Wood Worker

Rodney Cole

For twenty five years I taught in the classic survival school style. Teach one subject for an hour or more and then practice those skills. Fourteen years ago I meet an instructor, totally by accident, who used a very different style. You teach one small part of a subject for ten minutes, say fire building and then practice. Go to another subject, knot tying for ten minutes and practice. then another and another. Once you have done one of each subject you return to the beginning and practice it again before you add on more training in that subject and then on to more in each subject. The results are that the students retain and understand each skill for much longer.


Short Bio
I went to my first winter survival training when I was 12 in the Boy Scouts. I then had training in the army after both Ranger and Special Forces School. As a reservist I was sent to survival training 11 times including in Canada and Alaska. Because I like to long distance hike I have taken training at 8 different survival schools. I taught survival in the Army for several years and about 2004 I started instructing at survival schools.