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Predator Psychology
The Hard-Target Family
Buckling a car seat is the most distracted thirty seconds of your day. Close the window, decide the car question now, and pick the.

Predator Psychology
Trust the Signal
Fear versus worry, fact versus story, two signals and move. How Fight Back and the line you set in advance turn a gut feeling.

Predator Psychology
Fail His Test
Take Action Now. The one-line answer you say while stepping back, how to say it like you mean it, and why you are allowed.

Predator Psychology
Own the Angle
Get Off the X, Create Space, and Stop, Look, Assess, Move. How to take the geometry first so there is nothing left for him.

Predator Psychology
Get Taken Off the List
You do not have to win a fight you were never chosen for. Situational Awareness, the Color Code, and how to carry yourself so.

Predator Psychology
How He Tests You
The question that is not a question. How a predator tests you before he commits, the levers he pulls, and the pull inside you.

Predator Psychology
How He Gets the Angle
Position, place, and transitions. How a predator sets the table before anything starts, and why the three seconds at your car door matter most.

Predator Psychology
How He Picks
Most violent crime is chosen, not random. Here is the three-part math a predator runs, and the signals he reads off you to run.

Predator Psychology
They Are Not You
A violent criminal does not think the way you think. Learn why the polite read is the pause that gets people hurt, and what.

Stance and Movement
The Floating Foundation
You have been handed two instructions that sound like they cannot both be true. Never be still. Stay off your heels. Be the air.

Stance and Movement
Moving Off the Line
You know where the X is. It is under your feet, and you know you are supposed to leave it. Two questions left, and.

Stance and Movement
What the X Is and Why Running Straight Back Fails
Somebody is coming at you. Your body already has an answer. It wants to turn around and go the other way, and it wants.
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