Modern Knife Combat: The Training of a Knife Fighter

by Greg Walker

Greg Walker has studied serious knife fighting under many of the modern masters of the art, and here he relates to you the most effective lessons to maximize your knife self-defense plan. Learn the four essentials of knife defense; the fine points of grip, mobility, range, and targets; the top knives; the best training books, videos and seminars; and more.

120 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Greg Walker is Regius Chair of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He writes on the literature and drama of the Medieval-to-Renaissance period in England and Scotland.

His first book was John Skelton and the Politics of the 1520s (Cambridge University Press, 1988), his most recent John Heywood: Comedy and Survival in Tudor England (Oxford University Press, 2020). Among other publications are Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2005), Medieval Drama: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2000), and Imagining Spectatorship from the Mysteries to the Skakespearian Stage (Oxford University Press, 2016), co-written with John J. McGavin.

He co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (Oxford University Press, 2010) with Thomas Betteridge. With Betteridge, Eleanor Rycroft and Gregory Thompson, he was responsible for the production of David Lyndsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis at Linlithgow Palace in2013.