jumjummju said
I feel I should also mention that we already have a fist-user here, Catherine, who's extent in martial arts is "I punch thing in face hard and thing die." Kinda feels a bit... redundant, I'd say, to throw in a martial artist as well. Also, if your character is younger than the time the world went to shit, who'd teach them the martial art anyway? I could see some old dude keeping the judo lessons he had from 20 years ago, but no one would learn any specific forms of martial arts. I could see someone teaching general self-defense classes at best, however. :V
There's nothing wrong with having multiple unarmed fighters, especially considering that firearms are supposed to be a big rarity. Otherwise we'd get something along the lines of "And so the group, unarmed and defenseless, were forced to wildly flare their arms at the charging hoard of lost."
And to be fair there's no reason why someone couldn't teach martial arts following the event, especially if they were already a teacher. For example my character was in his early thirties when the event occurred, so if he knew martial arts (which he didn't
really, though he was trained) he could pass his knowledge on.
I didn't read the guys CS though so I can't really make a comment, save to criticise your criticism :P