Cleaving with a Khukuri Ron Hood 1/24/2000© This article appeared in Tactical Knives Magazine I’ve always been a fan of big blades. In my line of work as a survival instructor/wilderness video producer I spend a lot of my time chopping, shaping and carving wood...

(photos are of some of the TOPS knives Karen and I use) I first became aware of TOPS knives in 1998, just before we pushed off on our first month long expedition into the Peruvian Amazon to meet with the Chapra-Candoshi Indians . If you...

Survival: The Last Laugh Chapter 4 – Exposure: The Cold Facts By Ron Hood, Ed.D. (ABD) Introduction | 1 – Beginning | 2 – Innovation | 3 – Woods Master | 4 – Exposure Well, it looks like it’s time to drag up a comfortable...

HOODS WOODS – Home Survival! Karen Hood’s  – Can the Dependency  Emergency Preparations – Karen Hood’s  Article The following article by Karen appeared in the quarterly magazine "Y2K – Disaster 2000" published by Harris Publications  May, 1999. The magazine is now off the shelves but...

A few thoughts, some history and Wilderness Videos Back in the early 1970’s  I began to teach survival skills  professionally,  it was at a Community College in Southern California. Before I  could begin to teach that class the administration and faculty took a long look...

We receive thousands of letters and emails from our customers about our instructional videos and customer service. Here are a few of the most recent ones. If we put them ALL up here you’d be busy for a week! It seems pretty clear that folks...