The late Johnny Burt and myself The late Johnny Burt trained for decades in military unarmed combat and military self-defence in Todd/Baldock and Bolton systems. He had a huge heart knew the true meaning of loyalty with honour and had a love of the law. Johnny would give you the shirt off his back but […]
Todd Systems European military close quarters combat advocate hard cover guarding and cover guarding deflection of strikes and countering a kick with a stamp kick for military self-defence and military CQC. Blocking skills are not primary options in Todd Systems military unarmed combat simply because of leaving gaps in your bodily protection with extended extremities […]
Evading an aggressor with a single-boot evasion will leave one leg on the confrontation line. It will also reduce follow up post-evasion expedient movement by leaving you in a wide stance and as such provide expanded target mass for your enemy. Using a single, long-leg evasion against an aggressor armed with a medium to long […]
In an evasive dagger disarming skill employment if the weapon holding hand has been seized and secured the following increases disarming chances and increases safety. Employing an opposing-forces grip of the weapon holding wrist joint and hand. The first grip should be an over hand grip to reduce the likelihood of your enemy breaking your […]
The Todd Group has just completed another annual close personal protection course in Thailand, our international hub country of over two decades. This report will follow Pete and Gaz through their two weeks of training and training exercises. The Todd Group have the oldest history as private specialist training providers of European military self-defence MSD […]
The above is but one military self-defence battlefield dagger disarming tradecraft primary practice The late Col Rex Applegate, a leading instructor to the OSS in WWII, gave me a set of tradecraft primary practices for battlefield dagger disarming that went like this: Option 1: If he has brought a knife to a gun battle, shoot […]
In response to many requests, the Todd Group will be providing self-minder specialist short courses starting 2018. The next course is for current, active Todd Group members only and will be held at Camp Todd, Dunedin. Todd Group members, please course confirm. Avoiding dangers, such as unattended baggage and reporting it, as well as tactics […]
Continuous enemy eye gouging to interfere with enemy combative capability In any situation under threat or assault up against a formidable aggressor when offensive combat actions or counteroffensive actions are the best means of threat neutralisation the following military CQC/MSD principles apply. Make range, ruthless controlled aggressive continuous target destruction, and high level mental toughness […]
Those that know how to be brutally effective in street fighting or on the battlefield in do-or-die situations do so by being mentally committed and driven in the objective of using ruthlessly controlled simple gross motor skills violence to neutralise their adversary in the quickest and most brutal manner possible. They choose such methods because […]
Karl Webber is well known for training top line MMA fighters in New Zealand. What a lot of fight fans may not know is that Karl has a long history with the Todd Group in military CQC and MSD training. Ron Evans and I first trained Karl in CQC back in the early 90s in […]