George Matheis

George Matheis has over a decade of military and civilian law enforcement experience. A former Military Policeman in the U.S. Army, he now serves with a municipal police department in Northern Maryland as an Officer in Charge on Patrol and Assistant Team Leader for his agency’s SWAT team. Collateral duties also include teaching firearms and tactics. He is certified to teach Officer Survival, Firearms, Edged Weapons and SWAT at the state and federal levels. He has been tasked with selecting a tactical folder to be issued to all sworn personnel and was also responsible for providing the knife training. George’s core art is Yoshin Ryu Ju Jitsu blended with influences ranging from WWII Combatives to the Filipino Arts. His main area of study and expertise is interpersonal combat in close quarters with the open hand, stick, knife and gun. George’s system is based on the study of the human response to stress, anatomy and physiology and is rooted in principle instead of technique.

Current CRKT products designed by George include:
• MercHarness


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