When I was in the Rhodesian Army in the 1970s tracking was an important factor in hunting the terrorists through the bush. The best trackers could run through the country with their heads down on the trail while the men behind them kept eyes out for any ambush. The terrorists used methods to confuse the trail also. Their first was to 'bombshell', ie everyone scatter in all directions so that it was difficult to decide who to follow. Wearing shoes on backwards was one method used. Another tactic they used if we were very close to them and as a last resort, was to strip naked and stand still inside a thorn bush. With their eyes closed, their black skin made them almost invisible inside the vegetation. The best trackers were generally the Europeans, probably because they were more motivated. Some of these trackers were outdoors men who had spent their lives hunting animals so it wasn't a big change to hunting the terrorists except that the terrorists could shoot at you, unlike the wild life.
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Years ago I helped search for a lost autistic child in Virginia. A couple thousand untrained volunteers showed up over several days with countless trained professionals with tracking dogs and helicopters and nobody found him. He eventually wandered out of the woods to a main road where he was found safe.
I've done a bit of escape and evasion and it's an art in itself. For serving forces overseas it is a vital skill behind enemy lines. For finding lost people if you're emergency services too. Cool.
yes Bjorn, you will need this skill. Not because you will have to "track missing persons" some day , but because you have to learn how to avoid being tracked and to evade Hong Weibings and Red Khmers of the new world order who will be chasing you soon in order to connect you to the matrix. Some slogans of the new normal matrix are : "no one will be left behind" and "everyone will have to participate".
If a guy knows how to track, he also gains the bonus knowledge of how to evade. And speaking of bone us...if everybody had implanted RFID chips, we could always be tracked by the Central Scrutinizor. For our own safety, of course.
Hi Bjorn. Great video as always. Tracking and how we leave tracks is a very interesting topic, and what was once an essential skill of our ancestors has now been almost lost to the majority of people. Like most things gaining knowledge is the key, and learning to read the forest / terrain will undoubtedly create a deeper connection between ourselves and the natural world around us. There is another channel I follow called The Gray Bearded Green Beret that other followers may find interesting. I am now looking forward to learning more about this. Thanks for sharing. All the best ☀️
This content is very useful, in my country there are thousands of people who dissapear due to crime organisations, the groups of mothers of the dissapeared (yes, like that song) are searching everywhere. Thanks a lot!
Tracking is fascinating. Opens up a new world when out and about and I find also makes a difference on how I move and try to leave less evidence of my travels..just for fun really.
I used to watch a show called Mantracker, there were always two people who were given a starting point and an ending point that they had to reach before Mantracker either got there first or caught the two people; It was very interesting to watch.
In Australia back in the 1870s, the Kelly Gang bushrangers used to wear sheeps wool slipons over their shoes so they couldn't be tracked by the Aboriginal trackers. They would leave almost no trace on the ground, but the Aboriginal trackers were still not fooled, such amazing trackers they were.
Norway is such a slice of heaven when it comes to Nature! I visited there in July and was blown away by its beauty! I wouldn't mind at all getting "lost" there for a while, lol! 😍
He was about 360 lbs, barefoot, and walked with a limp. He left a trail of candy wrappers and toilet paper in his wake. He was headed east towards the portapoty. He left a huge turd, marked the wall with a sharpie saying “I like big butts”, and then walked behind the bushes and well there he is fast asleep.
Stealth silence and an understanding of who you might be 'following' or who might be following you. If you don't know who is following you, get to a position when you then follow them, then decide if it's a fight you want to be following.
Interesting video - tracking is a sport that is surprisingly easy for a galgo to participate. Although they are sighthounds, galgos are hounds at heart with generally terrific noses. Elvis & Feline would love it! You wouldn't need a lot of space - you could easily run tracks in the field & forest in your "backyard" area. Try it, Bjørn! 😊
Interesting choice of topic. It's funny, I often go camo mode for photography and it never ceases to amaze me just how poor the average persons observation skills are. I sort of enjoy announcing my presence to people 5 feet away that had no clue I was watching them. The most interesting ones are deep into forest...they almost panic and run.
Typically people in the woods are tracked and found via canine assistance (search dogs). No amount of grass padded shoes or walking barefoot will stop a canine's nose. If you want to lose the canines, you have to find and traverse through water. That means walking down the center of creeks for a long ways off and on. Swimming across ponds if need be. Water will negate your scent.
