I took a tracking class by them in North Carolina. Good skill for tracking lost or unarmed people. Tracking an armed person is a good way to get unalived while you’re focused on spore
A really fun training game I used to do as a teen was to get a group of friends together, find a nice large chunk of Wildland, give one or two of the group an hour headstart. Then the rest of the group tracks and closes the distance. Like extreme hide and seek. We ended up teaching ourselves allot of the techniques shown in this video.
SD is a phenomenal tracker, and anyone would befit from attending his course. That being said maybe individual Agents took his class and retired Agents did teach at TTOS. But I don't think SD ever got paid to teach the BP. The Border Patrol was tracking and teaching others to track, include the military long before SD immigrated to the US. It all just predates the internet, so people either don't know or pretend it didn't happen.
The Rhodesian SAS guy Peter refers to in the video is David Scott-Donelan. Both Scott-Donelan and Peter Kerr came out to Okinawa around 2003-04 timeframe to train 3rd Recon Bn and some of the SF types on Torii Station.
I remember, I think it was 1981/82 while stationed at FT. Bragg, being sent to JOTC at FT.Sherman Panama. It was their jungle operation jungle survival school, man that was a long time ago. I believe we parachuted at the French Canal. Brings back memories. During Grenada Invasion, I was sent out a couple times to do some tracking. I sometimes go out on my remote property and track animals, just for fun, keep my skills up. But if I dont go out for a while, I overlook things, realized i have to sit down, slow down,focus, and remember, attention to detail.
Glad to see interest growing in tracking please do more on the subject! Would love to take a deep dive into more of the Psychology aspect, presenter was great.
Holy crap thanks for making this I have always thought I was ok at tracking foot steps that how we find friends when they get separated in the woods from us here in south FL but learned a ton more from this!
Good intro. You can incorporate a lot of this into property defense, if you’re securing a large property. Go figure out the lines of drift in your property, look for and identify spoor traps, on those lines of drift. If there’s not one, make one, by setting a small obstacle across the line and prepping the ground on the other side of the obstacle, for tracks. Cellular game cams are good too
Another tip I picked up from a Tactical Tracking Class: Every 2nd or 3rd set of prints, use your measuring stick/weapon/etc and do a 270 arc with the device and have everyone look at the arc to look for possible hides or places to hole-up. Just because a track goes in a particular direction does NOT mean that the subject is fully intent on that direction! The subject could be leading off to a place where they can obfuscate their tracks and direction, so as to go back to the hide location!
Always double back before setting up your firing position (Nightmare fuel for Tracker), in the tracking mindset it is easy to go beyond your target just to get jail raped from behind. That 270 needs to be 360
I love this! I am pretty good at tracking animals in my home environment in Maine and I got an opportunity to learn some desert tracking in Arizona but tracking people sounds exhilarating!
Greetings and Salutations Well, everyone does not have it like you do, that's why you easier to find I had that nerve cluster moved years ago 😊 Great upload, thanks
@@TacticalRifleman it's really kind of an assumption but it makes sense to me that spec ops who knows that they're being pursued by an opposing spec ops team will move differently knowing that they're being tracked. It was something that was very briefly touched on during a couple of training sessions with some army guys a few years ago.
Utilized this once when tracking a homicide suspect. the foot print detail they did in this video actually helped a great deal when it comes to speed and direction as well as the primary contact (heel vs ball of foot) to really hone in on deception of people trying to walk backwards. Great stuff and this is actually good skills to learn for both LE and Military.
First and foremost, I haven't watched the video in it's entirety. Trash is another thing that helps age some sign. I have noticed colors red and yellow fade first from labels, whether it be off a water bottle or a something plastic. Another thing I've looked at was left behind water bottles or things that held fluids. If you see the tiny specks of water or liquid at the top of a bottle, it's been there a while. But if that is not present, that bottle has been discarded very recently. One I spent a few hours apart of a tracking team, and I found a water bottle with vibrant yellow on the label and no water specks at the top, but there was a bit of water at the bottom, I figured the bottle was extremely recent. The next day we went out there and someone with a IR camera spotted who we were tracking 300 yards from where I found the bottle. They had hid under brush and slept for the night.
