The Combat Sports School is a division of the Todd group, formerly the Baldock Institute established 1927.
It is the oldest school of its kind in New Zealand, with a major focus on European combat sports and military close combat and self defence.
Combat Sports training over the decades has included boxing, wrestling, kickboxing grappling and mixed martial arts.
What makes the Combat Sports School different is it’s depth of knowledge and expertise in the training provision of European-based combat sports including freestyle and Greco Roman wrestling.
The Todd group HQ is the developments centre and source of tactics and skills including combat sports skills development.
The wrestling program under head coach Caleb Steven is not only about proven competitive wrestling techniques but also wrestling specific to MMA.
Athletes get their training from the headquarters development source including individual specific skills and modified skills to fit with their make-ups.
The Combat Sports School provides stand up, submission grappling and MMA specific wrestling.
Wrestling being such an important part of MMA success and our speciality being MMA wrestling provides our athletes with proven winning skills.
We have produced long lists of champions in multiple codes of combat sports.
While styles and fads have come and gone over the decades we have remained stead fast to our pursuit of excellence in our European competitive combat sports and self defence and close combat systems.