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Originally Posted by Joemoplata  This is one of the more common arguments that occurs in the sport: Just how bad is it?
Most people will tell you it's not really that bad, it's the reduction of blood to the brain (not a complete cut off obviously) which causes unconsciousness. If held for a long time it could have adverse reactions but that length of time is dependent of many factors of course.
Compared to getting KO'ed it's quite harmless! |
I'll research that a bit more than shall I. I hate losing my brain cells.
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Originally Posted by TRIANGLEFROMGAURD Some chokes are vascular not just respiratory. A little fyi for ya.  |
Whether you're stopping respiration or blood flow, you're still depriving the brain of oxygen. Big differences I can see are that vascular chokes can't accidentally damage your wind pipe and because they work so much quicker, the brain isn't forced to run on diminished oxygen levels for so long. Supposedly three to four minutes before permanent brain damage starts occurring so vascular chokes are probably safer in this respect.