March 7th, 2013 at 1:47 pm (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, the combat medic, outdoor survival, field medicine, tracking, bushcraft, scouting, disaster preparedness, readiness, survival scenario, survival gear, weapons, herbal medic)
In today’s podcast, Sam Coffman talks with his former Green Beret buddy, Mykel Hawke.
This is an introductory podcast, and one that we hope to continue on a more regular basis, so in this podcast, we learn more about Mykel, to include:
- What is the history behind the Green Beret Survival Manual that Mykel wrote?
- Is it still in print? Why is it a good book to buy if you want an overall picture of survival?
- What projects does Mykel have going on?
- What products (knives, hats, etc.) does Mykel have out right now?
- What is the latest on his upcoming survival show with Travel Channel?
- Why is land navigation so important and how does it play into the new show with Mykel and his wife?
- What land navigation classes do we have coming up at The Human Path, and why should you be interested in learning and practicing this skill?
Join Mykel and Sam in the future as they discuss more survival topics and skills.
Upcoming Land Navigation course on March 16th
Spring Scout Training Course
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February 26th, 2013 at 2:01 pm (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, herbology, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, outdoor survival, green homesteading, self sufficiency farming, trauma medicine, field medicine, tracking, scouting, disaster preparedness, readiness, health and nutrition, economic collapse, self sustainability, eco building, prepping, intentional community, community, societal collapse, herbal medic, texas herbal medicine)
In today’s podcast, Sam Coffman is interviewed by Ed Corcoran from Survival and Beyond. Sam and Ed discuss general survival topics such as:
- The concept of “civilization” and how we have lost touch with who we are as humans
- The idea behind The Human Path as a school
- The importance of the topic of community as part of any realistic survival training
- Herbal medicine and its place in a post-disaster or remote setting
- Modern medicine as compared to herbal or natural medicine
- Wilderness vs. Urban survival and cummunity sustainability
- Speculation on what might be most likely looming in our future as a species
- What role does our culture play in forming our perception of reality?
Find out what's going on at The Human Path!Our class calendar
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January 7th, 2013 at 4:17 pm (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, outdoor survival, bushcraft, nature spiritulity, scouting, parkour, survival scenario)
In today's podcast, Sam Coffman discusses the path of the Scout at The Human Path.
The scout is the eyes and the ears of a team. However, there is a lot more to it than just that. In this episode Sam talks about questions and subjects such as:
- What does it mean to say that the scout is related to the realm of the "mind?" What exactly is the mind and how does it relate to being a scout?
- What kinds of skills does a scout learn in the level 1 course?
- What are some of the skills taught in some of the elective/peripheral scout classes?
- What are the minimum physical conditioning requirements to enter the Level 1 scout course?
- Why is land navigation and orienteering off of a map and compass so important for scout?
- What are some of the different types of OpFor (opposing forces) exercises and scout games do you get to take part in during scenarios?
- What are the real-world applications of scout? How does scout training apply to being an advance party for post-disaster or remote-location work for Herbal Medics?
Next up is the 2013 Urban Scout Intensive Program. This begins on June 8th. For information, visit the website to learn more about the urban scout program.
2013 Scout Elective Classes
Scout Awareness, Aug. 25th, 2013. Information and sign up.
Scout Caches, Aug. 11th, 2013. Information and sign up.
Scout Prepper, Aug. 18th, 2013. Information and sign up.
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December 27th, 2012 at 9:21 am (survival skills, urban survival, primitive living, fire-building, the human path, permaculture, texas outdoor education, herbology, the combat medic, martial arts, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, primitive hunting, wild food sources, outdoor survival, green homesteading, aquaponics, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, trauma medicine, field medicine, tracking, bushcraft, primitive bowmaking, nature spiritulity, scouting, disaster preparedness, readiness, parkour, health and nutrition, economic collapse, power shortage, survival scenario, weapons, self sustainability, pet survival, eco building, homestead livestock, prepping, homesteading, intentional community, community, societal collapse, gardening, herbal medic)
In today's podcast, Sam Coffman discusses the entire structure of classes and programs at The Human Path.
