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Thailand Todd Group International Hub Country Military CQC Training

Thailand Todd Group International Hub Country Military CQC Training

The Late Highly Respected Cpt Ammo and Tank. Civi and Mil pers CQC pics Thailand in the last 20 years.   The Todd Group Thailand training connection began in 1991 when I first visited Thailand to undertake my military elite forces combative instructor qualification course. In the last 25 years, the Todd Group have conducted […]

Spatial Awareness Risks and Responses

Spatial Awareness Risks and Responses

Increased risk under threat You only have to look at amateur and professional sport to see excellent spatial awareness and primary decision-making capabilities. Rugby league players while completely in mid-air scoring a try before their boots touch the ground over the side-line or Olympic wrestlers staying in bounds by opposing or yielding their opponents actions. […]

Johnny Burt

CQC physicality and physical fitness facts

The bigger candidate combines his weight and eye gouging to overpower and overwhelm his physically fitter enemy per The physical fitness requirements using Todd systems military CQC/MSD to defeat a physically fitter or bigger fitter aggressor are more a combination of mental toughness, the best of CQC/MSD (close quarters combat/military self-defence skills) and controlled/conserved physical […]

NZ's Close Protection Specialist Longest Training Providers

NZ’s Close Protection Specialist Longest Training Providers

The Todd Group, formerly the Baldock Institute, has a 91-year history of providing military CQC, military self- defence, close protection and defensive tactics training. This specialist training provision history includes WWII training by our founder, the late Harry Baldock as well as expertise gained from lifetime US military pioneer experts that were involved in high […]

Todd Group HQ Mililtary CQC/MSD Intake Induction for Civilians

Todd Group HQ Mililtary CQC/MSD Intake Induction for Civilians

The intake comprises an introductory brief and the checking of all admin requirements, the taking of ID photos and a short video presentation showing the longest history of our kind in our CQC/MSD tradecraft as well as training and testing footage from Todd Group HQ and our global civi and military combined exported courses of […]

The Dangers of Instructor Ego over Expertise and Experience

The Dangers of Instructor Ego over Expertise and Experience

The dangers of instructing unapproved risky tactics such as taking your eyes off of the weapon to check rear flank terrain. When it comes to developing military close combat and military self-defence tactics and skills, there has to be a definite process to ensure any adopted skills have been officially proven and approved by the […]

Utilising Your Primary Strengths

Utilising Your Primary Strengths

Depicted above an aggressor of considerably greater size and strength threatening a smaller man. In the second depiction the smaller man stamp kicks his aggressor with the objective of destroying the integrity of aggressors knee joint/knee cap. Decentralisation and incpacitation are the intended outcome of employing the stamp kick. The physically smaller man from a […]

tipping point

Tipping point

Understanding the importance of tipping point stability and balance interference and destruction is most important in European military CQC/MSD. It applies to wide ranging military self-defence and military armed and unarmed combat skills set ups and executions including: Unarmed offensive assault Unarmed counter offensive assault Maintaining momentum Maintaining strong boots stability Tactical resistance and yielding […]

Detractors

Detractors

From time to time even highly qualified military combative instructors with long service records are victims of detractor’s online character assassination rants. You would wonder why anyone with a gripe would not have the courage of conviction to take issues up directly with anyone that upsets their fragile disposition. You would think anyone that wants […]

Military self-defence and military unarmed combat terminology and title

The late SGM Harry Baldock. WWII Army MUC/MSD Chief Instructor We receive many enquiries as to if we know of specific instructors of military self-defence and military unarmed combat and if they are in fact qualified in MSD/MUC. Our advice is always the same ask the instructor to see their military instructor qualification certification/course reports. […]