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Geoff Byers wrote:
I would think, given aikido's roots, where you would pin an opponent and kill them, a choke would be looked at as taking too long?
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A choke is not strangulation. Strangulation does not happen quickly; a choke incapacitates and renders unconscious very quickly. Speaking from personal experience, here.
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Geoff Byers wrote:
From what I know, things like the vascular neck restraint are incredibly safe. Judo has used them for decades with no reported deaths.
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Those two sentences are not in agreement. Absence of reported death does not equal "incredibly safe". There are many activities with inherent deadly risk where, for a number of different interconnected reasons, actual deaths are rare or unknown. That does not make these activities safe.