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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.

Females counter sexual violence best chances of incapacitating their attacker facts

Females counter sexual violence best chances of incapacitating their attacker facts

To effectively confirm physical skills that will give a female the best chances of stopping sexual violence and incapacitating a violent offender requires practical smarts a realist mentality and dispersing with any prior preferences of training and styles that are not the safest, most proven and effective means of threat neutralisation. The reality is sexual […]

Bayonet Mil CQC Weapon of War

Bayonet Mil CQC Weapon of War

While the exact inventor of the bayonet may not be known, history of the bayonet reveals its origins to Bayonne, France, in the early 17th century. Bayonet is derived from the French town of Bayonne where the matchlock musket was the standard issue weapon in the French military in the early 1700 hundreds. This primitive […]

Defensive Wounds

Defensive Wounds

Defensive stabbing and slashing wounds through self-protection can incapacitate and leave the victim vulnerable to fatal wounding. These wounds can be stabbing, slashing or chopping type targeting of extended extremities. The above picture shows an axe wound. While unarmed self-protection methods of edged weapon disarming cannot be guaranteed to eliminate wounding the safest best means […]

Todd Group Specialist CQC Training Provision - Thailand November 2019

Todd Group Specialist CQC Training Provision – Thailand November 2019

Todd Group selected Phase 3 specialist instructors of our European military CQC and military self- defence packages can join our military training team and log up military CQC instructing hours on Todd Group regular forces and elite forces pers courses of instruction. The most recent military training provision circuit in Thailand included European mil CQC/MSD […]

International Close Protection Course October 2019

International Close Protection Course October 2019

Exponent standing watch on the maritime exercise The Todd Group members and general public close personal protection courses are small group specialist courses that include extensive tradecraft content. Todd Group has the longest private specialist training provision status in our fields of expertise in NZ and this is what attracts serious individual exponents on our […]

D-WAR (declare war against rape) short course

D-WAR (declare war against rape) short course

Sean and Paige instructing a D-WAR (declare war against rape) short course at Todd Group HQ yesterday evening. Sean and Paige are qualified D-WAR course instructors at Todd Group HQ. They are also highly trained, tested and qualified Todd Systems CQC/MSD (Close Quarters Combat and Todd Systems Military Self-Defence) proponents and instructors. They are based […]

Skills, Nous, Smarts and Integrity Musts

Skills, Nous, Smarts and Integrity Musts

The unforgiving dagger is always loaded and lethal Skills for self-defence and unarmed combat need to provide high-level chances of maintaining safety in the achievement of threat neutralisation under deadly assault situations. History didn’t always get it right and some traditional techniques instructed under self-defence training have been proven to be doomed to failure. To […]

Procrastinators that can’t make the D

Procrastinators that can’t make the decision when it comes to stepping up fronting up and undertaking CQC training have become more common in today’s society. Along with procrastinators there are higher numbers of individuals that aren’t prepared to accept the realities of MIL CQC training but like the thought of it. Some end up looking […]

2019 Phase 2 Advanced CQC Course Exported to Thailand the Todd Group International Hub Country

2019 Phase 2 Advanced CQC Course Exported to Thailand the Todd Group International Hub Country

The 2019 Phase 2 advanced exponent’s course also included two phase three proponents undertaking phase 2 instructor qualification training. In 2018 a decision was made to accommodate the course away from the training camp facilities in camp accommodation and transport them out and back each day. This proved to be a good change and was […]