Yikes! What a freak!
What you do when someone is strangling you is you have to move fast. You put your hands together like a prayer. You move them up (like yoga up to the sky) between their arms, and as you move up you burst your arms open, so it's your forearm pushing against their forearm, in a fast, powerful burst. Everything is about speed/fluid motion = power.... I wish I could have my old instructor teach us all. He was taught in Korea and everything during the war.