After School Teen Survival Skills Course
A 5 week course teaching teens (13-18) primitive / useful skills

Has your teen seen Man vs. Wild, Survivorman, Naked and Afraid, Dual Survivor and expressed an interest in wanting to learn the skills used on those shows in order to survive?

Would you like them to be more resourceful and problem solve before asking for help?

We are offering a 5 week course, 4 classes and one final test day, to teens (13-18) after school on Thursday starting Jan. 14 - Feb. 11. Each class is from 6:30pm - 9:00pm allowing for transportation and food prior to class.

Our purpose is to teach youth to be creative and problem solve through situations in addition to promoting persistence (bow drill fire starting) and solid life skills.

***This course will be closely supervised, but we will be handling knives and starting fires. We we will instruct knife safety at the beginning of every class. You know your child's ability. We want to stretch them, but want them and other students safe.

Registration for this series is for all 5 weeks. A student can miss days, but no discounts are offered.

Below is the outline. 

Thurs. 1/14/16 Class 1: Shelter building. Students will uses scavenged materials to build shelters to survive in using techniques taught.

Thurs. 1/21/16 Class 2: Ropes/Knots. Students will learn how to expertly tie at least 6 extremely useful knots that everyone should but most do not know how to make. They will apply their recently aquired knowledge to complete tasks.

Thurs. 1/28/16 Class 3 Fire: Students will learn how to start fires using primitive means (bow drill) and creative ways that are useful (battery and gum wrapper)

Thurs. 2/4/16 Class 4 Weapons: Students will learn how to construct useful hunting and protection weapons using items found.

Thurs. 2/11/16 Class 5 Test: Students will be asked to perform tasks representing the knowledge they learned from the 4 previous classes. They will earn "badges" for each skill the display proficiency in.

What each student gets:

Mini survival kit

Straight blade knife

Emergency blanket and poncho

Paracord

Flint and magnesium

Fire starters

They get to take home with them their bow drills, gigs (weapons) and any test knots desired

There will be completion and proficency awards

Please call 843.580.3757 or email info@onpurposeadventutres.com for any questions