© 2014 T. Westermann

Strangulation technique as a transportation grip

basic defense posture while choking: Chin to chest / Pull up shoulders / Tense neck muscles

  • Initial situation
    • The aggressor is located in front of the defender
    • Two handed strangulation in the stand

  • Loosen grip
    • bilateral, circling striking movement with the forearms from the bottom and from the inside to the outside against the forearms of the aggressor

  • Defense technique
    Ushiro hizi jime as transportation grip
    • At the aggressor side pass, so that one is "back to back", hereby ...
    • ... the opponents near arm is placed with the elbow flexor in front of the larynx around the aggressor's neck.
      The arm on the side where the aggressor is passed, is blocked by one's own shoulder.
    • The free hand grabs the other in the neck area of the aggressor.
      Due to pressure of the arms (pliers effect) pressure is built up to the carotid artery

  • Completion
    • Durch Dosierung des Drucks und Heben der Hüfte, wird der Aggressor auf die Zehenspitzen gehoben und in Rücklage gebracht. A transportation is thus possible.
      (see also Ushiro hizi jime as a transportation grip)

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