In our 14th episode Brad Salon of the Roots School joins Matt Corradino of Caribbean Earth Skills at his home in St Croix. In this episode we talk about survival in the tropics, and cover topics such as hazards, tropes and myths of survival, and what survival used to look like here in ages past.

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Check out Matt at https://www.caribbeanearthskills.com/

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In our 13th episode Matt Corradino of Caribbean Earth Skills and Brad Salon of Roots School talk about Flint Knapping. Expect to learn why they love to knap, what their favorite rock sources are, their opinions about tool kits, how to approach learning it and much more.

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Check out Matt at https://www.caribbeanearthskills.com/

Check out Brad at https://rootsvt.com/

In our 12th episode Matt Corradino and Brad Salon talk tracking. We discuss what is hard about it, what is hard to teach about it, and where we see the lines of what is possible in the world of tracking. Expect to learn what role, if any, intuition plays in tracking, what it takes to age a track, what a "pressure release" is, and what pitfalls face people trying to learn tracking.

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Check out Matt at https://www.caribbeanearthskills.com/

Check out Brad at https://rootsvt.com/

In our 11th Episode Matt Corradino and Brad Salon talk about the idea of one person surviving in nature and how glamorized and unrealistic it is. Expect to learn how groups are best for survival, what skills are best done alone, how being alone has created difficulties when doing skills or in survival situations, and when being alone is ideal from our perspectives. Did you get into survival with the idea of being a lone survivor?

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Check out Matt at https://www.caribbeanearthskills.com/

Check out Brad at https://rootsvt.com/

In our 10th Episode Matt and Brad talk about caretaking, or stewarding the landscape. We talk about engaging with the landscape through harvesting and collecting, selective cutting and clearing, planting and more. Expect to learn about having long term relationships with the landscape, our failures and successes, and our opinions on how to build biodiversity, for the sake of human survival as well as the landscapes own benefit.

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Check out Matt at https://www.caribbeanearthskills.com/

Check out Brad at https://rootsvt.com/

In our 9th Episode Brad Salon of Roots School and Matt Corradino of Caribbean Earth Skills discuss their experiences learning, practicing, and teaching "scout skills" . These skills include but are not limited to situational and sensory awareness, threat detection, stealth movement, team work and leadership, self defense martial arts, and a host of other skills people have used to protect themselves and their communities.

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Check out Matt at https://www.caribbeanearthskills.com/

Check out Brad at https://rootsvt.com/

In our eighth episode Matt Corradino of Caribbean Earth Skills and Brad Salon of Roots School talk all things fire. In this general look at all things fire skills we talk about preferences and tips for making , learning, and teaching bow drill fire and other friction fire techniques. We also talk about the value of fire building skills and pushing the one match fire. Also expect to learn about the many uses of fire in survival and primitive skills as we discuss some of our favorite applications and uses.

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Check out Matt at https://www.caribbeanearthskills.com/

Check out Brad at https://rootsvt.com/

In our 7th episode Brad Salon of Roots School and Matt Corradino of Caribbean Earth Skills talk about making primitive arrows. Whether for traditional archery, traditional hunting, or for survival skills, we talk about our preferences and mistakes for making arrows from scratch out of natural materials.  Expect to learn about selecting and straightening arrow shafts from the wild, hafting the arrowhead, pitch glue, fletching with feathers and sinew, spining the arrow, cutting nocks, broadheads, and more. 

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Check out Matt at https://www.caribbeanearthskills.com/

Check out Brad at https://rootsvt.com/

In our 6th episode Brad Salon of Roots School and Matt Corradino of Caribbean Earth Skills talk about their experience teaching kids wilderness skills. Expect to learn what Matt and Brad do with their own kids to foster the skills from a very early age and keep them engaged with them as well as working in groups with other peoples children over the years. We talk about teaching kids to carve and use knives and saws, archery, bow drill, and a spectrum of survival skills and primitive skills. We do an okay job of not bragging about our kids too much.

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Check out Matt at https://www.caribbeanearthskills.com/

Check out Brad at https://rootsvt.com/

In our fifth episode Brad Salon of Roots School and Matt Corradino of Caribbean Earth Skills talk about their opinions regarding survival priorities, or what to do in what order in order to stay alive. Expect to learn about survival mindset, shelter building, fire making, water purification, hunting and foraging as well as some other nooks and crannies of survival we get into. A good general primer for survival skills and primitive survival.

 Let us know your thoughts in the comments or future topics you'd like to hear us discuss!

Check out Matt at https://www.caribbeanearthskills.com/

Check out Brad at https://rootsvt.com/