Matt Larsen is a former United States Marine, United States Army Ranger and Black Belt Magazine Hall of Fame combatives instructor.
He is known as "The Father of Modern Combatives", credited with the creation of the United States Army's modern combatives doctrine and the establishment of the U.S.
Army Combatives School.
He has also been credited with pushing hoplology, a science that studies human combative behavior and performance, into the modern era and is currently the Director of Combatives at the United States Military Academy at West Point.