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Introduction to Phillosoph
Best EDC Tools: Split-ring Tool Kit
Hanbo for Training
Knives You Need: Part Three, Butcher Knife
Classifying Weapons
Dreaming of Staff Fighting
Palms In! Parrying Against Knives
Cross Hands
Returning to Tai Chi
Rhyming Letter Getter
Improving Your Memory: Number Shapes
Keep a “Books Read” List
Survival Library: Chapter 11, Information Anxiety
Mastering Camouflage
SOE Load-Out
Mora Eldris
Fire-Lighting with Gunpowder
Survival Library: Chapter 10, Swiss Army Knives
Knives You Need: Part Two, Swiss Army Knives
Survival Library: Chapter 9, Jack-Knife Cookery
Fishing with a Soda Bottle, Done Right!
Survival Library: Chapter 8, John Wayne
British Army Mess Tins
Debugging Your Bug-Out Bag: 4 Other Stuff
Survival Library: Chapter 7, The Pocket Outdoor Survival Guide
Survival Library: Chapter 6, Northern Bushcraft
Debugging Your Bug-Out Bag: 3 Clothing
Survival Library: Chapter 5, Desert Survival (Lehman)
Debugging Your Bug-Out Bag: 2 Sustenance
Debugging Your Bug-Out Bag: 1 Sleep Tight
Survival Library: Chapter 4, No Need to Die
Hidden Hand Trio: Wrist Grab Escapes
Get Thinner! Reduce Bulk
Bullet Points
The Ideal Kukri? JJ Plus Guardwala
Look Out, Get Out, Strike Out!
Knives You Need: Part One, The Home
In Praise of Puukko and Mora
Coveralls: A Dose of Mono
Why a Wakizashi?
Morse Code without Electricity
Knife Throwing: Strength and Spin-Less Throws
Improving My Fine Screwdriver Set
Surviving Management
Survival Library: Chapter 3, Practical Outdoor Survival
A Handful of Advice on Food
Throwing Arrows, Ouneps and Amentum
Survival Spears
Throwing Sticks and Stones
Rucksack Packing
Foundation Survival Kits: The Next Level
Mess Kits for Bug-Out Bags
Three New Knots?
Survival Library: Chapter 2, Bushcraft 101
Knots to Save Your Glasses
Build Your Survival Library: Chapter One
Lock Picks for Everyday Carry (EDC)
Never Travel without Your Ear Plugs
A Different Angle on Accuracy and Precision
Your Best Survival Tool : Science.
Camping Frying Pan Set
Poncho-Liner Improvement: Pops and Zip
Original 30 Litre Travelling Article
Some Thoughts on Possessions and Minimalism
Tools in the Office
Sharpie Skinwriter: A Proposal
Shortening the Shovel
Webbing Gear and Ventilation
SLA Marshall Soldier’s Load
Daysac Backpacks
Backup a .45 with a 9mm
Beyond the Pail: Buckets for Survival
If You Must Wear a Tie…
Camouflage: Light, Dark, Neutral and Natural
Save Time and Money Washing-Up
Crash Course in Rifle
Tools for Wafer Locks
Golden Ratio and Guns?
Morse Code Memory Card
Lock Picks: Snakes and Sparrows
Kidney Warmers and Bellybands
Leading Targets for Lead
Aim Low! Avoid Disappointment!
SERE Pin and EDC Bypass Knife
EDC Lock Picking and Bypass Kits
Dressing for Bug-Out
Keep Your Knives Close!
Crash Combat Fourth Edition Out Now!
Adding a Pin to a Swiss Army Knife
Hip-Shooting a Rifle or Shotgun
Modern Quick-Draw for Self-Defence
Soft-Core Pack: Military Version
Tactical Bed Rolls
Bandoliers for Budget Burdens
Less Plate, Less Pot, Eat Less
The Brooksbank Carrying System
The Point of Bayonets
Yule Be Sorry!
Handcarts: AfriCart
Stepping Back
Selecting a Handgun
Rakovalkea
Under a Waning Star
Shields and Angles
Shield and Buckler and Long Har Chuan
Roundhouses and Side Kicks
Pec-Knives and the Gerber Strongarm
Designing a Fighting Knife
A True Survival Bowie?
