Strangulation grips

Freeing from Strangulation grips

Strangle attacks pose a threat to life, they are consistent, timely and hard to fend off!

A stranglehold is a technique that will make the opponent by pinching off the air supply or oxygen supply to the brain unable to fight or to force them to give up. Depending on how the strangulation is set, it blocks either the trachea (thereby preventing the inhalation of new air) or the arteries that lead to the brain (and thus inhibits the supply of oxygen to the brain). There are also opportunities to combine both.

Strangling techniques that block the trachea lead to respiratory arrest and thus to unconsciousness and possibly death. Under some circumstances, such a strangle technique also lead to a fracture of the larynx or the hyoid bone.

A stranglehold to the arteries exerts pressure on one or both carotid arteries and/or cervical nerve , so to the attacker there will be created the impression that he gets no air. A well-set stranglehold to the arteries leads usually within 5-8 seconds to consciousness. When the grip is released, the attacker is usually within 10 to 20 seconds to regain consciousness.

Strangle attacks can be made from many different positions of the attacker and species:



from the front	from the side	from behind	or on the floor