Personal Security and Survival Training Course
In the November 2009 addition of Outside Magazine, Joe Spring, writes briefly about Ben Sherwoods book, ” The Survival Club”. In his bestseller, Sherwood writes, “that in survival situations we all fall into one of three groups.
The ten percent who lead others to safety, the 80 percent who tend to wait for instructions, or the 10 percent who freak out.” “The twin enemies of survival are fear and inflexibility,” he says. “Fear is demotivating and paralyzing. Inflexibility means that you don’t adapt to the new reality.”
Aborigibal path - a scouts way
The number one survival skill
In the same addition of Outside Magazine, Toni Nester, a survival guru, is asked this burning question, whats the number one skill people should learn in case they get lost in the back country? Mr. Nester replies, “fire making”.
According to INSI ( International News Safety Institute) this year, nine journalist have been killed while on assignment worldwide.
Recommended INSI training for journalist sent overseas into hot spots? Training should cover personal safety, landmines, pre-deployment issues, first aid skills and detention and captivity survival. Training should also include how to make a security plan, how to set up travel and communication protocols with staff in the field as well as how to manage a crisis and report back on incidents.
What other types of training do you think would apply for your personal security and survival at home or abroad?
According to , Jeffery Miller, the author of – The Best Self-Defense Strategy – The 6 Phases of a Perfect Self-Defense Plan.
“Each phase, or stage, itself, has the potential of reducing or completely eliminating your chances of ending up as a crime statistic as a victim of assault or some other serious crime.”
Miller recommends the following 6 phases of defense.
1. General Awareness
2. Awareness of Danger Potential
3. Escaping to Safety
4. Distraction Tactics
5. Project a Confident Attitude
6. Physical Self-Defense
Other personal security concepts for you to consider:
7. Mental Preparation
8. De-escalation
9. Controlling Attack Range
10. Keeping and Maintaining Distance
11. Adrenal Stress Response – Panic – Fight or Flight
12. Accessing the Animal Within – Primal Response
This is by no means a complete list of self-defense strategy. However, there is plenty here to work with.
What about drinking water overseas and what are the risks?
Magellans travel supplies, urges customers to use caution with water while traveling – “Undertreated water is a wonderful home for microorganisms such as viruses (polio, hepatitis), bacteria (cholera, salmonella, streptococcus), and parasites (Giardia Lamblia, Cryptosporidium). Exposure to these organisms can cause serious illness, and in some cases may be fatal.” to right!
Personal Security & Survival Training Course
When I studied with Tom brown Jr. a class I really enjoyed immensely was Scout class. So much so, I took every Scout course Tom offered. Based on the Apache Scout Warrior philosophy. All week we suffered through sleep deprivation, practiced open hand, knife, stick, and staff self-defense techniques. Studied and avoided booby traps. Studied human psychology, learned to move silently and use natural camouflage.
Some of the best Scouts I know are women, mothers and school teachers. To the chagrin of many a special ops professional, so ladies, this is a great camp to apply yourselves at the expense of us men.
Games included capture the flag, and a host of other physically and mentally exhaustive scenarios. Tom always drilled in us, that the Apache Scout was the last to pick up the lance. (To use physical violence), Tom taught us that the Apache Scout always had a host of other skills at his disposal before resorting to violence. And this is our philosophy as well.
I will admit, that this is no doubt, the most fun of all the camps we offer. In the past this course has been by invitation only. But, there is so much for you to learn from this course, and so much that can benefit you, plus its a blast, that we are excited to offer it without any prerequisites for 2010. If its a success like we think it will be, we will offer it as a regularly scheduled camp in the future.
Some of the best Scouts I know are women, mothers and school teachers. To the chagrin of many a special ops professional, so ladies, this is a great camp to apply yourselves at the expense of us men.
What You Will learn
You will want to be in good physical condition for this camp. We will be camping out and conditions, like all our camps, are primitive. We will not be training with any fire arms, and fire arms are not allowed at camp. You will learn self-defense techniques using open hand, rubber knife, short sticks, and staff.
