I love this! I am pretty good at tracking animals in my home environment in Maine and I got an opportunity to learn some desert tracking in Arizona but tracking people sounds exhilarating!
First and foremost, I haven't watched the video in it's entirety. Trash is another thing that helps age some sign. I have noticed colors red and yellow fade first from labels, whether it be off a water bottle or a something plastic. Another thing I've looked at was left behind water bottles or things that held fluids. If you see the tiny specks of water or liquid at the top of a bottle, it's been there a while. But if that is not present, that bottle has been discarded very recently. One I spent a few hours apart of a tracking team, and I found a water bottle with vibrant yellow on the label and no water specks at the top, but there was a bit of water at the bottom, I figured the bottle was extremely recent. The next day we went out there and someone with a IR camera spotted who we were tracking 300 yards from where I found the bottle. They had hid under brush and slept for the night.
I always carry a roll of window caulk rope. While I have lots of uses for this stuff one good use is to plug/unplug your boot treads to create a variety of patterns. Makes it much more difficult to be tracked. Simply use the caulk to change your boot pattern every time you enter a high traffic or rocky area. Then use a different gait until you are well clear of the area. The idea is to slow them down allowing you to increase the distance between you and them. It also makes you look smarter than them which makes them more cautious which serves the same purpose of slowing them down. Placing a chemical hand warmer in a tree crux of an inaccessible place if they have infrared or wiping your face and peeing on a piece of clothing and then throwing it down a cave crevasse or some inaccessible hiding place then back tracking before setting off in the opposite direction is also a good move if they have dogs. Trying to track me is a lot of fun for me. 😂
I would love to have the training to track as efficiently as what I am hearing from this video but I have learned a lot in my part of the world. I live in South Alabama and I can tell you that we have reactive plants here, they aren’t native but the mimosa closes with rough contact and in lots of places it’s just small ground clutter. We also have lots of plants that will funnel anything but maybe a hog. The hogs go around most of it as well unless they are scared or mad. Spanish bayonet is a good example, most animals of any size can’t go through it. Some people call it palmetto I believe.
Living in the country you find out who’s tire marks were in your drive! Tape your footwear up to eliminate tread marks and don’t dig your heels in 😅and never walk in a straight line or take even pace and step on hard surfaces that don’t retain a print 😊
During my time in the forces I learned that our training on tracking and ambush position identification were not great. As a private playing OpFor for more experienced troops I was consistently able to ambush them. It wasn't through any particular skill or talent on my part, but definitely through a distinct lack of training on the Forces part.
awesome video, the Czech border guard under communism was best, the iron curtain has a 3m sandbar from each side in middle was a 3m T shape signaling fence, and some parts were guarded with independent dogs(Czechoslovakian Wolfdog), and a few people were eaten alive. You had approximately a 10% chance of escape😎😎
I took a tracking class by them in North Carolina. Good skill for tracking lost or unarmed people. Tracking an armed person is a good way to get unalived while you’re focused on spore
A really fun training game I used to do as a teen was to get a group of friends together, find a nice large chunk of Wildland, give one or two of the group an hour headstart. Then the rest of the group tracks and closes the distance. Like extreme hide and seek. We ended up teaching ourselves allot of the techniques shown in this video.
SD is a phenomenal tracker, and anyone would befit from attending his course. That being said maybe individual Agents took his class and retired Agents did teach at TTOS. But I don't think SD ever got paid to teach the BP. The Border Patrol was tracking and teaching others to track, include the military long before SD immigrated to the US. It all just predates the internet, so people either don't know or pretend it didn't happen.
The Rhodesian SAS guy Peter refers to in the video is David Scott-Donelan. Both Scott-Donelan and Peter Kerr came out to Okinawa around 2003-04 timeframe to train 3rd Recon Bn and some of the SF types on Torii Station.
If you ever want to have a good laugh, train people to track squirrels. These varmints will jump from tree to tree making the track very difficult. It is like tracking cats in the woods. I take city boys hunting, while they are looking for deer tracks, I am watching for cat and bear overhead. These city boys have no idea what dangers are there until they come face to face with one. Injured targets may not leave blood, but the panicked step is easy to identify. The major thing to learn is how to cover ground without leaving an easy path for a tracker. One trick not covered is changing the track with bark, foliage, or a change in shoes.
