"Don't ask about the title if it's still Oh Crap. Okay, so let's go -what would be a 12 or 13 year old's role in Z-Day? My backup plan, if my parents turn or are killed, I'm taking my assumedly still alive brother and either A) Proceeding to my safe location or B) Finding my older brothers and continuing by ourselves. Is this a realistic mindset? Could I really pull this off? "

"I suggest reading the "Forest of Hands and Teeth" series. They are about teens surviving in an apocalyptic world. "

"I am 16 years old and I am always training with swords, knifes, guns, hand to hand combat, and my bow. I have an excellent plan for surviving."

"I study history alot and whenever I find a weapon that I think would be cool to say, "I know how to use that", I start to practice with it. Since I study alot I therefore use alot of weapons."

"I notice that your account has been suspended on the grounds that you are an underage user according to the wiki terms of service, "

"I'm sorry, but no, learning from videos such as these could, in some cases, actually be worse than nothing. This is precisely the kind of thing I'm talking about. Yes, there are loads and loads of these videos and others like them, but there are two problems with that approach:

First, without having any experience of your own to base it on, you have little way of knowing whether the people in the videos know what they're doing. Learning from them may be a crap shoot, because you can't tell whether they're qualified or whether they're just pulling the techniques demonstrated out of their ass.

Second, and perhaps more likely, even if the videos are made by experts and professionals, without someone watching you to correct your mistakes, you can't always be sure that you're doing it right. You may THINK you're doing the same as whats in the video, but if you aren't then you have nobody to tell you otherwise. Then you get back to what I was talking about before, about your practice just ingraining mistakes and bad form."

"My point precisely. When I first took up medieval style combat I was told to practice my basic strikes in front of a mirror, but I couldn't even do that much until I had somebody demonstrate IN PERSON the correct way to do those strikes. Otherwise, even watching myself in the mirror, I'd have had no way of knowing whether the moves were looking the way they were supposed to look. Same principle applies here."

"For example, My gf was a fencer in high school for 2 years. I thought, "Sounds like fun, let me price out everything and see if we can do it together." I calculated the basic cost for just the gear would be about $1,000USD. That's before finding an instructor and working it in around the work, school schedule."

"That is pretty cool. Hopefully they have something for a 6'5" guy and a 5'11" woman lol."