Story by Maribel Z K

It’s important to know your enemy. The good thing is zombies are more or less built like their living version — us. In other words, they are built like us and hence have similar “structural weaknesses”. Since they don’t react to pain and bleeding doesn’t bother or injure them, it’s a good idea to break their structure and limit or stop their movement if you can’t go for their brains. Following on a earlier video by John that discusses the ideal traits of an anti-zombie martial art, I talk about the concept of “structural incapacitation.” The Internet is replete with self defense videos with a lot of jargon that is basically Greek to the average human. This video discusses the basics of human structure and two targets that an unarmed person can use with little strength or training to take down a zombie or aggressive human and get away safely.

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Story by John Moore

Zombies are attacking, your gun jams, you don’t have time to get to your knife – what kind of empty hand self defense tactics are you going to use?

In this video, one of the martial arts expert co-founders of the Zombie Prep Network examines the CQB tactics that are unique to a zombie survival situation.

It’s less about an unarmed combat style than about practicing skills and tactics which are most like to work against single or multiple pain-resistant attackers.

The video breaks it down, but here are the basics:

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Story by Maribel Z K

Brains, brains, brains. That’s all people like to talk about! But what are your other options, what if you’re shorter, not as strong, lower to the ground, have a crappy weapon or no weapon? We gave this some thought and ranked these based on the ease of “execution” (effectiveness) and repetition (reliability – flub proof). Consider these!

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Story by John Moore

Yes, we all love luring zombies into a barn Carl-style, then burning them, Rick-style (all with no plan of getting your kid out of the flaming hay-loft). So, should you rely on fire as a primary defensive weapon for the zombies? Is it a good idea.

As Chief Science Officer of the ZPN, I feel it’s my primary duty to examine these burning questions in detail. (see what I did with the word-play there?)

Let’s say the ZPOC hits, and you got yourself a flame-thrower, or a torch, or an acetylene torch – are you ready to go to town? Honestly – use every tool at your disposal, but realize that you might be creating more danger than you bargained for.

The following video examines whether it’s wise to go to town on a horde of Zs with a can of gas and a zippo.

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