Fighting Knives in a Modern Context
Fruit Juice and Knives
Pull-Sharpening for Knives and Tools
New Machete Grip
Musketeer Cloak for Survival
Breakfalls: The Lateral Roll
Wind and White Crane: Hidden Hand Attacks
Help for Time Travellers
The Soft-Core Bag
Survival Kits: Bringing It All Together
Bush Shirts
The Layer System
New Survival Tool: The Brick Hammer
Battle of Jangsari: Camouflage
In Praise of Shemagh and Keffiyeh
Cleaning Up Blood
Many Thanks
Compact Living Revisited
A Walk to the Park: Lessons Learned
The Worlds of James Schmitz
Crash Combat now in Second Edition!
Combat Carry: The Hippy Configuration
Hori‑Hori for Survival
LBE, M-1956
Kephart: Dressing for Cold Weather
Walk-A-Heaps
Kephart’s Autumn Outfit.
Camouflage: Does Size Matter?
Field Jacket Features
Victorian Shades of Grey
Knots for Traps
“but I know it to be true in my heart…”
“Crash Combat” Released!
“Ed’s Breads” and other Flour recipies
“Foxy shovels love fights!”
“Shooting to Kill” for the Home Guard
“The Northwest Passage” Lessons for the modern world.
‘snow joke
1796 British Light Cavalry Sabre
1908 British Cavalry Sabre
1942 Battle Jerkin
2012
211-21-1111-1211
21st Post! Invisible Knives
4-4-4-4 Combat Load
A Decent Meal in Less Than Ten Minutes
A Final Post for Halloween
A Kephart Inspired Cooking Kit
A Possible Con trick?
A Single Trap System
A Thought on Christmas
A Walk to the Park: Lessons Learned
Acupressure for Self Help
African Throwing Knives
Alaskan Packboard Rucksack
All Weather Blanket Rainwear Trick.
AMA: Alpha to Foxtrot
AMA: Golf to November
AMA: Oscar to Tango
AMA: Uniform to Zulu and the Numbers
Ammunition Conservation
Anatopismo
Another Win for Polaris!
Apache Ring and Thing
Are You Ready to Go?
Army Mess Kits
Army Wants More Powerful Pistol: Only One Real Answer!
Around The World In 30 Litres
Arrows: Time of Flight and Momentum
Artistic Lock Picks.
Arwrology Drill
Asian Squat
Assumed Guilt, Assumed Blame and Assumed Persecution
Attack, Avoid, Survive: Global Edition released.
Attack, Avoid, Survive: Now in Epub!
Away for a Week!
Back Blogging: The Sewing Kit
Backpacks : Is Less, More?
Backups
Bag Thief Tricks to Watch Out For.
Bathroom Safety.
Baton Thongs
Battlefield Wrestling
Bayonet Techniques
Beds and Bugs and Cots and Carpets
Beware the Prince of Darkness!
Binary Tap Code
Birrus Britannicus : More on Cloaks
Blanket-Coat
Blanket/ Cloak
Bo-Shuriken Video
Boarding Pikes
Bogota Lock Pick and Rake Review
Bogota the Abus!
Bowls for Backpacking
Bows in North America and Pellucidar
Boy Scout Axe
Brick and Mortar Camouflage
Broccoli and Celery Really Are Horrible. It Is Genetic!
Buck Pigsticker Model 651
Camouflage and Surface
Camouflage Headgear: Textilage
Camouflage Hood and Article
Camouflage Overvisor
Camouflage: Does Size Matter?
Camouflaging Boots
Camouflaging Headgear
Candle Holders
Canteen (cup) Coffee
Capes for Camouflage
Cardloss Hotline Numbers and IMEIs
Chalk and Ziplocks
Charcloth and Charpaper
Chariots: Celts Ride Smoother!
Cheap Shots, Ambushes and Other Lessons
Chinese Blanket Pack
Christmas Creep – it begins again, already!
