November 25-30 was the last public application military combative course to be exported to Thailand by the Todd Group for 2013. This brings to an end a full year’s calendar of headquarters as well as national and international exported courses of instruction. The exponents on Todd Group courses are usually made up of both civilian […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]