What Is The Best Martial Art For Zombie Defense?

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:

1. Keep your ass off the ground – zombies don’t tap. Being a sitting duck for a horde of cannibalistic undead is not the best place to be. Your ground strategy should be to get on your feet as quickly as possible.

2. Evasive movement – a moving target is a hard target to eat.

3. Structural incapacitation – damage the structure of the zombie to slow it down and potentially finish it off

4. Learn your melee weapons

6. Assume multiple opponents