Awareness - Animal Forms & Shape Shifting

[wildernessWOODELF]

wow! That kid is rad

That's how I'd like my (future) son to turn out

[slatan420]

Fantastic.

[primitiveskills]

Thanks! Dakota is quite shy, and his Dyslexia prevents him from experienceing a lot of success in school, but in the woods, he shines. We're using the strategies in this vid to develop intuitive tracking skills in our adult as well as our kids programs.

[jmarcharsh]

Another great vid - He is one talented young instructor.

[MagneticSeer]

hahahahahah somehow i loved it

[whirv]

this is great

[ChillMB]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You go lil brother. Watch yourself out int he woods though runnin around like an animal, you liable to get shot,trapped or soemthing.

[hug103]

I enjoyed this. :)

Good job!

[ForgotenButNotLost]

A perfect example of empowered youth. While our culture tells kids to stay indoors and play video games, he is out actually interacting with reality in a way that will leave him with the wisdom bred of experience and none of the insecurity that results from a lack of sense of place. His confidence and sense of relationship is the most valuable skill one could ever have in a survival situation. He's his own being, and that's what we have lost more than anything, and it's killing us.

[Kristinou1999]

This video is an excellent view into what it means to be an aware human. Putting yourself into the mindset of an animal would obviously assist one in tracking that animal. How best to put yourself in that mindset than to move like one? I plan on teaching these forms to adults and children alike who need to expand their outdoor awareness. I look forward to researching the movements of as many animals as possible in order to expand my tracking and animal knowledge. Thanks for the inspiration!

[Clydester2]

Another quality production from MPSS! Keep up the great work!! The movements are very well done, and I plan to use this in my classroom soon (we just finished up a study of animal gaits). Thanks for sharing your skills!

[NickSpadaro]

This is not something you do when you are in a survival situation. This is a training tool you use at home when your learning the basics of animal movement. Many of the types of animal movement make no sense to a novice tracker because we walk upright(Bound Gallop Trot Lope ext) For some track patterns youll notice the back tracks are actually in front! This is hard to conceptualize without actually doing it. Also, there is no "animal forms class" it's just one tool used in our tracking classes.

[GardenMonk]

Internal feeling (bhava) is a key component of moving with heightened awareness and body control. Thanks for sharing your creative applications of your wilderness training.

[believingit111]

This is a great video that shows how children can be immersed in the nature world to understand how animals think and feel. Which then teaches them to understand them in a better way which ultimately leads them to become better humans, trackers and hunters. In time, this boy will be a master hunter and won't need to do this exercise to track, he will already have this skill integrated in him.

Good job Dakota!

[rabidmonkeygirl]

Less then xtremetrainingsystem, w/ better results & the added ben. of being able 2 read tracks over a wide variety of strata. We use what works. We have kids in our programs getting hnd drill at 8 yrs old, and trailing in leaves. They dn't have kungfu training. Our mil. groups r stalking trgets for kids prgrams. If you have better methds of training yng, we've learned over our 20+ yrs, we still have much 2 learn. whatchya got? The kids who made these r reading the comments, so keep it clean.

[deltafour1212]

Yes I do actually. But hey, whatever works.

More power to you

[primitiveskills]

In this kids series, put together by kids ranging from 8 to 13, we are sharing the skills used by hunter-gatherers for raising master trackers. Adults use this strategy in sports & bussiness all the time. Right, due to entropy, you couldn't keep up as an adult. For increasing the learning curve in young, or even in short doses as a young adult, nothing is more effective. "Drills" attempt this, but without the internal envisioning they fall short. Don't think like the deer, become the deer.

[redins7248]

Wow he got the movements down!!!!!

[dlvmark]

WTH????????

[primitiveskills]

This is part two of our three part kids series. This particular approach to learning tracking ha been used the word over and is now being applied by profesional athletes, special operators, and the corporate world to train, compete, and obtain goals. Last in the serie will deal with lost kids in the Maine woods, then it's back to the mored aged audience with winter survival skills. Patience, we haven't lost our bearing, just broadening our audience.

[masn1978]

That was cool

[hobbexp]

he have it in his boddy,

[hellerZauberer]

? I'm rather confused. I thought this was a survival chanel, not an amature kung fu thing.

[primitiveskills]

Animal Forms are used t train the young to learn via pluging in their whole body in to the experience. This can be applied to all skill sets, but most obvious applications are the tracking art (vital for hunting and trapping) and self defense. Both of these are taught at the school as part of the broad spectrum suit of survival skills. As a survival school, this is our first vid on teaching and learning skills of native cultures.

[hellerZauberer]

Hmm... I'll have to trust you on that one. All your other vids i've seen seem to be good though, so there must just be something i'm missing.