awesome video, the Czech border guard under communism was best, the iron curtain has a 3m sandbar from each side in middle was a 3m T shape signaling fence, and some parts were guarded with independent dogs(Czechoslovakian Wolfdog), and a few people were eaten alive. You had approximately a 10% chance of escape😎😎
Living in the country you find out who’s tire marks were in your drive! Tape your footwear up to eliminate tread marks and don’t dig your heels in 😅and never walk in a straight line or take even pace and step on hard surfaces that don’t retain a print 😊
deception technique could mean the person being tracked keeps turning around to see if his being tracked or being followed that would let the tracker know that the person being tacked might be close
This is a awesome video even just by watching it you’re 100 times better off than somebody with no knowledge at all. Thanks a lot T are you guys rock. I always learn something watching you guys exclamation
Great video! Love the effort and knowledge and time and I really appreciate it guys! Great job by the sound guy too! UA-cam - quit shadow banning these pro-American channels. This should have tens of thousands of more views.
good luck tracking me in the upper midwest! aint anything like this easy terrain in the video! i hunt deer by tracking/ stalking, more fun than baiting or hunting from a stand or blind
Different art to tracking and summoning people via abstract internet clues. It's pretty fun once you get the hang of it. Like hide-and-seek, but with consequences.
I wonder if this expert has ever been tracking a circle and realizing the person he is tracking is tracking him also. I would watch a video on those deceptive techniques. I gave a 👍ty for the education
They have a tracking school for that purpose--that's what TTOS is for. Initially through David Scott Donelan--a former Selous Scout from SA. Dude is a legend. The Army cut ties eventually because people got butt-hurt about him working for a former apartheid state. It's a small school that not a ton of soldiers get to go through, unfortunately.
New skills and TR teaching can't be beat!!😎👍👍Thanks for bringing us the best🙏🙏 I knew this was old hand for Karl, but surprised that Imri wasn't already a master like Seaux as well or is he!?🤔🧐
If you ever want to have a good laugh, train people to track squirrels. These varmints will jump from tree to tree making the track very difficult. It is like tracking cats in the woods. I take city boys hunting, while they are looking for deer tracks, I am watching for cat and bear overhead. These city boys have no idea what dangers are there until they come face to face with one. Injured targets may not leave blood, but the panicked step is easy to identify. The major thing to learn is how to cover ground without leaving an easy path for a tracker. One trick not covered is changing the track with bark, foliage, or a change in shoes.
Awesome video, skills that can be applied in hunting, and people searching. I would love to see how this could be turned into a fun game as a part of skill progression.
One point I disagree with. That’s him saying if a person is concealing their direction with what he says is a deception technique are up to no good. Maybe that some people know about this and do not want to be followed. They could be ex military. The could be a person like I say that is just aware of these things and doesn’t trust humanity, ( rightfully so ) and they prefer moving in stealth. I mean even he said in the beginning with a questionable laugh that people have evolved.
as a young army cadet (prior to my ADF service) I attended an Arustralian Army tracking course for two weeks. Amazing. However the Aboriginal trackers can jog when tracking, they're so good
What Makes You think you'd be looking for Foot prints? its to obvious fellas; Tactical Tracking is about realising Humans aren't always idiot enough to leave foot prints. Good your highlighting the basics.
By far the least available or even thought of topic in the "military enthusiast"/prepper/wannabe commando community. I checked for courses online out of curiosity (in 4 languages) and found *almost* nothing - not even for park rangers and law enforcement
I'm in hawaii. I'd love to help by being the one tracked. Spent my whole life in the mountains and jungles of Hawaii hunting and hiking. If you need runners with years of outdoors experience please contact me. All of my hunting experience is stalking and tracking. Do not sit and wait nor do I tree stand.
Out hunting once wearing an open camo jacket with bright red shirt, lady 20 yards from me, dog barking and she's yelling to her husband that something is there. Must have stared directly at me for at least a minute.
Would be much easier to learn if it was a little more condensed. Less going off on tangents of" how we used to do it " This video and a to the point video also would be very helpful.
