Trueways Award Winning 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.
The Trueways Woodland Survival Skills course teaches a range of skills including Fire, Water, Food, Survival Camps and Navigation. Courses are available for 2 Days, 3 Days and 5 Days, with different levels of Survvial Skills delivered on each course.
Protection from the elements
Environmental medical (physiological and psychological affect of being too hot or too cold)
Understand and take care of your clothing
Taking advantage of and imporving pre-existing natural shelter (caves,hollow,overhangs,fallen trees etc)
Shelter building using a tarp, instulation and weather protection using natural materials and/or salvaged resources anywhere in the world
Fire
Fire Lighting and maintenance with flint and steel
Use of fire for heating and cooking
Signalling for rescue including standard internation signals and improvised techniques
Water
Sourcing water and making it safe 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
Food
Acuiring food from the wild
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)
Survival Camp craft and routines
Gear and equipment
Survival Kits
Safe use and best practise for knives, axes, saws, fire kits etc
Making your own resources (cordage,containers,bedding etc)
Navigation
Understaning your locality
Telling the time and direction from natural indicators
Safe techniques for crossing unknown countryside
Best routes to saftey
Day and Night signals
Passive and active signalling
Protection from the elements
Environmental medical (physiological and psychological affect of being too hot or too cold)
Understand and take care of your clothing
Taking advantage of and imporving pre-existing natural shelter (caves,hollow,overhangs,fallen trees etc)
Shelter building using a tarp, instulation and weather protection using natural materials and/or salvaged resources anywhere in the world
Fire
Fire Lighting and maintenance with flint and steel
Use of fire for heating and cooking
Signalling for rescue including standard internation signals and improvised techniques
Water
Sourcing water and making it safe 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
Food
Acuiring food from the wild
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)
Survival Camp craft and routines
Gear and equipment
Survival Kits
Safe use and best practise for knives, axes, saws, fire kits etc
Making your own resources (cordage,containers,bedding etc)
Navigation
Understaning your locality
Telling the time and direction from natural indicators
Safe techniques for crossing unknown countryside
Best routes to saftey
Day and Night signals
Passive and active signalling