This week’s blog is all about my students and the conditions they faced while training in Granite Falls, WA. When I scheduled a 2-day survival course in the Pacific Northwest, I knew there was going to be rain and I knew the conditions were going to be wet and challenging on many levels. The last ti …

“Gone Fishin’”. You’ve probably heard someone say this and perhaps that expression invokes thoughts of a guy in a row boat with a bucket hat dangling a line over the side. Perhaps that expression makes you think of some drunken buddies using it as an excuse to get liquored up with the fishing part a …

“So you just drink coffee and talk about 4x4’s?” I’ve fielded that question about Go Rigs and Coffee before and here in Aberdeen, NC, I fielded it again. Go Rigs and Coffee is a program that started in UT and when we opened Fieldcraft Survival East, Go Rigs and Coffee was added to our events list. A …

Some of the best meals you will ever have can only be experienced while at camp. Even the same coffee you make at home, prepared in the same manner, is miraculously better when waking up from your tent on a crisp morning.Overland chow is not the same as survival food. Your Go-rig is an extension of …

I believe knowledge exists in the questions you ask, not the statements you make. The origin of this statement is unknown to me but it remains true as long as I remember using it. Students are always looking for answers in courses and our instructors are great at having them turn those questions inw …

We have trained with Tony Blauer a few times over the last couple of years. He has been in the martial arts, self-defense, defensive tactics, and combatives industry for almost four decades and he has successfully affected training across all the combat-related communities: self-defense, combat …