Jessica Todd, after 14 years of wrestling, has retired from competition and training in the sport of wrestling that she loved so much. Competing in wrestling and more recently grappling she has won 19 national titles in wrestling and grappling, competing at national championships conducted under the control of the two major governing wrestling […]
My best mate Bill passed away on October 27th 2012 in his 92nd year. I never thought of Bill as being old and although after the recent car accident where he was rear ended while waiting for the traffic lights to turn green led to him being hospitalized and as a result becoming unwell, I […]
Mr. Harry Baldock was Chief Instructor of the Baldock Institute for over fifty years and during this period trained thousands of students in physical fitness and body building. But it is not his achievements in the physical culture fields that I intend to cover in this article but more his expertise in the combat sports, […]
Howard assisting with promotional photography. Howard Bell was born at Brighton near Dunedin in New Zealand in 1952. He has two older brothers and a younger sister. Howard’s father served in World War II spending four years in the desert with the engineers maintaining and working on steam engines. He told Howard of how they […]
In 2002 I wrote an article about my friend Roland John Wilson, or John as he was better known. Sadly, I now find myself adding to that article more details of John’s long and distinguished military and medical service history after he died December 28th 2010 aged 62. Wednesday January 5th 2011 John’s funeral was […]
Ken was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and was the oldest of four children having three sisters. He joined the Army’s 82nd airborne March 1956 and went through military police school with the 82nd MPs. Ken weighed barely 130 pounds just making the minimum required weight for jump school. Ken's active service with the […]
John Wilson was born in 1948 at New Plymouth and moved to Dunedin with his family when he was two years old. He attended Arthur Street School followed by Otago Boys High School during which he was a member of the army cadets where he had spent time at Burnham and moved through the cadet […]
John Findlay Burt August 24th 1948 to August 12th 2009.Johnny was the only son of John Telford Burt and Catherine Ann Burt of Fairfield Dunedin. Johnny Burt CQB intake photo I would like to begin this look into the life of my dear friend Johnny Burt with some facts of Johnny's life and then cover […]
The following accumulation of comments was formulated from the knowledge and opinions of exponents and instructors of the Todd Systems of CQC. The following material is also from the research and writings on the Todd Group undertaken by members and freelance writers. There is a massive amount of both historical and current information available from […]
Grahame Reid was born in Otahuhu Auckland the 29th of March 1937. Grahame’s mother was a nurse and his father was a wool classer and he had two younger brothers. Grahame’s family moved to Wellington during the war and he attended primary school at Kilbirnie and Ngaio in Wellington. The young Grahame. In 1948 his […]