Watch more Personal Security & Self-Defense videos: http://www.howcast.com/guides/157-Personal-Security-and-SelfDefense

Subscribe to Howcast's YouTube Channel - http://howc.st/uLaHRS

Learn how to escape a choke hold -- just in case!

Howcast uploads the highest quality how-to videos daily! Be sure to check out our playlists for guides that interest you: http://howc.st/ytmainplaylists

Subscribe to Howcast's other YouTube Channels:
Howcast Health Channel - http://howc.st/HOE3aY
Howcast Video Games Channel - http://howc.st/tYKKrk
Howcast Tech Channel - http://howc.st/rx9FwR
Howcast Food Channel - http://howc.st/umBoJX
Howcast Arts & Recreation Channel - http://howc.st/vmB86i
Howcast Sports & Fitness Channel - http://howc.st/vKjUjm
Howcast Personal Care & Style Channel - http://howc.st/vbbNt3

Howcast empowers people with engaging, useful how-to information wherever, whenever they need to know how. Emphasizing high-quality instructional videos, Howcast brings you experts who provide accurate information in easy-to-follow tutorials on everything from makeup, hairstyling, nail art design, and soccer to parkour, skateboarding, dancing, kissing, and much, much more.

Step 1: Grab their arm
Using both of your hands, grab onto the arm that is choking you.

Step 2: Shrug your shoulders
Now shrug your shoulders while at the same time pointing your head down, so your chin is nestled in the crook of their elbow. Sink forward.

Step 3: Trap their leg
Next, swing your leg -- the one that's on the side of the arm strangling you -- behind their leg and hook your calf around their calf.

Tip
Make sure you really trap their leg with yours, as opposed to just lightly placing it behind their leg.

Step 4: Turn around
Make a sharp, 180-degree turn in the direction of the arm that's choking you, and then pull the assailant across your body.

Step 5: Escape
Make your getaway.

Did You Know?
Women who learn self-defense skills have higher self-esteem, according to a study.