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Originally Posted by Them's Fighting Words  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. |
Good point, I actually damaged some one's trachea in a match before. It was one of my first submission grappling matches I had a triangle and the guy slipped his arm free. So I scissored the head which was illegal but, my shin got in his throat and flattened his trachea