He addresses many of the questions that people have about how the program is structured at The Human Path, to include:
- What are the differences between core classes and peripheral or elective classes?
- What are the 4 paths or specialties that a person can follow within the core curriculum?
- What specific things do students learn in each of the specialties?
- What makes The Human Path so different from other survival schools?
- How does learning these skills make a difference in day-to-day life?
- What is the difference between Urban and Primitive tracks of instruction?
- What are the "Four A's" of survival that are a part of the core curriculum?
- How does a student move up from level 1 to level 2 in a specialty?
- How are concepts like teamwork, leadership and community taught as part of the classes?
The next Urban Core Basic class is January 25 - 27th, 2013.
Check out the Winter 2013 schedule for the next 2-3 months!
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December 26th, 2012 at 10:33 am (survival skills, urban survival, primitive living, fire-building, the human path, permaculture, texas outdoor education, herbology, martial arts, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, wild food sources, outdoor survival, green homesteading, aquaponics, self sufficiency farming, long-term food storage, trauma medicine, field medicine, bushcraft, primitive bowmaking, nature spiritulity, scouting, disaster preparedness, readiness, parkour, health and nutrition, power shortage, survival scenario, weapons, self sustainability, pet survival, eco building, homestead livestock, prepping, homesteading, intentional community, community, societal collapse, gardening, herbal medic)
In this podcast, Sam Coffman discusses The Human Path growth, classes and real-world action during 2012, as well as the direction for 2013 and beyond.
Sam answers questions such as:
- What kinds of learning experiences were developed throughout 2012 and what can we look forward to in 2013?
- How has the breadth of the curriculum has been defined over the past few years at The Human Path? What exactly does that breadth of information include?
- How have The Human Path instructors evolved with the school?
- Why is it necessary to implement testing and selection procedures for higher level classes and real-world teams? What might that testing procedure look like, and at what point in the different levels will we see it?
- As we focus in the 4 areas of our curriculum delivery - Lecture, Hands-on, Scenario and Real-world missions – how does this all merge to create an ideal learning and even life-changing environment?
- How did Nicaragua figure into learning experience during 2012, and what's next?
- What can we expect to see in 2013 in regards to real-world missions and new classes?
Our new calendar for 2013 is up online here.
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January 11th, 2012 at 4:11 pm (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, outdoor survival, tracking, scouting, readiness, survival gear)
In this first podcast episode on optics, Sam Coffman talks about binoculars. He answers questions such as:
- How do binoculars compare to spotting scopes?
- How do you answer the question, “What’s the best pair of binoculars for me?”
- What is magnification vs. objective size?
- What kind of magnification do I want?
- Does magnification effect other things besides what I can see?
- What is FOV? How important is that?
- What effects twilight performance, and how important is it?
- What else should I be thinking about if I’m buying binoculars?
This is one of the topics covered during The Human Path Urban Core Basic class. Sign up here for the next UCB class!
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November 29th, 2011 at 12:40 pm (survival skills, the human path, texas outdoor education, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, scouting, health and nutrition)
A technique as old as man himself has recently evolved into a healthy new trend, barefoot running. As part of much of the outdoor education classes at The Human Path, Sam Coffman relies on the barefoot running method as an important part of the physical training.
In today's podcast, Sam briefly explores the concept behind this type of running, the type of shoe used and how it can change the way you exercise, build up new muscles and lessen the strain and impact on your body.
Check out the Human Path's workout of the day online here
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November 17th, 2011 at 1:34 pm (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, outdoor survival, scouting, disaster preparedness, readiness, survival gear)
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In today's episode, Sam Coffman and Shaun McKee discuss bugout bags. Starting with the bag itself, there is a lot to think about, such as: |
- The specific purpose of the bugout bag
- How much weight it needs to carry
- Considering your bag for the "long haul" and how to test that
- How much should you spend on a bag?
