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About us

Parallax Sniper Academy and the G.O.A.S.T target system were founded in 2019 by Alan Jensen.

 In 2012 Alan and Alex established the SSUE program for the Norwegian Army (Sniper Small Unit Exchange) which became a very popular sniper concentration in NATO.

 

The last event after 8 years attracted Special Forces from all over the world and had 12 different nations attending.

 

For different reasons, the program was discontinued  and as a result, Parallax Sniper Academy was established on request of NATO Special Forces in order to continue offering high quality training and networking within the NATO sniper community, with Norway as the hosting nation. 

After 4 years of running courses, we discovered a demand for broader spectrum training and due to the vast skill set of our instructors, we agreed to facilitate some courses requested by NATO forces.

 

Due to the success of these courses we realised that the current brand name didn't align with the direction the company was heading in, so decided to rebrand as Parallax Combat Training Solutions.

 

Now we have long term contracts for suppling training and courses with several nations. 

Our Team

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Alan Jensen

INSTRUCTOR

FOUNDER & CEO

BOARD MEMBER

Alan started his military career when he was 16 year old, in the Home Guard youth program. From there he advanced to officer cadet school and later military academy. During his career he commissioned through the ranks up to Major. ​ His long range shooting and sniping career started in 1996 with further education at the US Marine Corps sniper school in 2003 and 2005. He passed the scout/sniper instructor course at the top of his class and graduated with honour in 2003. Later in 2005 he passed the scout/sniper advanced and platoon commander course with top results and both his achievements earned him letters of appreciation from two different Generals in the Army. ​ In 2007 he was tasked to re-establish a sniper community in the Norwegian armed forces and became the master sniper of the Army in 2009. He has written all handbooks on sniping, training programs and handbooks for the Norwegian Defence, with many of the techniques and educational methods adopted by other NATO countries. From 2021 Jensen was given leave from the Army and has run Parallax full time since then. Jensen is also the inventor and producer of the G.O.A.S.T Target System which is getting increasingly popular within both military and civilian shooting communities.

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Alexander Rishovd

INSTRUCTOR

CO - FOUNDER & BUISSNESS MANAGER
BOARD MEMBER

Alex has worked with Alan for more than a decade in both the Armed Forces and Parallax. He is one of our lead instructors as well as being head of business development and customer management. He started his military career in 2004 and then after promoting through the ranks to OR-7, he retired in 2021. His military background is primarily reconnaissance, starting with ranger officer candidate school. He completed his first sniper course in 2008 and became a sniper team leader in 2012. In 2014 he became the chief sniper instructor at the army land warfare centre and stayed in post until retirement in 2021. Throughout his career, Alex has instructed in several international urban, alpine and desert Special Forces sniper specialisation courses. He has also deployed twice with ISAF. ​ Alex is also a qualified instructor in Urban Warfare, CQB, Night Military Operations, Military Driving and Mobility, Combat-Medicine and Small Arms. Other skills and qualifications consist of Escort Duty, Close Protection, Mission Planning, Arctic Operations, Small Unit Tactics, Force Protection and Radio Specialist.

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Jonas Adolphson

INSTRUCTOR

ACCOUNT MANAGER

SALES

Jonas began his military career in 2015 and progressed to the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School - Operative Section in 2017, promoting through the ranks to OR-5+, before retiring in 2022. He has over half a decade with the Norwegian Armed Forces and served several years in the artillery as a section and vehicle commander, worked with reconnaissance, as well as a broad expertise spanning urban warfare, winter/arctic operations, combat medicine and a range of weapon systems. Jonas has worked as an instructor for much of his career and has also been responsible for developing other instructors and leaders throughout both his military and private career. In the private security sector, he spent 2.5 years conducting area security, site protection, close protection and VIP escort duties for two separate embassies He has three deployments to his name, two with the Norwegian Armed Forces and one in the Middle East in a private capacity.

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Instructors

We have a number of instructors that are still serving within militaries across Europe. For this reason we cannot disclose their identities online. These individuals are key members of our team as they bring across real time knowledge and experience gained from training and operating all over the world.​

Our values

All of our staff will have the title Instructor before anything else. Because we belive that you have to have the knowledge, speak the tribal language and practice what you teach to have necessary credibility. We always strive to achieve quality in all that we do. 

  • Skills

  • Knowlegde

  • Loyalty

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This Is Us In Numbers

€1000k+

Annual revenue in 2025

20+

Business Partners in several countries around Europe

50+

Years of total military experience 

8+

Instructors from around Europe

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