Extreme Exploration + Adventure - Learn How to Capture Your Adventures like this Marine Force Recon turned World Class Pro Photog + Videographer

Swinging axes through the air with enough force to crack rock solid ice knowing that axe, that swing, is the one thing is keeping you on the face of a treacherous wall of ice…and away from certain death…that’s the sort of thing our guest gets up to before he shows up for work in the morning. That’s right, while most of us wake up and it is an accomplishment to manage to get the coffee going before work – he’s out there on extreme adventures while we are literally eating our breakfast.  Host Allison Barrie loves looking at the instagram and facebook feeds of Tactical Talk listeners so she decided this week to hook you up with one of her favorite professional photographers and videographers and ask him to share some of his insider top tips to capturing and sharing your adventures. Jake Blick served 12 years with the Marines and earned the incredibly tough selection into Marine Force Recon. Now he gets to travel around the world documenting his extraordinary extreme adventures from Brazil, China and Costa Rica through to Namibia, New Zealand and Russia. He shares some of his fascinating moments of his epic adventures. Listen up for a modern day Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy/all things manly moment when gentleman Jake runs miles down a steep treacherous mountain  - carrying his injured girlfriend the whole way - to medical help. Jake reveals some of his insider tips on fitness and training for everything from ice climbing and ski mountaineering to surfing and ultra marathons. Get hooked up ultimate insider tips on how to document your adventures like a pro. Hear Jake’s advice on the best camera gear and his top tips on gear and packing right for lots of different types of adventures. Get ideas on how to take your own feeds to another level. Know the “bar of woe”? You’ll know that insider knowledge after today and know why you should know it. Find out what tastes like a pinecone and should be avoided at all costs. Jake shares with you one of the most epic icebreaker answers to craziest thing eaten – you will never see it coming. And absolutely do not miss Jake taking you firsthand into what happened when he was running alone through the wilderness and faced off against a brown bear and her cubs – find out how he lived to tell the tale.