Cordage - Spiral Cut Method.wmv

In this video I demonstrate how to make leather cordage using the spiral cut method.

sgt speakman EDC Kit (Every Day Carry).wmv

Demonstrating my EDC (Every Day carry) Kit I keep with me everytime I go to the field. An EDC kit is a great tool to carry with you to be there whenever you find yourself in a bind. This demonstration is the basic EDC I instruct my students to keep with them but depending ont he enviroment, weather and what activity you are doing you can always add to and improve what is carried on an EDC.

eastern woodland edibles 1.wmv

Primitive Tool Box Video 1.wmv

Start of a multi video series on finding and making primitive tools.
How to make tools to work in and live in an extended stay camp with only the clothes on your body as tools.

Fire Starting Kit Demo.wmv

This is the fire kit I carry and recomend. It is a simple very affective fire starting kit and I never leave home without it.

My Kits

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/album.php?aid=12085&id=100001271033284

for ecamples of my 3 basic kits I carry check out the link.

I detail my fire kit, my EDC (every day carry) and my extended stay pack

Improvised Cheap Survival Kits -short.wmv

Demonstrating how to put together a very cheap inexspensive but very useful survival kit using items bought in a dollar store. Keep a survival kit in your truck, camper, boat, atv or pack with you on camping and hiking trips.

Start Fire with firesteel and cotton ball.wmv

How to start a fire with a firesteel and a cotton ball coated in vaseline and using a cotton ball as an improvised candle.

The foresteel was provided by:

The Surnite Lodge

www.Rrazor37.etsy.com

Making Char Cloth.wmv

Demonstrating how to make char cloth at home to store and carry to the field or to keep on hand for an emergency survival experiance.

FireSteel provided by:

The Surnite Lodge
www.rrazor37.etsy.com

Sgt. Speakman On Walking Sticks

I would like to take a moment to talk to you and get a blog conversation on the topic of
walking sticks. Walking sticks, whether bought or made on the spot are something that
are beneficial to anybody either walking, backpacking, hiking or camping. Very easy to make or
obtain they can be used for many things and are a great tool to have and take the time to
make.

If you are backpacking, hiking, camping, even hunting or fishing or you find yourself spending
alot of time walking through the wilderness, both on and off trail, then a walking stick or staff
is somehting you should consider. You could buy manufactured sticks, custom made handcrafted sticks
or fashion one yourself in a matter of no time and with little effort. Find yourself in the woods, mountains,
stream or desert...make a walking stick.

Lets look at a few saftety reasons and benefits to having a walking stick. First off, it provides you with a
great tool to help aid you while traversing the land. Any place you go, even on trails you are confronted with
very uneven and if off the trail very unpredictable landscape and footing. A staff gives you that 3rd leg, that
extra balance to control your step and give you sure footing. It will also improve and make more comfortable and
less tiresome traveling up and down hill as you can use it to balance and support weight on the way down
and dig in and lean into on the way up.

Secondly, a walking stick is a good defense. When setting up a camp, or resting in the woods or just stopping
along a trail it could protect you from many harmful intruders. It could be used as a sacraficial arm, exploring holes
and rocks around your camp and bushes and shrubs and undergrowth to make sure there are no harmful critters lurking
in the shadow of your camp or rest spot. Also, while traveling it could be used as a protective tool in the event you
come across a snake or agressive varmin, being used as a club or stick to push away an attacker or stay off
a snake that you might have startled.

Injury is a dngeraous animal in the wild. So having a tool that can help you revent injury is a plus. Both in assistance
in walking to prevent slips, trips and broken bones and as a self defense tool to prevent an attack the walking
stick can be of great use.

A walking staff also provides a unique multiple purpose tool constantly at your disposal. It can be used as a bush whacking
tool to clear dense growth as you walk through the woods. Can be use to dig or hammer, can be used to test rivers and
creeks to tell depth while crossing. Many things can be done with a simple wooden tool that can be cheaply made or bought.

Some considerations for a walking stick can be: The height of a walking stick is generaly your armpit height, however, this is
mostly a personal preferance and what makes you more comfortable works. Some like it taller, some shorter. Find one with a grip
comfortable to you. You want it comfortable since you are going to be holding it for long periods of time. Make sure it is made
hard wood. Especially if you are making one for yourself, you want it to last. Something made of soft woods, and green wood
will not last. If it is green and not dried slowly the heat and sun and use can crack and split the staff makeing it
weak and useless and unstable.

You can make your staff or purchase one from many stores and shops and even online. I have a shop where I handcraft
all natural wood walking staffs, walking sticks and canes and they are available for sale online. Take a look at my
online shop and maybe you will find a walking staff you like.

A walking staff can go a long way for you. I hope you consider using one, for saftety, ease of use and for comfort when
you are out in the wild. I never leave for the woods without mine.

