Tracking humans: I attended a mantracking course.

Tracking is an essential survival skill. But have you tried tracking people? I found this mantracking course very useful, especially in a search and rescue context.
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[@mickipixel]

A very import skill set to learn for anti-poaching operations here in South Africa. Eyes, ears, nose and intuition

[@johnough4893]

The Selous Scouts of Rhodesia were experts at tracking. Now all lost.

[@tammyhartsock7376]

My k9s I handled taught me more about my sense of smell than anything!

[@johnough4893]

@@tammyhartsock7376 My dog has no nose.

[@mickipixel]

I see there are 3 replies but YT is only showing me 1. So I apologise if I don’t respond, shadow banning seems to be a thing these days with truth talkers

[@orion3253]

I watched that UFPro commercial too bud.

[@bryanodriscoll2123]

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.

[@agesflow6815]

Thank you, Bjorn.

[@rolfrobertson6404]

Hail Bjorn..

[@riffraffjoy]

Cool!

[@fionamcormac7786]

Wow bjorn ..people will talk..😅😅😅😅😅

[@BjornAndreasBull-Hansen]

What do you mean?

[@fionamcormac7786]

😂only joking ..dont worry..

[@koanbonwa]

@@fionamcormac7786 Durn Idioms! 😅

[@BjornOutdoors]

It's a funny word, I agree, haha.

[@함재민-z6k]

Lesson of the day: If you are on a run go bearfoot

[@chrism4008]

You still leave foot prints, and you risk cutting your feet up and leaving a blood trail along with the footprints

[@mantrackingskills]

It was great and a real honor for me to have you as Student but, above all, to learn from you!

[@BjornOutdoors]

Thank you so much. For coming to us here in Norway, and for those kind words!

[@mantrackingskills]

@@BjornOutdoors it's me to thank you!!

[@dennisyoung4496]

It may come in handy if you want to not be tracked. That may come in the near future.

[@newdawnrecordings]

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 ☀️

[@smithusa321]

Love GBGB! Hope to attend some of his courses one day

[@kaylenehousego8929]

I grew up wearing ' no shoes '... from that I learned the joy of wearing...no shoes . Appreciation and blessings from Sydney Australia .

[@kimjameson7979]

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.

[@susanjuta4035]

🙄

[@susanjuta4035]

Of course

[@duoneswart4989]

I think that's an incredibly important skill.

[@livin_life_321]

Sounds like an interesting course. 👍

[@BjornOutdoors]

It really was.

[@sway696]

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.🙏

[@jerrythomas4457]

I’m about to get me some chocolate coffee and a handful of sticks for a fire. Gonna be a Viking!

[@tomcatt998]

Me a caveman 🦧

[@patriciagray484]

Very fascinating. One never know when they will have to run and hide. Unusual subject. Very appreciated. Thank you

[@tundranomad]

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.

[@DuxLindy]

her husband must have a hard time going anywhere, lol

[@mantrackingskills]

ahhaha lol actually he's becoming a Tracker too ;))

[@marksadventures3889]

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.

[@kpheathen9370]

Bjørn the manhunter

[@kenwalters-b8c]

If you learn man tracking, you'll know bow to hide your tracks.

[@theimperialist2686]

Looks very interesting Bjorn, a skill definitely worth learning.

[@cindywiner2772]

IF YOU CAN TRACK, YOU CAN HIDE YOUR TRACKS. FUNNY, THAT WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT.

[@stiv458]

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.

[@Steve197201]

This is fascinating! Thank you, Bjorn.

[@stephenswem2541]

SERE training in the military has absolutely benefited my survivalist skills!

[@stantheman4964]

So you need a woman to help you find a man ?

[@fionamcormac7786]

Great video can we know more from you about this subject..

[@danielleterry2331]

Our native tribes have been trying to keep this skill going , it’s fascinating and you never know when you might need this skill.

[@charitypiersall1675]

Thank you, as always for your time! Very informative!

[@donatelo4466]

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".

[@margomaloney6016]

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! 😊

[@BjornOutdoors]

I am going to. I had intentions to teach them to find me chanterelles. Maybe next year!

[@spotweld]

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

[@jenkimball174]

Very interesting! Thank you for sharing

[@valeriewalker954]

You're always learning something. An amazing man. Keep up the fight. Never surrender 😊

[@shanep2879]

Excellent for SnR and it’s counter, evasion. Responsibility of decision is at the moment🥂

[@koanbonwa]

You left no tracks for eyes, but a nose knows! lol, bark bark nom nom!

[@BjornOutdoors]

Absolutely! We are poor trackers compared to dogs, but in some cases dogs can not be used.

[@brodmontgomery]

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.

[@ThomasWBaldwin]

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.

[@victorblack6995]

It's way easier to track people when they have Bio-metric technology inside their body.....oh, by the way, it's the start of Cold and Flu season, don't forget to get your latest Covid Jab Updates!

[@valeriewalker954]

Hahaha 😅😂😂😂😂

[@abjamaya491]

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!

[@flightographist]

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.

[@samsimple6153]

Going barefoot decreases the physical signs tremendously, but it also increases the scent laid down for dogs to track. Just F.Y.I! Peace!

