our community nowadays and I also think that it is used in the wrong context a lot of times and I've watched a few videos lately where people discuss the Bible and I've talked to a lot of people on different discussion boards and around the cabin and things like that and we'll talk more about around the cabin here in a little bit and I wanted to discuss my opinion on a survival if you go back to 2008 and I'm not sure if the videos are even still up but if you are a Pathfinder phase 1 student you get the DVDs that come with phase 1 you'll see a video in those DVDs where I'm sitting beside a fire in the wintertime out in the woods I'm making a spear and I'm having a conversation - phase 1 students about my opinion of the word survival I've never really liked the word survival I fall into the trap letting myself if using it more often than I like it to be used I think that people misunderstand survival in a lot of ways I'm building my survival kit are you talking about survival are you talking about bushcraft to me survival is the immediate or imminent threat of life and death in a wilderness scenario when I say immediate I mean within 24 hours within the next two minutes to the next 24 hours my life could be on the line that's a survival scenario

to me longer-term or in a more urbanized environment if you're homeless and you have nowhere to live and you have to live on your own hook very much like the hobos in the 60s and 70s where you are eating out of soup cans scrounging for food sleeping you know under trees with a wool blanket or some type of sleeping bag sleeping under the bridge next to Walmart that that is a every day survival scenario those type people are in a survival scenario every day because every day can mean life and death of them or every day can mean where's my next meal going to come from where's my next cup of water going to come from where's my next cup of coffee going to come from where am I going to sleep tonight how cold is it going to be am I going to be able to stay warm can I start a fire where I'm at in my tan area if I start a fire I'm going to be noticed those type of people don't like to leave a big footprint as far as where they're at where they're camping where they've been and I'll give you a little story in reference to that real quick if you'll bear with me for a minute that kind of opens up a little bit of a light bulb in your head - homeless type survival and I have a buddy of mine who's a student at Pathfinder system I'm going to leave him unnamed in this video because he is an undercover homicide detective in the state of Illinois he was completing his face 1 training of the Pathfinder system which required him to build a personal space with a semi-permanent structured shelter a fire pit and things like that where he can conduct his training and he had a very hard time finding something like that in suburban Chicago Illinois so he chose an area that was basically just a city square block of woods that was in the middle really of town and he set up his shelter there and he set up his stuff to do his phase one and he told me that several times when he went into that area to practice his phase 1 training he had to kick homeless people out of his shelter because they had taken his shelter they had found that permanent or semi-permanent type shelter in the woods and inhabited to affect their survival they have to beg borrow and steal for what they have and there's nothing wrong with that if that's the situation that you're in but that's a different type of survival than what we typically talk about nowadays as far as wilderness survival so I want you to kind of differentiate between the two and I want to kind of open the heads up and open the lightbulbs up on some people so that we understand what we really talking about now survival in a wilderness scenario to me a is going to be very dependent on your training and skill level because if you don't leave a proper game plan you're not carrying the proper equipment you don't know where to put that equipment on your person or in your kit and you don't have the right equipment then that can lead to a survival scenario much quicker than someone who has the proper training the proper kit mentality the proper mentality of how and where to carry their gear on their body and that brings us to our next discussion I think that to truly be in a survival scenario something dramatic has to happen a I have to lose my kit in other words my backpack has to be lost completely from me so I don't have my kit I don't have my kit essentials with me except for what's on my person we'll talk about that in it as well it's a very good video Vietnam bro did a very good video he's a little bit boisterous but he did a very good video about this particular concept of what I'm talking about right now so something traumatic has to happen to put you in that situation or you have to have fall into cold water or something is that the Happiny that's gotten you to the point of either hyperthermia or hypothermia within a very short amount of time to put you in that survival mentality mode and depending on what you have with you depends on how severe that survival situation really becomes if I am walking down the trail on a day hike and I have my 10 piece kit in other words I have everything that I need to start fire boil water create a microclimate that will protect me from the elements and I'm dressed properly I've left a game plan and all of those types of things are in place and I twist an ankle or I can't get out tonight now I've got to spend the night here it should be no more than an inconvenient camping trip for me on the other side of the coin if I've left a decent game playing with someone and I have the kit items with me and something happens where I stumble and hurt myself to the point where maybe I can't get out on my own

