Exposure is the number one killer in outdoor survival situations. As such it is critical to know how to make a fire in the outdoors. Now if you get caught off guard and unprepared, there is a way to make a fire off of just what you find around you – the bow and drill …
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Survival Tips: Tier-2 Kit
Hey I’m Max Joseph. Previously, we talked about tier-1 rural survival kits, meaning it’s actually on our body. Now I’m going to do tier-2. It’s a little bit larger carrier and for this one, I’m using a Maxpedition Proteus Versipack. This has enough equipment in here where I could last for several days out in …
Survival Tips: Meet Max Joseph
Hello, my name is Max Joseph. I’m the owner and founder of Direct Action Group, a weapons tactics and special operations training company based out of Huntington Beach, California. Direct Action Group features a gamut of classes offerings from our standard handgun shotgun rifle classes for squared away civilians and police officers all the way …
Survival Tips: Tier-1 Kit
I’m Max Joseph and what I’m gonna talk about right now is your tier-1 survival kit. This means what’s on your actual body… if you have to dump your rucksack and dump your secondary tier equipment, you still have this on your body. If I had my full uniform on, what I would have actually …
Survival Tips: Tier-3 Kit
I’m Max Joseph. Right now we’re gonna talk about my tier-3 equipment if I’m out in the field. We already discussed tier-1 earlier that was on my body, tier-2 is in my butt pack or my secondary equipment, right now for my tier-3, I’m using for example here a Maxpedition Falcon-II rucksack. Everything that we’re …
Maxpedition Survival Tips: Improvised Shemagh Sling with Thomas Coyne
Disaster can strike at any time, but if you’re well trained and you have the proper gear, you just may be prepared to meet it. So my name’s Thomas Coyne, chief instructor at Coyne Survival Schools and I am going to tell you how to form an improvised sling with a keffiyeh also known as …
Maxpedition Survival Tips: Gear Loadout with Thomas Coyne
Now when I put my kits together to take people out to the middle of the African desert or the Alaskan backcountry, my kits cannot fail. If you train with me at any time in the last six years or so, you’ve always seen me with a Maxpedition pack in the field. I know that …