Great video. I have a question do you think someone that has Boy Scout lesson as a child could or would be able to go through survival situation or do you think that person needs more training
Any training is better than no training. Most skills are perishable and will fade with time. It is very important to continue practicing. However, like we mentioned in the video, mindset is everything! Even an unskilled amateur can survive unbelievable ordeals if they have the will to keep on living. Great question!
@@SurvivalDispatch survival is more or less a state of mind that you will develope if you have the will to want to live. Common sense/ ability to think outside the box will take you a long way with the basic knowledge of what you have to have in order to survive. Thanks Jason 👏👊
I am a scout counselor, teaching many of the fieldcraft merit badges; I also use merit badge pamphlets as handouts in my classes to civilians. So yes, what the scouts are taught is a good primer to living and surviving in the outdoors. These skills are perishable and must be practiced often.
You can will yourself to stay awake for days but at some point your brain will shut you down. Your eyes will go out of focus and you can shake it off, once twice maybe three times. Then your eyes will roll back in your head and everything goes white. Long haul truckers used to talk about this before logbooks were a thing.
I'm so glad that you mentioned the perception of others productivity and that it is a dynamic situation that will change over time. I'm a 60 year old cancer survivor who might appear weak, low energy and at first glance, many would think that would be an unreasonable burden to many. But I was a hospital nurse for 30 years, I did avionics and disaster preparedness in the military during Desert Storm/Desert Shield as base support and hospital liason. At least in my area, I know where my edible wild vegetation is, I'm not afraid of harvesting road kill, killing and preparing animals and I had been homeless in a time in my life where I learned exactly what life would be like if I lost everything. I have survived some of my greatest fears and survived 100% of my days. I can deliver babies, do minor surgery, diagnose and treat many illnesses, help with keeping elderly and children healthy and meet their daily needs. The list goes on and on. But at first glance, I would not be a first choice candidate.
The more I (we) do this the more the adage of "Never judge a book...." comes to mind. We often see that some of our "weakest" students at the BEGINNING of Field Survival are very often some of the strongest teammates at the end.
I 100% agree, that was personally my most important takeaway. I have RA, reoccurring Hart Failure + multiple surgeries on my neck and spine. I use that anger to get through the hard stuff and I have used my personal medical situation to justify my anger towards people I label as “Healthy” and not pulling their weight. We all have our cross to bear and I need to learn to be grateful of what I can do and not frustrated with other’s limitations. Anger is an amazing tool but it’s a double edged sword that can hurt you as well as everyone around you 😕 I would like to say “Congratulations” on your recovery 👊❤, I recently spent a little over a year and a half with a friend who lost his fight with cancer. He fought that whole time and the hardest part for him was having to rely on others for daily needs. They gave him weeks and he nearly got 2 years. I am reminded that “No man is an Island 🏝️” we all need each other and everyone has value 👊❤
@@allenwurl6245 so true. I have 2 elderly women in my family that are old school from Serbia and WWII Germany. They hate asking for help even though there are certain things that they just can't do anymore like standing long enough to cook a meal or wash clothes. But you want to know how to can, preserve food, substitutes for ingredients, what herbs to give for various medical conditions, they are my go to. They are valuable beyond measure to me.
My experience with survival was cancer. Mindset is everything as others have said in the comments. Faith in God was everything. When Mr. B got word from a truck driver I knew I would be okay. The driver told him "God has this." He never called me in the afternoon from work, just at lunch. That day he called me right afterwards. That set my mindset. I was going to make it no matter how little sleep I got, how fuzzy headed I got, or how sick I got. I kept my routine as much as possible, exercised, ate good food (thanks to Mr. B) and got better. There are days you don't know how you make it but you make it. All my training in life has brought me to this point and I am blessed by God.
Cancer did the same for me. Sometimes just breathing and doing the next right thing was all I could muster at my worst, but I'm back up and running. Just like a cockroach...
I agree, mindset is the key to survival. The meteorologist who recently said a prayer for the town as he realized a monster tornado was going to drive right through it, said "Right now, YOU HAVE TO TRY TO SURVIVE"! They were going to have to switch mindsets from whatever they were doing and get into survival mode. At that point, they only had a couple of minutes to shelter or potentially die. We have to be as ready as the firefighters at the firehouse with our skills, gear, and mindset.
Great video guys love the collaboration of opinions. I work as a binman here in 🇬🇧 last summer was 34 degrees C. Suffering with heat stroke, my supervisor thought I was drunk, slurred speach, lack of motorskills and general awareness. When in that situation you deffinatly know you're limits and learn to see the signs of environmental exposure. You're survival environment deffinatly dictates if you priorities food, water or shelter first 👍😎💪🇬🇧🌲🌳🌲🌳
Thanks for all the hard and dirty work you do pal. You and your colleagues around the country are so taken for granted and often forgotten until you’re not there! Cheers 🍻
@@aaronbeach8929 You binmen are really doing a very important job for society and it's actually one of my main concerns how trash will soon pile up in urban and suburban areas after any kind of SHTF or grid-down event, when you guys won't (be able) go to work anymore. Take care.
