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title: Awareness, Alertness and Avoidance
description: Terrick, Garrett and Corne start off with a general description of common issues with awareness and alertness. \nThere is a discussion on silly things people sometimes do and how the Rules of Stupid play into avoiding those issues.\nSome pre-avoidance stuff to avoid issues entirely by paying attention to early warnings your head gives you.\nCooper's Colour System gets an explained in some detail.\nWe talk about pre-attack indicators and give some specific examples trying to illustrate them.\n
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 Jun 22, 2020 12:00:00 AM

# Awareness, Alertness and Avoidance

[Corne van Driel](https://www.gunshow.co.za/blog/author/corne-van-driel)

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There is a discussion on silly things people sometimes do and how the Rules of Stupid play into avoiding those issues.

Some pre-avoidance stuff to avoid issues entirely by paying attention to early warnings your head gives you.

Cooper's Colour System gets an explained in some detail.

We talk about pre-attack indicators and give some specific examples trying to illustrate them.

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