We Visited A Shropshire Based Bushraft Skills Specialised !

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00:00So hi, my name is James, James Hare and I run Spirited Adventure. It's a bushcraft

00:06survival and air rifle marksmanship company and we have this wonderful 13

00:11acres of woodland here in Shropshire. It's very close to Bridge North, about 15

00:17minutes away and maybe 30 minutes from Shrewsbury Town. We're up on top of a

00:21hill so we get lots of good light and it's just a wonderful place to be. So we

00:27offer all sorts of activities, obviously in the bushcraft and survival realm. So

00:32we will take groups of various ages and we'll teach them how to set fires, make

00:37fires, how to maintain them safely. They'll use the fires for cooking on,

00:42things like that. We also teach whittling skills, so cutting-edge skills we call it.

00:51So that's how to use the saw safely, axes and bushcraft knives to whittle whatever

01:00item they need to whittle on that session. We do have the air rifle range

01:04so we will take groups and I will teach groups the principles of marksmanship in

01:11this lovely woodland setting. In a previous life I

01:19worked in television and lived and worked in London and with that I have a

01:23lot of friends and contacts in that industry and I did receive a call from a

01:27colleague of mine who said that he needed me to come and help them on a

01:31film, James McAvoy's latest film Speak No Evil and what he asked me to do was to

01:37teach him how to do the bow drill which is creating fire by friction, essentially

01:43rubbing two sticks together. So I was absolutely stoked to be asked to go and

01:49do that so I went down and saw the production team and we worked out the

01:55campsite that they also asked me to construct to make it look like an

01:59authentic bushcraft campsite. So we worked on that before the day's shooting

02:05and then the day of shooting came I had about 15 minutes with James McAvoy off

02:11camera which at the time I didn't think was going to be long enough to teach

02:17somebody bow drill if they've never done it before but I was really really

02:22impressed. He took the instruction very quickly and in those 15 minutes he

02:28created an ember and then continued to transfer that ember to the hay tinder

02:33bundle and blow that to flame and then he was asked to do that again on camera

02:39four more times and he proceeded to achieve that four more times which I

02:45think is an outstanding achievement but I thought about it afterwards it makes

02:51sense because he's a good actor a great actor so that's what actors do if you

02:56give them good clear instruction they will be able to you know carry that

03:01activity out so very impressed with him. Well I think a lot of life skills come

03:06through with indirectly as far as teamwork you when you're in the world

03:12of bushcraft things come a bit harder to you so it's one thing to say right we're

03:16going to make a fire but making the fire has to start with collecting dry wood so

03:20what sort of dry wood? Where do you find dry wood? And then once you've collected that

03:25material we then need to locate a safe site to build a fire so what's safe

03:30what's unsafe so there's a lot of thinking involved behind the actual

03:35activity another example would be it's easy to say we're going to whittle some

03:40tent pegs or make some feather sticks but it's all about knife safety and how

03:46how especially for youngsters how they can achieve these skills and not injure

03:52themselves so yeah there's life skills teamwork and I think there's a

03:58well-being for being out in the outdoors and in the in the woods I mean it's a

04:03great place

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