Christmas Creep: Enough is Enough!
Cloaks and Plaids
Cloaks for Modern Survival
Codex Seraphinianus.
Combat Carry: The Hippy Configuration
Combat Relevant Physical Training
Commanding the Blade (or Brolly!) : Umbrella Fighting Part 3
Common Mistakes in Military Writing
Common Sense Does Not Exist!
Compact Living Revisited
Compact Living Space
Compass and Clinometer Measurements
Compass bearings as 64 parts.
Complete Book of Knife Fighting ?
Complete Wing Chun
Cooking Rice in Under Ten Minutes. Save Fuel and Money
Cord Carrying Method from Hojo-jitsu
Covert Pegging
Cowboy Figure Eight
Crash Combat Goes Electronic.
Crash Combat now in Second Edition!
Crash Course in Close Combat
Creating Better Lock Picks
Cross Stepping Post: Part One
Cross Stepping Post: Part Two
Cross Stepping Post: Part Three
Cutlasses
CV1 Attack Point
Czech Your Geography
Deer and Detergents
Defending Against the Rush
DePugh on Wilderness Food and Gear
Desert Eagles
Devil in the Details
Did Flails Exist?
Digging the Hoes
Direction Finding by the Moon
Disarming Hand guns, a Quick Technical Guide
Django
Don’t Believe All That You Read.
Don’t Carry a Rucksack (If you can help it)
Don’t Slip, use a Stick
Don’t Use Your Word Processor!
Double Crossbows
Dream Martial Art
Dreaming Again!
Duodecimal Finger Counting: Counting to 60 on One Hand.
Early Morning Exercise
Easier Entrenchment?
Easily Digestable Writing.
EDC Shopping List
Edwardian(?) Self-Defence
Emergency Kit for Action Heroes
Epic Fail
Equipment Pouches
Escape Introduction
Escape: Handcuffs and Double-locks.
Escape: Handcuffs and Shimming
Esquiva
Facebook Friday Funny
Facial Camouflage
Fairbairn’s Thumb Hold
Complete Book of Knife Fighting ?
Complete Wing Chun
Cooking Rice in Under Ten Minutes. Save Fuel and Money
Cord Carrying Method from Hojo-jitsu
Covert Pegging
Cowboy Figure Eight
Crash Combat Goes Electronic.
Crash Combat now in Second Edition!
Crash Course in Close Combat
Creating Better Lock Picks
Cross Stepping Post: Part One
Cross Stepping Post: Part Two
Cross Stepping Post: Part Three
Cutlasses
CV1 Attack Point
Czech Your Geography
Deer and Detergents
Defending Against the Rush
DePugh on Wilderness Food and Gear
Desert Eagles
Devil in the Details
Did Flails Exist?
Digging the Hoes
Direction Finding by the Moon
Disarming Hand guns, a Quick Technical Guide
Django
Don’t Believe All That You Read.
Don’t Carry a Rucksack (If you can help it)
Don’t Slip, use a Stick
Don’t Use Your Word Processor!
Double Crossbows
Dream Martial Art
Dreaming Again!
Duodecimal Finger Counting: Counting to 60 on One Hand.
Early Morning Exercise
Easier Entrenchment?
Easily Digestable Writing.
EDC Shopping List
Edwardian(?) Self-Defence
Emergency Kit for Action Heroes
Epic Fail
Equipment Pouches
Escape Introduction
Escape: Handcuffs and Double-locks.
Escape: Handcuffs and Shimming
Esquiva
Facebook Friday Funny
Facial Camouflage
Fairbairn’s Thumb Hold
Grip Exercises
Guerilla Equipment List from Levy
Gun Control and Morality
Gundata Bug Out Bag
Guns for Commandos
Guns for James Bond : Keep it Quiet!
Hair, Phones and Attention
Halloween!!
Hammer-Fist and Single Whip
Handbag Theft
Handcarts and Alternatives
Handcuff, Duct tape and Zip tie Escapes
Hatchet Men by Richard H. Dillon.
Have You Got the Bottle for a Fight?
Hayfever Cure.
