Mr. Matt Larsen

Matt Larsen is an instructor and combatives director in the Department of Physical Education at the United States Military Academy.

A career Army Ranger best known as a hand-to-hand combat expert and the father of the U.S. Army’s Modern Army Combatives Program, Mr. Larsen served in the U.S. Marine Corps and the 75th Ranger Regiment during a 22-year military career. He founded the United States Army Combatives School and served as both commandant and tArmy Combatives program director for more than a decade.

Mr. Larsen has worked as a private security contractor throughout the Middle East 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 U.S. 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.