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Is anyone else interested or qualified in Survival Skills and Techniques? Just thought it would be interesting to see if anyone else had an interest in this area. I been messing around with this kind of survival stuff for years cos I grew up around a military training area and loads of natural landscapes. I'm looking to go on Combat Survival Courses when im in the Paras, and maybe even qualify as a Survival Instructor if I can. Anyone else got any plans or views about this kind of stuff?

Mal

All i know is that survival knowledge is invaluble, just ask my mate Ray if you dont belive me!

lol oh aye, I would ask Ray Mears if I could like. Got quite a few books and videos by him. Hes got some good info here n there, well worth reading if your into that kind of thing. Prefer going out and doing it myself than reading it thou. Good stuff, even thou alot of people find it boring. I find it very interesting myself,

Mal

Theres always 10 minute long programs everynight on Channel 2 with Ray on, pretty good ones too.

Darn m8 thanks alot for that. I never watch TV no more so dont know these things. Im deffo gonna start watching them. How to build a woodland shelter is on tonight in about 30min. Gonna start taping them. Already know how to make a shelter, but there pretty interesting. I recon other ppl should watch em. Only 10minutes, but chances are just that tiny bit of knowledge could one day go a very long way and possibly save your life,

Mal

Mal

Just join up and you will learn all about survival training and much more. (including the Queens English, m8?! is this a mobile phone? I do not think so mate)

Artist

I wouldn't really call Ray Mears a survival instructor (in his own word's he has said he dosen't teach survival).

Thr Jungle Leaders out in Brunei had met him a few weeks before i went out. He was charging £3000 per head (Ex flight's/Hotels/Equip') to teach the public how to live for 4 days in the local area.

He gave a lecture to a survival course that was going on around the same time and gave his stance as a teacher of Bushcraft rather than survival.

Dosen't mean he hasn't got some exceptional skill's (and i wouldn't mind having him in the group if i were in a survival situation). But survival is not his specific area of teaching.

gone

When i join RM I'm really looking forward to the survival training

all those programs by Ray Mears and other fascinates me

Chris wrote:When i join RM I'm really looking forward to the survival training

Yea, after reading simons book it doesnt sound so cheerfull

Besides that i always find ray mears programmes excellent, not sure if its applicable to myself but it mya come in handy some time.

Jason Bourne wrote:Chris Ryan's Ultimate Survival Guide is another one that's been mentioned a few times.

Some pretty interesting stuff. Someone here mentioned that it looked like some of it had been borrowed from other sources, and i think i know what they mean, but then again how many a-z survival books do you need?

...and there's a picture of him killing a sheep too...

The only problem is that there are no pictures of all the different plants you can live off.

It would hold even more water if him and his brother were not compulsive liars.

RobT wrote:All i know is that survival knowledge is invaluble, just ask my mate Ray if you dont belive me!

Ray is the man, he's known by most of the Special Forces in the developed world, he trains the trainers.

Survival techniques interest me quite a bit. Personally i'm studying for a degree in Outdoors Education & Adventure Recreation and i'm gaining experience before setting off my Mountain Leader training course. If you ask me, the best way to develop survival skills is to go out in the sticks for a couple of days and experiment. If you can't be arsed with that, a number of companies run various survival training courses - but expect to pay through the nose.

Ray Mears certainly knows what he's doing, but when I met him he acted like a bit of a tosser. But tosser or not, the man makes for some interesting viewing!