March 1st, 2025 By SGM (Ret.) Larry Jordan America lost one of its greatest Special Operations Soldiers on 20th January 2025 Steve “Boom Boom” Mattoon passed from this life surrounded by his loving wife Marilyn and other family members in Casper, Wyoming where he spent the final years of his life surrounded by a loving […]
Another Todd Group Thailand combined courses of instruction visit completed with several more to come in 2025. Small training group courses are proving popular with serious enthusiasts of military close combat and military self-defence. Being a long-term NZ and international training provider well-established in the countries we export courses to; we can conduct basic, advanced […]
The Todd Group has a long term unique history and status with combining our civi CQC instructing team members with mil CQC pers and serious civi CQC exponents on courses and under testing phases. This most recent course included delivering instruction to elite forces pers and continuation training at our Thailand standalone training facility […]
The final Todd Group HQ Phase 2 advanced week-long intensive course for 2024 ended Friday, October 25. The final module was combating multiple armed assaulters as per the above picture. Week-long intensive courses of instruction provide serious enthusiasts to train intensively and extensively in not only skills but also complete strategies and contingency options. Phase […]
The September October specialist close personal protection course concluded with a vehicle based final exercise just before the heavy rains set in resulting in considerable flooding in Dunedin and Otago. Specialist close protection should not be confused with untrained overt deterrent body guarding and this is something attendees on our specialist close personal protection courses […]
End of course group picture and the only on course rest for the lads over the week long intensive Leipzig Germany Phase 1 intensive Basic course. This was the first course to be conducted back in Germany post Covid-19 and it was a full muster course. We had to close off applications acceptance some weeks […]
Camp Todd CQC drills to command For 28 years since 1996 we have been conducting the annual Australasian course in March every year. The course was initially conducted at Todd Group HQ but over the past 18 years it has been conducted at primarily Camp Todd with evening training sessions at Todd Group HQ. Todd […]
The final HQ exported NZ short course of instruction We are pleased to report the most recent Kapiti short course attracted a full muster of keen and willing exponents. Both Phase 1 Basic and Phase 2 Advanced training was conducted as well as combined phases training. Todd Group HQ is running at capacity and it […]
This was the final exported course to our international hub country of Thailand for 2023. We have already received confirmation of attendance for the November 2024 Thailand course from lads on this course and others that could not make this course. This course of instruction included update training in the most current phase 1 […]
While times have changed considerably post Covid-19, we have continued to run full calendars of courses including specialist close protection courses. We have expanded our scope of training not only in NZ and our international hub country of Thailand but will also be returning to other overseas countries we have established our training provision in […]