You will learn to work as a team with your other students, while avoiding other teams that are operating in the same area. An important part of camp will be developing your awareness to react to what is happening around you, how to function under stress, breathing techniques, blending in with natural camouflage.
Emergency shelter, fire making, and water purification will also be covered.
All meals included.
Personal Security & Survival Training Course $550
Yes, you can pay by personal check, money order, or cashiers check. Visit the contacts page for our mailing address ~ Here.
Click Here to read Registration Policies before purchasing camp.
California Dates 2010
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June 17-20, 2010
Discounts
Register as a group of four or more and receive a 10% discount. ($495 per person).
This course is open to students 16 years and older with parents consent.
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We have decided this course definitely needs a new name. I don’t want to call it Scout class because that’s Tom brown Jr’s course name. Plus other schools use the name for their version. So, I want to have our own unique name and version for this course.
And It would be great if you would help us name this new course!
You do not have to be a registered student of ours to be a part of this course naming contest, but you do have to be old enough to attend the course if you win first, second, or third place prize. Did I say prize? And that means you have to be at least 16 years of age. (Accompanied by a parent or leagl guardian.)
Some super news! SOG knives is donating knives for the contest. Thanks SOG!
Third place prize?…how about a Flash 2 folding knife from SOG Knives? Its a great knife, I use mine every day. *And a $25 gift certificate towards the Personal Security and Survival Course.
Second place prize?, no brainer. SOGS Seal PUP Elite. Our recommended knife for The EDGE.*And a $50 gift certificate towards the Personal Security and Survival Course.
First place prize? The winner wins a Security and Survival course, yep, the winner gets a free course, Seal Pup Elite and a Lifesong Wilderness Adventures T-shirt. Heck, first through third place winners all get a Lifesong Wilderness Adventures T-shirt.
So how are we going to pick the winner of the course name? I think we should have a vote. A vote for first, second, and third place winners. What do you think?
i have a couple of names for you Mark
1) The Foxfire Course
2) Wilderness Defense Systems
Hi Michael,
We like your “Wilderness Defense System’. Great to hear from you!
More?
How about…
-The Lance
-Defense in the Wilderness
-Wilderness Warriors
Just a few thoughts. Sounds like a great class!
-Mel
Thanks Mel,
great names.
We are thinking of announcing the winners a week before Christmas 2009. Okay, check that. Will announce the winners January 15, 2010.
Thanks everyone.
Name idea:
“When Wild Goes Wrong”
Thanks lee!
Name Idea:
-Self-Defense in Wilderness Exploration
-Self-Defense Wilderness Training
Jeremy
Thanks Jeremy
Sounds like great training…
“Survive and Thrive” Wilderness Training Course
“Last Resort” Survival Camp
We are excited about it Michael – thanks
i’m still thinking on this but right now, in thinking about traveling, guiding, safety, defense and also potentially protection others, i have;
Safe Passage
Protective Circle
Warrior Trail
Guiding Spirit
Pathfinder
Hey Shawn,
some real good names. I really like Pathfinder and have thought about using it for the course name because it fits. But, there are many others associated with that name, so I’m reluctant to use it. I would feel proud to use Pathfinder because of the US Army Pathfinder Corp., but they beat us to it.
Thanks.
Keep at it.
hmm.
Tactical Trails
Wide Angle Preparation
Watchtower
Watchtower Trail
Spearhead
let me know if/when something is going in a good direction
Alright Shawn!
You are working hard for that free class. Have you asked your class?
for some reason this has gotten to be a personal challenge for me.
Wayfaring Safety Solutions,
Wayfaring Safety Training,
or Wayfaring Safety
Walking Sentinel
Wayfaring Surveillance and Conflict Resolution ,
Wayfaring Surveillance and Defense
or Wayfaring Conflict Resolution
situational awareness
my thought with this one is that keeping your focus out ahead of you, along the path(whichever kind of path it may be) you have will lots of warning before you need to react and the reaction will be more effective
wayfaring awareness, could work two because it includes the traveler/journey aspect.
btw. this brainstorming has gotten fun. if it werent for your deadline i might keep going.
