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Videos
Get Home Bags For Everyday People. Why You Need One.
What a “Get Home Bag” is and why everyone should have one. Written by Stephanie Dayle. A Get Home Bag could be a life saver if we are ever faced with a true disaster. Everyone who travels away from home on a regular bases should have one assembled and ready as part of their personal […]
A Simple Way To Help Keep Your Strength During The Winter
Here is a simple, but powerful technique to take care of your body during the winter. This amazing health technique used to be well known by humanity that lived in cold climates, and you’ll recognize the truth of it when looking at the fashions people wore in old photos. I’ve been using this and I’ll […]
What is indexing? Ask Coach David
In this video I explain what an index position is before you strike. WARNING: You should never use what I teach unless you’re in a life or death situation! If you had a gun, would you pull the trigger? Actually, don’t ever use what I teach…you will kill someone! What is indexing? An index is […]
Throat Strike Lesson #2 for the B.E.T. “Target Based” Self Defense System
In this video I am demonstrating another throat or trachea strike to incapacitate an attacker. You would never use this strike unless you or your families lives are on the line. Move into your attacker using your body weight through your shin bone and into the attacker’s trachea. This will cause your attacker to clutch […]
Self Defense With Coach David Alexander – Part 1
Self defense is something to be considered in your plans of preparedness and in this video I am demonstrating a throat or trachea strike to incapacitate an attacker. You would never use this strike unless you or your families lives are on the line. Move into your attacker using your body weight through your ulna […]
Preparing for a food crisis
Alex Jones discusses preparing for a food crisis with James Wesley Rawles of Survivalblog.com What do you do in a grid down situation? How much food do you have stored on hand? With the vulnerability of our nations supply chains, and most stores having only 3 days worth of supplies, it’s time to think about […]
Install a Drip System for Your Garden
Written and lived by Stephanie Dayle A low pressure drip system is a homesteader’s and prepper’s dream irrigation system. There are so many advantages to them, but the one that preppers usually find very attractive is that they are powered by ‘low water pressure’ and with a little bit of research one can be designed that […]
Sharing Some Tricks and a Recipe on Jerky
Great instructions and recipe for Jerky, from a food channel episode!
APN Featured on The History Channel
American Prepper’s Network own co-owner Hugh Vail and APN’s Mike Porrenta share their theories, practices and priorities related to the threat of apocalypse on a History Channel special that aired in 2012 prior to the much discussed Mayan apocalypse date called 2012: Countdown To Armageddon. Hugh and Mike share their thoughts on the upcoming events […]
Making Wax Fire Starters From Egg Cartons
Continuing my Heat and Light series, we go pretty basic and cover how to create home made water proof fire starters out of dryer lint, cotton balls, cardboard egg carts and paraffin wax.
How to make Fire Starting Wafers with Paraffin Wax
More on my Heat and Light series, this video continues with a back to the basics approach and demonstrates how to make Fire Starting Wafers from common household products including: Paraffin Wax, Toilet Paper Rolls and Dryer Lint or Cotton Balls. The video demonstrates step by step procedures for making the Fire Starting Wafers and […]
How to Make an Emergency Cardboard Stove
Continuing my Heat and Light series, I show how to make an Emergency Stove out of common household materials: cardboard, paraffin wax and two tin cans. These stoves can be pre-made and stored in an emergency or evac kit so they are available when needed. The video demonstrates the step by step procedures for making […]
Starting a fire with Steel Wool
Another in my Heat and Light series, this video shows how to start a fire with Steel Wool using both a 9 volt and 2 double A batteries.
How to build an Alcohol Stove
Continuing the Heat and Light series, I go over the steps to create an alcohol stove at home using common materials.
Snowcaves – How NOT to Build Them!
Let’s look at 8 real examples of how NOT to build a snow cave! The inhabitants of these poorly constructed shelters must have been freezing at night! In this video, first we discuss how to properly build a snow cave: 1) at about a 30 degree incline so that the floor of your cave is […]
Purifying and Filtering Water – Basic Preparedness Skills – Introduction
Introduction to a new content series on Water purifying, filtering and collection. Pre-Filtering is discussed at length with an overall introduction to the series.
Water and 72 Hour Kits / Bug Out Bags
Basic Preparedness Instruction on water and 72 hour kits – what you need in your bag to take care of your water needs. We discuss different types of “pre-packaged” water to keep with you, containers for carrying more water and filters for cleaning water that you find on your way.
Boiling Water for Survival
Basic Preparedness Instruction on water and the process required to properly boil it to purify it for drinking.
Living Off a Three Month Supply
In this video, I discuss the lifestyle and philosophy behind building and living off of a 3 Month Supply. This philosophy makes it easy to attain a 3 month supply and especially easy to keep it rotated. The primary philosophy is to become used to thinking of your 3 Month Supply as your ‘grocery store’ […]
The Purpose of a Year Supply
What is a Year Supply? It’s not what you might think! Specifically, it’s not a Year Supply of FOOD – that’s only PART of it. A Year Supply is meant to be a buffer to get you through the first year of a TEOTWAWKI or WROL situation and allow you to stock up and prepare […]
Phil Burns from Meet the Preppers on Animal Planet Discusses the Show
It has been an interesting 48 hours for all of us who were in Meet the Preppers, namely my family, watching the responses has been educational and enlightening – and frustrating and unsettling. Phil Burns Intro But let’s start with an introduction – I’m Phil Burns, the father of 8 on Meet the Preppers. I’m […]
The Four Lost American Ideals: It’s Time to ‘ReValue America’
Dr Shanon Brooks former President of George Wythe University; Current Founder/President of Monticello College educates americans in this video about the Four Lost American Ideals | Revalue America