Dynamic Archery

   Dynamic Archery is the practise of shooting arrows while crouching, walking or running. For most people, the sport of archery consists of standing still and shooting your arrow with all the time in the world to perfect your shot.
   Can you do that while someone else is shooting back at you? Can you aim correctly after running through the woods to get a better shooting position?

Medical Kits

   Whether you are in the woods or in town it is important to have medical training 
and a good medical kit available.

   During our Basic Bushcraft course we discuss how important it is to always have a small survival tin with you at all times. You can make them small enough that you forget about it somewhere in one of your pockets. You should have one of these kits in every jacket, jumper, and coat that you own.
   The same preparation is important with a medical kit. You don't need a large kit containing massive trauma supplies. Put a few plasters, tablets, steristrips and an alcohol wipes into your bushcraft kit or a separate medical kit.

Jedi Training

   There was a comment on the Modern Yamabushi blog about why Western culture has a fascination with the idea of the warrior monk found in different forms in books, TV and films.

   In my time with the Tracker School in the states I noticed that a majority of the hundreds of students who come to the courses have this need for the mystic, austere and divergent experiences. They are usually ensconced deeply into the cubical prisons found in modern corporate society. They profoundly feel that there is something superficial about reality. They are looking for something to wake them up, to show them different options and to find other options in life.

IPNA students in Chile earthquake

   Two students who attended bushcraft and medical courses last fall experienced several earthquakes in the past weeks while backpacking around South America.

   They were camping in very remote areas of Chile close to the epicenter of the earthquake. Luckily they were not injured. They were camping in the Circuito Condores National Park. There were landslides close by but they were unharmed.