Survival Training: Page 9

Check out this how-to video to start a fire using an AA battery and a staple. You can do this while listening to the classical guitar piece, "Malaguena" if you feel like it. It could save your life! With your battery: start by cutting the plastic away from the negative terminal. Watch the video survival training tutorial for more tips on starting an emergency fire!

Learn this useful survival trick that could one day save your life! Survive by using this soda can and chocolate trick. Basically, you will create a fire with a leaf. Get tips from this how-to video, especially on how to best use the polished surface to point the sunlight into one small "dot."

Check out this video to learn how to use flintknapping to make flaked stone tools. Find an angle that is less than an ninety degree angle to strike the stone.

Use a compact wood burning stove. Check out this how to tutorial to learn how the features function.

This video will show you an all-new fire starting idea that deals with steel wool and your flashlight batteries.

This is an instructional video on how to put together a fire starting kit. The kit includes everything from a lighter to fatwood. The second video in this sequence will show you how to use the items detailed in the fire starting kit.

Even when your lighter (whether piezo or flintwheel) is empty, you can get another light or fire! The Isobutane propellant and flammable base gives you a temporary ignitable fuel source.

The elderberry is an excellent herb and can be used to treat cough and fever. This video shows how to make cough syrup using elderberry.

This short video shows how to get started with 550 paracord and a 3 peg/nail knitting spool made from a wooden napkin ring and 3 nails. This just show you how to start. Follow these steps: After the initial wrapping of the nails with the paracord at the bottom of the nail, you take the working end to the next nail above the cord that's wrapped around it, use a hook of some type to lift the lower cord up and over the top cord and the nail. Continue from one nail to the next, up and over with...

This video tutorial will show you how to tie a lanyard knot with a loop. You can try with an 18 inch length of paracord for the demonstration, but this will work with various lengths and diameters of cord.

Check out a few accuracy tips for those who are having a tough time learning to make and throw atlatl darts.

Learn from Green Deane about duck potatoes, a wide-spread highly-esteemed root vegetable.

Learn from Green Deane about Amaranth, a long-cultivated but also wild vegetable and grain.

Learn from Green Deane about Henbit, a spring green you might not have noticed. It has a slightly different taste than other new greens.

Learn from Green Deane how to identify and prepare Rumex (Sorrel) a spring time green around the world.

Check out this video on making a cane atlatl dart, starting by straightening the cane dart blank.

Check out this video to learn how to make a wikkie shelter if you need to spend the night in the woods.

Check out this video to learn how to find and gather wild edibles and medicinal plants. First, learn how to identify the toothwort plant. If you don't already know how to recognize the wild lettuce plant, keep watching.

Build a fire without matches or a lighter so you wont freeze to death or attract predators in the wild. The finer the steel wool, the better. Most batteries will work but 9 volt batteries are the easiest.

Build a cob shelter. Use water, sand, clay rich soil, and straw. Watch to learn more!