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 armed military or law enforcement operators tactics and skills to deal with deadly threats which is a very different reality altogether.

This is about the underdog reducing the likelihood of facing a deadly heavily armed over dog by hard targeting anti-encounter tactics and skills or if compromised and under attack making the best strategically correct safest decision options to neutralise the threat.

Readers you must understand the word neutralise equates to deciding on the best option to keep yourself safe and prevent being a casualty of a deadly massacre.

Threat recognition, threat avoidance, taking cover or concealment, escape and evasion are but some of the threat neutralisation options that may be available to an unarmed citizen facing deadly attack.

Massacres are truly a terrifying horrific threat to innocent citizens going about their everyday life that can change our freedoms and ways of life forever.

Hate crimes by heavily armed attackers against unarmed civilians are reprehensible cowardly acts that decent citizens with respect for fellow human beings have difficulty in coming to terms with.

I have for several decades travelled instructing globally on wide ranging tactics and skills to arm services personnel and law abiding decent citizens with anti-encounter tactics to reduce the likelihood of being exposed to such horrors as well as counter action skills if under such dire threats.

The risks when compromised and under such extreme threat to the unarmed innocent decent citizens of being injured or killed are extremely high.

There are no guarantees but having an understanding of how to escape and evade or as a last no other resort measure employ very threat specific counter action skills to increase your chances of living through such a dire attack become your best and only means of self- protection and self-preservation.

The heavily armed over dog that’s intention is to cause mass death is a most lethal threat to the innocent unsuspecting unarmed underdog.

In military armed and unarmed combat and military self- defence such tactics and skills are employed in different roles against different threats, but all with the same objective, that being reducing risk to the lowest level you possibly can by anti-encounter means or if under attack counter actions to reduce the risk and extract ones-self from the immediate threat as quickly and safely as humanly possible.

Anti-encounter skills from our close personal protection/minder packages along with premises searching and clearing packages include sound tactics and skills applicable to sieges and massacre type threats.

Anti-encounter hard targeting plugging holes in one’s life plan can reduce risk to a considerably lower level.

Being skilled in threat awareness real-time fast mapping threat assessments and having tactics and skills to avoid escape and evade or take cover or concealment under immediate threat can be the difference between life and death.

Planning preparing and being aware of potential risk areas combined with knowing what to do in an instant under immediate deadly threat increase one’s chances of self-preservation and as such immediate threat neutralisation.

This has nothing to do with your traditional fighting arts type studio self- defence training.

To prevent being a victim of a deadly massacre requires prior training planning preparation and real time thinking and maximising one’s chances of neutralising such a deadly threat by the best tactically correct safest means of threat neutralisation self-preservation.

Hate crimes, terrorist acts, predatory sexual violence, criminal murder and kidnapping are all serious threats that require threat specific specialist anti-and counter actions to provide the highest chances of threat neutralisation by the best means available.

You must be aware that under such deadly threats it is unlikely that law enforcement will be immediately available to save your life.

You need to be mentally strong and able to overcome the effects of fear and stress making a real time threat assessments and decisions on the move on how to best get out of the kill zone or if unable to how to reduce risk to your personal safety to the lowest possible level by means of your immediate surroundings provided improvised advantages.

If you’re unable to control your emotions and effects of fear you have little chance of being able to employ sound tactics and skills to maximise your safety and threat neutralisation by the best available means, including escape and evasion.

If you freeze you will be a static target and your chances of living decrease with every second.

There is no guarantee but being armed with knowledge and capability based on primary practices under deadly threat give you the best chance of living through such a high risk encounter.

This has little to do with fighting prowess and everything to do with the best tactics and skills based on high risk environments anti and counter actions to neutralise deadly high-risk threats.

These are specialist skill sets not commonly available in the general population and that only those with very specific prior military or specialist tactical law enforcement training possess.

Individuals trained in such specialist and specific anti-and counter skill sets can employ the tactics and skills to maximise their safety and protection under wide ranging attacks not only in a deadly urban or rural massacre.

The Todd Group being military elite armed and unarmed combat and military self- defence training providers with the longest history in our specific field as well as providing training in a range of related threat category specific threat neutralisation skill sets are getting more and more enquiries from citizens wanting to arm themselves with such knowledge and capability. Times have truly changed in relation to threats over the more than nine decades of the Todd Group, formerly the Baldock Institute’s specialist training provision.

Military packages are living packages and as such provide the most current threat neutralisation specific means and methods.

We are finding on our exported courses of instruction more military and law enforcement operators and instructors requesting information and training in regards to neutralising life or death threats to citizens and operators.

In years gone by such requests were more crowd combat counter violent crime orientated compared to today where concerns include deadly massacres.

There are many considerations with such training that must be taken into account including the number of attackers and their firepower capabilities as well as the age and physical capability of the unarmed victims the location and layout of the threat environment.

Being trained and having primary tactics and skills to make yourself as safe as possible and reduce risk to the lowest possible level increasing your chances of living through such a deadly threat is about the best one can hope for against up against such a deadly dire life-threatening attack on your life.

Those that know how to enhance mental toughness make fast mapping real-time assessments, deciding on specialist tactics and skills and employing them to neutralise the faced deadly threat by the best and safest means at their disposal increase their chances of living through a deadly threat against their life.

Todd Group members that want such threat specific specialist preventative and counter action tactics and skills training will be able to arm themselves with such knowledge and capabilities.

We have a responsibility and a duty of care to our people to provide the primary specialist life-saving tactics and skills sets we possess.