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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.

Todd Group Mil CQC Training for Responsible Citizens Demands Respect for All Ethnicities, Cultures and Religions

Todd Group Mil CQC Training for Responsible Citizens Demands Respect for All Ethnicities, Cultures and Religions

The Todd Group has the longest history as a private specialist training provider of European military self-defence and European military close quarters combat not only to the military but also to responsible civilian enthusiasts. While we have a responsibility to do our utmost to ensure we recruit responsible law-abiding citizens of integrity our vetting process […]

Massacre Deadly Threat Aware and Prepared

We live in times of realities of urban massacres being globally more common occurrences that can change not only the lives forever of casualties of such horrific attacks but also ongoing everyday life for the general populations of cities and countries of such heinous cowardly attacks on innocent citizens. I am not referring to specialist […]

Germany Annual CQC Course 2019

Germany Annual CQC Course 2019

CQC Milling The Todd Group just completed our annual Germany Phase 1 Basic and Phase 2 advanced courses for 2019. This course was hosted by Ken Oesterreich at his home facility and we were as always well-resourced and shown first class hospitality. The course included current and new phase 1 exponents and Phase 2 advanced […]

Thailand Phase 1 Basic 2019 week-long intensive course of instruction and testing phase

Thailand Phase 1 Basic 2019 week-long intensive course of instruction and testing phase

Todd group exported courses are not only to provide responsible citizens of other countries with the opportunity to train in European military close quarters combat and European military self-defence from the oldest private specialist training provider of our European military CQC/MSD tradecraft, the Todd Group formerly the Baldock Institute under the instruction of our current […]

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Compound grip and structure seizure and securing

Understanding how to prevent limb threatening excruciating pain or reduce the effects of limb and joint pain provides the opportunity to set up and employ armed and unarmed threat neutralisation. In a green role environment on the ground maintaining a pre-offensive or counteroffensive action compound grip ensuring the limb fixed reduces risk and having to […]

Unrealistic head and full body protection for CQC Training

Unrealistic head and full body protection for CQC Training

At the Todd Group we get a lot of questions in regard to not only skills and military instructors but also training equipment and weapons. We design training equipment weapons and protectors for mil CQC/MSD specific training purposes. There is not generally available military CQC role and duty specific training equipment designed and developed by […]

The Difference between Ground Combat and Ground Fighting

The Difference between Ground Combat and Ground Fighting

Military ground combat is all about enemy incapacitation or elimination. It is not about fighting someone on the ground trying to make them submit. The toughest of tough cannot overcome the effects of life support systems destruction. Combatants skilled in mil CQC enemy elimination know that such terminal effects cannot be overcome and this enhances […]

Chin jab, palm heel striking military CQC tradecraft facts

Chin jab, palm heel striking military CQC tradecraft facts

The Cpt Ben Mangels top left,Tank Todd top right,CQC chin jab training Thailand Bottom squenence Above are Just some of the past and present palm heel strike variations Upward diagonal palm heel under chin contact Palm heel strikes for military close quarters combat area primary close range unarmed offensive assault practice as that reduces the […]