E213: 6 Key Survival Skills Areas to Focus on Over More Gear

In The Rabbit Hole

In this episode, we discuss survival skills people should be focusing on most. This is a back-to-basics episode good for new preppers and prodding old timers.

There’s a topic that keeps coming up more and more in the conversations I have with friends that are survival industry professionals. People don't get enough instruction and training. Instead, they go straight for gear and ignore what will actually keep them alive in a disaster: Skills.

So we’ll cover six basic survival skills areas every prepper should have locked down. You see, most of us tend to focus our prepper time and money on gear. And the hard truth is this: Skills will almost always be more valuable in a survival situation than gear. So most of us should be spending more our time and money on acquiring survival skills rather than increasing the size of our pile-o-prepper-shit.

Survival Skills Discussed:

• Outdoor Skills
  • Why these skills are less important than most might think
  • Where to find them on the cheap
  • How to find instructors
  • Firemaking
  • Backpacking
  • Camping
• Medical
  • First Aid, CPR, and AED
  • EMT Basic
  • Wilderness EMT Basic
• Search & Rescue
• Community
• Communications, there is only one
• Guns
  • Traditional
  • Tactical
  • Training on care and maintenance
• Organizations and groups that are great for getting skills from
  • CERT (Community Emergency Response Team)
  • CAP (Civil Air Patrol)
  • Project Appleseed
  • NRA

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