Set A Choke, Break A Choke — Part One

This article originally appeared for patrons at Patreon . Due to its length, I’ve broken it into two parts. PartOne includesdiscussion ofthechokes in general and defensive considerations of air chokes in particular. Part Two discusses defense against blood chokes, and offense of both blood and air chokes.

Some time ago, I shared my frustration with a fight scene I saw on television. (Yeah, go figure, right?) The scene showed our hero valiantly fighting a bad guy with direct and aggressive blo...