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this is SURVIVOLOGY 101 so lets go I said lets go what are you waiting for come on so
let me ask you a question have you ever been in a situation where you had to have a shelter
right now no time to waste no time to fiddle around with cutting down trees and building
any elaborate structures but you had to get out of the weather now well that's what this
shelter was designed for so about six years ago I put together a video called the ninja
shelter and I didn't make any claims to the actual triangle shelter that structure has
been used a lot but what I did do was I developed the way to pack it down and carry it with
me everywhere I went I kind of improved it for my needs and at the time my needs were
lightweight and packable as a backup so since I released that video I have seen a lot of
different versions and they all call it the ninja shelter that's awesome but that actual
video isn't that great so I thought that I would come out here and put together another
video and show you some other options for it so that you too can have a ninja shelter
packed away and ready to go in the last minute in case of any kind of an emergency so the
first step in this process is to find a suitable location you have got to have a sturdy object
a tree a telephone pole I have actually done it off the mirror of a motorcycle the ground
should be relatively flat now this tarp is a Jervin Fjellduken from Norway I picked it
up in Norway but Ill show you later that you can do this with any tarp not just this one
the second step is to secure your main line and since most of these tarps aren't perfectly
square you will want to lay it out flat and figure out which side you want the long edge
on and which side you want the short edge on what I have are all these pieces of nano
cord in every eyelet on my tarp they stay there permanently and they have a series of
knots tied in them so I can adjust where exactly I want to hook it up without giving it too
much thought so once this end is secured the next point is to follow this eyelet down to
the opposing corner and stake that one in once that one is staked down we follow it
up on the opposing corner sides and now the shelter is complete alternatively
you can move the pin on the far side and close it up and make a much smaller shelter with
one vertical wall so this is one option for the layout and while its not absolutely necessary
it is beneficial if you take an extra tent stake and stake that line out so it gives
you just a little bit more ground cover so one question I get asked whenever I teach
this method is why did I call it the ninja shelter well I'm gonna tell you there is a
small sub culture of people who just kinda crash camp roll off the side of the road crash
out in the bushes get up before the sun and keep rolling either on bicycles motorcycles
cars whatever it is just a free way to travel when in certain circles that's called ninja
camping hence the ninja shelter the point is you can put it up in under a minute at
last light you can take it down in under a minute at first light and be gone before anybody
knows you were there so another question I sometimes get asked is when would you use
this shelter and the answer is anytime that you would want to use a shelter because of
the elastic cord its real stable in high winds it has full over head cover rain and snow
its low to the ground its very easy to camouflage if that happens to be your thing and its quick
and efficient so what about the winter time I recently had my two friends Robert Manilla
practical survivor and Mikhail Merkerov from Emberlit up here for a winter camp and Robert
Manilla did something interesting and he built a ninja shelter but he also turned it into
a super shelter so it was like a ninja super shelter and he got it to the best that I can
remember about eighty degrees on the inside when it was negative twenty on the outside
so you cant really argue with that kind of detail so in this bag are some additions that
would make this a really good start on a warm winter shelter you want to take the roof off
and fold it over the backside to give you room to work and then you build the liner
in the same way you built the shelter in the first place so in order to put our space blanket
into use on the inside of the shelter we are going to need some small smooth pebbles and
our four cords before you can build the liner you have to secure your Indian buttons on
all four corners in some cases you want to attach an extra hank of nano cord to one of
the corners now I am gonna use the little bungee cord
and the three extra pegs that I have to set up the liner so of course this bungee cord
can be replaced with just a piece of cordage or anything you can find if you don't happen
to have one we have already set up the ninja shelter we set up the liner for it and I hope
that you see with the combination that especially the way that we set up up the liner you can
take any piece of anything that you can find that will work as some sort of tentage that's
big enough to cover your body it can be a piece of scrap plastic it can be a painters
tarp it can be an old curtain anything and maybe a pair of boot laces and you could set
up a shelter practically anywhere in no time at all so I have one final question for you
do you see any improvements that we could do to it to make it better stronger quicker
if so put that down in the comments maybe we can experiment with it and maybe we can
make it a better shelter than it already is I hope you all enjoyed that let me know what
you think if you try it you can connect with me here in the comments or on Instagram Facebook
and Twitter and I will see you on the next one