The peacock is one of Alianora's symbols. No it doesn't have anything to do with breaking a choke hold, at least not that I know of (yet) but it does have something to do with our Alia. And it's a pretty picture, yep.
Yeah, it gets a little strange, the things a person has to research in the course of writing a book that's supposed to be about Keeping the Faith.
Regardless of how strange it may seem, it's something we have to know something about. OPSGEAR® TACTICAL TIP: Two Ways to Break a Chokehold from Behind gives us a quick little lesson HERE.
Watching the video (it's short) will show you better than I can explain it. Basically you turn your head into the crook of the elbow of the arm that's around your neck from behind (to hopefully let you draw breath) reach up and grab the arm to loosen the hold while you twist out of it to gain yourself some space.
Ironically, this just happens to be something I would have been grateful to have known once upon a time. In my case I think I flat lucked out by going limp and the guy loosened his hold to let me drop; I caught a breath and ran. That whole thing is a story I'm not ready to tell yet, but this video reminded me of it.
At any rate, this is one example of how handy researching stuff can be.
HERE's a link and below is a photo from a Marine training thing:
I figure if you want to know something you may as well go looking for someone you're pretty sure will be able to tell you. It's amazing what all you can find on line if you go looking!
Now that we know how Alianora gets herself out of it, maybe we ought to see if we can find out how she gets into it in the first place.
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