Time to unconsciousness from sportive chokes in fully resisting highly trained combatants

Samuel J Stellpflug, William H Menton, Matthew F Dummer, Thomas Menton, Jesse Corry and Robert LeFevere

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2020, vol. 20, issue 4, 720-728

Abstract: Sportive chokes are neck compression techniques applied with the goal of ending a fight by causing loss of consciousness (LOC) or voluntary submission prior to LOC. Time to LOC has been established in compliant volunteers but not in trained resisting opponents. The objective of this study was to determine the time to LOC following full establishment of chokes in trained resisting opponents. A secondary objective was to describe timing to LOC in separate choke categories. An internally validated panel of 17 sportive choking experts evaluated 89 choke sequences; 81 were included as chokes to LOC. Overall, chokes in our sample had a mean time from the establishment of a choke to LOC of 9.0 s [95% CI = 8.3, 9.9]. The choking categories of neck-only chokes and arm-in chokes were virtually identical to one another: neck-only M = 8.9 s [95% CI = 8.0–10.2]; arm-in M = 9.0 s [8.1–10.3]. These times to LOC correlate with previous studies using compliant volunteers.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2020.1780873

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