Very interesting - I would imagine the easiest to track would be in snow (if it has not been further snowed on top) and also the hardest to hide your tracks. Also dogs would be hardest to evade, aside from walking in water, I guess. I’d like to hear more of what you learned if you feel like doing a follow up. 👍🏻
Footprints become a little obsolete if dogs are chasing you by smell. I wish this video went more into the tactics of evasion such as floating down a stream for a bit and getting out of the water on the other bank a ways down ( or up), masking your scent, staying under forest cover to avoid drones or helicopters, masking heat print, etc, making shelter that cant be seen, differences in evasion and tracking and specific trchniques given unique weather conditions ( such as travelling when snowing to cover tracks). This video just reiterated what is common sense and barely scratched the surface of tracking and evasion....
Did you know about an event in Stockholm with Martin Armstrong discussing liberty and freedom..don't know if your close he's on our side..ps awesome power lift stuff
I guess stealth skills takes on a whole new meaning. Better tighten up my sneak. Lol. Bjorn, I have learned a lot from bush crafting and look forward to all you share. I would love to read your work. Unfortunately, only wish it as in English. Much appreciation.
I was never really taught how to track, but rather learned how to follow deer trails as a novice hunter. By default, I learned how to differentiate between deer and human trails, because I wanted to know if anyone was traversing the area I was hunting. There are some rather foolhardy individuals who don’t pay attention to hunting seasons and think nothing of wandering through the woods at their own peril, not wearing hunter orange and the like. In addition, I wanted to know if anyone else was hunting in the same area (it is public land so anyone can use it). Most hunters are conscientious safe responsible people, however there are a few idiots out there. By tracking other hunters, I can identify where their tree stand is and more importantly what direction their shot would go should they fire. Nine times out of ten, I think they never realized that I was even there because tracking is a skill that is seldom practiced any longer, and henceforth a lost science.
Living in the forest for the last 60 years, I notice, I skip from rock to rock, log to log, just for sure-footedness. I would be appalled at the lack of respect my city and suburban friends had for the forest vegetation, not caring whether they crushed life beneath their feet. After they would go home, I would be disgusted by how no one cared about the ferns all smashed into the ground or others ignored wild life dwellings, and made a mess I had to clean up. It all seemed "normal" to them. They had no spiritual connection to the forest. I have always tried to leave my 30 acres "undisturbed". Some places I have not been to in twenty years to look at. Why bother. It has been there for 1000's of years.
I guess things also depend on whether someone is lost & will be grateful to be found, or whether they are trying to evade capture & have some training.
I used to have to track my father up when we were bowhunting together. When I shot a deer, I would track him up and we would get the deer out. He wore soft sole shoes and was hard to track at times. But he also smoked cigarettes. I tracked him over a half mile once just from the smell of his smoke. :) LOL Keep that in the back of your mind when you track. Women often wear perfume, and some men wear aftershave. It could help.
Being barefoot will also ground your energy And you’re so right about the lack of tracks ! :)) You will become more intune and all will be easier being barefoot Takes time being barefoot to be comfy n confident but Pays to pay attention where stepping and it’s more fun :) Slowed me down in life being barefoot I don’t get allowed into some places But that’s ok Didn’t need them anyway Love ya big bro Angels be with you and with you they are All of you Big hugs 🫂
Again, for the lazy tracker. Sit still for a while in the woods, until the animals start moving around and watch their activities, then go look at all the tracks they made while you were watching them, and wonder why. Raccoons that like to leave their scat on top of logs. All I could figure was that they liked to spot predators a long way off in the canopy before they felt comfortable enough to take a bathroom break. It's the comedy of animals.
People with a trained dog can track you. I once talked to a man who was tracking corpses in the Waal river in the Netherlands. He used a Malinois tracking dog on a boat. 8 years later they can still track the corpse.
Trackers are not some common thing that all communities have around. There are likely very few people capable of that, and traveling there could take long enough for the lost person to succumb to exposure
Like animal tracking, it's mostly about mind reading, right. I like to track animals after snow, because I'm lazy, but you can figure out what they are looking at every time they stop, and why they choose to move straight, or cut corners, and when they like to backtrack, and usually why, like the way a fox will loop around after getting below a rise and choose another place along the rise to peek back at its own tracks. Clever foxes.
When I was in the Rhodesian Army in the 1970s tracking was an important factor in hunting the terrorists through the bush. The best trackers could run through the country with their heads down on the trail while the men behind them kept eyes out for any ambush. The terrorists used methods to confuse the trail also. Their first was to 'bombshell', ie everyone scatter in all directions so that it was difficult to decide who to follow. Wearing shoes on backwards was one method used. Another tactic they used if we were very close to them and as a last resort, was to strip naked and stand still inside a thorn bush. With their eyes closed, their black skin made them almost invisible inside the vegetation. The best trackers were generally the Europeans, probably because they were more motivated. Some of these trackers were outdoors men who had spent their lives hunting animals so it wasn't a big change to hunting the terrorists except that the terrorists could shoot at you, unlike the wild life.
