Up here, the shortest distance between two points is a route you really don’t want to travel. It’s called straight down the fall line, and you generally arrive at your unintended destination with an assortment of lacerations and fractures.
Preparedness
Blacksmithing Basics – Becoming a good blacksmith
Independence and self-reliance are the cornerstones of survival. The foundation you choose to build will depend on your personal philosophy. You may anticipate social collapse and a breakdown of the system, or you already find the system distasteful and have chosen an alternative lifestyle.
Making Tofu For Your Survival Pantry
As any survival oriented person knows, protein is essential to one’s daily diet in order to maintain good health and to carry out the many tasks of day to day existence. In a survival situation where anxiety and physical exertion will be greater, it is even more important to fuel our bodies with good protein, minerals, and vitamins.
Freeze-Drying Food At Home – 3 Easy Methods
Learning freeze-drying food at home is one of the best things that any prepper can do. As we have said in many articles, food should be a last resort of anyone who is in danger. However, if you have already thought about it beforehand, you will not need to think about it at all. Dehydrating your food is one way to keep food in long term storage, but in this article, we are going to look at how and why you should be freeze-drying food at home.
Hand to Hand Combat – 8 Practical Tips
This theoretical article will explore the different elements of hand to hand combat, also introducing several practical tactics that can aid in a valid conclusion to a fight. Although we discuss supplementary weapons, the term “hand to hand” as applicable here relates to conflicts where the only defense is the hand.
One of the best ways to prepare yourself for any fight is to take up martial arts training. There are many types of martial arts that you can take up, and it all depends on what your goal is and how long you have to train for them. The earlier you start, the more prepared you are going to be if you need to use it. We have recently published an article about Asian Martial Arts, and we highly recommend you read that before you decide which you take up.
Food Poisoning Symptoms and Prevention
“You are what you eat,” goes an old saying. Each year in the U.S., an estimated 8 million cases of food poisoning prove the wisdom of that saying.
Most of those suffering from food poisoning experience stomach cramps, vomiting, diarrhea, and fever for a few days before getting better on their own. They often come through the experience a few pounds lighter, but far wiser (at least concerning food safety) than they were before they got sick.
The Ultimate Home Defense Guide – 10 Easy To Implement Strategies
What does the recent social upheaval happening all over the world mean to you and your ability to defend yourself and your home? Many people’s home defense plans are predicated on a collapse of civil order…. today’s city dweller often lives in conditions that make it look like that collapse has already happened.
Make Your Own Dehydrated Meals In 6 Easy Steps
In this article, we are going to be taking a look at dehydrated meals. We have all seen the packages of shriveled up banana slices, and the dried vegetables in packets. You may even have eaten them. However, when you are a prepper, it is not just banana and vegetables that you want to eat. While they are great foods, it will get very dull, very quickly.
Asian Martial Arts – Which is best?
For the modern preppers and survivalists interested in self-defense training, attempting to separate mythical images and actual attributes of Asian martial arts fighting systems can become an exercise in frustration.
Saving Garden Seeds For Essential Food Self-Sufficiency
Some of the best lessons for survival come from people who have lived close to the edge of existence for many years. The first pioneers are a good example. Many of these pioneers arrived in the country penniless. Few, however, arrived seedless.
Four-Wheel Driving Guide For The Smart Survivalist
I remember back in the 90s when we were headed back down the mountain after a crisp, clear day of skiing. The road from a ski resort back down to Salt Lake City got to be steep in some places, so we were careful to drive slowly on the snow-packed road. It was then that I realized the importance of four-wheel driving.
Waste Disposal Methods Required For SHTF
Waste disposal can be a matter of life and death. Many historians feel that the thing that has saved the most lives and contributed the most to longer life expectancy in the 20th century isn’t better nutrition, wonder drugs, or better medical know-how. Rather, the taken for granted invention which helped us into our quality way life was the lowly sewer line and proper methods of dealing with human excrement.
The Lost And Impressive Art Of Net Crafting
Sewing web into a workable fishing net or trap by hand remains a dying art practiced by a few American Indians, commercial fishermen, and hobbyists in our Western culture. Very few books instruct the subject of net crafting in detail, and there’s only a couple of accredited schools that currently teach the net crafting. This is truly a skill which normally requires two years at sea with hands-on experience to learn.