The DON’T BE A VICTIM professional educational program enables individuals to identify and avoid the daily high risk contributors of violence, danger, and threatening situations which may come against them during business hours, as well as during off-work personal time.
The curriculum consists of the following two training courses:
STREET-SMARTS – The 411
DEFENSE! Smart Self Defense
TAKE CHARGE! Win Without Fighting
This is a knowledge-based course. Personal safety threats against an individual’s wellbeing may occur at any time… during business hours, as well as off-work hours. The Street-Smarts 411 education will better prepare individuals to avoid being victimized.
This course covers:
1. THE MIND OF THE PREDATOR
― Details the “six stages of crime” predators use to commit violence/crime ―
All predators/offenders go through a process to commit crime/violence. The more seasoned the predator, the more these stages become second-nature to them. By knowing these steps, students will gain knowledge to avoid the traps planned out to victimize.
2. DAILY RISK FACTORS DANGERS
― Identifies personal safety high risk-factors that contribute to personal violence and victimization –
Details on the activities people do every day that are risk factors putting them in personal danger or in threatening situations will be taught. By knowing these risk factors, students will learn how to change one’s lifestyle so not to fall into the traps/schemes of the predator.
3. HOW PREDATORS TARGET (Potential) VICTIMS
― Outlines what predators look for when targeting a potential victim ―
Things like hairstyle, talking on mobile phones, being visibly emotional/intoxicated/angry in public, or being alone in a fringe area, will all shout out to the predator that this person will be their next victim. However, by applying effective inside information taught in this module, the predator will label you as someone to avoid.
4. VOICE WEAPONRY
Learning how to use your voice to fight back, to discourage and intimate predators is more successful than anyone can imagine. Attendees will learn how to stop the victimization quickly by applying the use of voice weaponry to protect themselves.
5. EMPOWERMENT SURVIVAL SAFETY TIPS
Details empowerment tips to outsmart predators in such areas as:
• basic street-sense tips that can be applied anywhere, during leisure activities or when using public transportation,
ATMs, public facilities, or parking lots, etc.
• myths & truths about personal safety/protection, as in E-mails or urban legends (learn what personal safety tips really work)
• the importance of setting personal safety boundaries to ensure personal safety
• outsmarting the predator by establishing personal-safety routines
• how to avoiding motor vehicle victimization
6. OTHER TOPICS:
Ask about other topics not listed. We can also customize a street-smarts personal safety fact-based training program upon request
The DEFENSE! SMART SELF-DEFENSE program consists of two offerings:
DEFENSE EMPOWERMENT: Self Defense Basics
WEAPONS DEFENSE: Defending Against Weapons
DEFENSE EMPOWERMENT: Self-Defense Basics Workshop
Self-defense is the act of defending oneself once an attack is made. Attacks can come against anyone at any time (e.g. an agent showing a home on sale, being alone in a parking garage/lot, or using stairwells).
This is not your grandparents self-defense or a “padded man” self-defense course. This course teaches
real hands-on defenses against the most common and dangerous holds used by predators to control,
victimize, and to threaten our lives. Students will be taught how to remove themselves from real life
clutches, grabs, and other dangerous holds/attacks such as:
• Bear-hugs and head-locks
Bear-hugs and head-locks are different tactics an attacker may use to subdue their victim from the
front, or from
the back.
• Grabs/Grips:
To restrict a person, an attacker may grip/grab a victim’s wrists, hands, clothes, or hair. Freeing
oneself doesn’t take power or strength, but application of practical, effective techniques.
• Neck Chokes:
Chokes are one of the most deadliest and most common attacks made. The first thing many people
do when an attacker chokes them, is struggle with the attacker‘s hands in an effort to free themselves.
This technique should never be used.
• Floor/Ground/On-the-Back Attacks
Some attacks may result in the victim falling on the floor/ground. Employing the correct leg technique
will empower
the victim the ability to escape.
To further enhance their self-defense applications, students will also be taught:
• Enhancing One’s Awareness Of Their Surroundings:
Being aware of one’s surroundings is the first key to being able to control any situation encountered.
Students will be taught in alertness and to know what to look for, in both familiar and unfamiliar
environments. Action versus reaction training is taught.
• Application To Counterattacks:
Basics in martial arts offensive techniques will be demonstrated; students are taught how to use them
once released from an attacker’s hold, and to ensure their escape.
WEAPON DEFENSE – Defending Against Weapons
Defending against weapons is an advanced workshop. As a prerequisite to "Defending Against Weapons", the DEFENSE EMPOWERMENT: Self Defense Basics should be taken first. The following training consists of the following topics:
Applying 360 drills / disarming from various positions and angles when confronted with:
• Guns (if not under the physical control of the predator)
• Knives
• Sticks, bottles, or other hand-held weapons
2. Basic Counterattacks - When they should be used:
• Strikes: Elbow, palm, hammer fist
• Basic kicks: groin, knee, low-leg
• Evasive footwork
3. Mental Preparation / Action versus Reaction Techniques
• Playing chess (thinking ahead) / Analyzing the danger
• Disorienting the predator by using common-sense actions Return to Top
Students will learn:
• The origin of the “Winning without fighting” philosophy
• No-fight strategies and techniques
• Applying the philosophy as a lifestyle
• How to avoid being targeted to be victimized
You’ll be introduced on how to discern situations in the following ways:
1) Learning to read a person’s body language: The body undergoes certain physiological changes when the body gets ready to attack or defend
2) Recognizing mannerisms: Though mannerisms are subtle, they are recognizable to an observer, either consciously or unconsciously on what the person is planning to do.
3) Don’t focus on their words: Their own body will tell you they are about to attack -- even if their words are deceptively calm and normal.