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Studies Where We Choked People Unconscious In a Lab
Being choked unconscious might not be good. (And we must keep in mind the vast difference between being "choked out" to the point of tapping and being choked unconscious.) But we have very little evidence that shows that it's bad to any significant degree, and considerable evidence that being choked all ...
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Go and have a look at all the clubs around where you live. Train once or watch a session. Then pick the one that has the best instructor, the more friendly students, and the one you had the most fun with. Style is second to whoever is teaching you, to whomever you train with, and to however much fun it is. All in equal measures.
answered Feb 13 '12 at 17:24
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There are two types of choke:
Blood Choke: Cerebral blood flow (CBF) chokes involve restricting the flow of blood to the brain, thereby denying it of oxygen.
Strangle: Windpipe (Air) chokes involve compressing the trachea which deny the entire body of air.
This shouldn't be done in training to the point of unconsciousness as it can cause tissue damage and ...
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and I expected him either to break free or to tap out. When I looked down at him...
There would have been a physical sign that your instructor had lost consciousness, like his muscles relaxing and possibly a slight change in posture. You need to be considerably more aware than you were. You cannot always rely on your training partner to know when to tap out,...
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A wrestler will say wrestling, a bjj player will say bjj, a muay thai fighter will say muay thai.
But to be fair, they are all right.
There isn't really one specific art that is better then the other for a base. I know, some people will argue with me for this, but if you look at the current state of mma, there are champions with a wide assortment of ...
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St John Ambulance has a page containing advice on treating nosebleeds. Specific points relating to stopping a nosebleed quickly are:
Advise them not to speak, swallow, cough, spit or sniff because this may disturb blood clots that may have formed in the nose.
Ask the casualty to breathe through their mouth (this will also have a calming effect) and ...
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There are two types of chokes: a blood choke, in which blood flow to the brain is, at least temporarily, halted; and an air choke, in which compression to the trachea or chest stop airflow into the body, and thus oxygenation of the blood.
Both are inherently dangerous. During an air choke, excessive pressure can lead to the collapsing of the trachea or ...
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Worth making the distinction between a blood choke and a air choke. ie, are you cutting off the air ( through the throat) or the blood (through the arteries).
Throat choking is a lot more dangerous because of the damage you can do to the actual throat. Can cause swelling, etc and can cause people to die some time later.
Blood chokes, less dangerous, ...
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Young male, not looking for anything specific, but I am a huge fan of
MMA in general.
You just answered your own question: try something that has already caught your interest. It's not at all hard to find a school in your area. Look some up and check them out.
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In my experience as a male trainer and trainee the key for a hard, educational or maybe painful training is trust between all parts of the training group.
Female fighters have told me that they were beaten up in training after they told their opponent to slow down. Afterwards they felt violently abused.
So in such a case the trainer has the responsibility ...
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As a former LAPD police man who went through academy training in the early 70s, I can give testimony about the bar arm control hold and its effects, on other police cadets and myself as well.
We were taught to know what to do when gaining consciousness, how to identify by hearing, where our main threat was (man with a gun) and how to proceed. Naturally in ...
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First and foremost: do not take medical advice from strangers on the Internet! Go and seek professional medical help.
Secondly, from your (very limited) exposition, this clubs seems to encourage bullying and has a clear disregard for basic safety. I would strongly suggest you do not train with them.
Finally, you can condition your body to disregard pain. ...
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Accidents happen. However, when you have an accident with people you are not really trying to hurt - you make extra effort to make sure the accident doesn't happen again - otherwise it is not an accident.
If someone's ego at losing in sparring causes them to attempt to really injure someone, that is not a safe person to work with. Consider what you are ...
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I've trained in many martial arts schools. There have always been one or two individuals that didn't know their own strength or who simply had some kind of mental issue that caused them to scare everyone else in the class who had the misfortune of partnering up with them.
And I'm not even talking about sparring. It could be a nice, smooth, flowing, ...
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Some of the comments to that youtube video correctly point out that the example of straight punching given in the video is not actually Wing Chun. If you take a look at a number of other Wing Chun videos you will see that not only is the punch delivered very differently, but also that Wing Chun practitioners will deliver a mix of punches, chops and open ...
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Thicker doesn't equal better. It's more about the quality.
Judo mats need to be different then TKD or Karate or even wrestling mats.
