“Be natural, in all the three things I do, Systema Combat, Systema Health and the Bushcraft ... it's all just about going back to our nature”

– Matt Hill

Matt began practicing in Aikido in 1989 becoming the youngest Shodan in the National Aikido Federation in 1991. He later journeyed to Japan at 19 years of age. He became the first western student in more than a decade to be taken from Japan on an overseas seminar with Morihiro Saito Sensei as his ‘Otomo’ or assistant. He gained his 5th Dan in 2006 from Saito Sensei’s son Hitohira Saito Sensei.

In 1997 when he was accepted into the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst in the UK and was commissioned into the Parachute Regiment in 1998. The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst is where officers in the British Army are trained in responsibilities of leading soldiers under their command, it is one of the most prestigious military academies in the world.

During this time he taught classes in ‘arrest and restraint’ techniques, prior to service in Northern Ireland. He left the regiments as a Captain in 2003.

In 2012 Matt spent a week in the Canadian Forest attending Vladimir Vasiliev’s Systema Camp. He was impressed, not just by the ability of the teachers, but in the standard of almost everyone there, and felt that Vladimir’s level of mastery was extraordinary.

Matt finds Systema is an efficient combat system, and also a way of living and looking at the world,he has taught nationally and internationally, now focusing mainly on Systema.

In this episode of the podcast you find out how Matt:

*Has continually put himself in rich learning environments

*Believes existence should be exercise

*Shows that many stress related disorders are fixed by returning to nature

Enjoy

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