PASE Gap Year Bootcamp

PASE Gap Year Bootcamp

This program focus on providing a transition period for the new young adult. Time in the bush, whilst obtaining a credible competency as outcome as well as invaluable skills which would stand them well in years to come.

Cost: R7,300 per student – Duration: 10 days

Practical Adaptive Survival Education, through its Group Company PASE ATC (Advanced Training Concepts) brings you a one of a kind combination program connecting nature experiences and tactical training as a learning program with the practical experience of honoree tutors, who has many years experience as field operators, tactical and survival training instruction behind them. Our training facility, a game farm situated in the bush fields near Magalies, will host a total of 50 students on a first come first serve basis.

This program is specifically created for our young school leavers, to embed self discipline and respect as well as obtaining credible certification and an understanding of urban and outdoor survival skills, combined with some serious boot camp fun which will include tracking, shelter building, navigation, close quarter combat exercises, fire arm safety, fire-arm fundamentals, legal aspects, and obtaining a competency in the handle and use of a handgun.

Survival and adventure

Transition through the bush, whilst learning from nature itself is a major part of this camp, combined with Bushveld sounds and smells, camping under the stars and surviving on your own in the field, is but some of the things needed to be known of how to handle different stressful and unforeseen events. As a new entree in the tuff word, one encounter some of these emergencies often far away from immediate assistance, therefor some amazing techniques will be introduced to make sure that one will survive even in the worst of situations.

Course Outline:

  1. Orientation
  2. Map reading and navigation
  3. Daily Physical fitness program, ingested through cognitive exercises
  4. Night Navigation
  5. Rural Survival
  6. Urban Survival
  7. Fire-Arm Familiarization
  8. Legal Knowledge
  9. Handgun Competency
  10. Self Defense: Close Quarter Techniques
  11. Tracking and signs
  12. Hides, shelters, water purification techniques, finding food etc
  13. Animal Behavior
  14. Conservation Management
  15. Basic first aid
  16. Certification

Products

PASE has a field products range to make life a bit easier for those who intend to spend a lot of time outdoors.

  1. Tactical bags
  2. The Fanie Botha field knife with flint
  3. First aid flipper, an on the spot quick reverence to all medical emergencies
  4. Webbing- a brand new product for the public and specifically for our junior learners to carry everything with ease

Prices:

All the PASE ATC courses and products will be available for online payments.

Student cost: R7,300 per student which includes:

  1. Study notes and nature classes
    • Trainer fees and survival training
    • Cap and Insignia
    • All tactical training
    • Meals
    • Certificate
  2. Transport to and from the venue

What is needed for the camp:

  1. Sleeping bag and pillow
  2. Sunscreen and Hat
  3. Running Shoes
  4. Boots
  5. Long pants for field walks
  6. NB- field colours to be worn only, no flashing colours
  7. Flashlight / Headlamp
  8. Beanie for the cold
  9. Water bottle to carry
  10. Anti-bug spray
  11. Notebook and pen
  12. Backpack
  13. Compass
  14. Field Knife
  15. Neck Scarf
  16. Camo Paint
  17. 20m Paracord