Holy crap thanks for making this I have always thought I was ok at tracking foot steps that how we find friends when they get separated in the woods from us here in south FL but learned a ton more from this!
Another tip I picked up from a Tactical Tracking Class: Every 2nd or 3rd set of prints, use your measuring stick/weapon/etc and do a 270 arc with the device and have everyone look at the arc to look for possible hides or places to hole-up. Just because a track goes in a particular direction does NOT mean that the subject is fully intent on that direction! The subject could be leading off to a place where they can obfuscate their tracks and direction, so as to go back to the hide location!
Always double back before setting up your firing position (Nightmare fuel for Tracker), in the tracking mindset it is easy to go beyond your target just to get jail raped from behind. That 270 needs to be 360
Glad to see interest growing in tracking please do more on the subject! Would love to take a deep dive into more of the Psychology aspect, presenter was great.
deception technique could mean the person being tracked keeps turning around to see if his being tracked or being followed that would let the tracker know that the person being tacked might be close
I remember, I think it was 1981/82 while stationed at FT. Bragg, being sent to JOTC at FT.Sherman Panama. It was their jungle operation jungle survival school, man that was a long time ago. I believe we parachuted at the French Canal. Brings back memories. During Grenada Invasion, I was sent out a couple times to do some tracking. I sometimes go out on my remote property and track animals, just for fun, keep my skills up. But if I dont go out for a while, I overlook things, realized i have to sit down, slow down,focus, and remember, attention to detail.
This is a awesome video even just by watching it you’re 100 times better off than somebody with no knowledge at all. Thanks a lot T are you guys rock. I always learn something watching you guys exclamation
Great video! Love the effort and knowledge and time and I really appreciate it guys! Great job by the sound guy too! TH-cam - quit shadow banning these pro-American channels. This should have tens of thousands of more views.
They have a tracking school for that purpose--that's what TTOS is for. Initially through David Scott Donelan--a former Selous Scout from SA. Dude is a legend. The Army cut ties eventually because people got butt-hurt about him working for a former apartheid state. It's a small school that not a ton of soldiers get to go through, unfortunately.
Good intro. You can incorporate a lot of this into property defense, if you’re securing a large property. Go figure out the lines of drift in your property, look for and identify spoor traps, on those lines of drift. If there’s not one, make one, by setting a small obstacle across the line and prepping the ground on the other side of the obstacle, for tracks. Cellular game cams are good too
as a young army cadet (prior to my ADF service) I attended an Arustralian Army tracking course for two weeks. Amazing. However the Aboriginal trackers can jog when tracking, they're so good
One point I disagree with. That’s him saying if a person is concealing their direction with what he says is a deception technique are up to no good. Maybe that some people know about this and do not want to be followed. They could be ex military. The could be a person like I say that is just aware of these things and doesn’t trust humanity, ( rightfully so ) and they prefer moving in stealth. I mean even he said in the beginning with a questionable laugh that people have evolved.
good luck tracking me in the upper midwest! aint anything like this easy terrain in the video! i hunt deer by tracking/ stalking, more fun than baiting or hunting from a stand or blind
Best trackers are the Namibian Bushman. The South African military used their skills during the Bush war to track terrorists. They can track animals for days into the Namibian desert chasing an animal till it drop dead from exhaustion.
What Makes You think you'd be looking for Foot prints? its to obvious fellas; Tactical Tracking is about realising Humans aren't always idiot enough to leave foot prints. Good your highlighting the basics.
By far the least available or even thought of topic in the "military enthusiast"/prepper/wannabe commando community. I checked for courses online out of curiosity (in 4 languages) and found *almost* nothing - not even for park rangers and law enforcement
I'm in hawaii. I'd love to help by being the one tracked. Spent my whole life in the mountains and jungles of Hawaii hunting and hiking. If you need runners with years of outdoors experience please contact me. All of my hunting experience is stalking and tracking. Do not sit and wait nor do I tree stand.
