To survive years of street fights in Syria against multiple attackers, I stopped following styles, sets, traditions, and rules long ago and started trusting my instinct.

DAIP is an instinctive self-defence method that I developed between 2005 and 2023. DAIP is not a self-defence style. It is a way of thinking about defence. It’s for those who use their bodies as weapons in danger.

It is rooted in the Safie Weight Philosophy, which allowed me to form these 5 key elements that set DAIP apart:

1- Trains reactions, not routines.
2- No rituals. No belts. Just results.
3- Instinct-first, not technique-first.
4- Uses many arts, belongs to none.
5- Born from real-life street experience.

🟢 Public Definition: Defence Awareness Instinctive Practice.

🔒 Practitioner Definition: A precise framework known only to those who walk the inner path of the method.

DAIP was not born in a dojo or under a belt — it was born in real danger.

A method shaped by street fights, not by sport.

It does not teach you to win points — it teaches you to survive. While it draws from Jet Kune Do, Aikido, Jujutsu, boxing, street fighting, and more — strikes, locks, redirections, takedowns, evasion —

its purpose is not to master techniques, but to master response.

In DAIP, we do not memorize 20 moves — we train one clear reaction.

Anything that slows down instinct is removed. Anything that does not protect is useless.

We do not perform self-defense — We sense, and act with clarity.