Grappling Report: Science finally has the answer for which chokes work the fastest
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As a comparatively niche sport, there’s very little in the way of scientific study conducted on Jiu-Jitsu. As time goes on and interest in BJJ grows, we’re starting to see a gradual increase in the number of people interested in the more technical aspects of the sport. Just recently, a group of scientists conducted an experiment to see how long it would take a selection of chokes to put an opponent to sleep.
They decided to look exclusively at chokes that did not require the use of the gi, so their findings are also applicable to MMA, although no gloves were used. They found that each of the chokes examined took a different length of time to put an opponent to sleep, ranging from as little as 6.2 seconds to as much as 10.5. In the end, the difference between chokes was not enough to be significant and the average time overall was registered at 9 seconds.
When Legacy Fighting Alliance featherweight Justin “Darth” Rader stepped into the cage at LFA 15 just five weeks ago, he was looking for nothing other than to string together four wins in a row. The world jiu-jitsu champion has been competing long enough to know that he can’t look past an opponent.
After a three-round war on June 30, Rader picked up the win over Emmanuel Rivera.
“It was a good fight, an excellent fight for me to have, and I was very happy with the way it turned out,” Rader told Combat Press. “It was a good fight in the sense that I did a lot of things good, and it also showed me a lot of places where I still have work and refinement to do. I’ve been very diligently trying to refine as many of the mistakes from that last fight as I could, because, obviously, for my next fight, I need to put it together better than I ever have before.”