Therefore a profound

understanding of fear needs to be sought. If you can't control

the person on the inside then it is safe to say that you cannot

control the person on the out side (the attacker).

Jeff Cooper devised a colour coding system to help

recognise, evaluate and subsequently avoid potential threat.

The codes are a yardstick designed to measure rising threat

and, if adhered to, make most situations become avoidable.

Cooper designed the codes of awareness to allow people a

360 degree environmental awareness. What I would like to

add to this, with respect to the great man, is also awareness

of attack ritual, physical reality and of bodily reactions to

confrontation -after all awareness is a complex thing.

Code White is known as 'switched off', unaware of

environment, inhabitants and their ritual of attack. Code

White is the victim state that all attackers look for. They

usually don't have to look far because most people are

completely switched off most of the time.