Hazing
Hazing again
Hazing, part 2
Hearing Water Temperature!
Helping the Enemy : Grey Warfare.
Highbinder Hatchet
Hit Girl vs Kick Ass
Home Guard Camouflage by Slater
Hook Ladders
Hori‑Hori for Survival
Horizontal Throwing
Horseman’s Hammers
Horseman’s Hammers again
Horseshoe Rolls, Blankets and Gum-blankets
How Not to Charm a Girl
How Safe Is Your Home?
How to Wrestle Numbers
Hybrid Societies and Incompatible Cultures
I’m Coming In.
If You Want To Get Ahead, Get A Hood
Improved Knuckle Duster
Improvised Lock Picking
In Praise of Gaiters
Inspiration on Thursday
IRA Anti-Armour Launcher
It’s Not Easy Being Green.
Italian Army Style Lensatic Compass
Items for a Daysac, the photoshoot.
Items for a Daysac
Japanese Shelter Cloth
Jet Li Bagua: How to Beat Yourself Up
Jiu-Jitsu Shoulder Pinches and the Brachial Plexus
Kama Twirling
Kephart’s Autumn Outfit.
Kephart’s Summer Outfit.
Kephart: Dressing for Cold Weather
Kidney Pouches and Combat Order
Knife Defense Video
Knife Fighting Fallacy
Knots for Traps
Knuckle Duster Variations
Knuckle Dusters
Kubotan and Kongo Locks
Langdon-Davies Home Guard Camouflage Suit
Lathis and Police Canes
LBE, M-1956
Learning from Honey Badgers. Using Your Environment.
Levy’s Filibuster Formation
Life Hacks and Split Rings
Lighter Kit and Stoveless Cooking
Like Versus Like
Lock Pick Kit: WIP
Lock Picking Part One
Lock Picking Part Two : Let’s Rock!
Lock Picks from Soldier’s Handbook.
Long Range Pistol Shots and Zero
Luggage Locks and Skeleton Keys
Machetes for Gardeners
Magnetic Declination
Making a Bilum Bag
Making Indian Clubs
Many Thanks
Masks and Coronavirus.
Metallurgy
Middle Finger Trigger
Military Fork
Mission Impossible Lock Picks
More Applications of Single Whip
More on Backups!
More on Blanket Rolls
More On Camouflage Ponchos
More on Finger Spelling
More on Foot Wrappings!
More Ranger Rolling
More Toggle Ropes
Morse Code
Mortar vs Fighter
Moshé Feldenkrais’s “Practical Unarmed Combat”
Movement in Armour.
Multiple Combat Tactics.
Muzzle Thump and Clinching?
My Left Pocket
My Left Pocket: Epilogue
Naginata
Narcissism and Aggression
Nettles
Never Buy Envelopes Again?
New Medical Pouch
Night Demons, Sleeping and Yoga
Ninja Boating
Ninja Should Be Grey
Nitecore Thumb Flashlight
Non-Slip Walking
Not Being a Sucker and Avoiding Head Punches
Of Boxers, Chariots and Fandom…
Of Punching and Power Lines
On Aggression. Militant Enthusiasm Part One
On Aggression. Militant Enthusiasm Part Two
On Aggression. The Three Obstacles of Man.
On Bombay Bloomers and Plus-Sixes
On desires, acceptance and meditation…
On Perfect Length
On Prejudice.
On working out and worshiping boats…..
Ong-Bak
Optimizing Canteen Cups
Out in the Snow, Part One
Out in The Snow. Part Two: Footwear
Parched Rice and Balls!
Peeke at the Quarterstaff
Perception, Alien Autopsy and Yeti Footprints.
Perfect Length: Staffs
Peripheral Vision
Phoenix Eye Fist
Pimp my Fighting Staff!
Pipe Firing Ports.
Pizza Fights Back!
Plate Armour Mobility
Platinum Grit -friday’s funny.
Point at what you Shoot
Polaris Lock Rakes
Polearms: Butting In
Poles and Furcas
Police Search Light
Poliorcetics and Kulgrinda
Positioning Weapons
Post Apocalyptic Heroric Fantasy Armaments
Posturing or Placating
POW Manual Alphabet
Press-Up Woes
Preventing Terrorist Attack
Price Drop!