You should be looking for mats designed for judo.
Dax, Swain, and Zebra are all reputable brands that make excellent tatami.
things to look for:
texture on the tatami (should be the rice grain pattern, this ...
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Hi have a trained a couple of ladies over the years and here is my take on it.
For starters, there is a difference between training hard and just getting beat up. While I believe that is very important that you treat a women the same way you treat a man it is also important to not discourage a women from training.
First - As a women you should be aware ...
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But, when training, you can stop and breathe. But there's no time to breathe in a real fight.
This difference does not have to exist. A coach should occasionally put students through sparring of some kind that the student should not take breaks in. That can take many forms, including hard rounds with someone else from the gym, or a smoker match-up with ...
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Personally, I've had classes in both traditional and more modern forms, and I have to recommend Muay Thai. At least in my experience it fits your requirements:
Base - Muay Thai is more or less where most modern MMA fighters start. And in that sense it's a bit more practical than (for instance) kung fu.
Ease to get into - Again this fits the bill. Get ...
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After getting my nose broken I had perpetual nose bleeds for about a month, I usually had about one each day that would just spring up randomly. My brother was training to be a paramedic at the time, so he knew how to deal with it and taught me. Presumably as it was from his paramedic training, it's well researched.
1: Look down, not up. You don't want the ...
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In general yes, it's better to start out with a light weapon as you have to learn the forms and techniques first, without being concerned about injuring yourself with a heavy or real weapon.
Usually you would learn the techniques with a wooden version of the weapon while at the same time learning how to strengthen the arms, wrist and fingers in style and ...
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Quite frankly, it sounds like you're in an abusive training environment. The language you're using is uncomfortably similar to what I might hear from someone being beaten up by their spouse, the "they only hurt me badly when I'm doing things wrong" and making excuses for their behavior. It is possible that you're in a situation where you're literally out of ...
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I'm sure with your jujitsu you've seen enough of how a dojo should be to judge when someone's acting improperly, though from the little you've detailed it's not clear whether he's potentially just socially inept (trying to offer encouragement or some sense of empathy with the difficulties of stretching as an adult), and junior enough in the martial arts to ...
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I used to wrestle and I get nose bleeds very easily. In wrestling, you only have a couple minutes to stop a nosebleed before you forfeit the match. As weird as it sounds, we would use a small tampon. Just stick it up there and tilt your head forward. It'll be stopped very quickly.
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As an EMT I would have you sit down and lean forward where your elbows were supported on your knees. With a clean rag or paper towel try to compress your nostrils, or pinch them closed if not to painful. This will prevent blood form going back into your throat and allow it to pool in the nostrils and form a clot.
Depending how bad it is it should stop ...
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You say you are young.
If you are still in middle or high school you should join the wrestling team.
This will be free daily training, and you will have bi weekly competitions if not more often. So Once you can fight MMA legally (18 usually) you will have already had 100 or so competitions, which is a huge advantage when it comes to the adrenaline dump of ...
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Fighting disciplines (such as Muay Thai, boxing etc.) Can cause multiple eye traumas. If your vision becomes blurry or if the pain doesn't go away you might want to consider consulting a physician.
You can learn more on potential eye injury from blow to the head by reading these articles:
Giovinazzo VJ, Yannuzzi LA, Sorenson JA, Delrowe DJ, Cambell EA. "...
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Based on your age, there is no reason why you cannot. It won't happen for everyone, but if you did them at an earlier age then you should be able to do them again. But make no mistake, it is going to take some sustained and regular training to achieve it, and if you stop stretching once you've achieved the splits then you will gradually lose your flexibility ...
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Leg-locks were banned shortly after an 1899 exhibition match in Kyoto (held before Emperor Taishō) between Kodokan 3rd dan Yuji Hirooka and Fusen-ryū master Mataemon Tanabe. During the match Tanabe performed a throw and subsequently applied a leg-lock, breaking Hirooka's leg.
At the next meeting of the Butoku Kai that year, Kano proposed banning leg-locks ...
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In rapier we would encounter this problem all of the time: You'd go up against opponents in sparring that were significantly weaker or stronger than you all of the time, and you have to learn to not walk over the weaker opponents so that they could still have a good game and learn something while working on your technique.
First, though, let me say that ...
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