Monday, July 5, 2010
4 Basic Survival Knotts
Instruction on how to tie 4 basic knotts commonly used and needed in survival, hunting or outdoor enviroments.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
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
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
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.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
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
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
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