Urban Survival Seminar in Chicago!

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Johnny Tsai founder/director of the renowned C.U.M.A. Survival School will be teaching a one day course at Forteza on urban survival.

What is “urban survival”? Ask yourself this short list of questions:

What would you do if the power grid in your state went out for several weeks?
Are you prepared to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane or earth quake situation?
Do you have enough supplies and equipment to be able to survive for several weeks?
How would you deal with a home invasion?
Do you know how to evacuate your area in the case of civil unrest?
These are just some basic questions you need to have an answer for!

On our 1-day Urban Survival Training Courses, we will give you the knowledge needed to make the best of things in a disaster situation. We will teach you how to plan and prepare to deal with the problems you will face.

This class is designed to prepare you and your family to survive an urban disaster, either natural or man made. Hands-on instruction focuses on both short-term situations ranging from 24 to 72 hours as well as long-term survival resulting from a grid-down situation or pandemic. This class location contain both indoor and outdoor activities and involves lecture, small-group activities, and individual planning exercises. It is designed to take you from drafting a family or personal emergency plan to what implementation should look like and the critical survival gear needed along the way

Topics covered:

Survival psychology and the mindset of successful survivors
When to stay put in your home and when to bail out
Home food and water storage recommendations and the 5 key areas of home preparation
Pre-disaster planning and establishing rendezvous points with family members
Local, regional, and statewide evacuation strategies
How to construct a personal Bail-Out Bag (BOB) for the home, office, and vehicle
Water purification methods~ Off-grid medical issues
Urban survivor’s first-aid kit
Sanitation & hygiene issues
Traps and tools for feeding yourself when the grocery shelves empty
Communication methods and tips for getting in touch with separated family members
Equipping your vehicle for roadside survival
Subjects covered on our Urban Survival Training Courses in ILLINOIS include:

Disaster planning
Emergency equipment
Emergency food and water
Fire lighting
First aid
Communications
Security and CUMA COMBATIVES
Movement
Basic escape and evasion
If you have a survival gear bag/bug out bag, please bring it with you. Instructor Johnny Tsai will go over your gear and give you feed back.

Date: April 6th, 11 am

Cost: The fee for our 1 Day course is $150 per person at door / $120 with paid advanced registration.

To preregister, please email us at info@fortezafitness.com

Space is limited so act now!
 
Hay Forteza, I Use to train there. Been surviving I SHITcago for 36 years now, To bad I can't swing it, look interesting.
 
Chicago definitely sucks in the winter, that's for sure!

We have a few other Combatives and knife related seminars in the near future, including a two MBC seminar with Mike Janich. Let me know if you are interested.
 
Chicago definitely sucks in the winter, that's for sure!

Sucks in the summer too!
750 dead from heat wave in 1995: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave
"The heat index reached 119 °F (48 °C) at O'Hare airport, and 125 °F (52 °C) at Midway Airport."

Spring can be OK if it doesn't rain the entire time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Chicago#Spring
"Spring in Chicago is perhaps the city's wettest and wildest season: Winter conditions can persist well into April and even occasionally into May. Thunderstorms are especially prevalent in the spring time as the city's lakeside location makes it a center of conflicts between large volumes of warm and cold air, triggering many kinds of severe weather including hailstorms and tornadoes."

Fall is the nicest time to visit, but autumn can be very short. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Chicago#Autumn
"Temperatures have reached 100 degrees as late as September 7 (with 99 °F or 37 °C occurring as late as September 29), and temperatures have reached the lower-to-mid 90s Fahrenheit (low 30s Celsius) as late as October 6. Conversely, temperatures have dropped below freezing overnight as early as September 23, and subzero temperatures (below −18 °C) have arrived as early as November 23."​

To summarize, if you must visit Chicago, the first week of October is the time to go.

I grew up near Chicago. ;)
 
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LOL, Chicago is actually pretty nice in the summer. Almost turns into a beach town along the lakefront. I despise the winter so much, I refuse to complain when its hot ;-)
 
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