Has anyone bought the DVD Prepared to Survive? I have it and was wondering if anyone would like to discuss the contents.

Thanks!

I have it.. What's there to discuss? It's pretty straight forward.. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I would be happy to try and answer any questions you have with the program. I hope you found it useful.

I did like the little subtle acts by the actor/actresses when they were in survival mode.. For instance, the single blonde woman, at one point touches her pinky to her thumb to check for hypothermia, before starting a fire. I think the video would have been more valuable if a point was made to why certain actions were performed. So for instance, on that act, I knew why she was doing it, but my wife did not. I ended up explaining or expanding on certain things in the dvd to her.

That's a new one to me, can you exapnd?

Malpaso,

You can read about it in "98.6" by Cody Lundin.

If you have trouble touching your little finger to your thumb it is a sign that you may be starting to go hypothermic.

Thanks for being willing to share!

I bought the video ?Prepared to Survive? from Lifeview and got free shipping $7.00. Woohoo! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Being the survival nut that I am, I watched it the same night it came from UPS. The video has great photography!

Doug Ritter has some really weird glasses. It looks like there are two giant lenses clipped to his nose and no ear pieces. <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I watched all of disk 1 and the survival kits and knives of disk 2. I hope to get some more time to watch the rest of it. My sons have been watching it on their own when they could be watching Star Wars. Must be good! One of my favorite parts is where Gretchen Cordy takes a piece of wet fuel size wood and splits it with her knife, splits out kindling and then shaves off tinder. She then has her assistant use a Strike Force to start the shavings. She has a slab of bark under the tinder to keep the tinder dry and uses a brace to lean the kindling on. Looks like a good setup. I wish she had used a row of sticks on the bottom like Doug has in the PSP instruction sheet.

Watching them use the Ontario TAK-1 made me want one. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

What is the possibility of us making suggestions and there being a version II of "Prepared to Survive"?

Thanks for the comments. We'd love to do Prepared to Survive part 2 for the more advanced enthusiasts. Our goal with the first program was to create a general awareness and interest in the basic principles of wilderness survival and the importance of being prepared for the unexpected. We've considered advanced shelter building, wilderness medicine and a few other topics for a follow up program.

But alas, it is very expensive to produce something like this. It'll be a while before we save enough pennies to make another one without a sponsor. When we do however, you can be sure that we'll solicit advice on this forum.

BTW- the TAK held up well despite hard use.

Based upon Doug's recommendation at Equipped.org and the above comments I've put the video on my Christmas wish list, which my wife sends off to Santa sometime next month.

I've been a good boy this year.