Prince of Darkness: Part 2
Project Camelbum.
Protein Supplements – save your money.
Pummel
Punching
Put the Phone in Your Pocket and Look At the World
Quadrants of Parrying II
Quadrants of Parrying
Quarterstaff Flourishes
Quick Polenta
Quickly Polished Off
Real Action, Not Scapegoats
Red Next To Your Head
Rifle Tactics
Ring Cutters
Rolling and Folding
Roman Marching Kit
Roman Tunica and Simple Clothing.
Rubber Saps
Salute the Sun
Sam’s Van: Kitchen Equipment.
Sandbags. Alternate Uses
Sasumata in the Modern World
Savate by Bruce Tegner
Saving Money in the Winter
Scientific Self-defence
Scout Mess Kit and Aluminium
Scrapboard Survivor Kukri
Self-Defence on the Toilet
Serenity Lock Picks Review
Serenity Plus Lock Pick Kit
Seven Targets on The Head
Seven Tools of EDC
Shark Night
Shelterbox
Shooting Over Trenches and Around Corners
Shopping Around for Your Copy of Attack, Avoid, Survive
Shuriken Styles
Simple Camouflage Clothing
Simple Effective Personal Camouflage
Simple Russian Ration Pack Stove.
Simple Survival Fire Kit
Simplicity and Omelettes
Sin – save yourself first?
Single Whip and Horse Foot Palm
Six Items for Travelling
Soldier’s Load : Sundries.
Skin-Level Survival EDC
Slash and Thrust by John Sanchez
Sleeping Bags for Hostelling
Snap-links Galore!
Some Thoughts on Money
Soldier’s Load : The Soviet Approach.
Something for Halloween
Spears and The Hidden Fortress
Soldier’s Load Checklist.
Soldier’s Load: How Much Ammo to Carry.
Soldier’s Load: Sleeping Light.
Some Quick Thoughts on Some Body Weapons.
Something for the Ladies? Arwrology Ankle Clamp Throw
Soviet Camouflage Items
Soviet Soldier Simplicity
Soviet Swamp and Snow Shoes
Spears: One Handed
Special Forces Crossbows
Spetznaz String Vest
Staff Fighting Grip Techniques
Stop, Look, Listen, Smell
Striking the Centaur
Striking with Both Hands
Sun-Compass
Supercavitating Machine-Gun Bullets.
Survival and Likert Scales
Survival Crossbows and Simple Triggers
Survival Fishing: Part One
Survival Gear: Part One
Survival Gear: Part Two
Survival Headbands
Survival Heliographs: When the Sun Is Behind You
Survival Heliographs: When the Sun Is Behind You. Part Two
Survival Weapons: Contents
Survival Weapons: Optimizing Your Arsenal
Survival Weapons: Optimizing Your Arsenal
Surviving a Slasher Movie
Surviving a Slasher Movie: the Sequel!
Suunto Clipper
Swagger Stick and Umbrella Fighting: Umbrella Fighting Part 2
Sweet Dangers
Swings and Uppercuts
Sword Bayonets Part Two: Techniques
Sword Bayonets Part One
Sword vs Pike
Swords at Home
Tactical Trowel
Tanks, Cybernaughts, Daleks and Diving suits in the Middle Ages
Ten Move Flow Drill
Tenouchi
Tension Tools
Textilage on Rucksacs
Thai Swordplay
The “Murray” Troop Training System.
The Avengers
The Battle with My Terrible Enemy Continues!
The Bayonet Wound Fallacy
The Beginning of the Blogverse
The Emperor’s New Clothes : The Untold Part…
The Engineer’s Compass.
The Flick Kick
The Generation That Never Hears “No”
The Great Locker Opening!
The Handbag Survival Kit
The Harry Solomon Scenario
The Higher Education Swindle.
The Isotonic Trap
The Kiyoga.
The Medical Kit
The Monkeysphere.
