What Na'vi Indigenous Skills are you Learning - other than Languange

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Originally Posted by Theorist

I also have worked on the flint and steel fire starting, but haven't gotten a true fire. I've gotten a flame to burn for a few minus, but did not get it to go into a full fire. They make it look so easy on those survival shows. In reality when you learn, there's a good chance you sit on your knees for an hours, and you run out of flint before you get a fire.

You could try practice the "one match fire" first. Meaning to try to make a fire with one single lit match. That way you can see how to build a fire once you have a flame. If that works, you can try again getting to the flame with flint&steel or bowdrill - and then be sure that you will not loose the flame afterwards. I found it not to be too hard to do these with the proper equipment. It has to be the right kind of steel, flint and tinder or the right kind of woods and string for the bowdrill.

Originally Posted by Niri Te

WAY TO GO RAIDEN !!!
If the truth be known, I received workbooks and tapes on Tsalagi over a DECADE ago, but after the treatment that I received from MANY of the clan concerning my gift of being a "Two Spirit", I never had much drive to study it

What do you mean by that? I guess I missed something here :s

Originally Posted by Human No More

I do intend to get a bow and learn eventually, but right now lack both the money and anywhere suitable for practice

Oi - that should not be hard at all. I dont know about the UK, but here in Germany, there are dozens of archery clubs around. Of course most are "boring" ones with straw disks as targets and people shooting not only wooden but also modern bows - but hey, its archery. We even had a really affordable course option at the university sports center here. And then we have plenty of clubs doing "hunting archery" - not really killing animals, that is forbidden by law, but setting up a parcours in the forest with plastic foam animals - this is a lot of fun. I am sad that I did not have the time for it in a while.

Also, my second self-made bow is still not even close to be finished - also because of little time. I wanted to make a stronger one than the one I made first.

Originally Posted by Human No More

Getting there involves a long walk mostly along main roads or a bus, but where I live, you often see stranger things than someone carrying a bow , and I figured as much about legality but good to hear it from someone with a little related experience.

Sounds cool. Here in Germany, bows and arrows are considered a sports equipment and one is allowed to carry it as long as it is not ready to shoot. The situation of where one is allowed to actually practice that sport is another issue - some say that as long as one does it safely, it is basically allowed in any open space. But I guess the police would differ in opinion. I once was carrying my bow and arrow across the city after a training and was stopped by the police. In the end of that encounter, they wanted to know where one can do traditional "hunting-style" archery in my city

Originally Posted by Zrina Ni'awve

I thing I'm not bad in humans archery style, but when I try Na'vi style, all my arrows flys left

That sadly is because of the technique itself. It simply is not working as well. It has to do with the drag of the fingers on the string and on the arrow. One can shoot with that method, but the accuracy is not that great and it takes a lot more concentration and is a lot more risky. I tried a modification of the NA'Vi technique by using the same style of holdign the string, but by placing the arrow on the other side of the bow. That works rather well actually, because then the twist of the string is again similar to regular style archery.

What else have I done - I tanned a leather once, want to try it by myself sometime, though I am not sure it is that easy because the last time it was 6 people or so all pulling at that leather in different directions to make is smooth - alone, one would have to use a frame and a stick probably.

I am doing some sewing, some weaving (tablet weaving in particular) and if you want to call it a Na'vi skill I did prepare some insects to eat