@@bureaucratbayonet Many countries have gone through hell and bounced back. The type of hell you’re talking about is designed by your people. Regardless of how it is, the people there are resilient, tough, and they’ll overcome stronger. How do you think among the best designer perfumes come from Europe? It’s documented that Europeans used to be the worst smelling beings ever. There were queens and princesses who vowed to never wash their undies, the plague came because of filth, and incest worst than the devil. Yet, Dior, Hugo Boss, Armani, Versace, Tom Ford, and etc came out of that filth. Zimbabwe will bounce back too.
Does anyone remember that there was a show where the police or military forces chased a human while he was escaping? Does anyone remember the name of the show?
You mean to say no one down there still knows how to track? I find that hard to believe. You could go read Ab Taylors book. Even though it is for search and rescue, it covers the basics. The only big difference is having guys jump ahead to close the time distance gap. There is no magic teacher, it's all following sign. You just have to get out there and do it.
Best trackers are the Namibian Bushman. The South African military used their skills during the Bush war to track terrorists. They can track animals for days into the Namibian desert chasing an animal till it drop dead from exhaustion.
Dad said he was going to liquor store 15 years ago, finally found him. Thanks TR!
Was he at the local bar?
@@CunningOfReason yep, sitting next to my old man.
Happy to hear that so where the hell was he 😅
Hellfire i didnt even know i had brothers till i learnt this!
@@dennistate5953 it does pay to discover... or so the commercial goes.. every once in a while. ;-)
I took a tracking class by them in North Carolina. Good skill for tracking lost or unarmed people. Tracking an armed person is a good way to get unalived while you’re focused on spore
That's why trackers carry another tracker to cover their head-backs while they focus on spore.
There is a reason the military sends teams of armed scouts, not just one.
A really fun training game I used to do as a teen was to get a group of friends together, find a nice large chunk of Wildland, give one or two of the group an hour headstart. Then the rest of the group tracks and closes the distance. Like extreme hide and seek. We ended up teaching ourselves allot of the techniques shown in this video.
Awesome
I don't know if he's retired now, but Scott Donelan from Africa is one of the best trackers around. He used to teach the U.S. Border Patrol.
SD is a phenomenal tracker, and anyone would befit from attending his course. That being said maybe individual Agents took his class and retired Agents did teach at TTOS. But I don't think SD ever got paid to teach the BP. The Border Patrol was tracking and teaching others to track, include the military long before SD immigrated to the US. It all just predates the internet, so people either don't know or pretend it didn't happen.
The Rhodesian SAS guy Peter refers to in the video is David Scott-Donelan. Both Scott-Donelan and Peter Kerr came out to Okinawa around 2003-04 timeframe to train 3rd Recon Bn and some of the SF types on Torii Station.
I wouldn't put that on my resume if I was him.
i personally got trained by David Scott-Donelan in South Africa
I remember, I think it was 1981/82 while stationed at FT. Bragg, being sent to JOTC at FT.Sherman Panama.
It was their jungle operation jungle survival school, man that was a long time ago.
I believe we parachuted at the French Canal.
Brings back memories.
During Grenada Invasion, I was sent out a couple times to do some tracking.
I sometimes go out on my remote property and track animals, just for fun, keep my skills up.
But if I dont go out for a while, I overlook things, realized i have to sit down, slow down,focus, and remember, attention to detail.
Glad to see interest growing in tracking please do more on the subject! Would love to take a deep dive into more of the Psychology aspect, presenter was great.
You got it!
Holy crap thanks for making this I have always thought I was ok at tracking foot steps that how we find friends when they get separated in the woods from us here in south FL but learned a ton more from this!
I hate how it took only the first 30 seconds for this to be the coolest video I ever seen
Good intro. You can incorporate a lot of this into property defense, if you’re securing a large property. Go figure out the lines of drift in your property, look for and identify spoor traps, on those lines of drift. If there’s not one, make one, by setting a small obstacle across the line and prepping the ground on the other side of the obstacle, for tracks. Cellular game cams are good too
Tracking humans with a working dog works best for me. 🤷🏻♂️🐺
Another tip I picked up from a Tactical Tracking Class: Every 2nd or 3rd set of prints, use your measuring stick/weapon/etc and do a 270 arc with the device and have everyone look at the arc to look for possible hides or places to hole-up. Just because a track goes in a particular direction does NOT mean that the subject is fully intent on that direction! The subject could be leading off to a place where they can obfuscate their tracks and direction, so as to go back to the hide location!