The Non-Slip Knot
The Origin of Boxing
The Real Cost of the Olympics and World Cup
The Scientist and the Egg.
The Seven Low Blows
The Shape of Guns to Come?
The Soldier’s Mantle.
The Step-Across Sacrifice Throw
The Sun
The Tale of the Stove and the Shoe
The Umbrella from Hunter/ Victim: Umbrella Fighting Part 1a
The War Arrow and The Deserter
The Worlds of James Schmitz
Theft Resistant Bags
There Were Two In The Bed And The Comrade Said “Roll Over!”
Three Fishing Lures
Throwing Weapon Targets
Thursday Afternoon
Timing and the Moment.
Tinderboxes
Toggle Ropes.
Tolerance and the Burke on the Bus.
Tomahawk Fast Draw
Tomahawk Strengths.
Toothbrushes: Less is More!
Towards Universal Ethics.
TP-82 Space Gun!
Trapped Muzzles
Travel Journals and NuScript
Travel Wash Kit
Trench Club
Turbanator
Turkey Season
Two Interesting Ideas
Two Methods for Better Shooting.
Two Methods of Estimating Distance
Two Pick Sets, One Review
Two Soaps, One Cup.
Umbrella Fighting : All the Links
Umbrella Fighting : Part 4
Umbrella Fighting in PDF
Uncle Phil’s List : Far Cry 2 Example.
Uncle Phil’s List : New Format.
Uncle Phil’s List
Underground Weapon Production
Underwear for Survival
Universal Lever Lock Pick
US Mess Kit (Updated)
Useful Pocket Kit
Utopia and Competition.
Vajra
Vanishing Infantry
Verbal Judo
Victorian Shades of Grey
Vietnam Camo Ring
Vietnam Chest Rigs
Vietnam Tomahawk
Vietnam Tomahawk Part 2 – Applications.
Walk-A-Heaps
Walking Cane
Walking Canes
Wants and Needs
Watching the Fire Alarms
Water Caltrops
Weapons All Around You!
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
What Will this Blog Be About?
What’s a Mucket?
When Sneakers Matter More Than Schoolkids
Why a Kukri?
Wise Comment
WMD: Weapon of Mosquito Destruction.
Working Harder to be Lazy!
Workplace Survival
Writing and Time
WW2 Bayonet Part One
YEC and the Cognitive Dissonance Trap
You Got His Knife Arm! What Next?
You Might As Well Jump!
Your Best Survival Tool : Science.
Yugoslavian Mess Kit in More Detail
Turbanator
Turkey Season
Two Interesting Ideas
Two Methods for Better Shooting.
Two Methods of Estimating Distance
Two Pick Sets, One Review
Two Soaps, One Cup.
Umbrella Fighting : All the Links
Umbrella Fighting : Part 4
Umbrella Fighting in PDF
Uncle Phil’s List : Far Cry 2 Example.
Uncle Phil’s List : New Format.
Uncle Phil’s List
Underground Weapon Production
Underwear for Survival
Universal Lever Lock Pick
US Mess Kit (Updated)
Useful Pocket Kit
Utopia and Competition.
Vajra
Vanishing Infantry
Verbal Judo
Victorian Shades of Grey
Vietnam Camo Ring
Vietnam Chest Rigs
Vietnam Tomahawk
Vietnam Tomahawk Part 2 – Applications.
Walk-A-Heaps
Walking Cane
Walking Canes
Wants and Needs
Watching the Fire Alarms
Water Caltrops
Weapons All Around You!
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
What Will this Blog Be About?
What’s a Mucket?
When Sneakers Matter More Than Schoolkids
Why a Kukri?
Wise Comment
WMD: Weapon of Mosquito Destruction.
Working Harder to be Lazy!
Workplace Survival
Writing and Time
WW2 Bayonet Part One
YEC and the Cognitive Dissonance Trap
You Got His Knife Arm! What Next?
You Might As Well Jump!
Yugoslavian Mess Kit in More Detail
Zip Tie Escapes
Zaghnal and Mini-Hawk
Under a Waning Star
Yule Be Sorry!

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Post date 26 August 2020

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