Survival Racing and Core Fitness (Class Calendar)
Survival Racing is a way to push yourself and compete - either as a way
to test your fitness and bushcraft skills against others, or to just test yourself
individually.
Survival Racing is offered as both an individual and a team event. It could
be thought of as "Adventure-Racing-Meets-Survival-Skills."
Survival Racing is also a way to introduce Core Fitness, which is an adjunct to
the core classes. Since so much material in the core classes is devoted to learning
skills, the actual physical and mental fitness part of those specialties becomes
be neglected without a specific fitness program designed around the core course
physical needs.
Because Core Fitness is directed toward the specialty skills, the training is often
based around the scenario of fight or flight. Additionally, mental skills and awareness
are pushed and exercised as well, while a Core Fitness participant is under physical
stress and tired.
Survival Racing creates an environment in the context of a several-hour
long race, to push the limits of your endurance, concentration and abilities.
Under duress, and in the presence of adrenaline, the finer motor skills are the
first skills to vanish as the body responds in panic. Core Fitness often tries to
push the body into that state of adrenaline to force the student to control that
adrenaline dump, and be able to function out of discipline and muscle memory, rather
than panic.
Some of the
Survival Racing and Core Fitness basic exercises include:
- Endurance Running and Walking
- Stealth/slow movement: bi- and quadrapedal
- Flexibility
- Core muscle strength
- Plyometrics and burst energy
- Self Defense Striking
- Grappling and ground fighting
- Multiple Attacker Drills
- Agility and Parkour-type exercises
- Throwing exercises to learn to use both sides of the body equally: Throwing sticks,
knives, axes
- Strength exercises using natural logs, rocks, etc
- Awareness running, awareness exercises
- Instinctive Handgun, rifle and bow (for now, using high-performance paintball handguns,
high-performance air-rifles, natural, self-made bows), always done either under
pressure, or while tired and recovering from oxygen debt
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