@Instinct Survivalist Wilderness Skills
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Emergency communications, wilderness medicine, survival skills, and practical household preparedness for ordinary people.
All 18 videos
Five Plans Every Person Should Make Before an Emergency
A 3-minute framework on the five foundational plans (communication, medical, evacuation, shelter-in-place, recovery) that apply to most household emergencies, emphasizing decision-making before crisis.
Medical Kit Building: The Right Way for Emergencies
29-minute walkthrough on assembling an emergency medical kit—what to include, how to organize it, and why standard off-the-shelf kits fall short.
Trauma Kit Layers: Essential Survival Gear Explained
Two-minute breakdown of how to organize and layer a personal trauma kit for wilderness and emergency response scenarios.
Don't Get Caught With Only One Plan
Six-minute walkthrough of PACE planning (Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency) with real-world examples for communication, water, power, medical, and transportation resilience.
Tourniquet Mastery: Apply Correctly Under Pressure
Two-minute tourniquet application walkthrough covering placement, technique, and performance under stress conditions.
Stop Bleeding Fast: Master Your Tourniquet Skills
Sixteen-minute tourniquet application walkthrough covering technique, common mistakes, and practical deployment for emergency bleeding control.
Mastering Tourniquet Application: Speed & Confidence
36-second walkthrough on tourniquet application technique for emergency bleeding control.
You Don't Need More Gear. You Need an Emergency Plan.
Five-minute walkthrough of seven planning layers for household emergency readiness: communication, role assignment, meeting points, pet care, and scenario duration.
72 Hour Preparedness: Not Survival, But Continuity
Short-term household continuity planning focused on medical gear, communications, and practical readiness for the first three days of disruption.
What Happens When Communication Infrastructure Fails?
How communication systems degrade in layers, why it matters, and practical steps to build redundancy into your communication plan before emergencies strike.
Wilderness Survival: Avoid Getting Stranded After Dark
Two-minute guide to preventing and managing situations where you're caught in wilderness without shelter as darkness falls, covering decision-making and immediate priorities.
Your Emergency Communications Plan Needs A Backup
Six-minute walkthrough of low-tech analog communication backups (paper maps, written plans, signaling tools) to complement electronic systems when batteries fail or technology isn't available.
How To Build An Emergency Communications Plan
Ten-minute walkthrough on creating a family communication plan for emergencies: identifying priorities, choosing primary and backup methods, scheduling check-ins, and handling failures.
Emergency Communications Starter Kit
Six-minute walkthrough of a practical emergency comms setup for beginners: radio selection, power, antenna, planning, and training without expensive tactical gear.
The 5 Things You Need for Emergency Communications
Seven-minute breakdown of the five system components every emergency communication setup requires: operator skill, device selection, power, antenna, and planning.
The First 24 Hours Without Running Water: What Really Happens
Four-minute walkthrough of the sanitation and adaptation challenges that emerge in the first day of a water outage, plus a two-hour home exercise to identify your household gaps.
Most People Store Water Wrong
Four-part framework for evaluating emergency water storage: accessibility, distribution, resupply, and usability beyond quantity alone.
Why Scene Safety Comes Before Treatment
Four-minute breakdown of scene awareness and threat assessment in emergency response: why responder safety takes priority, how to balance environmental hazards with medical treatment, and practical application across wilderness medicine, EMS, and everyday emergencies.