One who will survive

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I practice and teach survival skills such that I might survive in a sticky situation. These are things like wild water treatment, fire lighting, etc.
A survivalist is one who makes preparation to survive disaster by storing food, etc. It's largely used in the US to mean prepper.
A bushcrafter is one who practices bushcraft.
Since survivor is reserved for those who have survived, what do we, the ones who practice survival skills so that will survive, call ourselves?
UPDATE
This is for the UK where survivalist means prepper

Ryan M · Answer

I would use survivalist.
I don't think it's generally considered a synonym for "prepper."  There are numerous articles online discussing the difference, with the overall theme being that preppers stockpile supplies, while survivalists learn survival skills.  Wikipedia includes both in the same article, though the article's terminology section calls "prepper" "A misconstrued synonym for survivalist... Incorrectly used interchangeably with survivalist."

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