Are survival courses worth it?

Even if you don't think you'll ever get put in a wilderness survival situation, a survival training course will still teach you valuable life skills, like confidence and decision-making under stress.

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The best way to learn survival skills is from real-life experience!

Because of this, wilderness survival courses have become pretty popular lately.

Here is what you need to know – including the pros and cons – if you are considering taking a wilderness survival course.

Pros of Taking a Wilderness Survival Course

#1) You’ll Learn Valuable Skills

One of the trickiest parts of getting started with survivalism is figuring out which survival skills are important. There is simply so much to learn that you don’t know where to begin! In my opinion, this is one of the big benefits of taking a survival course. The instructor (hopefully) has good knowledge of what is really important. This can speed up your education, so you get the most crucial survival skills in a very short time frame.

#2) You Can Test Yourself with Little Risk

There is no reason that you have to take a course to learn survival skills. You could head out into the wild yourself… But, without knowing skills in advance, you could put yourself at considerable risk! Wilderness survival courses allow you to get into unfamiliar terrain and test yourself without too much risk of f-ing things up completely. In other words, the instructor is there to rescue you if necessary. Being a prepper or survivalist can be pretty lonely at times. If you tell people that you want to learn survival skills to prepare for disasters like EMP, chances are they will think you are crazy. When you go to a survival course, the other students will probably have a similar mindset. Knowing that other like-minded people are out there can go a long way in motivating and encouraging you. Don’t underestimate how vital community is!!!

#4) It is a Break from Daily Routine

As survival course instructor Ged Lawless told a reporter at the Guardian, taking a survival training course offers you total freedom from daily routine. “Nowadays, we’re slaves to supermarkets and fast food. Everything is about speed. When you’re in the wild, this doesn’t apply. Once you understand how nature works and how it can provide, what you can and cannot eat, this knowledge dispels your fear. And the satisfaction of food, shelter, warmth and drink without having to queue in overcrowded aisles and checkouts … it’s total freedom.”

#5) You’ll Get Feel for What Group Dynamics Means!

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In every wilderness survival course, there is usually at least one annoying suburban family who thought it would be a “fun” way to spend their vacation. Listening to these people constantly complaining can drive you crazy!!!! However, I consider these annoying people a major benefit of taking a survival course. By working with them and other completely unskilled people, you’ll learn a LOT about managing group dynamics in a survival situation.

#6) You’ll Learn Life Skills Too

Even if you don’t think you’ll ever get put in a wilderness survival situation, a survival training course will still teach you valuable life skills, like confidence and decision-making under stress. This is why many companies send their employees on “team building” trips to survival courses.

Cons of Taking a Wilderness Survival Courses

#1) The Cost

Wilderness survival courses vary from half-day outings to month-long excursions.

Considering the fact that you are just out in the wilderness without much (or any) gear or supplies, the cost is relatively high. The most affordable ones start at around $150, and the expensive ones can be in the thousands. It would be much cheaper to go out into the wilderness with friends to practice skills.

#2) There May Be Better Ways for You to Learn Survival Skills

A good wilderness survival course will teach you lots of various skills in a short time. However, this intensive approach isn’t for everyone – especially considering that there are many other ways to learn survival skills.

#3) Some Survival Courses Are Terrible!

I’ve heard a lot of horror stories about lousy wilderness survival courses. In some, the instructors just told everyone what to do, like a primitive boot camp. In others, the instructors even taught bad survival tactics that could kill you (think Bear Grylls biting the head off of live crickets!).

#4) Too Much Information At Once

You’ll cover a lot of survival skills in a training course, but that doesn’t mean you’ll remember any of them! Many courses cover so many topics that you don’t get enough “lab time” to commit them to memory and get even a rudimentary mastery of the skills.

#5) The Survival Skills Taught Aren’t Always Practical

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Yes, it is cool to know how to do things like make pitch from pine sap and make cordage from plants. But are these advanced skills going to be necessary after a full-scale disaster?

In an urban disaster, you’ll have lots of resources around you.

In a wilderness evacuation scenario, you will likely use the most basic tactics to survive. As one former student said of his experience at the Tom Brown survival school, “It was way too Native American and ‘loin cloth’ for my tastes. Did I learn a lot? You betcha. How much is practical? I don’t know about you, but I don’t foresee myself being in a pitch pine forest, half naked, carrying nothing but a 6 inch fixed blade knife.”

#6) There Is More than One Way to Survive

If you do decide to take a survival course, you should probably take more than one.

Why?

Because some of the instructors break the “cardinal rule” – they think they know everything. But, as any good survivalist will tell you, there is more than one way of doing things in survival situations. If an instructor is only teaching you, for example, one of the ways to hang a bear bag, you could find yourself very unprepared when the types of trees in the area aren’t conducive to that method. Have you ever taken a wilderness survival course? Did you like it? Let us know in the comments or join the discussion in our FB group!

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