Again for the second straight year Scot and Jess were the King and Queen of the Mat. Saturday, April 13 at the Edgar Centre Dunedin the NZ Combat Sports School hosted the New Zealand Grappling and Wrestling Association National Championships. There is a selection of photos at the bottom of this article from the nationals. […]
The reason behind the Todd Systems version of the hand edge strike known as the flat hand edge strike in the Todd Systems for military close combat is simply because it is a safer most current and improved variation for military CQC. Todd CQC systems angled for outwards backhand contact flat hand edge strike. Inside […]
Phase 3 specialist CQC disarming battle handling exercises Let me lead into this report article on the annual International Todd Systems headquarters course 2013. The following are comments made by instructors and exponent’s attending the annual course between March 21st and March 31st 2013. The long history of the Todd Group from when it was […]
Some of the Phase Two and Three attendees Pattaya post course The Todd group’s involvement with hand-to-hand combat or CQC as it’s also known in Thailand began in 1991 when I first trained there. Since then in the last 21 years I have returned many times instructing on courses on jobs and on business. In […]
William Gunn Leckie. (Billy) 1933 – 2012. I returned from an instructing job overseas to the sad news that my old Mate Billy Leckie had passed away on June 19th at the age of 78. Now Billy was well-known for his amateur and professional boxing career where he had an amateur record […]
The Todd Systems anti-and counter rape training program and manual has been decades in the development phases. The Todd group formerly the Baldock Institute has a unique history of over 85 years instructing European military combative programs as well as defensive tactics programmes, close personal protection and self-protection. The D-WAR course of instruction is a […]
Shane Gordon the Todd group Australian chief instructor again proved his course manager capabilities organising the annual Australian course. The course kicked off with the restricted closed-door attendance phase 3 training that provided phase 3 members the opportunity to not only undergo specialist phase 3 training but also the ability to become current with principles […]
June 17 to 23 saw the first week-long intensive course of instruction conducted out of SpecForce facility Auckland. The Todd group begun conducting CQB training in the Auckland area in the early 1990s at Papakura and now has an Auckland Central headquarters facility running out of SpecForce 9 Karaka Street off of Upper Queen Street […]
CPP Detail After a return from a month in Southeast Asia and having a great time instructing at kanchanaburi https://www.fighttimes.com/magazine/magazine.asp?article=1389 it was immediately onto the final arrangements for the specialist close personal protection course. This course was a small group course and had been planned and promoted as such. The candidates included an owner of […]
They took up the challenge and so can you. Tank centre and the four phase test candidates. Thailand 2012 and the Todd group breaks new ground with its provision of training in Southeast Asia. 1991 1 first trained in military hand-to-hand combat in Thailand and 21 years later my involvement and commitment continues. I […]