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The CHOSN Warrior Courses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We offer three year-long courses to be taken in order: BASIC, INTERMEDIATE, and ADVANCED. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

BASIC <\/strong>is the first of the three year-long courses. The course costs vary, and can be covered by scholarships or fees, depending on the situation. However, the cost has usually been about $300 per person for the BASIC year-long course, assuming trainers are all volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Men\u2019s BASIC<\/strong> is only for small groups of men who are 18 years or older.  It can be completed in three campouts of two nights each during the three Phases, or seasons, of Spring (2 nights), Fall (2 nights), and Winter (2 nights).  Each campout focuses on skills appropriate to that season.  Summer is left out of our training cycle to allow for families to do things which might include some camping and practicing the skills from Spring training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring BASIC campouts introduce the fundamentals of camping and cooking over wood fire, in various and unpredictable weather conditions.  Actually, all three seasons teach those \u201clife outdoors\u201d essentials regardless of the special emphasis of the season at hand.  The year-long course can be started in Fall or even Winter, but Spring works best to start new groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who follow any TV shows about survival in remote areas will recall that getting food<\/em><\/strong> enough to keep a person going for weeks or months is the main limiting factor to \u201cmaking it,\u201d usually.  And we realize that most Americans today have almost zero knowledge of the processing of food.  So, each seasonal phase of our courses revolves around the best ways to obtain food:  what to target, how to get it, how to dispatch it if it\u2019s alive, and especially how to clean it to get the most out of wild game and fish when you have to cook over coals.  Being slightly hungry during the process is helpful, too.  But if fishing is bad during Spring BASIC, for example, we have grocery store food too, so everyone eats well anyway because we are just teaching about living off the land in BASIC<\/strong>.  Later course levels have more pressure to apply this knowledge and really do it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, in Spring<\/em><\/strong> BASIC we emphasize getting food by fishing, and we show how to deal with a fresh fish<\/u><\/strong> so as to get a good meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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