December 5th and 6th brought the short and intensive courses schedule for 2020 to an end at Camp Todd.
The 2020 second quarter exported courses had to be postponed due to Covid-19 and NZ courses re-scheduled in the available slots.
This has seen a full schedule of courses completed for 2020 including in Thailand at our new training facility immediately before the lock down and after the lock down training and courses were conducted at Todd Group HQ, at Camp Todd, and in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
The courses included pPhase 1 Basic, Phase 2 Advanced and the final course for 2020 held on December 5th and 6th, phase 3 Specialist.
We also conducted a two week CPP course of instruction and defensive tactics and D-WAR anti and counter rape training.
Full musters and a full schedule of courses has made good out of a problematic situation.
The weekend Phase 3 Specialist course was all about specialist tactics and skills that have stood the test of time as well as the most current armed and unarmed combat tactics and skills.
Primary proven skills from our former Master Instructors in the late SGM Harry Baldock and Col Rex Applegate were instructed as well as Todd Group developed most current mil CQB/CQC and MSD skills training.
This being a standalone specialist short course enabled maximum training time and the full availability of our facilities and training areas to cover wide-ranging and diverse elite trade-craft close combat training.
There was an emphasis on training in tactics and skills components from our CQB training packages that have joint specialist usage such as at home safety and security including threat neutralisation under home invasion/intrusion.
Intruder detection, intervention and threat neutralisation made up some such training.
This course required extensive resourcing to ensure all proponents had full equipment and could maximise every minute of available training time.
Military armed and unarmed combat, military self-defence and CQB/CQC skill at arms training were included in the program along with battlefield improvised weapons usage.
The Phase 3 Specialist trade-craft includes primary practices as well as secondary alternative and emergency options in wide ranging means and methods of threat neutralisation required for many roles, duties and specialist requirements.
There are hundreds of modules included in the Phase 3 Specialist packages and many require specific training facilities including outdoors training environments.
Conducting this specialist short course at Camp Todd enabled training to be conducted in elite skills that can only be effectively conducted in outdoors training facilities.
Weekly scheduled training combined with weekend short courses and one or two week long extensive courses of instruction are required to achieve skills competency and several of the attendees on this short course have attended many one and two week long intensive courses as well as overseas exported courses of instruction in our international hub country Thailand.
Phase 3 specialist proponents are looking at 500 hours just to achieve basic level familiarity competency in the major specialist armed and unarmed trade-craft skills sets.
Many Todd Group Phase 3 Specialist proponents have been training for 25 years plus and being part of the HQ skills ownership and development source have received decades of primary training.
Those that are dedicated and committed to attending as many courses of instruction as they possibly can not only increase their skills competency but remain current and their skills retention is increased.
There simply is no substitute for maximum hands on training to achieve highest level skills competency and proficiency and our mil close combat lifers know this.
This was a diverse elite CQB/CQC/MSD skills training opportunity conducted under our trade-craft irregular specialist means and delivery methods.
From drills to sudden shock action decision making and threat neutralisation employments this specialist short course fostered individual confidence and competency as well as the important cohesion in team work training.
There are two more weeks of Todd Group HQ training before the training year ends and we are looking forward to getting back on the international courses conducting circuit as soon as borders restrictions fit with our overseas training delivery requirements. Todd Group HQ, being the learning and development specialist centre it is, provides exponents, proponents and instructors with the most current CQB/CQC/MSD trade-craft training and is the only training provider down under of our European mil close combat systems.
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