Always double back before setting up your firing position (Nightmare fuel for Tracker), in the tracking mindset it is easy to go beyond your target just to get jail raped from behind. That 270 needs to be 360
Awesome stuff. I was lucky enough to do course taught by Peter and the Rhodesian he was mentioning. Great skill and super useful.
Cool, thanks!
Definitely one of the best demonstrations and explanation of tracking very informative
Glad you think so!
I would love to see another video like this one I feel like I have learned so much awesome job everyone 👍👍
More to come
I love this! I am pretty good at tracking animals in my home environment in Maine and I got an opportunity to learn some desert tracking in Arizona but tracking people sounds exhilarating!
Tracking aka stalking
If she's "butchy in her stride" ...Ha Ha!
The best search and rescue and military tracker in North America and probably the world is Pat Howard in northern New Mexico. Cool video.
Greetings and Salutations
Well, everyone does not have it like you do, that's why you easier to find
I had that nerve cluster moved years ago 😊
Great upload, thanks
My buddy is a border patrol agent out in the mountains east of San Diego. He does this everyday.
Had a brother stationed Chula Vista. those hills are some tough terrain.
It's amazing the things you can learn from playing hide n' seek as a kid. .
Karl take it easy on those old knees. I could hear them scream all the way across the country.
Good luck on your recovery.
Excellent video, now for the counter-tracking techniques
Great idea!
@@TacticalRifleman it's really kind of an assumption but it makes sense to me that spec ops who knows that they're being pursued by an opposing spec ops team will move differently knowing that they're being tracked.
It was something that was very briefly touched on during a couple of training sessions with some army guys a few years ago.
dont play hide and seek with this guy, he plays for keeps
This is a great video. Reminds me of all the nonfiction I've read about stories of expert trackers.
Awesome video so much info packed into a short time. I love these practical videos can't wait for the next installment.
More to come!
Utilized this once when tracking a homicide suspect. the foot print detail they did in this video actually helped a great deal when it comes to speed and direction as well as the primary contact (heel vs ball of foot) to really hone in on deception of people trying to walk backwards. Great stuff and this is actually good skills to learn for both LE and Military.
Thanks for watching and thank you for your service. TR
First and foremost, I haven't watched the video in it's entirety. Trash is another thing that helps age some sign. I have noticed colors red and yellow fade first from labels, whether it be off a water bottle or a something plastic. Another thing I've looked at was left behind water bottles or things that held fluids. If you see the tiny specks of water or liquid at the top of a bottle, it's been there a while. But if that is not present, that bottle has been discarded very recently. One I spent a few hours apart of a tracking team, and I found a water bottle with vibrant yellow on the label and no water specks at the top, but there was a bit of water at the bottom, I figured the bottle was extremely recent. The next day we went out there and someone with a IR camera spotted who we were tracking 300 yards from where I found the bottle. They had hid under brush and slept for the night.
awesome video, the Czech border guard under communism was best, the iron curtain has a 3m sandbar from each side in middle was a 3m T shape signaling fence, and some parts were guarded with independent dogs(Czechoslovakian Wolfdog), and a few people were eaten alive. You had approximately a 10% chance of escape😎😎
If Peter had anymore energy, he could power a city 😳
Tracking humans is way easier Then tracking wild game… From my experience been hunting my entire life...
One thing not mentioned is a limp can identified and really stands out.
Can a really good tracker foil other trackers' abilities and thereby move without detection?
There are tricks of the trade. If you know what to look for, it is easier to hide it
Well yes. The reasons American slaves went through rivers and swamps was to avoid leaving footprints.
Living in the country you find out who’s tire marks were in your drive! Tape your footwear up to eliminate tread marks and don’t dig your heels in 😅and never walk in a straight line or take even pace and step on hard surfaces that don’t retain a print 😊
A good skill to have 🐸🔱
You can picture also some tracking-countertracking skills as frogman bro.
deception technique could mean the person being tracked keeps turning around to see if his being tracked or being followed that would let the tracker know that the person being tacked might be close
This is a awesome video even just by watching it you’re 100 times better off than somebody with no knowledge at all. Thanks a lot T are you guys rock. I always learn something watching you guys exclamation
Glad you enjoyed it!