Sgt. Speakman

My online Shop:

www.etsy.com/shop/earthwalkercreations

6 H's Of Survival H4, H5, H6.wmv

Discussion on the second half of my 6 H's of survival.

Frog Stick Part 2.wmv

Discussing the Frog hunting spear I demonstrated making in a previous slide show.

Making a Bamboo Frog / Fish Hunting Stick

4 Basic Survival Knotts

Instruction on how to tie 4 basic knotts commonly used and needed in survival, hunting or outdoor enviroments.

Improvised Rock Wall Shelter

Building the Rock wall shelter I talked about yesterday.

Improvised Rock Wall Shelter

This is an improvised hasty rock wall shelter. Anytime you are out looking for aplace to shelter down if you run into a rock wall it is an ideal place to set up. The rock wall is not just protection from the elements on one side of your shelter but also an all natural air conditioner. If its hot, sheltering in a rocky outcrop like this will keep you cool as the rock, in shade all day and col from the dampness will stay cool. When its night or cold, starting a small fire along the rock wall at an opening to the shelter will heat the shelter up immensly as the heat warms the rock, which will retain the heat, and then bounces heat off the rock and the poncho. Leaving a gap at the bottome of the shelter is a good choice to allow ventilation because you can quickly over heat in this type of shelter if you have a good fire going.

Simply two logs, one tied to each side of the poncho build the shelter. Then lean support poles against the wall forming a frame. Then pickup the two poles with the poncho and place it over the frame leaning the poles in place to stretch the poncho over the frame. Its optional to make one end pole tied to the poncho shorter to allow you to place the stick closer to the rock wall wraping the poncho around the frame acting as a door to close off one end and then leave the other end open for your fire.

This is merely a hasty shelter but with a few improvements, such as, tamping the outer poles into the ground and digging support holes for the frame poles to strengthen the structure would be good to strengthen it against wind. You can also add more straighter frame poles as you find them flattaning out the shape and making more of a wood wall and the poncho then becomes like a shingle material waterproofing tour structure.

You can find more pics on my facebook page and I will soon have a video of this posted up as well.

Sgt. Speakman

Tip on Transporting Fire

6 H's Talk about H1, H2 and H3

6 H's of survival discussion. In this video I talk about the first 3 H's in my 6 H philosophy that are the most important. H1 - Heat, H2 - Home and H3 Hydration. Short video detailing what most of my lessons in the future will be about.

Video on H1 - Heat

Video discussing the basics of fire starting. Discussing H1 - Heat, the first H in my 6 H's philosophy of survival. Learn the 4 elements needed to start a basic fire started here with a lighter to start things off basic and work our way toward primitive fire starting skills.

The 6 H's of Survival

Hello again. In my first blog I brifely stated my introduction to my survival philosophy. In this blog I wish to beifely outline my 6 fundamentals to survival in any situation or climate.

If your stranded in the desert, stuck in a frozen forest or lost in the woods these 6 principles, if followed, will definately benefit your situation and total outcome of your survival experience.

These 6 H's are my key points that I will be teaching in all my classes, videos and instruction. The 6 points lay out, in a specifice order what elements must be obtained and maintained to give you success in a survival situation. I will even have poket cards made and available or download at a future time to keep with your survival kits or what not but remembering or writing them down will definately help.

The 6 H's

H1 - Heat - Fire is the ultimate resource in a survival experience. It warms you, protects you, drys cloathes, cooks food, protects you and many more things. Your first priority should always be to develope and maintain a good working fire to assist you in the rest of your survival points and help sustain your life.

H2 - Home - Second to fire, shelter is key. You may be warm from the fire but you still need to be protected from the elements. Shelter provided you protection from heat and cold, wet and even from pesky critter. It is also a huge comfort and security factor in your survival. Home or shelter should be your second priority.

H3 - Hydration - The human can go 3 days without water. But that is also deteremined on the climate and amount of activity performed. After fire and shelter, it is time to find, gather and puriy a safe means of water. We will go over many safe ways to do this in the near future.

H4 - Healthy Eating - You dont have a store or take out and you possible have no or little food packed with you in the field. Food is the next point. We will discuss ways and methods and areas where food resources can be gathered or hunted. It will be crucial that you learn ways of obtaining healthy types and ammounts of food to help you survive.

H5 - Hygiene - You are out in the wild exposed to dirt, no showers, bugs and pests, hunting food and getting filthy. Sickness and disease can be a big factor in the success of your survival experiance. You must have an idea of how to keep yourself and even your survival camp healthy and clean. Keeping good hygiene will also assure that your health will be better upon rescue or recovery and that you will not have any long term healh problems.