- What is "Molle" gear and what are the benefits?
- What is a practical "layout" of a gear bag?
- How do fanny packs, load-bearing vests and other types of equipment bags factor in?
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| Shaun talks about the new camelback packs that can be found here: http://milspecmonkey.com/weargear/packsbags/290-camelbak-trizip |
| Sam mentions the Treehugger Survival site with links to gear sites which can be found here:http://treehuggersurvival.com/survival-equipment.htm |
| Tune in tomorrow, when Shaun and Sam continue the "bugout" discussion as they move into the topic of clothing and the idea of "Tier Zero" preparedness. |
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October 6th, 2011 at 11:41 am (survival skills, urban survival, primitive living, the human path, texas outdoor education, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, outdoor survival, tracking, scouting, disaster preparedness, readiness, survival scenario)
You do a thorough check for high-speed avenues of approach as well as your own E & E possibilities from this location if necessary, and decide to bed down in the first spot you found with some great natural cover and concealment, as well as being a decent natural shelter that wouldn't take much work to become a refuge from even a serious rainstorm. However, the weather looks like it will be dry and clear during the day anyway, so rain is probably not an issue.
You dig a scout fire-pit and make a hobo stove out of a large can you found. You gather enough small pieces of dry wood (mostly the ashe juniper) to boil several pots of water, and go about restocking your water supply as well as hydrating fully.
You still have about 3/4 of the food you started with, but you're hungry and don't want to eat the food you're carrying if you don't have to. You don't really have time to look around too much for animal food, but there are a number of things that are presenting themselves to you as possible easy food. Describe how you would capture/harvest & prepare for eating, the following possibilities that you see here:
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This is the final part of this disaster scenario. Post your comments here and we will reply at the end of the day with feedback.
To see the first part of this disaster scenario, check out Episode 057.
Part two of the scenario, click here for Episode 058.
Part three of the scenario, click here for Episode 059.
Part four of the scenario, click here for Episode 060.
We'll be returning to our regular podcast routine on Monday October 10th with a very cool interview on modern-day homesteading!
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October 5th, 2011 at 10:19 am (survival skills, urban survival, the human path, texas outdoor education, Outdoor Fitness and Self Defense, outdoor survival, scouting, disaster preparedness, readiness, survival scenario)
You follow the direction of the red-winged blackbird songs, and sure enough head down a gentle slope into what seems to be a small drainage marsh that is ringed with several acres of woods. The woods appear to be made up of a lot of pecan, texas persimmons and ashe juniper trees, as well as a lot of understory growth.
You scout the wooded areas carefully around the marsh as the sun is just starting to rise, and don't see any signs of people in the woods, although there are a couple of buildings at least 1/2 mile in the distance to the west that look like they might be ranch or farm houses.
You find a good natural shelter and decide one of your main priorities is making sure you hydrate and refill all your water. It looks like this small wetlands area may actually continue and feed into some larger body of water, and you're pretty sure that there is a river running north/south that would take you close to your sister's house.
You have iodiine tablets, a small metal pot and the ability to make fire. There is a lot of tinder and kindling available, as well as many thickly vegetated areas and the usual piece of occasional trash, to include glass bottles, beer/pop cans, plastic bottles and tin cans.
Question 10:
What do you think is the best way to purify your water from this marsh?
A) Boiling
B) Iodine
C) Other (what, specifically if so?)
Question 11:
What are some of the pathogens might you be most concerned with from water in a location like this?
Question 12:
If you had to start a fire to boil water, either during the day, evening or night, what are some of your options to do so and avoid being seen? What would be your first choice of ways to do this?
Question 13:
What do you think are some of the primary security considerations that determine your best location to hide out and sleep during the day?
The final part of this disaster scenario will be posted next week. Post your comments here and we will reply at the end of the day with feedback.
To see the first part of this disaster scenario, check out Episode 057.
Part two of the scenario, click here for Episode 058.
Part three of the scenario, click here for Episode 059.
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