I grew up wearing ' no shoes '... from that I learned the joy of wearing...no shoes . Appreciation and blessings from Sydney Australia .
A very import skill set to learn for anti-poaching operations here in South Africa. Eyes, ears, nose and intuition
The Selous Scouts of Rhodesia were experts at tracking. Now all lost.
My k9s I handled taught me more about my sense of smell than anything!
@@tammyhartsock7376 My dog has no nose.
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I watched that UFPro commercial too bud.
It was great and a real honor for me to have you as Student but, above all, to learn from you!
Thank you so much. For coming to us here in Norway, and for those kind words!
@@BjornOutdoors it's me to thank you!!
Our native tribes have been trying to keep this skill going , it’s fascinating and you never know when you might need this skill.
SERE training in the military has absolutely benefited my survivalist skills!
It may come in handy if you want to not be tracked. That may come in the near future.
I think that's an incredibly important skill.
Very fascinating. One never know when they will have to run and hide.
Unusual subject. Very appreciated. Thank you
Years ago I helped search for a lost autistic child in Virginia. A couple thousand untrained volunteers showed up over several days with countless trained professionals with tracking dogs and helicopters and nobody found him. He eventually wandered out of the woods to a main road where he was found safe.
I've done a bit of escape and evasion and it's an art in itself. For serving forces overseas it is a vital skill behind enemy lines. For finding lost people if you're emergency services too. Cool.
yes Bjorn, you will need this skill. Not because you will have to "track missing persons" some day , but because you have to learn how to avoid being tracked and to evade Hong Weibings and Red Khmers of the new world order who will be chasing you soon in order to connect you to the matrix. Some slogans of the new normal matrix are : "no one will be left behind" and "everyone will have to participate".
Sounds like an interesting course. 👍
It really was.
If a guy knows how to track, he also gains the bonus knowledge of how to evade. And speaking of bone us...if everybody had implanted RFID chips, we could always be tracked by the Central Scrutinizor. For our own safety, of course.
🙄
Of course
Hi Bjorn. Great video as always.
Tracking and how we leave tracks is a very interesting topic, and what was once an essential skill of our ancestors has now been almost lost to the majority of people.
Like most things gaining knowledge is the key, and learning to read the forest / terrain will undoubtedly create a deeper connection between ourselves and the natural world around us.
There is another channel I follow called The Gray Bearded Green Beret that other followers may find interesting.
I am now looking forward to learning more about this.
Thanks for sharing.
All the best ☀️
Love GBGB! Hope to attend some of his courses one day
This content is very useful, in my country there are thousands of people who dissapear due to crime organisations, the groups of mothers of the dissapeared (yes, like that song) are searching everywhere. Thanks a lot!
Tracking is fascinating. Opens up a new world when out and about and I find also makes a difference on how I move and try to leave less evidence of my travels..just for fun really.
This is cool. I’d definitely attend this if I had the opportunity. You can always learn more from others.😁👍Thanks Bjorn. Be well sir.🙏
Thank you!
Thank you, Bjorn.
I was a kid in Civil Air Patrol and we had a one day class by the US Border Patrol. Never looked at footprints the same
Going barefoot decreases the physical signs tremendously, but it also increases the scent laid down for dogs to track. Just F.Y.I! Peace!
This is fascinating! Thank you, Bjorn.
Thank you, as always for your time! Very informative!
I’m about to get me some chocolate coffee and a handful of sticks for a fire. Gonna be a Viking!
Me a caveman 🦧
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing
You're always learning something. An amazing man. Keep up the fight. Never surrender 😊
I used to watch a show called Mantracker, there were always two people who were given a starting point and an ending point that they had to reach before Mantracker either got there first or caught the two people; It was very interesting to watch.
Bjørn the manhunter
Thanks Bjorn 👍🏻
Thanks a lot!!
In Australia back in the 1870s, the Kelly Gang bushrangers used to wear sheeps wool slipons over their shoes so they couldn't be tracked by the Aboriginal trackers. They would leave almost no trace on the ground, but the Aboriginal trackers were still not fooled, such amazing trackers they were.
Norway is such a slice of heaven when it comes to Nature! I visited there in July and was blown away by its beauty! I wouldn't mind at all getting "lost" there for a while, lol! 😍
Looks very interesting Bjorn, a skill definitely worth learning.
