Posted: 10/29/2007 8:46:08 PM EDT
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If you have school aged children and even kids in college you should ask them if they have ever been "choked out",played "the choking game" "Space Monkey" or anything like this. I just spent two days receiving training on this subject for my department. NO, I am not an expert but felt it was important enough to post it here. If you want to know what I am talking about just go to YOU TUBE and type "the pass out game"," the choking game" and watch some of the videos. I promise you will be amazed at some of the kids and adults in these videos.There are several medical issues that happen th e very first time someone does this. Another site to check out is CHOKING INFO I am not affiliated with this at all, just felt it was important enough to try and pass on. That is all...................  Keep tabs on your children and their friends.................
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| Imagine talking to some of these kids parents that have died, each time you do it you lose brain cells. If you watch the videos you will see the people twitch, these are SEIZURES. These kids can have strokes and a laundry list of health issues. I promise you more kids are doing it than their parents know. |
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I believe it's a real phenomenon - basically a really "cheap" high, and one that kids perceive is relatively harmless. I don't know how MANY kids do this (I don't imagine it's a huge proportion), but I've definitely heard of it several times before in the past five or ten years. |
Some friends and I tried it out many years ago. No one actually choked each other, you just hyperventilated as fast as you could and held your breath. While you were holding it someone would press on your chest as hard as they could. You're out for 3 seconds tops, then you start twitching  . When you came back to you felt extremely refreshed, as if you had just slept for awhile.In retrospect, it was an incredibly stupid thing to do. 
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Here's an example of someone doing it to themselves. Note the twitching of the hand as he's out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU7KrbGira8 |
You might be thinking of a "Dutch Oven" - in which people just WISH they were unable to breathe. 
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Oh god. There is nothing better than that perfect moment when you are hanging by a belt in your closet, your vision narrows as you start to lose consciousness, you hand furiously working your man to clim... Oh, wait. This is something different...never mind. and than your release fails, and I got to drag your dead body out of the closet. |
It is called AUTO EROTIC ASPHYXIATION (sp)? YOU FREAK
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That is what the trainer was mentioning, he said these kids do it with a belt or rope and they think they can sit up before they pass out and they slump over and end up strangling themselves. |
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Back when I was a dumbass in high school, I've made a few people pass out by giving them blood chokes, and one did have a seizure. The shit does work if done right. It's also possible to make yourself pass out by hyperventilating until very dizzy, then hold your breath and press up on your diaphragm. I managed to do that twice. Kinda freaked some people out since I didn't tell anyone that I was about to do it in the middle of class.
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25 years ago six or seven of the guys in my cabin at church camp started to do this by pinching their (own) jugulars. They were all from the rez and may have picked it up there. The night of the big talent contest or whatever one kid screwed himself up real bad. I think another fell out of the top bunk. All the counselors started watching our cabin really closely, but it was too late by then. |
Nope, I can remember suburban youths doing it at the middle school I went to. Never saw/heard of neck choking but saw the hyperventilating one once or twice. Wasn't my deal, never tried it or helped. The kids that liked to do it the most were the ones that turned into stoners. -JTP |
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A lady that attended the same training said an 8 year old showed her how to do it. There was also a mention of a woman that had been doing this up until she was 30 years old. They did a brain scan of here brain and were very amazed at how many dead spots her scan revealed. 
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+1 I did it a few times when I was in HS in the early 90s 
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What the hell is wrong with kids today....whatever happened to a pick-up 3 on 3 basketball game, or sandlot baseball, or Twister, etc , for God's sake. Now we got this, and just a couple of days ago we had the thread about "Jonkin"<sp> sniffing the jar of dogshit & cat piss. Darwin's going to have to work overtime. |
How were they able to get away with it in class? Was the teacher just clueless? This is not new to me either. I remember hearing about people doing this, but I have never done it myself. |
I quit judo after I turned 13 and choking was legal in competition. The first time I was choked in competition scared me too much. In retrospect, if the instructor had prepared me a little better metally for the possibility of being choked in competition, I might have stuck with it. Nope, no sir, I didn't enjoy being choked one bit. |
That one is total acting out BS. Spend some time in an ER to see what a real seizure looks like. |
There was a lot going on at the time. Roughly 30 people in the classroom wandering around and mingling with one another. They were hanging out in the corner while the teacher had her head buried in whatever work she was doing. I almost want to say it was a substitute music or art teacher but I can't recall
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I allways liked talking my buddy bring in a couple of training swords when we knew we going to have a free period during gym(coach training the football team) and get a fencing match started. Now that I think about it that was the only sport that I ever actually enjoyed besides swimming... |
I said the same back when I was in HS, but then it was freon and aerosol. Stupid, stupid, stupid. |
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This is not really something new. When I was in high-school in the mid 80s kids were doing a variation of this. One person would crouch and hyperventilate with their arms across their chest. After some amount of time someone behind them would reach around and do a bear hug type move and lift them up which would cause them to pass out. I did some dumb shit in my teenage years, but this was not one of them. Watching people with their eyeballs rolled back and that spastic way they come out of unconsciousness was enough for me. LL |
The current rage here now is Nyquil Gel Cap suppositories. Supposedly gets you higher than a kite, but relaxes your sphincter so kids walk around with brown shit stained streaked jeans. Totally rad coolness man. Whatever happened to getting your friends' older brother to go buy you a couple fifths of Beam and a quarter bag? |