Who
is Anthonio Akkermans? A brief Biography
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Anthonio studied under
Ofer Israeli and Tom Brown Jr. for over 6 years. While
living in Holland, he decided to teach the skills he was
learning to young people in his area. Under the guidance
of his mentor Ofer, he set up a weekly youth-group,
which was well attended by children whose age ranged
from 7 to 14 years old. This was quite a steep learning
curve, as Anthonio himself was only 18. After a year
instructing these children, Anthonio moved away to
London. While in London, he practiced his existing
skills extensively in the parks, as well as the forests
around London. In the two and a half years he lived
there, he also traveled to the United States many times
to attend courses at the world renowned “Tracker Inc”, which is founded and
led by master tracker and outdoorsman Tom Brown Jr. |
While living in London, he also met Gillian, who was later to
become his wife. After they married, they both decided to move back
to Gillian’s home-town in Northern Ireland. Here Anthonio decided to
start working on making his dream a reality. In the end of 2001,
Wild-Live was founded.
Since 2001, Anthonio has instructed many different people. He has
taken professionals out and shown them a different world outside
society. He taught mentally disabled people how to live on the earth
without any modern tools, and recently taught basic primitive
survival skills to Boy scouts. Together with a different school,
Anthonio also organized workshops in Israel and London, which were a
resounding success. Anthonio also teaches flint knapping and bow
making courses, and is one of the instructors at the annual
Wilderness Gathering in England. Together with Will Lord
(beyond 2000bc), he is
also the founder of the first ever flintknapping festival in the UK,
the
"Knap-Fest".