If the footprints are running away from me i know its a girl
Great video! Love the effort and knowledge and time and I really appreciate it guys! Great job by the sound guy too! UA-cam - quit shadow banning these pro-American channels. This should have tens of thousands of more views.
Much appreciated!
good luck tracking me in the upper midwest! aint anything like this easy terrain in the video! i hunt deer by tracking/ stalking, more fun than baiting or hunting from a stand or blind
Just don't tell everything.. could be making better criminals.. something to build off of. Would love to take an indeapth class. ..
let's get this gentlemen out to the SERE Challenge!
Different art to tracking and summoning people via abstract internet clues.
It's pretty fun once you get the hang of it.
Like hide-and-seek, but with consequences.
I wonder if this expert has ever been tracking a circle and realizing the person he is tracking is tracking him also. I would watch a video on those deceptive techniques. I gave a 👍ty for the education
Good question! I will add it to the video idea list. Thanks for watching, TR
What if the U.S. Military had human trackers on the field?
They have a tracking school for that purpose--that's what TTOS is for. Initially through David Scott Donelan--a former Selous Scout from SA. Dude is a legend. The Army cut ties eventually because people got butt-hurt about him working for a former apartheid state. It's a small school that not a ton of soldiers get to go through, unfortunately.
Thank you for this! I wanted to take a tracking course through Greenside Tactical but I need more currency before I can do such
I’m only here to learn so I will never lose hide and seek with my kids every again lol
Tom Brown made a great series of books. I still struggle with judging aging tracks.
Find, Fix, Finish! Graduated 2010.
New skills and TR teaching can't be beat!!😎👍👍Thanks for bringing us the best🙏🙏 I knew this was old hand for Karl, but surprised that Imri wasn't already a master like Seaux as well or is he!?🤔🧐
Glad you enjoyed it
Who remembers the TV show about the guy who tracked you on horseback in Montana
Man Tracker! I learned a lot from that show.
If you ever want to have a good laugh, train people to track squirrels. These varmints will jump from tree to tree making the track very difficult. It is like tracking cats in the woods. I take city boys hunting, while they are looking for deer tracks, I am watching for cat and bear overhead. These city boys have no idea what dangers are there until they come face to face with one. Injured targets may not leave blood, but the panicked step is easy to identify. The major thing to learn is how to cover ground without leaving an easy path for a tracker. One trick not covered is changing the track with bark, foliage, or a change in shoes.
Kept me engaged for the whole hour!
Great video looking forward to more!
Awesome video, skills that can be applied in hunting, and people searching. I would love to see how this could be turned into a fun game as a part of skill progression.
Tactical hide and seek
Outstanding knowledge drop- Cheers!
Glad you enjoyed it!
One point I disagree with. That’s him saying if a person is concealing their direction with what he says is a deception technique are up to no good. Maybe that some people know about this and do not want to be followed. They could be ex military. The could be a person like I say that is just aware of these things and doesn’t trust humanity, ( rightfully so ) and they prefer moving in stealth. I mean even he said in the beginning with a questionable laugh that people have evolved.
I still laugh when I hear "Jungle School" in Hawaii...lol...VERY different than "real" jungle...Ft Sherman was a REAL Jungle school...
Karl's doing fancy side steps, back steps, jumping and weaving - the camera man is just laughing leaving his prints all over 😂
as a young army cadet (prior to my ADF service) I attended an Arustralian Army tracking course for two weeks. Amazing. However the Aboriginal trackers can jog when tracking, they're so good
What Makes You think you'd be looking for Foot prints? its to obvious fellas; Tactical Tracking is about realising Humans aren't always idiot enough to leave foot prints. Good your highlighting the basics.
By far the least available or even thought of topic in the "military enthusiast"/prepper/wannabe commando community. I checked for courses online out of curiosity (in 4 languages) and found *almost* nothing - not even for park rangers and law enforcement
I'm in hawaii. I'd love to help by being the one tracked. Spent my whole life in the mountains and jungles of Hawaii hunting and hiking. If you need runners with years of outdoors experience please contact me. All of my hunting experience is stalking and tracking. Do not sit and wait nor do I tree stand.
Just Google 'em!
Sounded like a Metallica song played in reverse. I back tracked my steps and found him.