H6 - Help - Now you must seek or find help. Its imparative you know ways of signaly or grasping the attention of those that can help you or be able to navigate and find your way out of a survival experience and back to civilization.


These 6 points, once again, are the key philosophic points that will be covered in all of my material. Good well rounded knowlege on each H will assure your survival experience has as best as an outcome possible. Those who gave up or lost the will to survive or didnt follow rules and priorities like this can not give testimony to it because they did not make it. Those who have the will to survive and follow life saving and sustaining guidlines will make it through.

I will talk about and post videos on each of these points in the future. They will be out of order and bounce around a bit but each will be labeled in the title the H point they represent.

Be well and Be safe.
Sgt. Speakman

Intro to Earth Walker Primitive

Greetings. I been trying to come up with my first blog for this. So what I have decided was to put up the preface to my book, "Sergeant Speakman's 6 H's of Survival" that I am currently in the proccess of writing.

The preface of my book details the philosophy of my outlook on survival and turning a survival emergency into a servival experience. My book folows my concept of the 6 H's of survival which I will go over in an upcoming blog. I felt, however, that the best intro to this blog would be thes exert from my book to lay down the baseline of my ideals.

So here it goes:

"In my opinion survival is partly skill, knowledge and partly luck but mostly, the will to survive. Many times in the news you hear of people surviving harsh situations by strictly not giving up and refusing to die. Men and women of little knowledge or skill if any lost or stranded in the elements with nothing more than the clothes on their backs and yet they refused to allow their situation to win. Perseverance and a will to survive brought them home to safety.
Today in this world we have it so easy as humans in a modern civilization. We have our houses built to code, included with heat, air, running water and all the comforts we are used to having because that’s the way it has always been in our lifetime. We have clothing designed for all four seasons, cars with heat and ample means to stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Food, grown on farms, harvested, butchered, canned bottled and processed for us. Some money in your pocket and a quick drive to a grocery store or a restaurant and you easily have a feast with little or no effort or labor at all. We have tools that build the machines that build the tools in the factories that make every implement, tool or device we need to make our modern lives simpler and more comfortable. Modern human is all about comfort and ease.
Take your normal average modern human and take away all these elements listed in the paragraph above and you usually end up with one lost confused individual. Such is what happens in most survival cases. It is that loss of the norm or what is always readily available that makes a situation an emergency. It is how the individual moves forward with themselves in an emergency that can determine if they are a survivor or a victim. Whether the person survives or fails is based on a combination of health, knowledge and knowhow, luck but mostly their mind state and will to survive.
The average person will merely think about what they lost and no longer have available or the lack of creature comforts they have lost and adopt a defeatist attitude. This attitude is what will surely lead to a deadly outcome in a survival situation. Look back beyond the colonial periods, beyond the Roman Empire even beyond most ancient civilizations. Examine the Native Americans, the Inuit tribes, the hunter gatherer barbaric tribes of northern and western Europe that the Romans came in contact with. As well as the jungle tribes that still live untouched or influenced by modern society for thousands of years in the South American jungles and in Africa. These peoples, whether from ancient times and a long lost place in history or still thriving today have one thing in common. They are all primitive in their lifestyle and life sustaining methods. Without tools made by machines, clothes made seasonally in a factory and houses built to specs these people lived for thousands upon thousands of years, happily and prosperously with nothing more then what they could obtain and maintain from natural resources on mother earth.
Being stranded on an island, lost in a mountain wilderness or stuck in the middle of a desert does not make you lost or in danger for your life. It may be an emergency in terms of the modernized world but if you simply transform yourself from that modernized human lost without your substance and become that primitive man you would notice that you are not in as bad as a situation as you thought. Your will to live and fight the emergency is easier when you recognize that thousands upon hundreds of thousands of people lived just as you are at the moment; with nothing more then what you can find on the ground, in the trees, in the water and in the wild. There is no climate on this world has not had a primitive society survive and live upon its ground. If you transform from modern victim to primitive survivor your outcome for survival will highly increase.
This is the purpose of this Survival guide. To help you understand that in any circumstance, any climate, and any element one can survive successfully reverting back to primitive ways. Fusing both modern and primitive methods for survival living, this book will give one a knowledge based motivation to achieve that will to fight, survive and turn their modern emergency into a primitive survival story.
People fear things that they do not know or know about. Like the child scared to look under his bed at night because he fears what he doesn’t know is there. When in a survival situation fear of failure and death can make your emergency outcome grim. The information contained in this book will help you defeat that fear, so if needed you will remember the thousands who lived before you in a primitive way just as you are. You will then have that will, that strength that courage to stand and fight your emergency and turn it into a survival story. With the proper knowledge and the right mindset you can turn a survival emergency into a survival experience and come out a stronger wiser person in life."

-Sergeant Speakman's 6 H's of Survival