The Double Becket Bend is one of the most useful and important knots you’ll use in a wide variety of survival or emergency situations. It is considered so essential that the Ashley Book of Knots lists it as number 1. It is easy to learn, and it applies in many situations. Best of all, it has …
The ability to build a fire is the paradigmatic survival skill. Whatever else you’ve done to prepare for emergency situations, if you can’t build a fire you might as well give up and die. Well, maybe it’s not quite that bad. Like a lot of things in life, the key to building a fire is …
Part three of a four-part series on tactical thinking by martial arts expert Kenny Jezek. The third part of “O.O.D.A.” is Decide. Simply put, in a crisis situation you must make a decision as to what you are going to do. Sounds simple enough, but by far this is the slowest process out of all …
Your survival plan should include a huge stock of toilet paper. Nonetheless, if you were faced with a long term situation in which the stock was used up, it would be good to know about toilet paper substitutes. The problem is very basic. Personal hygiene is a high priority in survival situations; it’s good for …
[We live in a world in which madmen enter crowded restaurants and start shooting people. If you ignore this, you risk your life or the life of someone you’re responsible for. To prepare us to survive such situations, Kenny Jezek (“YAY-zeck”) has generously offered to share over three decades of experience in martial arts and …
Because a flat tire is a relatively common experience, it pays to be prepared. The purpose of this section is not to give you step-by-step tire-changing instructions, which vary from one vehicle to another, but to give you general principles of preparation. Preparation Check the owner’s manual. Some vehicles have quirky ways of attaching the …