Excellent for SnR and it’s counter, evasion. Responsibility of decision is at the moment🥂
Also,i started my new job making automotive bolts and i cannot wait to get paid so i can join and purch some merch.🎉
He was about 360 lbs, barefoot, and walked with a limp. He left a trail of candy wrappers and toilet paper in his wake. He was headed east towards the portapoty. He left a huge turd, marked the wall with a sharpie saying “I like big butts”, and then walked behind the bushes and well there he is fast asleep.
Haha!
Thank you ! Great vid.
One of my favorite skills. Humans are most dangerous animal.i practice evasion the more.
Stealth silence and an understanding of who you might be 'following' or who might be following you. If you don't know who is following you, get to a position when you then follow them, then decide if it's a fight you want to be following.
So Cool thank you .I like that information and sharing .so much respectful love to you and your be blessed well safe .love to all ty
You left no tracks for eyes, but a nose knows! lol, bark bark nom nom!
Absolutely! We are poor trackers compared to dogs, but in some cases dogs can not be used.
Interesting video - tracking is a sport that is surprisingly easy for a galgo to participate. Although they are sighthounds, galgos are hounds at heart with generally terrific noses. Elvis & Feline would love it! You wouldn't need a lot of space - you could easily run tracks in the field & forest in your "backyard" area. Try it, Bjørn! 😊
I am going to. I had intentions to teach them to find me chanterelles. Maybe next year!
An incredible book I think
Very interesting.
definitely a fascinating subject and one where I would have much to learn.
Good to see you again! I miss your videos.
This sounds really cool! A great idea and seems it would be fun as well! Thx for sharing.
Kyt is awesome! I learned a lot from her workshops at the Bushcraft Show. I want to go on something more intensive next time as I enjoyed it so much.
Yes indeed the final conclusion very interesting. Unbelievable shows our merge with nature. Thanks for this share ...
Great video can we know more from you about this subject..
Hello from New Zealand. Really interesting about leaving the sign in thick bush with broken small branches and scratches
Very cool.. always great content.. as always Stay Strong.. thanks Bjorn!
Interesting choice of topic. It's funny, I often go camo mode for photography and it never ceases to amaze me just how poor the average persons observation skills are. I sort of enjoy announcing my presence to people 5 feet away that had no clue I was watching them. The most interesting ones are deep into forest...they almost panic and run.
Typically people in the woods are tracked and found via canine assistance (search dogs). No amount of grass padded shoes or walking barefoot will stop a canine's nose. If you want to lose the canines, you have to find and traverse through water. That means walking down the center of creeks for a long ways off and on. Swimming across ponds if need be. Water will negate your scent.
They use dogs, you say? Oh, I never ever thought about that...
@@BjornOutdoors Just as you thought that being a smart ass to your viewers will earn you subscribers.
Hey there,again. Nice tips,and glad to hear about another overnite video,Salute. Till then,farewell.
MOURNING BJORN VERY INTERESTING I REALLY ENJOYED THAT WELL DONE 👍👍👍
Hes OK, why are you mourning him?
@@chrism4008
morning!
Very interesting - I would imagine the easiest to track would be in snow (if it has not been further snowed on top) and also the hardest to hide your tracks. Also dogs would be hardest to evade, aside from walking in water, I guess. I’d like to hear more of what you learned if you feel like doing a follow up. 👍🏻
Love to learnmore about this.
I found the tracks of a murderer along a lake where we were searching for evidence. We found the woman's address book in the lake.
Tracking the most dangerous game I see.
Footprints become a little obsolete if dogs are chasing you by smell. I wish this video went more into the tactics of evasion such as floating down a stream for a bit and getting out of the water on the other bank a ways down ( or up), masking your scent, staying under forest cover to avoid drones or helicopters, masking heat print, etc, making shelter that cant be seen, differences in evasion and tracking and specific trchniques given unique weather conditions ( such as travelling when snowing to cover tracks). This video just reiterated what is common sense and barely scratched the surface of tracking and evasion....
I know, but this is just a brief talk about the topic.
@BjornOutdoors ok but of you are ever able to go into more detail, that would be a very worthwhile UA-cam video to watch!
Thank you
I always wanted to track with my Dog
Awesome video ,,, Thank You !!!!
Hail Bjorn..
Sweet!
Very interesting skill to learn
Now there is something most of us have never done before.
Very interesting...thanks Bjorn 😊
Did you know about an event in Stockholm with Martin Armstrong discussing liberty and freedom..don't know if your close he's on our side..ps awesome power lift stuff
Neat course...
...barefoot...my mode of waIking around...shoes seem awkward...thank you for sharing :)
Mick Dodge
Very interesting. Could be used for dementia sufferers that go wandering in search of home that existed long ago.
