Fighting Zombies(:

In my last two submissions (1, 2), I kinda made it sound like killing zombies are very easy. But how do you really kill zombies with your bare hands or melee weapons? Zombies don’t feel pain. No matter how hard you punch, kick, or hit them with a weapon, they still keep on coming.
In the 1990 zombie movie, Night of the Living Dead, Tony Todd’s character, Ben, kills a zombie in the porch using a crowbar. It took him 3 solid strikes before the zombie gets killed. In the same scene, Patricia Tallman’s character, Barbara, also fought the zombie Uncle Rege with a fire poker. She landed 6-7 solid strikes to the head before the zombie went down. This is a slow, shambling, Romero zombie, mind you. Now how would you fare against a fast, strong, extremely aggressive, rage zombie?
In a one-on-one situation, an armed person could dispose a slow, shambling zombie very easily. A properly timed and executed attack to the head could result to instant death. But there are also other factors to consider. Are you hitting hard enough? Are your swings accurate? Do you have the proper distance? How big or tall is the zombie? How big or tall are you? What kind of weapon do you have? Keep this in mind if you’re planning to fight a zombie.
Fighting a Rage Zombie is a different story. They are fast, strong, extremely agressive, terrifying, and most of the time, unpredictable. In 28 Days/Week Later and Dawn of the Dead Remake, a rage zombie could easily overpower a strong man, even with a weapon. Unarmed and armed attacks also have little effect on these zombies especially in a one-on-one situation. Even if you apply the factors I mentioned earlier, there’s just no easy way of dealing with them head-on, except for a goddamn gun. Also, psychological terror is on their side. You freak out, you panic, you die.
How would you kill a Rage Zombie one-on-one without firearms? The best way to defeat a lone Rage Zombie takes alot of running and moving. You have to use the environment around you. Create barriers and obstacles. Distract it using thrown objects. And when you find the zombie at a vulnerable position, go in for the kill. It will take A LOT OF WORK so get yourself a goddamn gun instead.