Self-Defense Techniques | How to defend against someone choking you!

[@marcd1981]

Thanks for this video. These were typical Krav Maga moves when I took classes many years ago. A couple of comments; first, she didn't look behind herself to clear as you were saying she should have done. Second, I'm a smaller guy, 160lbs, and there are many bigger men that the pluck would not be the way to go. However, the sweeping motion, raising your arm straight up, shoulder close to your ear, then sweep your arm across both of the attacker's arms, pinning them at your side, and allowing you to elbow them, worked every time for me no matter how big the person attacking was.

[@Mendrawza24]

Throat strike works. Turning the shoulders and reaching out for the eye gouge works. Dropping the elbow to break the grip works. Leveraging the hands of a bigger, stronger opponent may not work. Your second scenario defense works while standing still as well, and is the better of the two options presented. Just my 2 cents after 27 years of training. Stay safe y'all.

[@skaizun]

I have been attacked twice in two weeks, and both used one-handed chokeholds. Both were quite strong, yet, oddly, I felt no pain and was able to breathe normally (thick neck may have saved me). With only basic self-defense techniques, I was able to shove both of them back, and they released and walked away. I called the cops on both, but, a store security guard saw the first one (a belligerent beggar) and had already called the cops, who arrived moments later and arrested the male at the guard's and my statements (no idea what happened to the perp afterward). The second was an aggressive driver who, radically, cut off two people (one of them, me), moments apart, on a two-lane road. I got out of my car, took a photo of his rear license plate, at which point, he got out of his car and attacked me. Multiple witnesses saw what transpired, but, not a single one came to my cries for help/police/fire, not even honked their horn, nor would any come forward as witnesses, afterward, including a USPS driver. Nice. I called the cops immediately after he took off (he ran a red light doing so; not sure if the camera light was working, as I saw no flash on the cloudy day), and, at first, the cops said it was a he-said/he-said-otherwise situation and there was nothing they could do about it, except arrest both of us, but, fortunately, the perp (caught at his nearby home) had no insurance (surprise-surprise), so, he was cited for that (in the UK, they would have seized his car, outright), and, now, he's on the cops' permanent "radar." All the jerk had to do was obey the law, and not act as if he owned the road, and he would have been "fine." In both instances, I was able to defend myself, but, two in two weeks for no reason other than stupidity on the perps' part? Unreal. Regardless, these slo-mo examples may work great in the dojo, but, in real-world situations, you better have multiple plans to protect/defend yourself, because most, otherwise, decent, people, are cowards, who don't want to get involved, and you won't stand a chance against someone heavier/stronger than you. I've been lucky . . . so far.

[@justoldog]

nice

[@timr8971]

What happens if she isn't strong enough to pull the attackers hands off her throat?