cheers,
Toddy
You learn skills as you go along, a top tip saying this is how you must put your tarp up or to always have you knife razor sharp may not be easily reached straight away as it is a skill that is learnt through repetition and time practising.
Tips are more along the lines of something that will make your life easier and yet can be achieved if only you think about it and apply yourself. Tips are things like filling your flask last thing at night so that your water is good and hot in the morning and you can bring it back to the boil rapidly for that all important brew!
and things like not getting in your hammock without having a pis* first
That counts as a tip to me! Certainly not a skill! Drinking a case of Carling before going to bed is a skill, not a top tip!
You learn skills as you go along, a top tip saying this is how you must put your tarp up or to always have you knife razor sharp may not be easily reached straight away as it is a skill that is learnt through repetition and time practising.
Tips are more along the lines of something that will make your life easier and yet can be achieved if only you think about it and apply yourself. Tips are things like filling your flask last thing at night so that your water is good and hot in the morning and you can bring it back to the boil rapidly for that all important brew!
My was over the comment that, "everybody is suggesting skills "
Look at post 12 for instance .
cheers,
Toddy
It's actually quite interesting to see the different approaches to the question.
For a long while mainstream teaching seemed not to teach at all but to create environments where children learned for themselves.
Sounds good, but in practice too many children ended up with scatterbrains and no constructive discipline in their behaviour.
Imagine that in a bushcraft situation and we'd have miserable kids never wanting to go back out again Little bits of advice can have an inordinate effect.
Like, the pot lid *will* be hot, or those nettles *will* sting, that knife is sharp don't test it on your brother, or if you don't tie those laces you *will* tangle your feet and coup........not quite the umbrella / eye out with, but the idea is sound.
cheers,
Toddy
Those are tips though, exactly as they are! No skill in not picking up a hot piece of metal!
hammock + drunk + needing loo = world of shame
.....and would it put you off the campfire cooking for ever afterwards ?
cheers,
Toddy
That counts as a tip to me! Certainly not a skill! Drinking a case of Carling before going to bed is a skill, not a top tip!