Part of any good survival kit is a plethora of ways to get a fire going. Whether its matches, lighters, flint, and steel, or magnesium sticks, having a variety of fire starting options is essentially the core of most bug out and survival kits.

It occasionally happens that these methods fail, though. Lighters can leak out their fuel, matches can get wet, and often flint and steel will simply refuse to work for you.

Or you could get stuck in a situation without your typical fire starting means. When this happens, you'll need alternative methods to light your fire. That's when most people turn to friction fire.

Rubbing two sticks together, as it's often called, is much harder than it sounds. There are a million reasons for it not to work, and relatively few circumstances where it will for the unskilled practitioner.

To guarantee success in your next attempt, check out the pointers on the following page.

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