[@jheremck]

...barefoot...my mode of waIking around...shoes seem awkward...thank you for sharing :)

[@tomcatt998]

Mick Dodge

[@DancingEagle]

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.

[@BjornOutdoors]

Haha!

[@jameswhitaker1324]

A woman who is famous for her man tracking skills. Yes, I’ve met some like her. So far, I’m still free.

[@NaturalTreeHugger]

Also,i started my new job making automotive bolts and i cannot wait to get paid so i can join and purch some merch.🎉

[@Far-North-Bushcraft-Survival]

definitely a fascinating subject and one where I would have much to learn.

[@BjornOutdoors]

Good to see you again! I miss your videos.

[@logoseven3365]

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

[@bmuell64]

This sounds really cool! A great idea and seems it would be fun as well! Thx for sharing.

[@JosephMullin]

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.

[@icescrew1]

Thank you ! Great vid.

[@ericmeechglobalnetwork2273]

Very cool.. always great content.. as always Stay Strong.. thanks Bjorn!

[@HelgiThorisson]

Very interesting.

[@davidhasenbalg7252]

One of my favorite skills. Humans are most dangerous animal.i practice evasion the more.

[@paulworgan6599]

I always wanted to track with my Dog

[@MapleMarmite]

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. 👍🏻

[@crazyroper]

Tracking the most dangerous game I see.

[@icescrew1]

An incredible book I think

[@Brads-strung-out]

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.

[@TheScarletSorceress]

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! 😍

[@gayleshipp2918]

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

[@zebulonswearingen4607]

Thank you!

[@BushcraftQuebec]

I work after treatments in the woods I know I walked where someone did 7 years before

[@julieclearythefeistyrebelg5660]

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.

[@georgepeters9381]

Sweet!

[@famshw7344]

I can see how government elitists could use this knowledge. How would you use them?

[@SolidStateSoul]

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.

[@BjornOutdoors]

They use dogs, you say? Oh, I never ever thought about that...

[@SolidStateSoul]

@@BjornOutdoors Just as you thought that being a smart ass to your viewers will earn you subscribers.

[@FreedomRider223]

billions of people on the planet yet only a handful of Bigfoot tracks. This is why Bigfoot doesn't wear shoes because it makes him harder to find.

[@ThomasWBaldwin]

If police/military "track me", they will be unpleasantly surprised. Its judgement that defeats us.

[@fionamcormac7786]

😂man tracker.haha😅😅😅

[@BjornOutdoors]

Yes, I found it funny too, the first time I heard the term.

[@mantrackingskills]

It is indeed but a synonim is stalker.. so I would go defi for Mantracker ;))

[@NaturalTreeHugger]

Hey there,again. Nice tips,and glad to hear about another overnite video,Salute. Till then,farewell.

[@josephineblanc9801]

MOURNING BJORN VERY INTERESTING I REALLY ENJOYED THAT WELL DONE 👍👍👍

[@chrism4008]

Hes OK, why are you mourning him?

[@mariarosolemos7468]

@@chrism4008 morning!

[@glassygleamer431]

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.

[@antoniescargo1529]

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.

[@Lightandlovetoyou]

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 🫂

[@laracraft82]

A new way of dating for woman 😂❤ interesting. My husband got us stuck once and the only way across the other side was crossing a river...I could have left him there and for someone else to find 😆😏

[@susanjuta4035]

Yes indeed the final conclusion very interesting. Unbelievable shows our merge with nature. Thanks for this share ...

[@timothykuring3016]

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.

[@jeanadamsick9854]

BARE FOOT IS GROUNDING, ALSO. Do take care. USA

[@Electron42]

Thanks Bjorn 👍🏻

[@BjornOutdoors]

Thanks a lot!!

[@piobmhor8529]

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.

[@kerryl4031]

Very interesting. Could be used for dementia sufferers that go wandering in search of home that existed long ago.

[@jesstatz8695]

Wouldn’t a bloodhound be able to track someone better with no shoes? Just thinking.

[@jamesdude4220]

I was ask to teach search and rescue I can track but for different reasons 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

[@mikepaz8385]

I would imagine that these skills could be used in reverse also. 👍🏽

[@crowznest438]

Now there is something most of us have never done before.

[@davidwhite5800]

Nice to see the Cornish flag on your instructor's shoulder there :-)

[@paulworgan6599]

You could tie horse shoes to your feet

[@IvanIsVladimira]

Don`t walk barefoot in snow to hide your tracks🧐

[@sharonbice7490]

I sure wish I was camping on that river, with pole in hand.

[@dominicconnor3437]

I pay close attention to the human tracks I see in my hunting country.

[@russcorbett3923]

Awesome video ,,, Thank You !!!!

[@birddog7492]

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.

[@brendataylor7905]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@chrisholmes6029]

Love to learnmore about this.

[@camraid9]

Bjorn chose Ranger class.

[@BertPreast]

Search and rescue? Lost kid? Nah. You want to know how to track men, probably armed men. Because that is what is really likely to become useful in the next decade.

[@nickel7065]

I mostly want to be able to evade armed men. They will come. But if I can track them and take them out first I will.

[@markgeorge9063]

You'll probably never see this but, I've noticed all prepper channels have lost a considerable amount of viewers. Conspiracy, probably, real or imagined !

[@BjornOutdoors]

I did see it. And I didn't know that!