The ten-finger choke is a choke with similar mechanics to a guillotine choke, in that you start sprawled on the opponent's back and trap their neck without any intervening arm, but instead pull the blade of the hand into the opponent's trachea, rather than the forearm and biceps. This choke primarily works by pressuring the opponent's trachea as a "trachea choke", restricting breathing, rather than as a "blood choke" like a normal guillotine choke with restricts blood flow to the brain.