New eBook coming soon! Which cover looks best — the one with the wood background, or the paper?
From the back cover:
This pared-down walking stick method is at once brutally effective and easy to learn. Inspired by the work of Pierre Vigny, H. G. Lang, and Col. Thomas Hoyer Monstery, and based on two decades of research and testing, this action-packed ebook is guaranteed to inform and thrill martial artists of all experience levels.
Dozens of illustrations and clickable links to video demonstrations flesh out this short but thorough fighting manual which covers all fighting ranges, including grappling and wrestling. Practice its strategies and techniques and within a few months you’ll be shocked at your fighting readiness!
The humble and ubiquitous cane, in the hands of a gentleman or lady devoted to training in this unique method, will become a devastating, yet legal and non-lethal, self-defense weapon.
About the Author
Robert “Mitch” Mitchell Jr. has been teaching martial arts since 1990. In 2011 he was awarded the rank of Master by the Combat Martial Arts Practitioners Association, and in 2019 became an authorized instructor of Mark Hatmaker’s Frontier Rough & Tumble Martial arts program. He is the founder of Heritage Arts Inc., a 501(c)(3) federally-recognized non-profit educational charity providing free instruction in martial arts, fitness, outdoor skills, and spiritual development (www.heritageartsinc.com).
His writing credits include “Martial Grit: Real Fighting Fitness on a Budget,” “The Calisthenics Codex” (which has been in Smashword’s Top 10 fitness books since its publication in 2015) and “The Wildwood Workbook: Nature Appreciation and Survival.” A priest in the Old Catholic tradition, he has also written two books of homilies — “Lift up Your Heads: A Year of Old Catholic Homilies” and “Seek His Face: Another Year of Old Catholic Homilies.”
Wildwood: Tracking exercise. Find or clear a patch of dirt at least a couple of feet across. Put a piece of fruit — a grape, slice of apple, etc. — in the center and leave it. Come back tomorrow and examine the area. What took it? Pro-tips: choose muddy ground or moisten it with a hose if its in your yard. And if you can make it back at sunrise you might be able to get more information by getting to the west of the location and looking at the surrounding area with the light reflecting off the dew by the light of the sun. 
Self-Defense: Weapon Capture and Retention. Today’s the last day of weapons training this month, so let’s really work. Get out your wooden or rubber mock-up weapon of choice and go out on the grass. Set timer for repeating 1 min. rounds. Toss mock weapon over your shoulder, then turn and pounce on it with your right hand using a belly slide. Cut one “X” in the air against the imaginary enemy next to you on the ground. Do a commando-style Get-up, and repeat until the bell rings. Do a second round with baseball slides and a third round with shoulder roll pick-ups. Cycle through 3 more rounds with left hand for a total of 6 1-minute rounds. Be sure to wield your weapon with whatever grip to get — you need to be able to use your weapons with either hand in any grip!
Survival & Spirit Combo: Sit down and shut up. Go out into your backyard in the half-light of either early morning or evening. This will ensure that the bugs are swarming and you can’t see your surroundings optimally. Set a timer for 5 – 10 mins, sit down in your posture of choice, and practice contemplation. Regulate your breathing to a slow and regular pattern. Keep your eyes open. Do not fidget, wiggle, scratch, move or speak (not even to swat or swear at that mosquito whining in your ear). Like ripples on a pond, allow your thoughts to dissipate toward thoughtlessness — just sit and look out at the world without evaluating. The four great spiritual disciplines — contemplation, meditation, prayer and sacred reading — are as much adventures in stoicism and survival as they are quests for enlightenment, atonement, and fulfillment. If you can’t even sit quietly under any conditions, without moving or making a sound, to avoid capture, observe an enemy, or land a meal, how are you going to have any hope of making contact with God, your Higher Power, or Ultimate Reality? Get there.
Fitness: Farmer Walks, Farmer Walks, Farmer Walks. Most of the credit for my 60+ strength I give to heavy carries. I recommend 2 heavy carries a week for functional strength, and 1 of them has to be Farmer Walks. Don’t do tons of sets with low weight — push the weight up such that you can only do 3 sets of about 25 yards/meters each. Set a goal of body weight per hand. Here’s how to progress: Start with a weight you can manage with relative ease, say 1/2 your 1 RM Bench Press per hand. Walk 25 yds/m, rest 1 min., walk 25 yds/m, then walk until failure. Next time add weight. When you can’t get 3 reps of 25 yds/m each, reduce weight by %5 – 10% and restart your progression.
Survival: Sheet Bend or Weaver’s Knot. A few months back I got stuck in kind of a tough spot and needed to be able to join two different diameters of cordage together. Fortunately I knew the Sheet Bend or Weaver’s knot. Learn this knot and thank me later. Want a free knot book? Check out 
Robert Mitchell Jr. 