Out hunting once wearing an open camo jacket with bright red shirt, lady 20 yards from me, dog barking and she's yelling to her husband that something is there. Must have stared directly at me for at least a minute.
Greetings and Salutations Well, everyone does not have it like you do, that's why you easier to find I had that nerve cluster moved years ago 😊 Great upload, thanks
LOL catch Carl I could catch Carl with my eyes closed there's no challenge there when you were talking earlier about smarts versus smarts that's not an opponent just running from you that's an opponent trying to survive and to survive he has to rub you out my daddy and my grandpa used to say life don't play fair so you shouldn't either there's no such thing and there's a lot of booby traps that you can set to slow down a Tracker all you're doing is wasting time to get space between you so that you can set a trap he won't get out of
Does anyone remember that there was a show where the police or military forces chased a human while he was escaping? Does anyone remember the name of the show?
New skills and TR teaching can't be beat!!😎👍👍Thanks for bringing us the best🙏🙏 I knew this was old hand for Karl, but surprised that Imri wasn't already a master like Seaux as well or is he!?🤔🧐
Awesome video, skills that can be applied in hunting, and people searching. I would love to see how this could be turned into a fun game as a part of skill progression.
Dad said he was going to liquor store 15 years ago, finally found him. Thanks TR!
Was he at the local bar?
@@CunningOfReason yep, sitting next to my old man.
Happy to hear that so where the hell was he 😅
Hellfire i didnt even know i had brothers till i learnt this!
@@dennistate5953 it does pay to discover... or so the commercial goes.. every once in a while. ;-)
I love this! I am pretty good at tracking animals in my home environment in Maine and I got an opportunity to learn some desert tracking in Arizona but tracking people sounds exhilarating!
Tracking aka stalking
First and foremost, I haven't watched the video in it's entirety. Trash is another thing that helps age some sign. I have noticed colors red and yellow fade first from labels, whether it be off a water bottle or a something plastic. Another thing I've looked at was left behind water bottles or things that held fluids. If you see the tiny specks of water or liquid at the top of a bottle, it's been there a while. But if that is not present, that bottle has been discarded very recently. One I spent a few hours apart of a tracking team, and I found a water bottle with vibrant yellow on the label and no water specks at the top, but there was a bit of water at the bottom, I figured the bottle was extremely recent. The next day we went out there and someone with a IR camera spotted who we were tracking 300 yards from where I found the bottle. They had hid under brush and slept for the night.
I always carry a roll of window caulk rope. While I have lots of uses for this stuff one good use is to plug/unplug your boot treads to create a variety of patterns. Makes it much more difficult to be tracked. Simply use the caulk to change your boot pattern every time you enter a high traffic or rocky area. Then use a different gait until you are well clear of the area. The idea is to slow them down allowing you to increase the distance between you and them. It also makes you look smarter than them which makes them more cautious which serves the same purpose of slowing them down. Placing a chemical hand warmer in a tree crux of an inaccessible place if they have infrared or wiping your face and peeing on a piece of clothing and then throwing it down a cave crevasse or some inaccessible hiding place then back tracking before setting off in the opposite direction is also a good move if they have dogs. Trying to track me is a lot of fun for me. 😂
Solid advice
I would love to have the training to track as efficiently as what I am hearing from this video but I have learned a lot in my part of the world. I live in South Alabama and I can tell you that we have reactive plants here, they aren’t native but the mimosa closes with rough contact and in lots of places it’s just small ground clutter. We also have lots of plants that will funnel anything but maybe a hog. The hogs go around most of it as well unless they are scared or mad. Spanish bayonet is a good example, most animals of any size can’t go through it. Some people call it palmetto I believe.
Just found your channels guys and love this content. Thanks for sharing. Cheers from Alberta!
Welcome aboard! Thanks for watching
Living in the country you find out who’s tire marks were in your drive! Tape your footwear up to eliminate tread marks and don’t dig your heels in 😅and never walk in a straight line or take even pace and step on hard surfaces that don’t retain a print 😊
During my time in the forces I learned that our training on tracking and ambush position identification were not great. As a private playing OpFor for more experienced troops I was consistently able to ambush them. It wasn't through any particular skill or talent on my part, but definitely through a distinct lack of training on the Forces part.
awesome video, the Czech border guard under communism was best, the iron curtain has a 3m sandbar from each side in middle was a 3m T shape signaling fence, and some parts were guarded with independent dogs(Czechoslovakian Wolfdog), and a few people were eaten alive. You had approximately a 10% chance of escape😎😎
Great info!
