Be careful with the clock choke, a.k.a., the baseball choke. It was the last series of chokes from the back we reviewed in the advanced grappling class on Tuesday morning. The slack of my gi laid incorrectly diagonally across my Adam’s apple. I was on all fours, table top, while the choke partner was hanging on my side, shoulder in, facing the opposite direction. As I stated earlier, the choke wasn’t working because of the position of gi slack diagonally across my Adam’s apple. I had 165 pounds of pressure on my Adam’s apple for 10 seconds and no choke. Class ended.
As I drove away in my car, the pain started. I knew something was wrong. I was having trouble swallowing and my voice had changed. Perhaps the Adam’s apple was jammed into my vocal cords. If my condition didn’t improve by the next day, I would go to the emergency room. My condition did improved and has slowly improved everyday. From the internet, the injury could take up two weeks to heal.
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