You can also find out about where the author collected all of his ideas from here.
www.equipped.org
or here
www.survival.com and watch the PSK DVD Ron Hood sells.
Don't we all do this and who owns the ideas? I'm in the process of writing a book on survival kits myself. I have not read the book on survival kits that this fellow has written but mine will have various acknowledgements in it and one of them is for this very forum.
Rick, I'm not going to say why I won't second your recommendation as it is well known here. I'm just going to say the ideas presented in the book can be found elsewhere and there are authors and outdoorsman more worthy of praise than JM of that website.
I was less than impressed with the newspaper article done on this fellow some months ago where he said that screwdrivers on knives like SAKs were of no real use because he has never had to unscrew a tree...and it's more likely that the journalist doing the story said that the guy's "own recipe" for firestarters was PJ/Cottonballs...if the guy told the journalist that, then he's obviously full of himself, but journalists juice up articles like this with statements like that all of the time.
It's also interesting to note that one of Ron's supporters is a friend of this gentleman and said so over on Hood's Woods over the summer and not a word was spoken ill of the man. I believe it was a moderator on Hood's Woods or someone close to Ron Hood.
Who owns all of this stuff? Does this guy really deserve any condemnation besides making a stupid statement about unscrewing trees in the forest or perhaps words that a journalist put in his mouth about vaseline-saturated cotton balls? Seems rather unfair to me really.
I've been into this stuff for a long time. I purchased Paul Risk's book when it was brand new on the market and he had a lot of ideas that were carried out by Ron Hood and Doug Ritter, where does an accusatory witch hunt begin and end with all of this stuff?
Back around 1986, Leroy Thompson published a book through Paladin Press,
"Survival/Fighting Knives." He had a chapter on pocket survival kits and various items to put in them, etc., and mentions specifically a tobacco tin pocket sized survival kit marketed by "J. Wiseman." Is everyone, including Ron Hood and Doug Ritter ripping off the SAS? Of course not. Further, in Ron's Survival Kits DVD, he has a small, thick-walled, zip-lok type of container for the "Mini-Kit." Did Doug Ritter rip him off because Doug chose, years later, to utilize the same basic concept for a pocket-carried kit?
Again, of course not.
I don't own this guy's book, I have never communicated with him in any way. I just looked at his website and he actually sells Doug's AMK Kit. I don't see where the hostility is coming from except for the fact he is making money and showing off "knife fighting" scars to a journalist. While the latter might be scuz-self-promotion, the former seems to be what is pissing people off, that he is making money.
Last article I read, Tom Brown has two or three Hummers and a house to die for in an exclusive area of New Jersey. By the looks of Ron Hood's house in Karen's DVDs, they have done well for themselves and Ron also has, or had, a Hummer. He had it up for sale over the summer. They have both run classes for years, Ron had VHS then DVD and Brown had books...
Problem?
What would you say to somebody that says he has nothing left to learn?
