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MICHAEL LEWIS: Michael Lewis here with the Yeshua's Ryu Martial Arts on behalf of Expert
Village. We are talking today about chokes and headlocks, how to apply them and also
how to get out of them. Okay. Just to define chokes and headlocks, pretty much there is
two things that you are cutting off when you are choking. It is the blood flow or the air
flow or both. So that when he applies a choke, he can take his thumbs and apply them across
the airway so that I am no longer able to talk. You will also hear my voice change a
little bit. And that is just because of the pressure that he is putting in my throat.
Also, let us say from a headlock, you can also cut off my blood flow. So he gets me
in to a headlock from here and he squeezes, then he's cutting off blood flow, all right?
From the blood flow thing, when you cut that off, you do not have as much time to get out
of it as you do with the air. So when someone is cutting off your air, you have however
long you are able to hold your breath. If it is thirty seconds, fort-five seconds, a
minute, you have some time. But once they begin to start to cut off blood flow, then
you have just about a couple of seconds, three to five seconds for some people until you
begin to pass out. So you have to be aware of what is getting cut off when you are being
choked. Also being, having chokes and everything you are able to do it from different angles.
He is able to do a headlock from the side of my body here. Also, like we just showed
you, he is able to go at it from behind and apply headlock. And he can also apply the
same headlock from the forward position. He would wrap his arm around here in the same,
exact position, and then crunch into the back of my neck. And it actually is a lock that
will actually more or less apply pressure to the actual neck, to the spine region more
than the airways or the blood flow. So those are just a few techniques, a few little death-defying
techniques that show you how exactly headlocks and chokes will work and also two main areas
that are getting cut off.