Very professional
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching, TR
Infrared will detect foot prints left behind for an hour, and reviel a hidden body... Especially good at night.
Awsome video, very useful info. Cant wait to practice.
Glad it was helpful!
Great content!!!!! It would have been funny If Karl j hooked and set up a hide, then lit them up with some paintballs!!! Good stuff!!
Next time!
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Koevoet , 31 , 32 battalion
Good Stuff
Thanks for the visit
What happened to the live streams, tactical Tuesday?
We still do a Tactical Tuesday Livestream every Tuesday. However, they are now on our sister channel: TR Live on TH-cam. Hope to see you there. TR
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I took a tracking class by them in North Carolina. Good skill for tracking lost or unarmed people. Tracking an armed person is a good way to get unalived while you’re focused on spore
That's why trackers carry another tracker to cover their head-backs while they focus on spore.
There is a reason the military sends teams of armed scouts, not just one.
A really fun training game I used to do as a teen was to get a group of friends together, find a nice large chunk of Wildland, give one or two of the group an hour headstart. Then the rest of the group tracks and closes the distance. Like extreme hide and seek. We ended up teaching ourselves allot of the techniques shown in this video.
Awesome
I don't know if he's retired now, but Scott Donelan from Africa is one of the best trackers around. He used to teach the U.S. Border Patrol.
SD is a phenomenal tracker, and anyone would befit from attending his course. That being said maybe individual Agents took his class and retired Agents did teach at TTOS. But I don't think SD ever got paid to teach the BP. The Border Patrol was tracking and teaching others to track, include the military long before SD immigrated to the US. It all just predates the internet, so people either don't know or pretend it didn't happen.
The Rhodesian SAS guy Peter refers to in the video is David Scott-Donelan. Both Scott-Donelan and Peter Kerr came out to Okinawa around 2003-04 timeframe to train 3rd Recon Bn and some of the SF types on Torii Station.
I wouldn't put that on my resume if I was him.
i personally got trained by David Scott-Donelan in South Africa
Tracking humans with a working dog works best for me. 🤷🏻♂️🐺
If you ever want to have a good laugh, train people to track squirrels. These varmints will jump from tree to tree making the track very difficult. It is like tracking cats in the woods. I take city boys hunting, while they are looking for deer tracks, I am watching for cat and bear overhead. These city boys have no idea what dangers are there until they come face to face with one. Injured targets may not leave blood, but the panicked step is easy to identify. The major thing to learn is how to cover ground without leaving an easy path for a tracker. One trick not covered is changing the track with bark, foliage, or a change in shoes.
If she's "butchy in her stride" ...Ha Ha!
Holy crap thanks for making this I have always thought I was ok at tracking foot steps that how we find friends when they get separated in the woods from us here in south FL but learned a ton more from this!
Another tip I picked up from a Tactical Tracking Class: Every 2nd or 3rd set of prints, use your measuring stick/weapon/etc and do a 270 arc with the device and have everyone look at the arc to look for possible hides or places to hole-up. Just because a track goes in a particular direction does NOT mean that the subject is fully intent on that direction! The subject could be leading off to a place where they can obfuscate their tracks and direction, so as to go back to the hide location!
Always double back before setting up your firing position (Nightmare fuel for Tracker), in the tracking mindset it is easy to go beyond your target just to get jail raped from behind. That 270 needs to be 360
Can a really good tracker foil other trackers' abilities and thereby move without detection?
There are tricks of the trade. If you know what to look for, it is easier to hide it
Well yes. The reasons American slaves went through rivers and swamps was to avoid leaving footprints.
dont play hide and seek with this guy, he plays for keeps
Glad to see interest growing in tracking please do more on the subject! Would love to take a deep dive into more of the Psychology aspect, presenter was great.
You got it!