A good Mindset and mental strength is about 90% of long term survival in my opinion very few people have this I think unless you train hard at it you’ll never know your weaknesses
Survival Dispatch, J3 especially, always make skills the focus of their content. Be it intentional or not, my favorite videos are where Jason has forayed into the wilderness with subpar gear, or no gear, and "survived" on wits alone.
I always come back to three quotes and what they mean IMO concerning long-term survival: 1. Bear Independent: "Collapse now, avoid the rush." - Break away from a fragile system BEFORE it collapses. 2. Pastor Joe Fox: "Become a neo-pioneer". - Create an environment as self-sustainable as possible. Now. 3. Jason and Joe (from another vid):"If you only interact on social media, they're not your friends." - Find out now who you can really count on. All three steps will give you a head start now, because most people won't act before something bad happens. Get your houses in order and take care.
Great topic and discussion! I would make a couple quick observations on testing your boundaries: 1) it is a good idea to either test your limits in a group, or at least have someone that can check up on you so that you don't unintentionally carry your experience into an unrecoverable (or otherwise debilitating) emergency/medical situation; and 2) retest yourself periodically, because your tolerances will change throughout your life -- especially as you get older. If some major event affects your health, for example, you are going to have a harder time enduring a survival situation where that new condition impacts your performance. The best tip in the video IMO is to develop that "proper mindset" for survival. I believe that is what carries survivors through situations they 'technically' should have died from.
Good discussion guys! Mindset is key, then skills, then equipment. Part of the experience in Ranger School is sleep and food deprivation. During the 62 days, one may get a total of 24 hours of sleep and eat only one meal a day all the while under stress and physical exertion. And yes, some did hallucinate.
I think it also heavily depends where you live exactly that will determine your survivability. Some lucky folks live in the mountainous forest, where the beautiful green grass grows & natural resources are available. Most people/viewers these days live in cities or suburban environments where modern amenities are given from the get go. I live in the middle of a desert with no natural water sources or natural resources and even when there *are* resources available, it's not guaranteed that I'd get them on a timely manner on a normal busy day; Let alone a survival situation or when things get hairy. I also think that discipline and self motivation with a "can do" mindset is your best friend, so as long as you understand your boundaries and limitations; depending on who you are as a person. Another thing I'd like to touch on is the lack of mentioned medicines or prescription drugs for your health & wellbeing. Most people don't weigh in medicine later down the road should times get rough & when you don't have the simple multi vitamin drugs, it becomes that much harder for one to survive, especially if they have a medical condition to now accommodate for out in the wild; *_and hope to God_* they stocked up prior before the fall of modern day conveniences like Walmarts & such. My 2 cents here, great video! Cheers 🍻 Edit: typos
Very interesting very informative and all very true. My favorite animal is the elk. I honestly feel like in the first 2 hours you really should start to staying busy keep yourself busy doing something doing anything productive. I always used to teach sit down and start thinking about what needs to be done and address whatever you think should be done first. That's just my opinion. Thanks Jason this was a really good video and I hope people were taking notes. Y'all think about it now. Stay vigilant!
I spent two years in the blue ridge mountains and three years near George Washington forest alone for all of it. It truly takes more than you think chickens and seeds for a garden with get you far if you’re alone mentally most people couldn’t handle it I mean five years in the wild is a lot to take in. Your health is important I pulled multiple teeth without any medication using a multi tool I’ve glued cuts that required stitches I’ve got two fingers that are useless just tape them together and kept going so yeah long term survival is a struggle. My own struggles and in life is what allowed me to adapt and overcome whatever challenges I have faced the tough times and general experience in it all changed me and my whole perspective on life. Truly a blessing to be here today honestly
If you are going to remote places should you have a survival kit on you or should you bring a full on backpack of gear. The difference is a struggle between life and death versus an impromptu camping trip.
For calories, oils are under-rated. A liter of oil has about 8,000 calories and is relatively compact and light. Not pleasant to chug, but it will give concentrated calories.
Well done, enjoyed the conversation! I’d really like to test myself in many areas such as food and sleep deprivation. Food is difficult for me to eliminate right now because I drive a truck, but in driving a truck I’ve had to become familiar with sleep deprivation on occasion. Favorite animal? Hmmm, the wolf is super interesting and fairly similar to humans on a primal level. Idk, there’s a caterpillar out there I think that burrows to cocoon near an ant colony. The butterfly in transformation will replicate the ant queen’s scent so that the ants protect it. Then it has to book it out of there after coming out. I thought that was cool.
