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Tom Brown Tracker School
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mystical woodsman
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I would say that if you are scientific, you will be bored for a large part of the instructions... however, if you are spiritual, you will learn that tracking has a LARGE part to deal with becoming what you are tracking, per se. His classes are deeply ingrained with philosophy of becoming one with your environment, so don't let that slip by as empty rhetoric. When you track, you need to listen to the birds and insects... and scent. They will guide you more than scientific study of prints.
While you're at it, check out On Point Tactical:
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Noble.
While you're at it, check out On Point Tactical:
http://www.onpointtactical.com/
Noble.
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Not something I know a great deal about but when I think of him and his school three distinct caveats ring out to me:
1] The spiritual component I know the spiritual or faith thing brings some types a feeling of comfort and warmth but back in the real world the last thing that is of any use is a big bunch of task irrelevant processing. When the chips are down I need people to be able to sustain focused attention on the matter in hand and not venture off into fantasy land either on the whole or through mere embellishment. As a minimum it guilds the lily.
2] I recall an advocate taking a major beating at The Swamp - Essentially, although there had been claims of him finding numerous lost folk and various SAR related stuff, there was no documented evidence from within the SAR community. That was particularly conspicuous as those that had him up for pillory operate within the SAR community. I got tired of the thread because it started to generate more heat than light so I bailed, and so I don't know how it ultimately resolved. I just recall my BS detector starting to hum.
3] That silly knife.
1] The spiritual component I know the spiritual or faith thing brings some types a feeling of comfort and warmth but back in the real world the last thing that is of any use is a big bunch of task irrelevant processing. When the chips are down I need people to be able to sustain focused attention on the matter in hand and not venture off into fantasy land either on the whole or through mere embellishment. As a minimum it guilds the lily.
2] I recall an advocate taking a major beating at The Swamp - Essentially, although there had been claims of him finding numerous lost folk and various SAR related stuff, there was no documented evidence from within the SAR community. That was particularly conspicuous as those that had him up for pillory operate within the SAR community. I got tired of the thread because it started to generate more heat than light so I bailed, and so I don't know how it ultimately resolved. I just recall my BS detector starting to hum.
3] That silly knife.
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