Tracking humans is way easier Then tracking wild game… From my experience been hunting my entire life...
A good skill to have 🐸🔱
deception technique could mean the person being tracked keeps turning around to see if his being tracked or being followed that would let the tracker know that the person being tacked might be close
If the footprints are running away from me i know its a girl
If Peter had anymore energy, he could power a city 😳
Karl take it easy on those old knees. I could hear them scream all the way across the country.
Good luck on your recovery.
Awesome video so much info packed into a short time. I love these practical videos can't wait for the next installment.
More to come!
I remember, I think it was 1981/82 while stationed at FT. Bragg, being sent to JOTC at FT.Sherman Panama.
It was their jungle operation jungle survival school, man that was a long time ago.
I believe we parachuted at the French Canal.
Brings back memories.
During Grenada Invasion, I was sent out a couple times to do some tracking.
I sometimes go out on my remote property and track animals, just for fun, keep my skills up.
But if I dont go out for a while, I overlook things, realized i have to sit down, slow down,focus, and remember, attention to detail.
Tracking the most dangerous animal on earth...good info.
This is a awesome video even just by watching it you’re 100 times better off than somebody with no knowledge at all. Thanks a lot T are you guys rock. I always learn something watching you guys exclamation
Glad you enjoyed it!
You guys would never find me....I EDC a pocket whisk broom.
They would have never found me. I would have ridden one of those mules.
Just don't tell everything.. could be making better criminals.. something to build off of. Would love to take an indeapth class. ..
I would love to see another video like this one I feel like I have learned so much awesome job everyone 👍👍
More to come
Great video! Love the effort and knowledge and time and I really appreciate it guys! Great job by the sound guy too! TH-cam - quit shadow banning these pro-American channels. This should have tens of thousands of more views.
Much appreciated!
This is a great video. Reminds me of all the nonfiction I've read about stories of expert trackers.
Brah, lol it is literally foot prints in the dirt in a very sandy area.. But good job anyways boys..
Who remembers the TV show about the guy who tracked you on horseback in Montana
Man Tracker! I learned a lot from that show.
Great video looking forward to more!
I’m only here to learn so I will never lose hide and seek with my kids every again lol
What if the U.S. Military had human trackers on the field?
They have a tracking school for that purpose--that's what TTOS is for. Initially through David Scott Donelan--a former Selous Scout from SA. Dude is a legend. The Army cut ties eventually because people got butt-hurt about him working for a former apartheid state. It's a small school that not a ton of soldiers get to go through, unfortunately.
It's amazing the things you can learn from playing hide n' seek as a kid. .
Good intro. You can incorporate a lot of this into property defense, if you’re securing a large property. Go figure out the lines of drift in your property, look for and identify spoor traps, on those lines of drift. If there’s not one, make one, by setting a small obstacle across the line and prepping the ground on the other side of the obstacle, for tracks. Cellular game cams are good too
I still laugh when I hear "Jungle School" in Hawaii...lol...VERY different than "real" jungle...Ft Sherman was a REAL Jungle school...
My buddy is a border patrol agent out in the mountains east of San Diego. He does this everyday.
Had a brother stationed Chula Vista. those hills are some tough terrain.
as a young army cadet (prior to my ADF service) I attended an Arustralian Army tracking course for two weeks. Amazing. However the Aboriginal trackers can jog when tracking, they're so good
The best search and rescue and military tracker in North America and probably the world is Pat Howard in northern New Mexico. Cool video.
One point I disagree with. That’s him saying if a person is concealing their direction with what he says is a deception technique are up to no good. Maybe that some people know about this and do not want to be followed. They could be ex military. The could be a person like I say that is just aware of these things and doesn’t trust humanity, ( rightfully so ) and they prefer moving in stealth. I mean even he said in the beginning with a questionable laugh that people have evolved.
Just Google 'em!
good luck tracking me in the upper midwest! aint anything like this easy terrain in the video! i hunt deer by tracking/ stalking, more fun than baiting or hunting from a stand or blind
let's get this gentlemen out to the SERE Challenge!
Russians track using heat seeking missiles. It's quicker that way. 😂
Kept me engaged for the whole hour!
