Stranglehold redirects here. For the game, see Stranglehold . For the song, see Stranglehold . For the band, see Chokehold . A chokehold or stranglehold (in budo referred to as shime-waza, ??, "constriction technique"Ohlenkamp, Neil. [LINK: http://judoinfo.com/chokes.htm] Principles of Judo Choking Techniques. judoinfo.com. URL last accessed March 3 2006.) is a grappling hold that strangles the opponent, and leads to unconsciousness or even death. Chokeholds are practiced and used in martial arts, combat sports, self-defense, law-enforcement and in military hand to hand combat application. They are generally considered superior compared to brute-force manual strangling, which usually requires a large disparity in physical strength to be effective.Jones, Richard.

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