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Lol. Chimps aren't people. His reach is twice what a human's is, not to mention the fact that he can simply roll into a ball and grip the choke arm with all four limbs (you know, the ones that exert a pull of a thousand pounds apiece) and pry you loose.
You're just being ridiculous.
You are wrong. You don't understand the mechanics of the choke. I can't explain it well, but I'll try. The choker's legs are wrapped and locked tightly around the opponent's midsection, therefore the opponent cannot use his legs, cannot bend or twist his body (e.g. roll into a ball). This also allows the choker to stretch his entire body out, putting the force of his whole body into the choke. You put one hand on your other bicep, and the other hand grasped behind your own head.
The monkey has a matter of seconds before he passed out. The ONLY way he can get out is to know how your arms/hands are configured and where to pull on them. BTW, the 1000 lbs of pull or whatever is using their whole body and legs. In this case he only has the strength purely in his arm, and at an odd reaching-behind angle. The chip doesn't have the poise, intelligence, or knowledge of the choke to counter. He will flail and thrash wildly, then pass out.
For those of you comparing it to fighting a little kid, I have an interesting story. The only time I've passed out due to a rear naked choke was when I taught a friend's 10 year old brother how to do it. He thought it was funny to keep choking when I tapped out, and I woke up seconds later on top of him completely limp, him laughing his ass off (thinking I was playing), and me having no idea what had just happened or where I was.
OK no offense but your information appears to be limited or is incomplete.
I have spent literally many dozens of hours both applying chokes and struggling against chokes during competitions. And I'm not talking about dozens of hours of total competition; I'm talking about the dozens of hours spent solely working the chokes themselves during competitions. In other words I have spent probably over 60 hours purely in struggling against chokes and applying chokes, during competitions.
In sport judo we have all the jujitsu chokes. They look identical to the ones at UFC and those used by the Gracies; we were doing this long before UFC and Brazilian jujitsu ever became well-known in the United States. Besides bare arm chokes, we also utilize chokes involving the use of the
gi (uniform), the sturdy flexible edge of which is pulled against and around the opponent's neck, cutting off the blood supply to the brain faster and more thoroughly than than any bare arm choke can accomplish. The properly applied effect is much like a garrotte, which of course is why the safety protocol of tapping out is a necessary feature.
Some nights when I got home from competition or
randori, my neck was covered with visible bruises caused by resisting chokes. It was not uncommon for me to spend ten minutes or more during a single contest, the entire ten minutes spent resisting or applying a choke. A randori lasting 20 or 30 minutes might involve 3/4 of that time spent in matwork and often much of the matwork time spent involved trying to apply or resist/escape from a choke.
To resist a choke you tuck your chin as much as possible, hunch your back and neck foreward to the extent you can, and get some fingers under the arm or cloth that is choking you. Then you push/pull it away slightly to create a little room. Meanwhile the side(s) of your neck may still be taking some pressure especially if it is a
gi choke so you have to just deal with that the best you can.
Next you try to escape, that is, after you have secured a little respite from the pressure by using the above steps.
Many times I or my opponent escaped and that includes from chokes applied by black belts. Other times we had to tap out and I barely passed out a few times...this is over hundreds of choke situations in contest. Of course we did standing competition and other matwork too.
The person doing the choke tries to work the grip tighter and tighter, sometimes cinching up the cloth by degrees, all the while trying to maintain body control of the opponent, often as you described. There are not only rear chokes but also frontal chokes; chokes from top or bottom; usually these involve legs wrapped around the midsection to attempt body control and to try to remove the opponent's ability to work his way to his feet (support).
A stronger person can sometimes simply break the locked grip of the choker, even if he cannot escape fully at the moment. Of course this is rarely easy but it is a situation that happens. And the greater the strength differential the greater the chance the chokee can break the grip or at least mostly neutralize the choking effect of cutting off blood to the brain. All it takes is a little bit of space created and most of the choke effect is removed. Of course it is much harder to cleanly break a grip but it is often not that hard to just create a bit of space so you aren't in danger of passing out.
For someone 5-10 times stronger, there is little doubt in my mind that they could create enough space to avoid being choked out. And at such a lopsided strength ratio I find it hard to believe that they couldn't just rip the grip open. Hands can only hold against so much pressure no matter what you are grabbing or how you have your fingers locked. There may not be leverage to remove the opponent entirely but there is some available leverage to pull the arm or hand away. Between human contestants strengths are not usually so terribly lopsided so the choker has the advantage due to leverage and locked grip factors. That doesn't mean such a grip cannot be broken nor does it mean that relative strength doesn't matter at all. As I've said, I've broke out of chokes applied by black belts. My toughest opponent for chokes was actually a very flexible brown belt; he was so fluid.
Also, I would guess that chimps probably have muscular necks with the carotid artery (the main real target during chokes) more shielded by muscle than humans have. So even a well applied choke on a chimp might not have nearly as strong or fast an effect on chimps as it has on humans. Add to this the fact that chimps can easily reach their mouths with their hind legs (feet which are also hands; have you never seen a chimp feeding by using its hind legs to pass the food to its mouth?), and we see that a chimp could probably bring three or four hands and limbs to bear against the choker's two hands and arms. Shouldn't be hard at all for the chimp to break the grip. Also consider the body structure of a chimp...it doesn't look like you could easily grapevine its legs; they don't look like it would fit well into a grapevine control type of leg hold really.