Best trackers are the Namibian Bushman. The South African military used their skills during the Bush war to track terrorists.
They can track animals for days into the Namibian desert chasing an animal till it drop dead from exhaustion.
Lmao. Butchy and just don’t care
What Makes You think you'd be looking for Foot prints? its to obvious fellas; Tactical Tracking is about realising Humans aren't always idiot enough to leave foot prints. Good your highlighting the basics.
By far the least available or even thought of topic in the "military enthusiast"/prepper/wannabe commando community. I checked for courses online out of curiosity (in 4 languages) and found *almost* nothing - not even for park rangers and law enforcement
TNX
I'm in hawaii. I'd love to help by being the one tracked. Spent my whole life in the mountains and jungles of Hawaii hunting and hiking. If you need runners with years of outdoors experience please contact me. All of my hunting experience is stalking and tracking. Do not sit and wait nor do I tree stand.
Sounded like a Metallica song played in reverse. I back tracked my steps and found him.
Outstanding knowledge drop- Cheers!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Out hunting once wearing an open camo jacket with bright red shirt, lady 20 yards from me, dog barking and she's yelling to her husband that something is there. Must have stared directly at me for at least a minute.
Is this filmed in New Mexico? Specifically Alamagordo??
Greetings and Salutations
Well, everyone does not have it like you do, that's why you easier to find
I had that nerve cluster moved years ago 😊
Great upload, thanks
I'm trying to figure out why human beings are tracking me and monitoring my life like they are crazed fools!!!
Look forward to the "How to dress a human corpse like the legend Jeffery" it's gonna be legendary
LOL catch Carl I could catch Carl with my eyes closed there's no challenge there when you were talking earlier about smarts versus smarts that's not an opponent just running from you that's an opponent trying to survive and to survive he has to rub you out my daddy and my grandpa used to say life don't play fair so you shouldn't either there's no such thing and there's a lot of booby traps that you can set to slow down a Tracker all you're doing is wasting time to get space between you so that you can set a trap he won't get out of
Does anyone remember that there was a show where the police or military forces chased a human while he was escaping? Does anyone remember the name of the show?
These guys are extremely well trained and well informed. I wouldn't like to p*ss them off😂
Good video the only part I didn't like was in the beginning when he gave clues about being a Saturday people.
This is embarrassing, I thought it said,how to be an attractive human being. Oops...🙄
I love tracking. But verbal masturbation gives me a headache. How can some one talk so much and say so little.
Lol. He said if she’s butchy and just doesn’t care. Classic.
How about doing a video about evading, possibly with dogs?
That gets into tactics, and we don’t do tactics on the open internet. Thanks for watching, TR
Humans tend to leave a lot of garbage and trash behind. Find the garbage you’ll find the tracks.
This is a short man's job, my back would be killing 😅
Sorry but... The 1/3 rd screen format, is not worth the time to watch...
This class would be wonderful for attention deficit young boys to do instead of giving them drugs.
One of the Mongolian children nearly got out of the Forest, thanks for the Advice!
Beshak mere zindagi ka ek pasandeda bayan
That's why I wear shoes that leave duck foot prints, throw my pesruers off.
New skills and TR teaching can't be beat!!😎👍👍Thanks for bringing us the best🙏🙏 I knew this was old hand for Karl, but surprised that Imri wasn't already a master like Seaux as well or is he!?🤔🧐
Glad you enjoyed it
Big time knife collector I stopped buying tops because of their sheaths
Whoever worked the camera for the guy they sent out, did those fancy evasion ideas no help at all.
In our temporate dense forest full of ground caves and springs and streams and marshes to track person even with dogs is another story
The best trackers was those dudes from Africa during Border War
Awesome video, skills that can be applied in hunting, and people searching. I would love to see how this could be turned into a fun game as a part of skill progression.
Tactical hide and seek
Imri, my second favorite Jew. Loved it!!!!
Take a shot every time instructor says what not! Yeaaa buddyyy!
Your guest was wearing a tactical hoodie. Where can I find one?
How to set up an ambush against someone tracking a human that's what I'm all about
Definitely one of the best demonstrations and explanation of tracking very informative
Glad you think so!