What are some of the core concepts to consider if this was your course and you wanted to give it just the right name.
Trust
Patience
Consideration
any more we can add?
Hey Mark, Ive been thinking a lot about it and so far the best i have come up with is
Deep Survival
I hope to add more later and increase my chances at the free class.
Very excited to hear the outcome!
Hey Alex, great to hear from you. Fixed the typo. Thanks for adding to the quest for the course name.
Cheers!
Great site. Courses look fantastic. Here’s my suggestion:
Wilderness Awareness, Defense, & Escape (or Evasion) – (W.A.D.E. for the catchy hook of an acronym!)
Thanks for having a contest.
Hi Anthony,
thanks for playing our contest and the kind words regarding the course. I like your idea of an acronym, keep at it. Thanks again.
How about: Broken Arrow
Thanks for playing Steve. Any more?
How about Rainbow Path Defense, Rainbow Warriors, Rainbow Path Warriors?
Assign a color to each part of the course:
Red – Danger/Alert for all the warning signs and things to watch out for (classic association – use it);
Orange – Defense including self-defense, defensive tactics, defense of others;
Green – trail work and camouflage, detection avoidance;
Blue – mental aspects, including conflict avoidance, psychological aspects of survival and defense
Yellow -
and you can even use the blending, in-between colors to illustrate where each area crosses over into the next.
By the time you have completed the list of colors and topics, it will be holistic and very complete. The colors will act as mnemonic devices helping to instill the lessons into memory. Using color serves as an effective teaching device, making your job that much easier.
GOOD LUCK!
Hi Rick. I could definitely use this type of holistic application for my memory in general..
Definition of mnemonic from the Merriam Webster Dictionary
Pronunciation: \ni-ˈmä-nik\
1. : assisting or intended to assist memory; also : of or relating to mnemonics
2 : of or relating to memory
Here is a Hopi story about the Rainbow Warriors
http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/prophecy/warrior.html
The story and the name fits with our philosophy – definitely. You have something here Rick. Any more suggestions for us.
The suspense is killing me, when is the decision about winners being announced?
Hi Michael, we will be announcing the winners soon after January 15, 2010.
Yes, I understand your suspense. Keep playing to increase your chances of wining.
Thanks Michael
Haha ok, so I’ve been trying my best and here’s what I have so far:
Cognitive Action Survival Tactics- or CAST for short. I was going to go with Cognitive Emergency Survival Tactics, but CEST didn’t sound as cool? I’ll keep thinking
Very good Seth, I knew you had it in you.
1) Defensive and Disaster Survival Course – DDSC
2) Survival Awareness Defense Training – SADT
HI Joilynn,
thank you for playing. We appreciate everyone’s help to name this new course.
What about
Apache Scout Survival Training
Mental Wilderness Survival Course
Wilderness Immersion Defense Training
Wilderness Warrior Training
(sorry if I submitted more then once, I wasn’t sure it went through the first time)
Thanks for playing Lauren.
Even though the course is well versed in Apache style warrior training, the name is already in use and we want our own unique name for the class. Great name though.
You have some good ones – thanks. We have to approve each comment to keep off the friggin spammers.
here’s two for you:
The Lodestone Path
Touchstone Vision
Thanks Mark! Some really good suggestions going on!
Another Lauren, hey that is great!
Thank you for playing.
My experience was the same as the author’s; the Scout classes at Tracker were unbelievably fun.
I thought of a bunch of names, because I’m actually trying to come up with names for my own series of survival and tracking workshops right now! I would like to polish my scout skills more before I teach them, so coming to your Jedi Class sounds like a good idea. In fact, let me know if you need help with the shadows. cough, cough.
Most of these could have “Course” or “Class” added on, depending on how long of a title yall can handle:
Natural Defense
Martial Awareness
Integrative Survival
Whole or Holistic Security**
Stealth Survival
Shadow Survival
Tactical Survival or Survival Tactics
Survive Anything (as in: “you’ll survive anything”)
Jedi Class
Sentinel
TEOTWAWKI
SIT: Stress Inoculated Teamwork
even better is: SIT SPOT: Stress Inoculated Training in Survival, (someone have a good “P” word?), Observation & Teamwork
**The, alternate, scout pit safety connotation of Whole Security: Hole Security, reminds me when my teammate’s scout pit got firecracker-trapped by because he left the cover off one day in Scout Class, hahahaha!
