Part 1: Sometimes the city is a bad place to be. But millions find themselves linked to the city, living, working, or recreating. Cessation of services, terrorists attacks, economic or governmental collapse, rioting (for a variety of reasons), and devastating NATURAL disasters can transform a usually-bustling and mostly safe urbanscape into a wasteland where emergency services are either overwhelmed or just unavailable. You may quickly find your survival (and those around you) will be up to you. Go prepared, both with a calm, can-do mindset that will allow you to overcome, adapt, and survive bad situations (and help others to do the same). In this series of vids, I introduce my “Concept USK” or Urban Survival Kit and its philosophy as requested by many TNPrs. A possible motto as you work your way through urban chaos: “Prepare, Survive, Render Aid, Lead.” Some Nutnfancy foundations of the review: most kits will evolve according to need and technology, a kit will have to be personalized for your situation, adherence to legalities of some contents is your responsibility, it’s impossible to prepare for every contingency and SAWC (Space/Size And Weight Constraints) will dictate your level of preparation and kit “depth,” preparations for self-defense are wise, the necessity to blend in and not draw attention to yourself, the concepts of “write-off,” re-stocking, pre-postioning, and redundancy in kit preparation, and guidelines for use. In Part 1 these foundations are discussed …
Demonstration Of A Few Handy Rope Knots For The Outdoors. Also A Signal Mirror Demo, And Other Wilderness Survival Information. Knot tying is a valuable skill to learn. I will post more knot videos in the future. I recommend practicing these until you have them memorized. The 3 knots shown are: -Sheet Bend -Bowline -Clove Hitch
Strategies for survival if you fall through the ice. Discovery Channel Canada Videos (2002) — Credit belongs to Dr. Gordon Giesbrecht (Professor, BPE Program – Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation Studies) who acted as a Cold Weather Columnist for the Discovery Channel Canada. Three educational video presentations were created. With friendly allowance from the University of Manitoba.
A tour of one version of an actual and current USAF Pilot Survival vest by Nutnfancy. In this four part series I go over the non-classified items in the vest and impart a little philosophy as I go. The vest itself is made by Ultimate Survival Technologies (Air Ace™ Survival Vest with SnapTrack™ ) and is an outstanding, functional design. It has numerous pouches that can be configured in a variety of secured locations. Note that each item is also ‘baggied’ for moisture resistance and tethered to the vest for security. Strong points of this particular vest are its signaling and communication capabilities. This vest shows a basic loadout which is often supplemented by GPS units pre-loaded for theater, extra ammo, cold weather supplies, and other items. Several improvements to this vest could include: a medium sized fixed blade survival knife (like the KaBar Utility Knife, the Ontario RAT-7, or Fallkniven A1), better flashlight (like Streamlight TL-2 or Scorpion LED), better multi-tool (like Leatherman Charge), better water storage devices, inclusion of Trioxane fire starter, double mag pouch for M9 pistol, CamelBak system, and an emphasis on lightening the overall carry weight. However upgrading the items in a USAF vest like this is often limited by scarce command/unit funding and the military supply system (NSN) that often excludes the best and most suitable gear. NOTE: Apologies for the low quality of this video. New camera with new settings, didn’t turn out so well but I …
