Background Information for
Tim Larkin... Master Combat Instructor
Researching and perfecting effective fighting methods is
a life long passion for Mr. Larkin. Through repeated exposure to combat
sports and martial arts from a very young age, he became highly proficient
at both during his youth.
Following his graduation from college, Mr. Larkin was injured
in a diving accident while undergoing US Navy SEAL Training and was medically
disenrolled from the program, leaving him unable to reach his goal of
becoming a SEAL officer.
Due to his superior performance, he was reassigned to a
support role as Special Warfare Intelligence Officer for the Commander,
Naval Special Warfare Command, namely the Admiral in charge of all SEAL
Teams. In this support position for the SEAL Teams Larkin worked with
senior SEAL Officers on staff as well as units from many Special Operations
Units in the US and NATO military together with units from other government
agencies on a variety of mission specific intelligence issues.
Because of his extensive martial arts and combat sports
background, the Admiral assigned Mr. Larkin to a special group of senior
SEAL operators for the daunting task of researching and developing a more
effective form of hand-to-hand combat training than was then currently
employed by these elite special operations warriors.
After an exhaustive review, every single martial art or
combat sport fighting system had been rejected. Some because they required
excessive training time; others couldn’t handle modern weapons;
and many were simply ineffective in combat.
As a member of this group, Mr. Larkin was instrumental in
getting more effective training implemented into SEAL and Special Operations
military use by helping to modify principles and update methods for modern
unconventional warfare operation. By 1991, they had helped rewrite the
way the US Special Operations Community learned hand-to-hand combat and
laid the groundwork for what became the Combat Fighting Course.
Uniquely proficient at teaching these concepts to both Special
Operations operatives and ordinary civilians, Mr. Larkin
now uses his Target-Focus™ Training, a program based on his more than
20 years of research and experience, to provide a broad range of military, law enforcement and civilian clients with highly effective combat-based training for their everyday
protection. He also frequently weaves sport-specific conditioning programs
throughout his training (he has the coveted Master of Fitness Sciences
(MFS) certification from International Sports Sciences Association).
Since leaving active duty in 1991 he has provided
hand-to-weapon instruction to the most elite members of various military,
law enforcement, and corporate special operations/security units. While
he has a long list of CEO’s and VIP’s, as well as celebrities
who demand confidentiality, following is a partial list of some of the
organizations, units, and corporations who have utilized his TFT
training:
- US Navy SEAL Teams
- SEAL Team Six
- US Army Special Forces
- FBI Hostage Rescue Team
- Dept of Treasury
- Dept of Energy
- US Marshals
- Texas Tactical Police
- Officers Association
- US Border Patrol
- Illinois State Police
- Las Vegas Marshals
- Ford Motor Co.
- Mobil Oil
- Norwest Bank
- Circus Circus
- Sony
- Oracle
As a Master Combat instructor to both military operatives
and civilians, Mr. Larkin is constantly in demand by the media because
of his dynamic interviews and unique ability to clearly explain his subject
to all audiences. His public live training courses are now taught around the world with scheduled classes in New York City, Dallas, Las Vegas, Hong Kong, Sydney, Australia and London, England. Beginning in 2005, permanent sites will expand to include Seattle, Chicago and Miami.
