We Visited A Shropshire Based Bushraft Skills Specialised !
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