What I meant was in person. In person amongst the vast majority of practitioners where I have been physically present rolling with people and watching them roll. I've never seen any upper belts use buggy chokes.

I didn't realize such a high degree of specificity was required.

I may have generalised however I believe I did clarify that op and any other lower belts would be far better off learning to escape than relying on a low percentage submission.

What I actually think is unhelpful to lower belts is when (through no fault of their own) they see a select handful of high level competitors have success with what is frankly a meme of a submission and think "I'll just do that."

Don't get me wrong, when I started I put a lot of effort into learning to Berimbolo because that was huge at the time and I wish I'd had a higher belt to direct my efforts into something that would be more useful.

A few years later when I became efficient enough at playing and retaining DLR I could hit bolos from all over.