I usually go towards him looking a bit the wall in the left and when I approach him I turn fast to the right. If you listen him complaining is that you did it right. There's a good example: Anyway if you are not playing insane% you can always take a hit and do it safe. Also we have a discord server where you can ask all this things and usually there's allways someone than can help you faster than here. Hope I've been helpful. GL!

Okay. You can mantain the autosplitting activated, but you have to go to settings and deactivate the split option . That should work.

Do you have some splits or only the timer? If you don't have splits just do left click on livesplit and go to "Edit splits...". Then deactivate the autosplitting. If you have splits then you have to make one split for every checkpoint on the run.

I mean, if the trick you aren't getting is the bush skip.

There's a tutorial for any% in the guide's section. https://www.speedrun.com/outlast/guide/47n5f