I guess stealth skills takes on a whole new meaning. Better tighten up my sneak. Lol. Bjorn, I have learned a lot from bush crafting and look forward to all you share. I would love to read your work. Unfortunately, only wish it as in English. Much appreciation.
I was never really taught how to track, but rather learned how to follow deer trails as a novice hunter. By default, I learned how to differentiate between deer and human trails, because I wanted to know if anyone was traversing the area I was hunting. There are some rather foolhardy individuals who don’t pay attention to hunting seasons and think nothing of wandering through the woods at their own peril, not wearing hunter orange and the like. In addition, I wanted to know if anyone else was hunting in the same area (it is public land so anyone can use it). Most hunters are conscientious safe responsible people, however there are a few idiots out there. By tracking other hunters, I can identify where their tree stand is and more importantly what direction their shot would go should they fire. Nine times out of ten, I think they never realized that I was even there because tracking is a skill that is seldom practiced any longer, and henceforth a lost science.
Living in the forest for the last 60 years, I notice, I skip from rock to rock, log to log, just for sure-footedness. I would be appalled at the lack of respect my city and suburban friends had for the forest vegetation, not caring whether they crushed life beneath their feet. After they would go home, I would be disgusted by how no one cared about the ferns all smashed into the ground or others ignored wild life dwellings, and made a mess I had to clean up. It all seemed "normal" to them. They had no spiritual connection to the forest. I have always tried to leave my 30 acres "undisturbed". Some places I have not been to in twenty years to look at. Why bother. It has been there for 1000's of years.
I sure wish I was camping on that river, with pole in hand.
I guess things also depend on whether someone is lost & will be grateful to be found, or whether they are trying to evade capture & have some training.
Nice to see the Cornish flag on your instructor's shoulder there :-)
Interesting Vid 👍
If you learn man tracking, you'll know bow to hide your tracks.
I work after treatments in the woods I know I walked where someone did 7 years before
IF YOU CAN TRACK, YOU CAN HIDE YOUR TRACKS. FUNNY, THAT WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT.
I used to have to track my father up when we were bowhunting together. When I shot a deer, I would track him up and we would get the deer out. He wore soft sole shoes and was hard to track at times. But he also smoked cigarettes. I tracked him over a half mile once just from the smell of his smoke. :) LOL Keep that in the back of your mind when you track. Women often wear perfume, and some men wear aftershave. It could help.
Cool!
her husband must have a hard time going anywhere, lol
ahhaha lol actually he's becoming a Tracker too ;))
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Being barefoot will also ground your energy
And you’re so right about the lack of tracks ! :))
You will become more intune and all will be easier being barefoot
Takes time being barefoot to be comfy n confident but
Pays to pay attention where stepping and it’s more fun :)
Slowed me down in life being barefoot
I don’t get allowed into some places
But that’s ok
Didn’t need them anyway
Love ya big bro
Angels be with you and with you they are
All of you
Big hugs 🫂
Again, for the lazy tracker.
Sit still for a while in the woods, until the animals start moving around and watch their activities, then go look at all the tracks they made while you were watching them, and wonder why.
Raccoons that like to leave their scat on top of logs. All I could figure was that they liked to spot predators a long way off in the canopy before they felt comfortable enough to take a bathroom break.
It's the comedy of animals.
People with a trained dog can track you. I once talked to a man who was tracking corpses in the Waal river in the Netherlands. He used a Malinois tracking dog on a boat. 8 years later they can still track the corpse.
Bjorn chose Ranger class.
I pay close attention to the human tracks I see in my hunting country.
More lost people would probably be found if everyone was kept away until a tracker could look over the area.
Trackers are not some common thing that all communities have around.
There are likely very few people capable of that, and traveling there could take long enough for the lost person to succumb to exposure
Like animal tracking, it's mostly about mind reading, right.
I like to track animals after snow, because I'm lazy, but you can figure out what they are looking at every time they stop, and why they choose to move straight, or cut corners, and when they like to backtrack, and usually why, like the way a fox will loop around after getting below a rise and choose another place along the rise to peek back at its own tracks.
Clever foxes.
it's easy here in the US - just follow the trash they leave - snack warpers, water bottles, etc.
It would be easy to hide from you
I would imagine that these skills could be used in reverse also. 👍🏽
Wow bjorn ..people will talk..😅😅😅😅😅
What do you mean?
😂only joking ..dont worry..
@@fionamcormac7786 Durn Idioms! 😅
It's a funny word, I agree, haha.
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I reckon I can track anyone in the snow.
👍🙂
Lesson of the day: If you are on a run go bearfoot
You still leave foot prints, and you risk cutting your feet up and leaving a blood trail along with the footprints