I started taking Brazilian jiu jitsu. Tuesday night the instructor was going over some take-downs when an opponent is on all fours. One, the crucifix, ends up with you on your back, your opponent’s head & shoulders on your stomach/chest with one of his arms going towards your feet (where it is trapped by your legs) and the other up along your head (where you trap it with one arm). He then demonstrated a choke. When we went to practice, my partner’s hand was a little too close to my neck as he reached around and he hit me right on my Adam’s apple hard enough for me to hear it crunch.
In college I took judo for about three years and have experienced pleny of chokes. I have never received a blow like that. It was horrible. Since I didn’t die on the spot I figured that I would probably be okay, but that doesn’t mean that it didn’t hurt. It hurt so bad that I could barely swallow. Even today, two days later, it still hurts to swallow. I had to take some pain killers this morning to ease the discomfort a little.
Ugh! Don’t get punched in the throat. You won’t enjoy it.
Okay, sage advice - I’ll try to avoid being punched in the throat. 
Very nasty when that happens, chose a less clumsy training partner next time if you can. Last time something like that got me it wore off after a few days, and rolling a cold drinks can over my adams apple seemed to help.
Gotcha. But that does leave a hole in my schedule from 2 to 3. Hmmmmm, well there is that class “Get Hit in Groin With Football” I’ve been meaning to take.
I signed up for classes in being hit on the head, but when I got to the classroom all the guy wanted to do was have an argument with me.
I got mugged once while visiting SF… the first thing I knew, I was being punched in the throat. That pretty much took all the fight out of me, but didn’t stop the actual beating. Fortunately some passersby distracted the muggers before they started really curb-stomping me.
If given the choice between a punch in the throat or a knee to the groin… well, I guess I’d prefer the punch in the throat, but not by much.
I’ll take your punch in the throat and raise you a foul tip baseball right on the Adam’s apple (I was a catcher). This was before they had the dangly things to protect your neck.
Worst pain I have ever felt.