It’s a beautiful morning and you wake up to the sun shining on your face. Today will be a good day, you tell yourself.

 

Today is my day.

 

Then you turn on the television to an emergency alert from the World Health Organization.

 

“As an act of terrorism, the group known as B-89 released a poisonous neurotoxin over one of Canada’s most populated cities, Toronto. Those citizens living in the municipalities within 100 kilometres are to remain in their homes until further notice.”

 

It’s being reported that the poisonous gas infected everyone in the Greater Toronto area. It targets the brain and slows down brain function, causing the person’s body to enter an altered and delirious state of mind. Eventually, the neurotoxin spreads to the surface of the body, burning off patches of skin. The movement group, B-89 said the neurotoxin was designed with the sole intention of creating a zompocalypse. They wanted the city to devour itself.

 

You never thought it an actual possibility, so you never prepared yourself.

 

Luckily, that was just a trailer for an independent movie set to air on television this month.  But if a zombie apocalypse or any other major disaster happened, would you know how to survive?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learn how to at Zombie Survival Camp (ZSC), a weekend of training workshops taught by a team of professionals to help develop those practical skills that you would need in order to stay alive. 

 

The workshops are broken down into everything you need to know to survive a zombie apocalypse. According to one of ZSC’s founding members, Eric Sullivan, there are five core lessons that you would need to know.

 

They give a weapons training workshop that was designed by a martial arts instructor that teaches you how to properly wield machetes, spears or anything that you could get your hands on to dispatch zombies. There is also a lesson in archery that can be used for long-range. Sullivan says, they even teach the campers how to make their own bows.

 

The camp has a wilderness survival component as well, to teach you how to survive in the rough climate of Canada with nothing but the clothes on your back.

 

“Then we have something called tactical field craft, which is one thing that people can often overlook,” Sullivan said. “It’s how you co-ordinate your group without speaking and how you move across the terrain without being seen or heard by the zombies.”

 

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Elizabeth Foster, a news editor at Thomson Reuters from Toronto, says her favourite part of the camp was the hand-to-rotting hand combat, which is what ZSC refers to as zomjitsu.

 

Foster, 24, a huge horror fan, recently became more interested in the survivalist aspect of a potential apocalypse and wanted to know more about the practical side of it. 

 

“It was a fantastic way to challenge myself,” Foster said. “One of the things I like about the idea of a zombie apocalypse is that it is less about physical ability, in terms of brute strength and more about smart decision-making and strategy.”

 

She said it especially came in useful during the zombie outbreak, which was a simulated apocalypse held at the end of the weekend, where campers were encouraged to apply all the skills they learnt at the workshops.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“They taught us how to build shelters, find food and water, build [a] fire [and] move quietly and undetected,” Foster said.  “We learned just some generally good tips for regular life.”

 

“Thinking about an actual disaster is unpleasant,” Sullivan said. “This is sort of a fun way to learn some really cool things.”

 

Sullivan says in the three years they have been running Zombie Survival Camp, there hasn’t been one attendee that was convinced there is going to be a zombie apocalypse.

 

He has yet to meet Matthew Alzner, a contractor out of Oakville, Ontario

 

Alzner, 25, has machetes, knives and anything and everything he says he would need to survive.

 

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“I have it, so I am prepared,” Alzner said. “In case there is ever a zombie apocalypse, at least I know I will stay alive and the zombies coming to eat me won’t.”