Matt Larsen

Matt Larsen, a career Army Ranger who is best known as a hand-to-hand combat expert and the father of the U.S. Army's Modern Army Combatives Program, served in the U.S. Marine Corps and the 75th Ranger Regiment during the course of a 22-year career in the military. Larsen founded the United States Army Combatives School and served as both its commandant and the Director of the Army Combatives program for more than a decade.   He has worked as a private security contractor throughout the MiddleEast and Africa, including managing a security company in central and southern Africa; designed Combatives systems for the Canadian Special Operations Regiment; and, consulted on the design of Combatives training systems for the US Army Special Forces, the US Air Force, the British Royal Marines and the British Infantry, the Polish Diplomatic Security Corps, the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces and Presidential Guard and the Kuwait Police Special Forces. Larsen has a Bachelors Degree in Natural Science and a Masters in Combat Psychology and is currently the Director of Combatives for the United States Military Academy at West Point.

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At this level of membership, you will have access to video material created exclusively for patrons. This will include information on Combatives, training, teaching and psychology, especially the evolutionary psychology of combat. 

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