anyone gone to those outdoor survival courses?

I did the desert survival one in arizona. I learned a lot about what to do and what not to do. It turns out that you should not eat cacti as they do not contain the water you want. Instead they contain an alkali that makes you shit, thus depleting your water supply and making you die faster in the desert.

>>2822883 (OP)
Only if you count Marine Corps basic training, AIT, and SERE

>>2822990
Marines don't go to AIT, larper.

>>2822883 (OP)
In 1999 I spent a weekend LARPing that it was 1969 at the Jungle Warfare Training Center in Okinawa.

>>2822883 (OP)
Nah. Considered it for a while - not so much for learning survival, but as a way to meet people, cause I'm severely autistic - but as far as I could tell, the courses you can get into without knowing people are unrealistic bullshit, and often cater to retarded gear queers.
For example, half the courses I found online stated that you HAD to bring a mid-length (~12cm) knife with a 90° spine, for example, while everybody I know irl who goes out uses a knife with a rounded spine (bcs it hurts your thumb when carving otherwise), and most use a short (~6cm) knife and a hatchet or machete. The "sharp, 90° spine" bullshit is only a meme with people that don't know how to handle a ferrorod, and unironically shave of material like you would on a magnesium block.
And every single one expected people to bring a full-size backpack, a tent, a sleeping bag etc., while I know from experience that I can get by just fine with a small haversack with a jungle bag, a canteen and some food in it. Doing a survival course that assumes full equipment seems kinda retarded to me to begin with - if you can bring all the equipment you want, shouldn't you have a way to bail out or call help long before you need to eat bugs and drink piss?

>>2823073
You aren't autistic you're just retarded

>>2823076
God damn lmoa

>>2823076
those are the same thing :)

>>2823073

>using centimeters
>90 degree spine hurts my soft hands
>retarded disguised as autism
> euro confirmed

>>2823024
>Marines don't go to AIT, larper.
not anymore.

>>2823073
Yeah, most of it is just larping or teambuilding bullshit.

>>2823158
They never did.
#calledyouonyourlarp