So I've trained as a survival instructor to teach survival training in the military.
I went to SAS and then you do a whole stack of road training there, more specialized training, more evolved survival stuff as well, empowering people.
I'm not a people knocker, I think people just need a shake up, they just need to get their head out of their butts and realise that they're involved in life.
And that they should have the best interest in their survival.
You know, all of it's complex and it's not just, ah I'm lost in a bush, that's just the one old thing.
All of us, all the animals, we move from pain towards eat.
In survival the same thing plays out, it's all about I want to get away from the pain and discomfort and I get somewhere comfortable.
That has a massive impact on our psychology.
Ryan's warning is getting this squared away and so you understand it intimately and how it affects this because this is what will make you just fall.
What I wanted to take out of survival school is a mindset to keep me alive in situations where I probably wouldn't be able to stay alive.
I feel like I'm going to need to know how to source food.
Obviously out in the bush there's got to be some sort of tupper that I could hook into, maybe kill an animal, I'm not too sure.
Sourced water is very crucial, apparently we've got three days without water and you can go down and shelter keeping the core warm, comfy, at ease.
We've been left by Ritchie to construct a shelter, no rules apply, a few techniques and hopefully you can see what's going on behind me here.
Justo is getting super creative.
I used to look at this stuff and go, what is that stuff? Dental floss? That didn't work.
It's really good for us to get out in the bush too and start trying to feel comfortable in the elements and spending the night away from home, sitting on the ground.
Everything's going to become a bit more real and just to see how we react to having those creature comforts will be cool.
Having, you don't want to sew a sleeping bag, check that shoe there, check out the length of that.
So we've come to our second day here at Bush Survival Camp. We've learnt so many good things about water, shelter and what we really need to survive in the bush.
Our last little bit, we're going to be sad to go. We haven't really eaten the last couple of days, so I guess it's like 36 hours, so that we can get the idea of what it feels like to be a little fatigued and a little under that stress in the pain, out of the ease and the comfort we're used to.
We're just boiling up a billy tea, which contains all the edible weeds that we just learnt about, which I'm so excited about because these are weeds that we spray with ground up or pull out of the ground and discard as useless.
We've just found out that they're full of chlorophyll, vital greens, and it's a piece of trip, we're going to have a tea of that, and we feel good here at home.
So I think we're sad. Let's go. Also, this little broth here keeps the immune system from getting crook. You don't want to get crook out of the bush.
