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Tank Todd

Special Operations CQB Master Chief Instructor. Over 30 years experience. The only instructor qualified descendent of Baldock, Nelson, and Applegate. Former instructors include Harry Baldock (unarmed combat instructor NZ Army WWII), Colonel Rex Applegate OSS WWII and Charles Nelson, US Marine Corps. Tank has passed his Special Forces combative instructor qualification course in Southeast Asia and is certified to instruct the Applegate, Baldock and Nelson systems. His school has been operating for over eighty years and he is currently an Army Special Operations Group CQB Master Chief Instructor. His lineage and qualifications from the evolutionary pioneers are equalled by no other military close combat instructor. His operation includes his New Zealand headquarters, and 30 depots worldwide as well as contracts to train the military elite, security forces, and close protection specialists. Annually he trains thousands of exponents and serious operators that travel down-under to learn from the direct descendant of the experts and pioneers of military close combat. Following in the footsteps of his former seniors, he has developed weapons, and training equipment exclusive to close combat and tactical applications. He has published military manuals and several civilian manuals and produced DVDs on urban self protection, tactical control and restraint, and close combat. He has racked up an impressive 100,000+ hours in close combat.

On Your Todd CQC Device

On Your Todd

The On Your Todd is a simple small Device that provides several self protection and defensive tactics capabilities. Injection moulded from composite materials, it is tough, but light weight. It is a good key chain that can hook onto your trouser waist band or your belt with your keys in your pocket. It can be used as […]

CQC bent-fork fingers

Bent Fork Fingers

The eyes are a primary CQC target that can be targeted to achieve various objectives and outcomes, ranging from incapacitation through to fatal outcomes through eye socket penetration. It is the bent fork fingers hand and fingers configuration that I will detail in this blog. It is important to reduce risk of self-injury when utilising digital […]

Why submission skills can be dangerous for battlefield CQC

Why submission skills can be dangerous for battlefield CQC

We receive constant enquiries regarding CQC tactics and skills and many other subjects relating to military CQC. The reality is while the masses may have knowledge about martial arts and combat sports very few have factual knowledge and less have had hands on experience in military CQC. Many enquiries are in regards to the use of submission […]

Autonomic Reactions

Autonomic Reactions

Our senses, especially our sense of vision, possess the capability to identify risks and dangers and initiate subconscious reactions often before we can recognise or respond. Our eyes can collect up to a million bits of information around us a second and transfer important bits of information to our brains for processing and the initiation or […]

Military CQC over Grappling for the Battlefield

Military CQC over Grappling for the Battlefield

The catch or to catch in military CQC is in reference to aspects of clinching or stand up grappling with one’s enemy. As a tactically correct primary practice in military close quarter’s combat catch CQC increases risks and dangers and as such is tactically flawed. It can be defeated with deadly outcomes by armed military […]

CQC unarmed offensive and counter-offensive actions ranges

Safest range against unarmed assault and non-ballistic weapons threats out of sight out of mind. By awareness, threats or danger areas can be avoided. In situations where an unarmed threat or an armed threat has been identified by tactically discreetly exiting the location you can covertly escape evade and as such avoid a threatrning situation against you. […]

Never deep knee bend and reach vertically skyward in frontal ambush or mugging type armed threats disarming

In ambush phase weapon disarming from the front at a close to point blank range weapon point threat status against any remotely capable and alert aggressor, never reach directly skyward above your head to seize and secure a weapon on instinct autopilot in relation to using only your sense of touch to locate and secure the weapon. I can […]

Never reach behind you under rear flank assault

Even midget wrestlers are taught and soon know to not reach back behind themselves at an opponent behind them. I see, however, some traditional fighting arts promoting blindly reaching back over their shoulders. Such actions increase risk and offer extremities including your fingers as well as can assist with your balance destruction. Your humerus bone of the […]

Tactics and skills development

I have observed and been exposed to individuals and their developed techniques, or should I say variations of other techniques when it comes to CQC, for over 40 years. Some of the individuals have been proponents I have personally  trained in CQC. The unfortunate general concern is that mostly these individuals have not come up through the ranks and […]