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 being […]
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 […]
The Todd Group has a very strict training and testing regime and a business model based on setting and maintaining the highest possible combative standards over attracting the masses. Being established in 1927 and only having two instructors commanding the group in this time is testament to just how well the training provision model works. […]
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 the Baldock Institute is something very special and […]
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 the past three years I have conducted four courses at Royal […]
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 have […]