Researching and perfecting effective fighting methods is a life-long passion for Mr. Larkin. Through repeated exposure to combat sports and martial arts, he became highly proficient at both during his youth.

Following 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 (the Admiral in charge of all SEAL Teams).

In this support position for the SEAL Teams Larkin worked with senior SEAL Officers and many Special Operations Units in the US and NATO military together with other government agencies on a variety of mission specific intelligence issues.

Because of his extensive martial arts and combat sports background, the Admiral assigned 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; while many were simply ineffective in combat.

As a member of this group, Mr. Larkin was instrumental in implementing more effective training into SEAL and Special Operations military command by modifying principles and updating methods for modern unconventional warfare operation.

By 1991, he 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, and now, Target Focus Training (TFT).

Uniquely proficient at teaching these concepts to both Special Operations operatives and ordinary civilians, Mr. Larkin now uses TFT, 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.

With a long list of CEO’s and VIP’s, as well as celebrities who demand confidentiality, below are just some of the organizations, units, and corporations who have utilized his TFT training:

* US Navy SEAL Teams

* US Army Special Forces

* FBI Hostage Rescue

* Dept of Treasury

* US Marshals

* Texas Tactical Police Officers Association

* US Border Patrol

* Las Vegas Marshals

* Ford, Mobil Oil

* Norwest Bank

* Sony, Oracle

* And many others…

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, Seattle, Chicago, Miami, Hong Kong, Sydney, Australia and London, England.