These ones are just jokes:
Jedi Capture-the-Flag
Yoda’s Wacky Workout Weekend
Gieco Survival Insurance
Cloaking Device Construction Convention
Why NOT To Camo Up With Wet Ash Class
Zompocalypse Survival Scenarios
Way Too Fun ie: Wilderness Tactics Fundamentals ie: WTF!
I think Joilynn mentioned the best one, just remove “Disaster” from it (because its too long). It would be Defensive Survival Course. She should have credit for it.
How about…
Bushmasters
Bushmasters Survival Course,
or
Bushmasters Awareness Training (B.A.T.)… something like that?
efren, thanks for lots of great names! And funny. I especially like – Yoda’s Wacky Workout Weekend. And you no doubt would do well with the Zompocalypse Survival Scenarios too.
We have created a monster…love to have you at class.
Thanks Michael for playing again. Good concepts.
Aboriginal Paths
A: awareness of surroundings
B: protection of one’s body
O: Organizations on thoughts and processes
R: Respect for one’s self, others and nature
I: Intelligence to go with nature not against
G: Genuine interest and desire
I: Ingenuity to use available resources
N: Natures role in everything we do
A: Attitude to suceed despite setbacks
L: Lessons learned for youself and future generations
W.I.L.D. Training (or W.I.L.D. Course, W.I.L.D. Survival, etc…)
W-hen
I-t’s
L-ife or
D-eath
Alive and Thrive
Thrive Alive
Stay Alive and Thrive
Thrive n Go Home Alive
Indian’s Approach
Natural Native Notions
We won’t be accepting any more course names for the contest after January 15. So get your names in quickly.
And thank you all, for helping us out with this. We appreciate it.
Good luck.
Mark and Celeste
Man With Nature
Man With Wild
Man and Nature
Man in Wild
Wild or Wilderness Cohesion
Wild or Wilderness Way
Wild or Wilderness Precision
21st Century Wilderness Cohesion/Ways/Precision
Today’s Wilderness Survival
Survive Today’s Wilds
A few entries. Would appreciate any feedback on what’s in your no, maybe, and yes directional categories, from my entries.
-SURVIVAL SUBMERSION
-GOAL: SURVIVAL
-ULTIMATE SURVIVAL
-ULTIMATE – The Survival Course
-THE ULTIMATE – Your One Stop Survival Course
-BASIC INSTINCTS – The Ultimate Course to Redirect your Instincts for Survival
-INSTINCTUAL REWIRING
-REWIRED The Ultimate Survival Course
-”Or, it could be REWIRE instead of REWIRED.”
-LIVE -The Course-
-LEARN AND LIVE (“it’s a play on words of live and learn”)
-EVOLVE- THE course to get you to the next level of your potential
-PERSONAL SURVIVAL JOURNEY
-ULTIMATE JOURNEY
-ULTIMATE SURVIVAL JOURNEY
-SURVIVAL INSTINCTS
-INSTINCTUAL SURVIVAL
-SURVIVE! -The Course-
“Some of the subtitles could be switched out depending on which wordings you liked best.
P.S. My sister-in-law is an incredible graphic artist and I can already visualize some of the many fantastic entries in a graphic logo. Let me know if you need help when it comes time for that.”
Critical Survival Techniques
Survival at all Costs
Act Not React, Critical Survival
This was fun!
I like the sound of the Ultimate! This is, after all, ultimate survival. Maybe something along those lines like
The Ultimate: Defense and survival
longevity under adversity, the Art of Living at the edge
& Way of the Bristlecone pine /Apache
Hey everyone, I know you are checking back often to see the new submissions, here is a thought for you to consider. Think animal…like “the trickster”. Check it out. You all still have a chance!!
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