A person moving through woodland — illustrative scene

Team-Survival · Thuringia, Germany

Combat Survival course: evasion, escape and survival

Evasion, escape, close combat and survival under pressure. Military-inspired survival training for civilians.

Team-Survival · Ronny Schmidt

The course

The Combat Survival course is aimed at civilians who want to train for evasion, escape and survival in crisis regions. Drills, technical instruction and scenarios alternate. Participants work under physical and psychological pressure.

The course is led by Ronny Schmidt, owner of Team-Survival, a former paratrooper and survival and self-protection instructor. It is open to private individuals, security personnel and people whose work takes them into crisis regions or uncertain security environments.

Training content

What you practise

Evasion and movement in the field

Tactical observation and planning, evasion and escape, orientation, navigation, tracking and countertracking. Countertracking involves disguising one’s own trail and misleading pursuers with false tracks.

A hand and a stick beside footprints in muddy ground.
Two course participants sitting under a rock overhang; one is holding a mobile phone.

Close combat and restraints

Offensive close combat and advanced opening of professional double-lock handcuffs form part of the course.

Three course participants kneeling in woodland with their hands restrained behind their backs.
A seated course participant with their head covered and hands held together during an interrogation simulation.

Drills, questioning and pressure

The training includes drills and scenarios involving interrogation and pressure. Physical and mental strain are part of the training structure.

Course participants waiting in a red-lit room before an interrogation simulation.
Three course participants beside a small fire in a snowy woodland.

Survival during escape

Survival basics in a hostile environment and behaviour in areas at risk from mines. The programme also introduces the basics of finding food, making fire, obtaining water and purifying it.

A small fire among stones, with smoke rising above the wood.
An open can containing insects held above embers.

Course · Team-Survival

Combat Survival training

The full course description and an option to book are available directly at Team-Survival. All instruction and exercises are conducted in German.

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