Out hunting once wearing an open camo jacket with bright red shirt, lady 20 yards from me, dog barking and she's yelling to her husband that something is there. Must have stared directly at me for at least a minute.
How about doing a video about evading, possibly with dogs?
That gets into tactics, and we don’t do tactics on the open internet. Thanks for watching, TR
I'm trying to figure out why human beings are tracking me and monitoring my life like they are crazed fools!!!
Is this filmed in New Mexico? Specifically Alamagordo??
Look forward to the "How to dress a human corpse like the legend Jeffery" it's gonna be legendary
Your guest was wearing a tactical hoodie. Where can I find one?
Infrared will detect foot prints left behind for an hour, and reviel a hidden body... Especially good at night.
These guys are extremely well trained and well informed. I wouldn't like to p*ss them off😂
Good video the only part I didn't like was in the beginning when he gave clues about being a Saturday people.
This is embarrassing, I thought it said,how to be an attractive human being. Oops...🙄
I love tracking. But verbal masturbation gives me a headache. How can some one talk so much and say so little.
Humans tend to leave a lot of garbage and trash behind. Find the garbage you’ll find the tracks.
Great training
One of the Mongolian children nearly got out of the Forest, thanks for the Advice!
This class would be wonderful for attention deficit young boys to do instead of giving them drugs.
That's why I wear shoes that leave duck foot prints, throw my pesruers off.
Russians track using heat seeking missiles. It's quicker that way. 😂
Big time knife collector I stopped buying tops because of their sheaths
Somehow got unsubscribed to this channel.
Yep, everyone has and zero notifications. UA-cam hates us. Thanks for watching, hope you subscribe back. Strength and Honor, TR
Probably the Lust & Safe Space Team.
In our temporate dense forest full of ground caves and springs and streams and marshes to track person even with dogs is another story
Tracking the most dangerous animal on earth...good info.
Very interesting, but a dog would be much faster.
Would be much easier to learn if it was a little more condensed. Less going off on tangents of" how we used to do it " This video and a to the point video also would be very helpful.
Sorry about that
Take a shot every time instructor says what not! Yeaaa buddyyy!
Imri, my second favorite Jew. Loved it!!!!
I love how tv and movies make tracking some sort of mysterious magic that only a wizard would know.
At the high levels that is how some of the legendary Rhodesian trackers seemed
@@bureaucratbayonet
Zimbabwean trackers**, you want to name a country after a guy named rhodes may he rot in hell.
@@SPharaoh sounds like the country just resembles hell now
@@bureaucratbayonet
Many countries have gone through hell and bounced back. The type of hell you’re talking about is designed by your people. Regardless of how it is, the people there are resilient, tough, and they’ll overcome stronger. How do you think among the best designer perfumes come from Europe? It’s documented that Europeans used to be the worst smelling beings ever. There were queens and princesses who vowed to never wash their undies, the plague came because of filth, and incest worst than the devil. Yet, Dior, Hugo Boss, Armani, Versace, Tom Ford, and etc came out of that filth. Zimbabwe will bounce back too.
👍👍
Seems like this coulda been a 5 minute video.
Maybe on your UA-cam channel
I often double speed UA-cam videos.
How to set up an ambush against someone tracking a human that's what I'm all about
That was some good info,.....now go find a Sabe or Wolfman.
Does anyone remember that there was a show where the police or military forces chased a human while he was escaping? Does anyone remember the name of the show?
Now put carpet on their shoes and give them a tree branch to brush out 😂
Come down to the Kingsville, TX Border Station and learn us some of that human tracking. Help us get our “Got Aways”down.
You mean to say no one down there still knows how to track? I find that hard to believe. You could go read Ab Taylors book. Even though it is for search and rescue, it covers the basics. The only big difference is having guys jump ahead to close the time distance gap. There is no magic teacher, it's all following sign. You just have to get out there and do it.
Lol. He said if she’s butchy and just doesn’t care. Classic.
Best trackers are the Namibian Bushman. The South African military used their skills during the Bush war to track terrorists.
They can track animals for days into the Namibian desert chasing an animal till it drop dead from exhaustion.
What a great video!! I’ve tracked criminals. No training!! Thankfully some of the stuff I did was actually textbook!!