and I have to wait for help if I've left that game plan I shouldn't be there any more than 72 hours two maybe four days before someone comes to rescue me and if I can signal for rescue properly if I'm in an area where I have cell phone service and I can call someone or if I have the proper kit and kept mentality again it's inconvenient painful camping it's not truly a survival scenario because it's not necessarily life and death unless that injury has caused something to happen that's going to cause imminent death I have cut something a ruptured something that's going to cause internal bleeding or I have a compound fracture with an exposed bone that's prominent to infection something is going to have to be dramatic to make any survival scenario so I think when people say I'm building a survival kit when I'm building my survival bag that's a misnomer because in a survival situation you probably aren't going to have that in the truest sense of the word now are you building an emergency kit absolutely and the 10 piece kit was really set up to be an emergency kit not a survival kit and I've been guilty myself of calling it a survival kit I've issued pamphlets in waterproof format and let them be called building a survival kit without a doubt I'm guilty of the same thing but I think that we have to think back in get to the root cause or the root of the issue in the root of the issue is if something is happened to be this so traumatic that I am in a survival scenario I'm more than likely not going to have my kit or something very dramatic as that doesn't happen to me I've been attacked by a bear and you know things have been destroyed I've been injured that's a survival type scenario to me inconvenient camping is completely different and that's what your emergency kit is for so going back to what I think you should have any survival scenario I think you need to understand that what you have on your person all the time when you walk out of the house to go to the woods or to go to recreative whatever the case may be that is your survival kit and you could be bushcrafting you could be camping you could be her you could be hiking you could be doing a lot of things but it can turn into a survival scenario in the blink of an eye but understand that you may not have the complete contents of your kit in a true survival scenario okay so we just kind of move this stuff out of the way here get myself some hotdogs or um so for the sake of our discussion we need to understand and get it clear in our mind what a survival scenario really is and how do we prepare for that scenario and I think that we need to understand that in an extreme emergency I like a little bit of chocolate with my water we have to understand that what's on our person is probably what we're going to have in an extreme emergency so thinking about that what do we put our person or carry our person on a daily basis that will help affect our survivability and that it will help control our core body temperature and take care of us and take care of our needs for the short-term if we've left a good game plan most of the time you should have a knife strapped to your hip so the likelihood of losing that knife are very very slim you should have a ferrocerium rod in your pocket you should have some type of folding knife in your pocket you should probably have some type of cordage or length of cordage in your pocket even if it's a short length and those types of things will help you in the long run for a true survival scenario but we also need to understand that the likelihood of being in a true survival scenario and like I said we threw that throw that word around so easily it's probably less than being struck by lightning if we are prepared if we make sure that we have the proper kit we use due diligence when traveling through the wilderness we've left a proper game plan again barring traumatic injury or an incident of some sort we're probably not going to get ourselves in a survival scenario and that comes

back to training and we need to make sure that we always train so that we avoid survival scenarios unless they are unavoidable obviously if you trip and fall over something and you break your femur and you have an exposed bone from a compound fracture sticking through the skin you've got bigger problems than what you kind your kit so understand that about what a real survival scenario boils down to now the other discussion I want to have as far as survival goes is primitive skills there have been a lot of discussion lately on places like around the cabin and we'll talk about that again more in just a few minutes like I said about the importance of primitive skills and knowing primitive skills in a survival scenario and I would say this I think that primitive skills are very important to understand in to whom and what I'm talking about primitive skills I'm talking about everything from improvising a knife to making fire to building shelter to disinfecting water anything that I have to use natural material to recreate in my mind is a primitive skill and that's my definition of a primitive skill if I recreate a modern item with something from natural material that becomes a primitive skill so it's good to understand that as well now if I've got my knife strapped to my person and I have a Ferro rod in my pocket and probably a lighter in my pocket especially if I'm a smoker the chances of me needing primitive fire are slim to none does that mean it's never going to happen and I shouldn't own the skill absolutely not but what it does mean is that there's other skills that I could better spend my time learning and understanding and becoming more knowledgeable in than primitive fire because I shouldn't be in a position where I have to make primitive fire unless somebody steals my pants and that's not going to happen so I shouldn't say it's not going to happen it's way way unlikely to happen that you would be caught without your pants and that's what would have to happen to lose your knife and your Ferro rod and your lighter if somebody we have to steal you or remove your pants from your person okay so I'm sorry I'm getting off here a little bit and getting on a tangent I apologize about that this is a subject that's very near and dear to my heart right now in my mind the most important primitive skill and this is going to be a very controversial subject if you asked 9 out of 10 people even people that know a lot about the wilderness if you asked 9 out of 10 people what's the most important primitive skill that you can possibly know 95% of them would tell you fire and I disagree with that the reason I disagree with that is for exactly what I said for me to lose the ability to make fire much easier than friction fire would mean that I have to have lost my Ferro rod and lost a lighter the Ferro rod is going to work wet or dry no matter what the lighter is susceptible to moisture and cold and running out of fluid but a ferrocerium rods got 20,000 strikes in it if I've left a good game plan we're talking three four days I'm going to be able to affect fire if I've trained myself and spent the dirt time properly to learn what tender sources are combustible what to carry on my person in my pack to help affect combustion and things of that nature shelter is the one thing that's very hard for me to guarantee now container I may not be able to put a container on my body although I could strap a water bottle to my belt but then I'm walking around looking like Batman I've got a belt pouch a canteen a knife a multi-tool you know I've got a little bit too much around my waist and it starts to get ridiculous in the Eastern woodlands there's plenty of water if I'm only going to be there for 72 hours to 4 days if I've left a good game plan I know what's going on and it helped us on the way or help is going to come I'm going to drink whatever I have to or not drink at all for at least a couple of days and that's not going to hurt me I can go three days without water depending on the severity of the environment situation without too much detriment so I'd rather drink the water if I find a source no matter what it is even if the mud puddle then to not have water

