Combative foot work along with stance or stance and guard stability and mobility are critical requirements of armed and unarmed combat employments. Footwork in CQC or CQB is a most important tactical component of combative skills executions. In this edition of the close combat files I will cover the following categories of combative foot work. […]
If you're looking for the safest and considered most effective means of unarmed offensive assault you would select long range unarmed offensive assault, stamp kicks on or below the knee joint. Logic: employ your longest limb contact with the sole of your boot on the closest enemy target their front leg. Stamp kicks provide the […]
There are many methods of training proving and testing that the Todd Group employs on military CQB/CQC, police defensive tactics, close personal protection, tactical prisoner handling, security forces and self-protection courses. These methods include battle handling exercises, practical handling exercises, stands, operational scenario training, toughener and sickener training, battle inoculation, familiarization with enemy fighting arts, […]
The Todd Group and Todd Systems basic phase 1 testing has a reputation for being as close to operational unarmed contact as it gets and the best test of skills guts and smarts. In this edition of the Close Combat Files I will outline the test phase and the reasoning behind why so many candidates fail […]
Training as many as 260 exponents on their individual primary centre of gravity for maximum resistance against lifting or movement reducing their target mass and not compromising their stability by squatting to low is not an easy to task. No easy task when you consider although you may have an instructing cadre of 18 instructors […]
The following is but a brief overview of what I have identified as positives and negatives in tactical control and restraint. For over 30 years I have instructed tactically correct control and restraint to a wide range of services. For over 20 of those years I headed crowd control teams where we employed restraints on a […]
Having spent 15 years as a military CQB chief instructor and over thirty years training and qualifying in armed and unarmed combat and I am well accustomed to the terminology and tradecraft practises relating to my trade an unusual circumstance for a civilian. This edition of the close combat files will outline the importance of […]
Long weapons can range from specific type weapons like swords and machetes to riot sticks and baseball bats. Improvised long weapons can be as diverse as fence palings, carpenter’s saws, pipes, waratahs (star pickets), pool cues, broomsticks, jimmy bars, reinforcing rods, etc. From top: machete, baseball bat, pipe, e-tool, and waratah fence post (star picket) […]
Often the most skilled instructor may use terminology that is not the best way to describe primary practices, however the physical skills, tactics and procedures on evaluation are correct in practice. The concern of this edition of the Close Combat Files is not so much error in verbiage, but is to outline and uncover potentially […]
The difference between ‘take on’ and ‘take out’ to an instructor who has been trained and qualified in military close combat coming up through the ranks is very clear in that to take out the enemy or neutralize the enemy in relation to the rules of engagement and standard operating procedures is the primary and […]