Well, yeah, that’s basically been my point all along. Hand-to-hand with zombies is just a bad idea all around, no matter how you do it. It might be necessary in the first five minutes of the ZA, before you really understand what’s happening, but after that, it’s weapons or zombiefication. The longer the stand-off distance, the better. Fists < knives < swords < staffs < spears < pikes < bows and arrows < guns < artillery < ICBMs.
Yeah, I was agreeing with you…sorry if that didn’t come across. In a pinch, or if I’m down to no choice, certainly I’d do what I can, but given a choice I wouldn’t use much of my martial arts training to combat a zombie. My WAG is anyone who thought they would go all Bruce Lee on the zombies would be what is commonly referred to as…a new zombie, in fairly short order. Martial arts just isn’t the right tool for combating a zombie outbreak. It’s really not even the right tool for combating the humans in a zombie outbreak, let alone the zombies. Its value, really, is you always have it with you and can use it if you have to, but as a last, not a first resort.
I demand that we continue violently agreeing with each other!
Ok, I agree with your demands to agree on this. But only this one time. 
Get a zombie-proof room, you two.
A (Anti-)Dead Space, if you will.
Would there be a difference if the zombies are the type that merely want to bite you so that you become a zombie vs. the kind that want to eat your brain?
“Oh no - the zombies have chased us into this hardware store!”
“Quick - to the rake section! I’ve got an idea…”
Or a sporting-goods store!
The first episode of The Midnight Gospel deals with a worldwide zombie outbreak. We eventually (briefly) get to see things from the zombies’ POV. It is…unexpected.
Heck, Zombieland has some great slapstick-type zombie kills (of the day, week, or year). No rakes coming up to bonk zombies on the head, though perhaps that will happen in Zombieland 3…the search for more money!
You laugh, but a rake like this one would actually be quite useful. Solid enough to not bend under vigorous use, the wide part could be used to hold a zombie at bay while a buddy brains it with a hoe.
Determining the best ratio of rakes to hoes for your fighting group is left as an exercise for the student.
Agreed, if it’s a horde around you, then welcome to zombie town. You aren’t escaping.
But let’s say it’s only six zombies surrounding you, and you have to take out one of them for a clear escape path. I think you want whatever knocks down that one zombie while minimizing the risk that you end up on the ground next to them. Taekwondo kick to the chest?
Taekwondo is too Hollywood for a zombie fight. The higher you kick, the more likely you are to end up on your ass just because you fell over, regardless of what the zombie does.
I’d use something more like this:
but target the knee in hopes of breaking the joint, or target the lower leg, in hopes of knocking them down quickly, giving me time to get past them.
This novel starts in a “school” in which child zombies are sequestered. But the zombies are entirely sentient, more-or-less like ordinary people except for their defining characteristic. So it’s not really like presenting the POV of the traditional slow zombie. An excellent book, the movie wasn’t terrible but it conveyed little of the nuance.
Single-leg takedown and I’m out of there. Thanks, Coach Jeffries.
Home Alone meets Night of the Living Dead isn’t the crossover we deserve, it’s the crossover we need.