Great discussion about abilities and skills as preformed under duress! When I hear someone say how they can do a survival skill, I always ask them if they can do it with one arm in a sling. It adds an extra dimension to the sleep and/or calorie deprivation. Definitely worthy of practice because many folks WILL be injured by trying to do the things required for survival. It takes exponentially more physical effort and concentration to build a fire "from scratch" when you haven't eaten or slept in 4 or 5 days, AND your dominant arm is in a sling. If you get that figured out, it is time to tie one foot to your thigh with a belt, and try again with one leg. 😂👍 Get creative and really push yourself to failure. Otherwise, you won't know where that is and expend precious calories trying to do something you should know you can't in your current state. We all have limits. If you don't know where yours are, you can't push them!
many don't embrace this concept and it shows....skill acquisition takes TIME, PRACTICE......and DESIRE to really have a better understanding of yourself.
1 be a lone wolf or immediate family,communities will be trouble and more too feed, 2 live underground you will be harder to find, evasion will be one of your top 3 priorities if it goes tits up
Great video, thanks for bringing us this content. I like the gear too, but I’m the same way about steels. A Victorinox can save your life and get the job done, and they don’t have a new or flashy steel. The more I’m learning the less I’m carrying for sure. The gear is fun but more of a hobby, the skills are much more important as they said. Thanks again! The ESEE team and products rock!
Fitness why? Healthy (any medical problems) Capable (doing the job) Go further (circumstances) Two way street Relations Future Stratosphere parachute jumps (NASA, Baumgartner) Make past careers look pretty tame.
Hmmmm.. really enjoy this conversation on survival..but in reality we most probably have people that we care about with us at the time that is not as prepared like most... would be an interesting to make a short movie on such survival...
Great discussion providing lots of material for mental scenario walk through. I think my most challenging situation would end up dealing with florida swamp mosquitoes. What could be used for natural repellent? I haven't found anything that works.
Mosquitoes are the worst!! Natives used gator and bear grease. Most of the essential oil type natural repellents don’t work that well in my experience. Long sleeves, gloves and head nets are the best.
I don't even need any survival tools if it only takes for only a day or two in my area. Just crawling on a shade with pants and jacket in urban area just like homeless ppl. I fast without water and food for 3 days and I'm fine. Weaker yes but dead no.
Wall favorite species of animal, whom it’s a tossup between sheep and a dog and dogs are good companion will push come to shove you can eat them and lamb chops are just so darn good. Algorithm algorithm algorithm there you go, RU-vid.
Set up to fail.The flip side to that is know your worth and avoid toxic people that would pull that crap. Always have walking away as an open option. Nobody owes anyone undeserved loyalty or self sacrifice.
@@megandonahue9220 Agree whole heatedly, so much subterfuge with most humans, yet, most of em cant tell ya why row crops are ran north to south, how or why to chit taters, or why we use epsom salt....and I'm the dumbas....but they keep asking me questions.....
@custombuilder1 other than the Epsom salt, I have no idea about anything you mentioned, but I am teachable and humble enough to say I don't know something.
@@megandonahue9220 that's called being intelligent!!! Knowing that we don't know!!! Nor pretending.... UVC sun rays, 200 to 300 nanometers p/s squared...Row crop, n to s, north of the equator, that direction allows for morning sun on one side of the hill, allows for afternoon sun on the other side....reasons being, fairly even dirt temperature each side, UVC rays drive the nematodes deeper than the roots of said plants and sterilize any molds or algae trying to grow in the shade of a west to east row, think shadows, north side of trees, houses etc....this is why folks try to get southern exposure on the front door, not building behind a mountain in the mountainous regions etc....no one shares actual, factual,verifiable, scientific data anymore....chitting potatoes t the yes allows for more plants to be grown from one potato, increases yield....economy of resources....planting oyster mushrooms in gardens produces a healthier garden....oyster mushrooms actually lasso nematodes and ingests them....thereby "protecting" the garden...and oyster mushrooms taste really good. Dual purpose....
Psst experience...... been in 21 hurricanes and ex Army Ranger. 33 years of survival training and self defense training. I was in hurricane Ike and Rita. I was working in SE Texas at the time. Up until hurricane Rita, I wasn't fully prepared. After Rita , I was fully prepared. Grid was severely damaged in a big way. We did not get power back until a month and a half. That blew 72 hour kits out of the water. This is real world disaster reality. I practice once a week with my equipment for nothing but long term survival and bug out. Rita was the worse shit I have ever been in my life. Worse than getting shot at. It changed me for the rest of my life.....for the better . A mindset you can't get any other way. I haven't reached my limitations yet but there is a difference between being resilient and stupid. I have been here all my life because my property has been passed down generation after generations. I'm 64 years old and have no regrets in my life. I love my life. I also help needy children. I'm proud to be a subscriber of this channel. Rangers clear the way Charles 🪖🇺🇸❤️
Thank you for your service and wisdom from lessons learned. I agree that planning for 72° will be like Sunday school compared to the challenges we might face. Another Texan here whose cousins went through the freeze unprepared and leaned from it. I'm a transplant to Colorado, Girl Scout & longtime former RN, so I learned years ago to be prepared for the long haul
