So you had concerns about judo chokes ...

http://now.msn.com/steve-backshall-demonstrates-a-boa-constrictors-deadly-killing-technique-letting-it-choke-him-on-television

http://on.aol.com/video/man-purposefully-gets-choked-by-boa-constrictor-517738089

http://www.newshour24.com/world/74vs5c81b/Boa-Constrictor-Strangling-Steve-Backshall-Video.htm

Internet profiles list the gent as black belt in judo who has also practised as year of judo and karate in Ôsaka.

Doesn't surprise me he does judo. Absolute nutter.

There is a video out there of him partaking in some tribal initiation ceremony in Brazil, where he wears gloves with bullet ants woven in. (Bullet ants are called so as the pain from their sting is apparently comparable to being shot).

Quite disturbing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VarqiOM4-Fg

Don't go by wiki that often but since I've got little interest in him, no offense, it seems he may have only spent a year practicing Judo... must've have been brilliant at what he was doing to attain 1st Dan inside a year.

None of the pythons I keep are even half the size of the constrictors this bloke is handling, but if their strength is proportional to their size then I hope for his sake that he has at least one or two other competent handlers nearby, because those snakes are very good at what they do.

Regards,

-Q

I always thought wild snakes, often, grew to a larger size due to their diet. As they can chose when and when not to feed... often feeding when they see something.

Although I do not know as I see it a pointless exercise keeping a creature that belongs in a wild setting, but that is just my personal opinion I have no issue with others keeping them.

Hell knows why he'd do this as a exercise in education (I'm hoping the exercise had a point to it) because it's just a damn dumb thing to attempt as so many things can go wrong.