Here at the Todd Group we get a lot of inquiries from other military instructors as well as civilian instructors and combative enthusiasts as to the Todd Group’s long history in European military armed and unarmed combat, military self-defence as to our secrets to have the longest private training provider status in our specialist field.
So, we will provide a series of blogs covering different aspects of our training provision model and methods, starting with this a brief insight into New Zealand’s history of military unarmed combat and military self-defence.
The next issue will cover means of protecting the doctrine training packages tactics and skills from an ownership of intellectual property perspective through to civil litigation to counter contract breaches as well as patent and trademark infringements as disciplinary action aspects.
New Zealand has had a long history in European military armed and unarmed combat dating back to the forest and bushrangers.
Harry Baldock, the founder of the Baldock Institute now the Todd Group was the earliest army unarmed combat chief instructor.
Shocker Shaw and Jimmy Page were chief instructors to the Army regular forces and special forces, respectively in European military CQB/CQC and MSD.
After these three legendary pioneers of New Zealand military unarmed combat and self-defence, I was the next and only proponent to master instructor qualify in European military close quarters combat and military self-defence.
The training and instructor qualifying of our military combative pioneers comes directly from some of the leading WWII pioneer expert instructors and their instructing cadre.
The Todd Group, formerly the Baldock Institute have been the owners and caretakers of the doctrine training and management packages for over 30 years of the training organisations 91 year history.
While internationally, most of the World War II European military close combat complete training packages have been lost and a lot of the current global provided training is based on hybridised fighting arts combat sports and martial arts, there are still some of the best of battle proven tactics and skills that are instructed in these hybridised programs.
The Todd Group as the caretakers of the systems are responsible for ensuring it is kept at the most current primary battle proven battle-ready status.
The European military CQC/MSD tradecraft practices and the military science of CQB/CQC/MSD are our fields of expertise.
Being based in Dunedin New Zealand where we develop not only the tactics and skills but also design training equipment and close combat weapons, our instructing team and all ranks of exponents get their training testing and qualifications first hand from the source.
They also have direct access to the training resources produced and published by Todd Group HQ.
This is a special and unique opportunity for responsible committed civilians to take advantage of.
Society has changed considerably over the last century, however, the mental toughness and combative smarts requirements of European military close quarters combat, and military self-defence has not.
The Todd Systems packages are made up of the most current proven primary tradecraft tactics and skills instructed by both the military CQC/MSD regular and irregular methods of instruction delivery. European military CQC/MSD are living practices that must stay continuously ahead of current threats. Operational and training changes and advances are what keep European mil CQC/MSD the primary tradecraft it is but when it comes to the basic individual combatant demeanour attitude and physicality requirements the major attributes of mental toughness inner resolve intestinal fortitude and combative practical smarts are still most important.
Hands on getting down dirty and deadly cannot be substituted or compromised.
The Todd Group’s testing ethos is HARD HEAVY HOSTILE.
The Todd Group operates our training provision for civilians like our military courses of instruction provision and as such all exponents and instructors must conduct themselves according to the codes of conduct and regulations of course joining.
The unique and specialist nature of the training and testing challenges of achieving rank, are what attract the serious committed exponents, proponents, and instructors.
They must respect the chain of command abide by the conditions of training and understand that training in the most current proven European military close quarters combat and military self-defence is a privilege and not a right.
Those that do not abide by the course joining agreements/contracts will self-eliminate or be binned.
While there are wide ranging combat sports, fighting arts and traditional martial arts styles training in New Zealand, there is only one European military armed and unarmed combat and military self-defence official training provider of Todd Systems European military CQC/MSD to the military and responsible committed civilian’s.
The majority of civilian styles look to overseas for their styles or codes methods of training in competitive and traditional martial arts practices, while to the contrary serious military and civilian international practitioners and enthusiasts of European military CQC/MSD look to us the oldest private training provider for their military CQC and self-defence training.
Those that achieve high level competency are all very similar practical realists, quiet, confident types. They want to be trained from current training providers to the military that have the qualifications and long respected records of European military CQC/MSD instructing service.
They know without this then it is not European military primary current CQC/MSD training.
We always strive to be the very best training provider and instructors and our senior proponents and instructors have achieved their skills competency and qualifications directly from the source of the skills ownership and development.
This is what matters and counts to those that seek the best of European military combative and self-defence training.
The Todd Group HQ conducts two induction intakes for Dunedin/Otago residents annually in February and August and one Australasian week-long intensive course of instruction the end of March each year at camp Todd near Dunedin airport and at Todd Group HQ in Dunedin city.
This combined with exported courses to our global hub country of Thailand and other international depots enables international member instructors and exponents as well as new entry-level exponents access to our specialist training from or under the command of the oldest global training provider of our kind, the Todd Group, formerly the Baldock Institute established 1927.
Todd Group courses information joining instructions and online application https://www.toddgroup.com/
