Jessica Todd, double Queen of the Mat, retires Jessica Todd, after 14 years of wrestling, has retired from competition and training in the sport of wrestling that she loved so much. Competing in wrestling and more recently grappling she has won 19 national titles.
Todd Group instructor training and phase 1 test, October 25-27, 2013. Camp Todd Instructor development training. The Todd Group’s ethos is all about setting and maintaining the highest of combative standards. The Todd Group, formerly the Baldock Institute established in 1927 has a long history of providing European military unarmed and self-defence training. While many martial […]
The Todd Group African CQC association dates back to my first meeting with Cpt Ben Mangels formerly a South African military and police combative and defensive tactics instructor. This was back in the mid-1980s when Ben came to the Dallas Texas airport to briefly meet up with me while I was in transit through Dallas […]
After a very special experience providing Todd Systems CQB and CQC training in South Africa, I headed for Thailand to conduct the first Todd Systems close personal protection course to be exported to Southeast Asia. This course would be very different conducted in a very tropical and populated environment where the required dress would be […]
2013 has been a capacity schedule of conducting national and international exported courses of instruction as well as developing specialist training packages for service clients. After returning from an excellent annual course at spec force Auckland I headed for Australia and the annual Todd group Australian course on the Gold Coast. The Todd group […]
I can remember as a young exponent asking my instructor Harry Baldock how to escape some difficult holds that I had difficulty with as a youngster escaping, especially some of the heavy weight pro wrestlers applied holds that I trained with. Holds being applied correctly and forcefully are very different to a less than correct […]
Entering SpecForce the signage says it all accept the challenge or walk away. The Todd Group and SpecForce joint-venture training provision in military close quarters combat and military physical fitness is truly a winning partnership. This is the second annual combative course to be conducted at SpecForce. The sound of the 5am opening and making […]
Amphib CQC night training – Thailand Testing and truing up the guard. Ambush phase knife disarming. Battle handling exercises on the Phase 1 Test Germany. Battle handling exercises on the Phase 1 Test Germany. The Todd Group has a very strict training and testing regime and a business model based on setting and maintaining the […]
2013 sees the Todd Group, through its African exponents and instructors, conducting a week-long intensive course of instruction in the phase 1 Todd Systems CQC. Keith Roberts, the Todd Group chief instructor for Africa, will manage the phase 1 intensive course of instruction and the defensive tactics/control restraint and D-WAR (declare war against rape) anti-and […]
I was well accustomed to the “mad minute” with boxing gloves as a common toughener practice for military CQB/CQC courses when I started instructing on military courses over two decades ago and well before that as an exponent coming up through the ranks. In my early days, as part of my training in physical culture […]