the container is an issue in an emergency kit but in a true survival scenario may not be such a big issue because I can find something to drink if I have to in the Eastern woodlands now I may not be able to crawl to a water source very easily if I'm injured but again injuries are a whole different form of survival scenario and your well being and sulfate is the number one paramount thing you have to think about in any scenario so if you have a container and you have a canteen of water then you're going to be that much better off but a shelter is the one thing that I can't really effectively carry on my person that I can guarantee for the most part is not going to be lost if I have my 10 piece kit in my backpack and sitting in a canoe and a canoe spills over chances are I'm not going to have the contents of that pack so I'm going to have again what's on my body now even if I am diligent enough to carry a trash bag in my pocket every day which I can tell you now I'm not and 90% of the people out there probably or not at the best-case scenario I have rain gear I have a temporary tarp or I have a ground cloth without fire I still cannot control my body's core temperature very easily in a cold-weather environment so I need that knowledge of how to construct a shelter from natural material and for that reason alone I think that shelter is your most important primitive skill that you can possibly own above all else because that will protect your body's core temperature and that is the one thing that you cannot carry on your person very easily effectively you can carry it in your kit when you combine the fire because you can carry emergency Bibby's emergency space blankets all of those types of things but if I have my kit on my body chances are I've got a lot better shelter than my emergency gear emergency gear and the 10 piece kit was centered around pretty people going out into the wild for day hikes and things of that nature where they're not carrying a full-blown backpack that has a huge scimitar pin or an oilskin tarp in a sleeping bag and all of those goodies that you would use if you planned on being out there right the 10 piece kit was set up as an emergency kit for I wasn't planning on getting stuck out here but I am now I've gotten these 10 pieces of kit to suffice me until I get rescued and many of them are geared toward signaling for rescue fire multicolored bandanas in orange space blankets that are orange all of those things that are headlights that will flash a compass that has a mirror on so I can signal for rescue lots of things in the tempies kit are geared towards signaling for rescue and the 10 piece kit was developed to be able to meet all of your short-term needs but not necessarily your long-term needs and that's the difference that I think people don't get with survival scenarios people talk about wilderness living as a survival scenario it's not if you're in a wilderness living scenario you probably chose to be there or something happened to you so traumatic and so out of this world that was a one-in-a-billion shot that had ever happened to you a plane crashed and you survived in the middle of the mountain somewhere and now you've got to live until someone comes to find you still yeah your best bet is to stay near the wreckage because that's what they're going to find first yes you may be there longer than 3 or 4 days you may have to live primitively off the land in some aspects but again I say shelter is the most important option in that scenario to be able to keep yourself sheltered from the environment and be able to start a fire and be able to obtain drinkable water sorry I got off on a tangent guys but I wanted to make sure that everybody understood my mentality when it comes to true survival scenarios the 10 piece emergency kit were the 10 C's of survivability and long-term sustainability which is what we're talking about with this cabin I've chose to be here I brought a supplies to be sustainable that is not a survival scenario if I go 5 miles into the wilderness area and I check in my trapline I fall through the ice and I'm not properly prepared now it's a survival scenario that's the difference so what I want to tell you guys was there is a show called around the cabin on the internet you can go to WWE and cabin calm it is a live posted show through Skype where guests are on the show and they answer questions in a chatroom and you can sign into that log into the chatroom very easily all you have to do is enter a name in there and pull it and select either Java or HTML or whatever you or flash and it will let you into that chat room and you can ask questions in that chat room of the hosts of the show on Wednesday night of this week myself and Chris Kane from Chris Kane survival in the UK are going to host that show and will be there to answer questions and talk about and discuss survival that's what we're going to be there for us to discuss the things that we talked about today and what our mentality and feelings are on survival survival situations what it really means to be in survival mode and the gear kit that you're going to have and what you're going to have to utilize in that situation so I would encourage you to go to WWE and Calvin com sign in on Wednesday night I believe it's at 8 o'clock for Dave Canterbury and Chris Kane from Chris Kane survival in the UK will be on that show live you come in there ask us questions have discussions with us you know any questions that you would want to ask on a YouTube video that I may not be able to answer in two words or three words or sentence because of restrictions I can answer in two or three paragraphs and so can Chris Kane on this live broadcast so I invite you to join us eight o'clock on Wednesday night around the cabin com rich the ridge runner runs that site it's a very very nice site I would encourage you to go look around there anyway and see some of the other hosted shows and events that are on there my instructor Jamie Burleigh has a weekly radio show a weekly live video broadcast show on there every Sunday night at 9 o'clock I was on there with him last night very enjoyable show very good way to get the discussions rolling a lot better than discussion boards and forms in a lot of ways because you get immediate answers to your questions and you see what other people are talking about at the same time I'm Dave Canterbury with Pathfinder school I thank you for joining me for this video I'm sorry for bored you guys I got a little bit so box but I appreciate everything you do for me for my school for my family for all my sponsored affiliates instructors and friends and I'll be back to another video soon as I can thanks guys

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