This may sound pretty damaging, but these are zombies, right? You can kill them by cutting off their heads, but damage to their body doesn't signify. He does have the choice of what weapon to use though, and being a pacifist he doesn't take the obvious options of swords or axes to cut heads off. He just does, because if he doesn't have a weapon then going anywhere near a zombie is straight-up suicide. So the scout has a weapon for self-protection. They don't play by any kind of rules - they want to kill you and eat you. One of the more effective martial arts is jiu jitsu and every jiu jitsu practitioner will tell you that it was intended as a backup skill for when the samurai had lost his sword on the battlefield or was attacked by surprise. This is very different to the kind of fighting where you're actually aiming to kill someone, or at least to prevent yourself being killed by another someone who's actively trying to kill you. They still have rules, most notably that neither person is wearing body armour or carrying a weapon.
"What about MMA/vale tudo/whatever backyard brawler?" I hear someone ask. The combatants compete under a strict set of rules, and the intention is that both are alive at the end of it. The martial arts we're familiar with today are simply variations on the duel. Even if he's a scout crawling down a cave that's barely wide enough for his body, that's a big hell no. It's more effective to throw or knock the Infected away when they try to grab him instead of carrying a weapon If the zombie is of the "runner" variety, this could be a disadvantage though because it does not offer the ideal form for countering its momentum.Ĭapoeira is also very popular in choreography and dance which gives your protagonist a good reason to have this skill set in his repertoire while also begin a pacifist. If the zombie has superhuman strength, this also puts your foot at extra risk of being caught, and your foot subsequently going straight into the zombie's mouth. If the zombie can infect with a scratch, a straight-kick to the chest may put the zombie on its arse quite efficiently, but also put your foot right in its ideal scratch zone. Depending on what zombie lore you go with, a straight kick/punch may be more likely to get you infected.
This also results in a greater emphasis on wide arcing motions vs the more directed strikes like you would expect in something like karate. This means that a practitioner is trained specifically to be able to avoid a grapple and fight without ever exposing his hands to his opponent (great ideology when fighting a zombie.) The advantage of Capoeira vs other non-grapply martial arts is that Capoeira is designed to be able to be done with hands bound. which are exactly what you don't want to do against a zombie.
Most "non-violent" martial arts styles such as Judo focus on holds, throws, arms locks, etc. IF you are going to engage a zombie in non-lethal unarmed combat, I would suggest Capoeira. While I agree with Starfish's and Rodger's assessments of avoidance of unarmed combat with zombies is best, it does not quite answer the question.
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