Meet Author Roger Ma from Zombie Combat Manual at ZomBcon

ZomBcon is excited to announce one of our latest workshops to be announced for Zombie fans to check out over the Halloween weekend at ZomBcon this year to fight against the undead!

If your a huge fan of Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead and World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and salivating for more ways to increase your survival odds this coming Apocalypse, then pick up Roger Ma’sThe Zombie Combat Manual: A Guide to Fighting the Living Dead for the definitive hand to hand combat guide to fighting your way through the hordes of Zombies in the Apocalypse. This book might just save your life someday!

Roger Ma will be joining us and teaching his combat workshop on Friday, October 29th and Sunday, October 31st kicking some serious undead butt all weekend long.

Want more information on the book? Here is a great review of the book on The Dice of Life:

“…The Zombie Combat Manual is not a mere retreading of Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide. This book takes one small aspect of Brooks’ book and delves deeply and broadly into it.

The Zombie Combat Manual not only discusses various weapons to use in lieu of a firearm; it also acts as a training manual for anyone in any physical condition, featuring physical assessments and exercise programs.

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Of course it has the obligatory chapter on offensive and defensive equipment, which is seemingly exhaustive, but it also touches on a topic that Brooks omits, which is carrying and protecting children. Imagine being a parent of a newborn or toddler and having to not only survive but protect them as well. Being a father, I could appreciate this section greatly.

Additionally, there’s an entire chapter on combat strategies and techniques for fighting the undead. With this chapter, Ma practically creates a new form of martial art with step-by-step illustrations showing how to position, maneuver, and strike with various weapons in various situations of melee combat with a zombie.

If you’re a fan of Max Brooks’ interviews in World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, then you’ll enjoy the interviews in this book as well. In fact, one could almost plant these same stories into the World War Z setting.

Overall, Lovers of Max Brooks’ work, as I am, should not look at this book as a competing product, but instead should see Ma’s contribution as a complementary product. The content of this book will only better prepare you in the event that you find yourself having to engage in melee combat with a zombie despite all of the tips and strategies followed from Zombie Survival Guide.