Stay Alive -- Introduction to Survival Skills eShort by John McCann

Author:John McCann [McCann, John D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4402-3531-3
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2012-04-13T04:00:00+00:00

Students learn fire starting at a basic survival course. Advanced skills are good to know, after you’ve mastered the basics.

Learning the skills to survive

Let’s further examine the skills of survival. This book will attempt to provide you with the technical skills to use your selected components. You will learn the most effective manner to use specific items. The benefits of most survival tools remain unrealized until you know how they can help you perform specific tasks when needed. However, a book is no substitution for hands-on training.

One of the best ways to learn survival skills is by attending a survival course. This is where you will learn the subtleties. Many of my students have told me that it is not always the concept they learn, but more important, the nuances of an actual technique that make the process easier to perform.

There are many fine survival schools out there and I have listed some in the back of this book. Don’t listen to the hype of some that the only way to learn survival skills is to attend a lengthy week-long course. If that is your desire, and you can afford the time and money, I see nothing wrong with it. But, there are many schools that run one- or two-day seminars or weekend courses. A good friend of mine, Christopher Nyerges, has been running short seminars and courses in California since the late 70s and many of his students come back time and again. They can learn a little at a time and methodically build their skill base. I once had a student that had attended a seven-day course tell me that it was so intensive that by the fifth day he had already forgotten what he had done on the first.

Many people can’t take a week’s vacation to learn skills, but still have the desire to learn. I have always believed that something is better than nothing, and it is the same with learning. Some skills are better than no skills. Learning a little at a time when you have available time is more important than the plan to someday attend an extended training program. Again, the choice is yours, but get all the training you can afford. It will be money well spent.

Lastly, in regard to looking for training, make sure the program teaches the basics. The basic skills will get you through a short duration survival situation. The advanced skills are good to know, and should eventually be learned, but after you have mastered the basics. The ability to make cordage from plants or spoons from wood are good primitive skills to have, but if you get thrown into a hypothermic situation, fire and shelter are the priority.

Remember, the tools for survival are there if you bring them. But the skills take time and practice. You can’t wait until you need those skills to develop them, it will be too late. Both your survival kits and survival skills must constantly be updated. Neither can just be put away for a rainy day.

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