Caution:The contents of this article are for education purposes only. The principles described are extremely dangerous and are for military close combat training and operations only. Their application applies solely to the military. What are the reasons behind the CQB stances in your Todd systems phase one manual? The reason behind any stance and guard […]
The Todd Group has a seventy-eight year history of close combat excellence in military close combat training. Tank Todd the chief instructor has been instructing close combat for over twenty five years full time and has racked up more exponent and instructing hours than any other military qualified master chief instructor. He has a lineage […]
Part 36 of the Close Combat Files Caution:The contents of this article are for education purposes only. The principles described are extremely dangerous and are for military close combat training and operations only. Their application applies solely to the military. This is the second part of the two part series on damage reduction in what […]
Kobus Huisamen was born in Cape Town and grew up in Franschhoek, a little town just outside Cape Town. His Dad was a construction worker on large scale projects such as dams and as such he and his family lived all over the country, however, he has always considered Cape Town his home. As a […]
From a very young age I had known of the legendry Col Rex Applegate. He had been described to me as the expert of special operations cloak and dagger close combat, the type of subjects never found in the civilian publications. I had met individuals that had corresponded with Col Applegate or who had met […]
Part 35 of the Close Combat Files Caution:The contents of this article are for education purposes only. The principles described are extremely dangerous and are for military close combat training and operations only. Their application applies solely to the military. In a perfect CQB execution the rule of takeout and not take on would apply. […]
Charles Nelson's monument. Photo courtesy of his daughter Carol Randall. Mrs Nelson Carol, Brian and family members and friends of Charlie, I opened my email on Friday here in New Zealand to the saddest news, something I never planned would happen not to my hero and mentor. In 1979 the late Harry Baldock my unarmed […]
The following is a brief outline of the life and times of three of the most important pioneers in modern military close combat. While there have been and will continue to be historic writings on these individuals from historians, there is only one living post-World War II instructor qualified descendent of the late and great […]
Caution:The contents of this article are for education purposes only. The principles described are extremely dangerous and are for military close combat training and operations only. Their application applies solely to the military. Can security people go to Iraq to work close protection without previous military or close protection experience. I guess so if they […]
Part 34 of the Close Combat Files Caution:The contents of this article are for education purposes only. The principles described are extremely dangerous and are for military close combat training and operations only. Their application applies solely to the military. Military close combat is all about taking out the enemy at all costs and training […]