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.

CQCTimes

Todd Group Australian CQC and NZ HQ CPP Courses Update August 2013

2013 has been a capacity schedule of conducting national and international exported courses of instruction as well as developing specialist training packages for service clients. After returning from an excellent annual course at spec force Auckland I headed for Australia and the annual Todd group Australian course on the Gold Coast. The Todd group being […]

Wheelchair Self Defence

Wheelchair Self Defence Manual and Training Package Forward by the course developer Wheelchair Self Defence Manual author Geoff “Tank” Todd As a military armed and unarmed combat as well as military self defence master chief instructor, I thrive on the challenge of skills and tactics development to ensure the military combative doctrine and training packages […]

Military CQB/CQC Resistance and Yielding

I can remember as a young exponent asking my instructor Harry Baldock how to escape some difficult holds that I had difficulty with as a youngster escaping, especially some of the heavy weight pro wrestlers applied holds that I trained with. Holds being applied correctly and forcefully are very different to a less than correct […]

Todd Group annual CQC/CQB exported course at SpecForce Auckland 2013

Entering SpecForce the signage says it all accept the challenge or walk away. The Todd Group and SpecForce joint-venture training provision in military close quarters combat and military physical fitness is truly a winning partnership. This is the second annual combative course to be conducted at SpecForce. The sound of the 5am opening and making […]

Amphib CQC night training

Todd Systems Training in Europe and Southeast Asia May 2013

The Todd Group has a very strict training and testing regime and a business model based on setting and maintaining the highest possible combative standards over attracting the masses. Being established in 1927 and only having two instructors commanding the group in this time is testament to just how well the training provision model works. […]

Todd CQC Systems Basic Military Combat Milling

I was well accustomed to the “mad minute” with boxing gloves as a common toughener practice for military CQB/CQC courses when I started instructing on military courses over two decades ago and well before that as an exponent coming up through the ranks. In my early days, as part of my training in physical culture […]

Todd Systems Flat Hand Edge Strike

The reason behind the Todd Systems version of the hand edge strike known as the flat hand edge strike in the Todd Systems for military close combat is simply because it is a safer most current and improved variation for military CQC. Todd CQC systems angled for outwards backhand contact flat hand edge strike. Inside […]

2013 Todd Group Annual Headquarters CQC Course

2013 Todd Group Annual Headquarters CQC Course

Let me lead into this report article on the annual International Todd Systems headquarters course 2013. The following are comments made by instructors and exponent’s attending the annual course between March 21st and March 31st 2013. The long history of the Todd Group from when it was the Baldock Institute is something very special and […]

D-War

The Todd Systems anti-and counter rape training program and manual has been decades in the development phases. The Todd group formerly the Baldock Institute has a unique history of over 85 years instructing European military combative programs as well as defensive tactics programmes, close personal protection and self-protection. The D-WAR course of instruction is a […]

Todd Group Southeast Asia CQC courses

Todd Group Southeast Asia CQC courses

The Todd group’s involvement with hand-to-hand combat or CQC as it’s also known in Thailand began in 1991 when I first trained there. Since then in the last 21 years I have returned many times instructing on courses on jobs and on business. In the past three years I have conducted four courses at Royal […]