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                                           Hit The Switch – Don’t Be a Victim

                                                  A DAMASOHK Mindset

Developing a foundation for self- defense tactics all too often gets formed on an opinion developed from cinematic representations. This erroneous information is far from the realities of a violent attack in a street fight condition. These pre-formed opinions, worked into a strategy for self- defense are ill-informed at best, and downright dangerous.

Criminals routinely use deceptive strategies to try and exploit our patterns of daily life. They have no scruples and base these strategies in cunning and viciousness to achieve their goals. You should find yourself angered by people being bullied, beaten, robbed, and subjected to a myriad of senseless violent behavior. Injury and humiliation belongs to a victim because, on many occasions, victims unwittingly set themselves up by being unaware. You will often have onlookers who will egg the violence on to feed their need for violent entertainment, with no empathy for the victim. Point is…………….Be aware, don’t be a victim.

Reaching deep inside yourself, ( some don’t need to reach far ), and pulling up the anger it takes not to be a victim, is at the core of a self-defense strategy…………and more appropriately …… Self Offense ! To “Hit the Switch” is to take oneself from a rational, contemplating human being, to a snarling, cornered animal.This needs to happen as fast as hitting a switch. No victim woke up in the morning thinking they would be on the receiving end of events that would cause physical trauma or degradation to them or their family. This happens frequently because dirtbags never rest their plans on finding that unaware person, distracted by normal everyday activity. This should make most of you angry and indignant ! You need to tap these feelings to develop strategies to live your life by. You need to form and train tactics not only to defeat a violent attack with unrelenting physical resolve, but to also understand dirtbag strategies, and be able to see them forming around you, so as not to fall into a trap. Setting your awareness and physical training deep in this indignation, will greatly increase your chances of not being caught surprised and flat-footed by the wolves who would feed on you.

Being tactically aware of criminal indicators gives you the heads up that pre-fires your attitude and places your finger on the switch. This preparedness helps you to draw on your anger and not succumb to your fears.“Fight or Flight Response” has been discussed in many forums, at many levels. One does not have the luxury of flight when having to defend your family. Your fight response needs to be released with immediate, effective, and explosive ferocity in the face of trouble. You need to “Hit the Switch”

Bad guys are not hiding behind every door, and in every alleyway. Knowing this we must keep this dark part of ourselves leashed, until needed. By not walking around with our head in our ass, and observing and recognizing potential situations, will give your life a sense of peace. Peace in the fact you have lowered the percentages of you, and your family, feeling this kind of pain. Maintaining a comprehensive and tactical mindset to deal with criminal activity is simple responsibility on your part.

We need to understand not to go over the threshold of good sense, and use too much force in a situation where it isn’t warranted. This drops us into the same category as the dirtbags we prepare ourselves for. The more situationally aware you are, the easier it is to detect and check criminal behavior before it has a chance to manifest itself fully. If all we need to do to avoid confrontation and injury is step off the sidewalk, that’s easy and requires minimal effort. On the other hand, if physically attacked, we should already have our finger on the switch !

Instructor Dana Mattos

DAMASOHK System

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