With a survival course Australia, you may well know the difference between the two terms (bushcraft and survival) that we outlined in our Bushcraft vs Survival overview.
When comparing the two different names and the derivation of their usage, you may also know that the phrase ‘survival training’ comes from the overarching parent word bushcraft…with survival training having been created by the military.
Learning survival and bushcraft is primarily focused on a blend of key training skills, as well as using certain pieces of survival equipment. However, the more advanced you become with your survival training, the less equipment you should need to rely on.
It was originally conceived to instruct military personnel in a range of diverse skills, to provide them with the right training to survive in remote areas.
Survival usually refers to being able to survive on your own for up to 72 hours and getting back to safety quickly – to then either be rescued or to ‘self-rescue’ (also known as self recovery).
Survival Course Australia – Who Do We Train?
At SCT, we train students of all ages in survival and bushcraft techniques and we are NOT a ‘Sigma 6 Alpha-style’ military training school. We are accessible to everyone that has the right mindframe and wishes to learn new, practical, exciting, and life-saving wilderness skills.
On a SCT survival course Australia, it is fully inclusive, open to anyone who wants to come, and we prefer to train our students in hands-on skills and applicable knowledge that can be applied in a real-world scenario.
This makes it a much more relevant, fun, and interesting way to learn and hone these life skills – and it’s based on actual experience from being in the field practising these skills and hiking solo for a number of decades.
Our aim is to enable our students to retain this all-important knowledge and practical skill sets, and allow them to travel and navigate through a variety of diverse terrains and environments safely.
We strive to deliver realistic, interesting, and exciting survival courses in Australia, but…equally importantly, relevant and real-world survival training that can be implemented in a wide range of scenarios.
How Is SCT Different?
Survival Courses Tasmania is different from another survival course in Australia, as our students have the opportunity to learn survival skills relevant to any environment and type of terrain – gleaned from experience across the world.
Fundamentally, we instruct using outdoor learning – making it as close to the real thing as is possible in Australia.
This provides our students with the best possible method of retaining the key knowledge and applying it in real-life, practical scenarios at the same time.
Our bushcraft and survival courses are also suited to a variety of outdoor activities such as hiking, trekking, mountain biking, fishing, kayaking, 4WD trips, skiing, working remotely, and so on, as they provide critical survival and navigational techniques that would benefit anyone spending time in a diverse wilderness environment.
So, come and check out our range of survival and bushcraft courses – we have something for everyone interested in the outdoors.
Does SCT Offer Progressive Survival & Bushcraft Courses?
Yes, we offer a series of progressive outdoor education courses that cover bushcraft and survival training courses as well as ‘thriving’ longer-term in the wilderness!
Our focus at SCT is to have genuine, tried-and-tested survival and bushcraft techniques at the core of all of our wilderness training courses, through our series of progressive courses, including thriving longer-term in the bush on our survival course Australia.
If you are also interested in either competing against others to survive in the wilderness, or want to explore this for your own individual challenge, or even with your family / friends…then our survival course Australia will give you the best possible training.
All of our courses will be held on either a small inland island, or in bushland where we can explore and practise much more closely being in the field.
If you’re having to survive for a couple of nights in a shelter that you’ve been trained to build, then you would use certain designs for this type of either natural or hybrid shelter.
However, if you’re needing to or want to survive for a longer term in the field (3+ months, for example) – then you need to rethink your shelter and start out with a completely different design.
Often, this will be a slightly larger construction that is more enclosed, built more substantially, and may well incorporate a fire inside the shelter rather than typically having a fire outside for a smaller, more temporary design.
Additionally, SCT will teach you a diverse range of other essential survival and bushcraft skills, such as: fire lighting using various methods, water procurement, improvised water filtration, multi-pronged fishing spears, how to make a disc knife, which common native plants are edible, navigate using the sun.
You’ll also learn how to convert seawater into drinkable (potable) water, how to treat injuries with wilderness first aid, how to manage snake bites, how to improvise a ‘moon boot,’ and how to make and set snares & traps among many other skills you will learn with us.
Check out each of our courses for a full breakdown of which units you’ll be learning when you attend one of our full, 1-day survival and bushcraft courses.
Survival Courses Tasmania’s courses guarantee an unforgettable experience for everyone who participates. They really are mix of being fun, challenging and rewarding!
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