Todd Group

The Todd Group, established by the late Harry Baldock, have been providing CQC, CQB, unarmed combat, defensive tactics, and self protection training since 1927.

They are instructors and consultants to military, police, close protection, corrections, security, and civilians.

The Todd Group has over 35 training depots nationally and internationally.

Course report Todd Group HQ Phase 2 Advanced October 2025 week-long course of instruction

Course report Todd Group HQ Phase 2 Advanced October 2025 week-long course of instruction

Having both the Todd Group headquarters facility in central Dunedin and Camp Todd close to the Dunedin airport in NZ provides the capability to provide both indoors and outdoors training in an urban and rural environment. HQ conducted courses provide non-residential training that fits well with Dunedin residents while Camp Todd residential courses work well […]

Germany CQC intensive courses of instruction 2025

Germany CQC intensive courses of instruction 2025

Dark night sneaky boots CQC BHEs Conducted at the Todd Group Germany head instructor Ken Oesterreich home training facility in Leipzig, the course was all about maximising available training hours. Kens home training compound is not only convenient but is fully resourced with all CQC trade craft required kit and amenities. Ken, as the course […]

August 2025 Thailand small group and individual tuition training

August 2025 Thailand small group and individual tuition training

Todd Group Thailand training field The Thailand group and individual tuition training is part of a South East Asia-Europe courses circuit and being combined with advance work for upcoming courses for the last quarter of 2025 as well as meetings with new corporate clients to plan training for their personnel in 2026, there has been […]

D-WAR Declare War against Rape training

D-WAR Declare War against Rape training

Earlier this month another D-WAR workshop was conducted at Todd Group HQ for members, their dependents, family, friends and general public applications. DWAR, short for declare war against rape means just what it reads; anti-threat advance planning and hard targeting anti-sexual violence tactics and skills or if under assault best of military based combative foul […]

Annual Australasian course report Camp Todd 2025

Annual Australasian course report Camp Todd 2025

Mil CQC Drills to Command CQC Confined Space Contact Inoculation hard cover guard truing up For 29 years of our 98 years of mil close combat and self-defence training provision, we have been conducting an annual course at Todd Group HQ and Camp Todd. The 2025 annual Australasian course muster surpassed some pre-Covid courses numbers […]

A True American Special Operations Legend Has Passed. Master Sergeant (Retired) Steven Dale Mattoon, US Army

A True American Special Operations Legend Has Passed. Master Sergeant (Retired) Steven Dale Mattoon, US Army

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 […]

P:\Articles Geoff\Pics Thai March crs 2025\P3050140.JPG

Thailand CQC Courses March 2025

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 […]

CQC Phase 3 Specialists International Training and Instructing November 2024 Thailand

CQC Phase 3 Specialists International Training and Instructing November 2024 Thailand

  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 […]

PHASE 2 ADVANCED CQC HQ WEEK LONG INTENSIVE COURSE OCTOBER 2024

PHASE 2 ADVANCED CQC HQ WEEK LONG INTENSIVE COURSE OCTOBER 2024

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 […]