2 Day Basic Survival Skills Course Gift Pack
The Perfect Gift
The Trueways Gift pack is the ideal option for budding survivalist, recipients will receive a Trueways Course Voucher plus a multi-function Survival Kit which includes lots of useful items to help the recipient on their course. You can then customise your gift pack to include a number of items that the recipient might find useful on the course.
Course vouchers are valid for 12 months, and can be used on any applicable course 12 months ahead
The Trueways gift pack is the only Survival Course gift with the obvious advantage of being fun and interesting from the minute it's opened as well as providing the opportunity to meet the experts in person on a genuine Trueways Survival Course.
An introduction to and good grounding in all the principles and skills necessary to survive in the wilderness, and including the principles to be applied anywhere in the world. Covering shelter-building, fire, water, wild food, natural navigation skills, survival medical and psychology.
Customise your gift pack below, and we will do the rest, ensuring you have the perfect gift for that budding survivalist.
Why Choose Trueways?
Trueways Survival offers survival and outdoor preparation courses to suit any taste or at any level of experience. Our courses are designed to take the beginner from those very first steps all the way to training in our Global Environments Training packages. Trueways is the only Survival School in the UK with the expertise capable of and offering training anywhere in the world using only their own staff. Let our experience provide you with Real Skills for Real Situations.
Trueways survival courses offer participants the opportunity to learn and practice the skills and techniques needed to survive without the comfort and convenience of four walls and a supermarket! As well as being highly fun and rewarding, these acclaimed courses are based upon the tried and tested methodology of Trueways most senior team member – none other than bestselling SAS Survival Expert John “Lofty” Wiseman, so everything that is taught, demonstrated and explained has the highest level of authority.
Lofty Wiseman's is one of the world's foremost experts on survival. His teachings, including multi-million best selling book, 'The SAS Survival Guide' is used the world over as reference by everyday people and experts alike and can be found in 18 languages. Trueways and Lofty also produced the best selling 'Trueways Survival Skills with Lofty Wiseman' DVD as well as the SAS Survival Guide iPhone and iPad apps and the 'Trueways Survival Skills' playing cards.
Course Content
- Dealing with an outdoor emergency or survival situation (immediate actions)
- Understanding human survival needs and prioritising the next steps
- The Importance of First Aid
- Survival Psychology
- The effects of injuries and casualties on the group survival situation
- Protection from the elements
- Environmental medical (physiological and psychological the affects of being too hot or too cold)
- Understand and take care of your clothing
- Taking advantage of and improving pre-existing natural shelter (caves, hollows, overhangs, fallen trees, etc).
- Shelter building, bedding, insulation and weather protection using natural materials and/or salvaged resources anywhere in the world
- Fire lighting and maintenance using any available method
- Signalling for rescue
- Standard international signals
- Improvised techniques
- Sourcing water and making it safer to use
- Water requirements
- Water sources
- Problems in wild water and medical aspects (dangers of seawater, dehydration, heat exhaustion, toxicity, pathology)
- Water treatment and storage
- Acquiring food from the wilds
- Understanding our survival nutritional needs
- Medical problems from malnutrition and/or food imbalances
- Toxins and pathogens in wild food and avoiding them
- Flora (food from plants, roots, tubers, seeds and fruit)
- Fungi (food from fungi, if available)
- Fauna (trapping, gathering or catching and preparing food from fish, fowl, game, insects and invertebrates)
- Survival camp craft and routines
- Gear and equipment
- survival kits
- safe use and best practice for knives, axes, saws, fire kits, etc.
- Making your own resources (cordage, containers, bedding, etc)
- Navigation
- Locally
- Telling time and direction from natural indicators
- Basic map and compass skills
- Safe techniques for crossing unknown countryside
- Safe river crossing techniques
- Moving casualties
- Best routes to safety
- Planning and Preparation for Emergencies
- Understanding international emergency services response
- Discussing real life survival situations and their outcomes (learning from experience)
Course Overview
The 2 Day Basic Survival Course is designed for beginners who wish to learn from experts from scratch and those with some experience of the outdoors wishing to check their knowledge. This intensive course includes hands-on practical training for a variety of subjects, concentrating on ensuring the most important skills are developed. All other survival topics are introduced in principle and through discussion as a first step to future, more advanced courses. Attendees of this course should leave with a good grounding in survival principles and basic skills.
Course Equipment, Site Directions and Timings
A full and complete equipment list will be provided along with specific directions once your booking is confirmed. However, as a minimum you will need to bring with you some basic kit such as; Waterproof jacket & trousers, suitable footware, knife, torch, billy can or cooking pot, drinking cup/mug and a water bottle. You will also need a sleeping bag, a bivi bag and a basha or tarp as well as a torch.
Don't worry if you haven't got everything you need, we do hire the less common stuff which is typically a lot cheaper than buying.
Click HERE to check out our hire page.
All courses start at 10am on their start date and typically finish around 4pm on the end date.
Food is provided on all courses. There is no need for you to bring food with you.
Although it is possible to reach some of our training locations by public transport, by the very nature of the courses taught there is some necessity for remoteness with regard to many sites. Therefore, for some sites a taxi may be required for the final leg of your journey if you are not traveling by road.
For those travelling by road, all training locations offer parking in some form.
A selection of our customer reviews.
Fantastic course. Your instructors have great rapport with the group and were dynamic in their teaching. They paced the days very well and I could definitely not absorb any more knowledge. Although only 3 days, the experience was epic. Huge highs followed devastating lows. A great adventure.
Jadon Ortlepp, Sweden
I just wanted to say thank you for a great course, Chalky made it both entertaining and jammed packed with high quality information, every question, no matter how daft was answered with a truthful answer, i left a tired but very happy person, once again another quality course from Trueways, I’m consolidating the new skills I’ve learn’t and am looking forward to booking a seven day course.
Peter Newell, London
Hi Trueways, Attended the 7-day advanced survival course, the typical British weather didn't disappoint, testing the shelters we built to the limit. Learnt a surprising amount in such a short period of time and gave me the confidence to tackle the wilderness myself. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank our course instructors who made the weekend very enjoyable. I'll be sure to return on another extended course and may bring a few friends along with me.
Thomas Carson, Scotland
Additional Information
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| Course Length | 2 days |
| Course Environment | Woodland |
| Course Level | Level 2 |
| Course Prerequisite | Open to All |
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