I’ve heard an interesting anecdote from a police helicopter pilot once.
He said if they were looking for a suspect in a crowded urban area, they would go relatively low (still above buildings) and look for whoever pedestrian has not stopped and started looking up.
Makes sense, if you are just minding your own business and suddenly a helicopter starts hovering over you, you are going to stop and look like “wtf??”

In an urban setting the "construction worker" look is a HUGE advantage.  I used to deliver to construction sites and I constantly blew past security gates, check points, "authorized personnel " doors (even with alarms) and I was NEVER questioned. It blew my mind that having a hi-vis vest and a dirty old hardhat on was the key to the city.

I had an old gangster tell me once while visiting a city. Over the years I've paid attention to the demographics of what he said in multiple city's, and it seems to be universally true.  He said always be mindful of change in elevation. Almost all cities are built with the highest end of the city built on the highest ground. Anytime the elevation drops, so does the class of neighborhood. If walking 2 blocks downhill? One needs to start looking over their shoulder. Doesn't matter if it's Atlanta or Cleveland Ohio. Risk increases in the lower elevations.

Can you make a sequel to this video?

"How to Survive and Evade in an Urban Area Under Enemy Occupation"

And

"How to Survive and Evade in an Urban Area That is Under a Firefight"

We need more of this content. We greatly appreciate it.

2 survival videos back to back?! what did we do to earn this gift

I know everyone likes the gun videos, but these survival/evasion videos are absolutely your best. Would be really cool to see more environments like farmland, open deserts, rural towns, etc.

As a plumber in the u.s. tank water heaters can have anywhere between 30 to 60 gallons of filtered city water in them at any given time if they havent been emptied. Use the drain on the bottom of the heater and open faucets on the hot side to break the hydrolock. Lightly filter to get rid of harmless sediment.

Something tells me this vid will only get more important over the next couple years lol

You guys should definitely do a hide and seek/tag style video actually applying the things y'all are teaching. Maybe have Micah, Charles & Admin try to find/capture y'all in a city for a few hours.

Mike took one look at the state of the US and said to the crew "gun stuff is fun but we have a huge calling right now"

Two things to be aware of:  1) if you have scars or tattoos that stand out you can't hide them depending on where they are located.
2) Another thing most of us "never" think to change is footwear.

If you are tailing somebody and they change appearance with clothing changes, etc.  Footwear is never changed.

In a heavily urban environment, appearing homeless can also make it easier to move about.  Just like in the woods, dirty yourself up.  Grab a blanket from a Salvation Army and drag it around in the dirt and leaves and then drape it over your shoulders.  Move even slower than you normally would as if you didn’t have anywhere to go.  Most people steer clear from homeless folks and don’t even want to make eye contact.  I think it’s another way to hide in plain sight.

One thing I learned from walking through NYC is "walk like you know where you are going." Even if you're going the wrong way, keep walking until you can naturally follow the grid and turn around. It's great for not making you a target.

I love the fact that these lessons can be used for people without weapons. Not everyone can afford a weapon, not that they don't support weapon ownership. These lessons can get these people to somewhere safe.

This is the content we crave.  Stay this course Mike, seriously.

If you wear sports clothes and have a towel on your neck and a water bottle on your hand you can run/jog (go faster from point A to point B) while looking normal and not attracting attention. An upside of this is that if your feeling anxious about your escape, by making it seem like your exercising you can hide nervous movements and facial microexpressions.

people don't realize how much he's actually doing for us. he's literally giving us information that people would pay thousands of dollars for.

Ok, I am going to share one of my tricks I figured out.
If you are in a city and it's nighttime, winter, your cold wet, freezing....

find a POST OFFICE.

The lobbies are open for post box customers, and they are dry and well heated. Look in the waste basket for junk mail someone has thrown away. If someone comes in just shuffle the letters etc. around and act like you just picked up your mail. Walk out and away, then go back after they leave.

I truly believe this saved my life one BAD WINTER NIGHT.

You're welcome.

As a writer, these videos serve a dual purpose. Not only do they help with potential real-life situations, but they also help to maintain the immersion of a story. When the actions of a character are believable.

I have a former Marine buddy that is working in law enforcement that also watched this video and had some observations. Take consideration of your tattoos (arms and neck) when trying to blend in or escape and evade. You can remove a shirt or change it too another color, it still doesn't matter since you cannot change the tattoos on your arms. He was chasing a guy that had an all-black shirt on. The guy had another shirt underneath it that was red. He thought that he will ditch the black shirt and walk away, but since he had tattoos up and down his arms and a neck tattoo, he didn't fool anyone, and they arrested him. The other one was that if you wear military type gear and clothing, this will draw attention to you that you have some military type of training, and you might be singled out by foreign troops or sad to say, our own. Still keep in mind of the tattoos. If you have Marine Corp, Navy, Army tattoos, this will give you away as well. Cover them up when trying to blend in or being observed while moving around.