Like Bond Girl Famke Janssen, I can kill a man with my thighs

[transemacabre]

Last night in ninja class, our instructors taught us how to do a triangle choke with your legs from an on guard (on your back) position. Two of our male instructors demonstrated the position, which involves one person laying on their back with the other straddling them, and I swear to god I saw some of my classmates' faces light up in what can only be described as yaoi fangirl glee.

theladyscribeand I practiced against one another, grappling and trying to wrap our thighs around the other's head in order to choke off the blood supply to the brain. At the rate we're going, we're going to be a matched set of Black Widows before long!

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[lokifan]

This is AMAZING.

[transemacabre.livejournal.com]

If you'd like to see a triangle choke in action, it's what Gina Carano uses to take out Michael Fassbender at the end of their fight scene in Haywire.



Gina Carano is a legit women's champ MMA fighter, so this is a much more technical fight scene than the Waif Fu you will usually see in movies. She really should be controlling his left hand more before locking in the triangle choke, but I assume this inaccuracy was left it for either aesthetic reasons, or because Gina Carano is still a newbie actor and they didn't want her to forget and choke out Michael Fassbender for real.

A triangle choke is a blood choke -- you're cutting off the supply of blood to the brain via the carotid arteries. When someone gets you in a triangle choke, you can feel it instantly -- to me, it's like a blooming ache that radiates across my head. Once someone's got it locked in, you WILL go unconscious in a few seconds, and if they hold on for long enough, they WILL kill you. In real MMA fights, unlike in movies where everyone instantaneously goes limp, the person being choked out will keep twitching for several seconds, which is super freaky. It reminds me of how a snake's head will keep snapping even after it's cut off.