Tom Brown question...

tarmix101 said:
I think as hollowdweller does. For me it's much more satisfying when I do it myself w/ the aid of books.
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Ditto. Another thing you might want to check into, that I have found to be informative, are the Hoods Woods DVD's and, if you can find them, the Naked into the Wilderness videos. I've also managed to find quite a few old/antique books on a certain auction site on Native American survival skills that were great.
 
aaronjayl said:
Ditto. Another thing you might want to check into, that I have found to be informative, are the Hoods Woods DVD's and, if you can find them, the Naked into the Wilderness videos. I've also managed to find quite a few old/antique books on a certain auction site on Native American survival skills that were great.
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Ya know, I have been to the Hoodlums forum and want to get the DVD collection someday. Right now I need to finish up some reading before I can justify buying the DVD collation. I still haven't' read Bushcraft fully:eek: Thanks for the reminder. I forgot about those vids.
 
tarmix101 said:
I think as hollowdweller does. For me it's much more satisfying when I do it myself w/ the aid of books.
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Ditto-ditto. That's all I have done to this point. I tend to not read the skills-type books cover-to-cover, but instead use them like encyclopedias, reading up on what info I want to knowor use. I often compare the same topic from different books, and try different things to see what suits me best. Although I'll admit I learn faster when someone actually shows me how to do something.
 
I agree with what a few of you are saying here, I do the same, don't necessarily read an entire collection of work, to learn from it, typically work on a topic by topic basis.
If I think I need to work on my fire making skills, I'll plow through websites and information to try to find the specific things that help me, on that particular topic.
 
SkunkWerX said:
I agree with what a few of you are saying here, I do the same, don't necessarily read an entire collection of work, to learn from it, typically work on a topic by topic basis.
If I think I need to work on my fire making skills, I'll plow through websites and information to try to find the specific things that help me, on that particular topic.
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I found these helpful:

http://www.primitiveways.com/pt-bowfire.html

http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~madms/fires.html

And not to stray too far OT, i'll include this link:

http://wildwoodsurvival.com/survival/fire/bowdrill/pmoc/basicbowdrill.html
 
Hey all. I thought this was an interesting thread since it dealt with a lot of the questions I was asking myself when I first became serious about wilderness survival.

Quite a few years back I was looking for some good martial arts seminars in the West Virgnia area. Being a long-time fan of Ninjutsu, I found a great seminar listed on the WV and VA border. I did some research and found out that the men holding the retreat, Doug Norman and his buddy Roy, had been influenced heavily by Mr. Tom Brown Jr. (at this time I had picked up "Tracker" and was reading it). I was very surprised to have made this interesting connection.

I took the seminar which was for basic wilderness survival and had a chance to talk long hours with the teacher. He had stories of the tracker school, Tom Brown, and even some stories about his Beck WSK, which he kept on his side throughout the seminar and I drooled over. I got the impression that Tom Brown had made some huge claims during Mr. Norman's classes, and that
he and his friend Roy did not believe Brown could do things he said. However, after seeing Brown in action, their doubts had been cleared. One specific thing they mentioned was tracking a mouse over concrete or rocks..haha! I am not sure what they saw Brown do in this process, but they both seemed to think it worked, although they both laughed about it as well. Unfortunately, they did not reveal what he did, or how he did it.

I don't know if this helps or means anything, but I thought I would throw the story in just for laughs. Here is a link to Doug's Website in case you would ever want to speak to him. He is a heck of a guy! http://members.cox.net/ninpo1/instructor.htm

Take care -Damion
 
Hey Guys...

Shotgunner writes:


shotgunner11 said:
From what I understand, TB spends very little time teaching anymore. I have even heard people say they never saw him during the class.
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He wasn't there, or No one Saw Him ???

Ohhhh... He was There.....Just No one saw him....

You know that treestump out back behind the barn that everyone pisses on......????

Bingo!

Yaaa he was there alright!!!

:)

ttyle

Eric
O/ST
 
He wasn't there in a "typical" sense, but his spirit was in the paper that the notes were jotted on, in the mud smeared onto the faces of the students, in the sticks used to make the shelters and start the friction fires for you see, he is the spirit that flows through all things.


No, I've never heard anyone say he wasn't there at all but that he spends little time with the classes. From what I understand, he lives on the property and spends the bulk of his time on other business ventures.

Keep in mind, I know none of this first hand, it's just what I've been told.
 
Ok...everyone has read the Chuck Norris list of amazing feats, such as "Chuck Norris doesn't sleep...he waits" or "When Chuck Norris was born he round house kicked the doctor in the face and shortly after grew a beard"; well, we should start one of these for Tom Brown. I have nothing against him, but I just think it would be hilarious. I'll start it off with a couple:

1.Tom Brown once saved the entire earth, including Tom Cruise, from alien invasion, without even being seen. He sneaked up on the alien ships and smacked them on the rear (aka. ufo smacking), diverting their attention on him instead of earths people. He thew his tracker knife into the eye of the ship, in turn detroying all ships. We know this story as "War of the Worlds".

2. Tom Brown Jr. eats Chuck Norris flakes for breakfast. This makes him not only silent, but also deadly.
 
Never met Mr. Brown. I'm checking out the Standard Course at his school in a couple of weeks. As for his books, I like the guides but the novels didn't really move me. I think of them as didactic fiction. Thought it would be a fun and interesting way to spend a vacation. I'd be happy to post my impressions of the school when I return.

Diablero

P.S. I think the UFO smacking is taught in a more advanced course.
 
shotgunner11 said:
No, I've never heard anyone say he wasn't there at all but that he spends little time with the classes. From what I understand, he lives on the property and spends the bulk of his time on other business ventures.
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Perhaps he is becoming too involved with trying to build a case against us.
He may be best served to focus on what brought him the fame and position. :D
 
From what I've been reading, he may be best served to just attend law school and handle all his various litigation for himself, seems thats his latest venture, suing people who try to start up in one of his fields. Knives, schools, writing... seems like anything he has ever done, he wants locked.
 
Thanks all for the posts, ive self taught or learned most of the crafts he teaches, i just wanted to learn them from "the man" rather than boyscouts, and personal exprience. IE so if somone asks how i learned something i can say "tom brown taught this" rather than, "this one time in the woods I..." you get the idea
;)
 
As a former boy scout, a lifelong outdoorsman and hunter, I can tell you that the best stories always begin..."and there I was..." ;)
 
darkestthicket said:
Thanks all for the posts, ive self taught or learned most of the crafts he teaches, i just wanted to learn them from "the man" rather than boyscouts, and personal exprience. IE so if somone asks how i learned something i can say "tom brown taught this" rather than, "this one time in the woods I..." you get the idea
;)
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If thats your goal, you can get very high quality training from the Tracker schools, it just may not come from the man himself.

I'm not trying to bash the mans schools, but as far as I'm concerned, you can get just as good of instruction from other, cheaper sources.
 
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