Close Combat Articles

 

The following is a selection of Close Combat Files and related Military Close Combat articles published in Fight Times e-Magazine.

Fight Times - Volume 12 Issue 5

• Close Combat Files Part 40 - Dagger Disarming
  "The two main categories of non ballistic type weapons commonly associated with close quarters combat or urban self protection armed threats are long or short weapons."
• CQB Q&A
  "Close Combat Questions, Answers and Comments"
• The Tank Todd Story
  "I have read countless articles Tank has written about other close combat instructors and thought it was about time someone outlined his close combat story."
• CQB Course Queensland
  "The Todd Group's entry into Australia came via a request from the now late Rangi Nichols of 'Who Dares Incorporated' to take on some of his instructing roles due to his failing health."

Fight Times - Volume 12 Issue 4

• Close Combat Files Part 39 - Unarmed Close Combat Contingency Options
  "True European military combative systems show commonality in skills and principles throughout all phases and levels of training. The very important basic skills are taught to entry level exponents and are the fundamentals to all close combat employments."
• Todd Group Germany Celebrates First Anniversary
  "Germany's only "Dirty Tricks" facility is celebrating its first successful year. In June 2004, Ken Oesterreich, currently a Phase II exponent, started the German depot conducting its first intensive two-day outdoors CQB camp."
• Robert Davis
  "Robert Davis recently travelled "down under" to learn CQB from Tank Todd in Dunedin, New Zealand."
• CQB Q&A
  "Questions and answers about Close Quarter Battle."

Fight Times - Volume 12 Issue 3

• Close Combat Files Part 38 - Unarmed Comparisons
  "This edition of the close combat files is to provide information as to why the Todd Close Combat Systems consider skills primary and secondary or emergency for combat."
• On The Quest
  "Dave Stevens has been the Chief Instructor for the Todd Group in Australia for approximately 10 years now and still can't believe it took him so long to find out about what real combat training was like."
• Charles Nelson: A Tribute to the Life of Charles Nelson - 1915-2003
  "Charlie was the best and the last of the true WWII Military close combat evolutionary pioneers of European methods of self defense."
• Charles Nelson Kiwi Connection
  "Tank Todd writes his recollection of his time with Charlie at the School of Self Defense, New York."

Fight Times - Volume 12 Issue 2

• Close Combat Files Part 37 - The Combat Boot
  "Combat kicks are the primary unarmed offensive and counter offensive option. These kicks are not sporting or traditional and in this edition of the close combat files I will explain the strengths and weaknesses of individual kicks for combat applications."

• Todd Group International Close Combat Training Course (March 2005)
  "The Todd Group has a seventy-eight year history of close combat excellence in military close combat training. Exponents on the annual close combat course come from around the world and from all services and walks of life."

• Can your martial art really protect you?
  "Ever since I took up training in martial arts at the age of thirteen, I was training for "real life" situations. I think most of us did. We visualized fighting 'real' enemies before we visualized title belts."

• TSB45 The Baton of the Future
  "The TSB 45 short for Tactical Safety Baton 45 South Model Todd 45 has been many years in the making and is the invention of Tank Todd."

• CQB Q&A

Fight Times - Volume 12 Issue 1

• The "Dirty Dozen" Down Under
  "A brief history of Larry Jordan's 'Dirty Dozen' hand-to-hand combat system and its instruction in New Zealand."
• Close Combat Files Part 36 - Damage Reduction (Part 2)
  "This is the second part of the two part series on damage reduction in what is known in military close combat as 'Oh Shit' situations."
• The Applegate-Todd Connection
  "This article details the close combat connection between Col Rex Applegate of O.S.S. fame, and Geoff (Tank) Todd of New Zealand."

• History of the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program
  "The mission of the United States Marine Corps in combat is to, close with, and destroy the enemy, by fire and maneuver, and assault by fire and close combat."

Fight Times - Volume 11 Issue 6

• Close Combat Files Part 35 - Damage Reduction (Part 1)
  "In a perfect CQB execution the rule of takeout and not take on would apply. However we all know that 'O Shit' situations do happen, through human error, being compromised or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time."

• Joint UK US WWII Combative Pioneers
  "A brief outline of the life and times of three of the most important pioneers in military close combat, Captain William Fairbairn, Captain Eric Sykes, and Colonel Rex Applegate."

• CQB Q&A

• Eulogy: Charles Nelson
  "A eulogy for the late Charles Nelson, The Last American Master, and founder of the School of Self Defense, New York."

Fight Times - Volume 11 Issue 5

• Close Combat Files Part 34 - Close Combat Kit
  "Military close combat is all about taking out the enemy at all costs and training the way one intends to operate, "Kill or get Killed" in the words of the late great Colonel Rex Applegate."
• CQB Q&A

Keywords: Close Combat, Close Quarter Combat, Close Quarter Battle, Unarmed Combat, Hand to Hand Combat, Combatives, Self Defence, Military Unarmed Combat, CQB, CQC, H2H, Charles Nelson, William Fairbairn, Eric Sykes, Rex Applegate, Tank Todd, Larry Jordan

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