Time Freeze

Time Freeze allows the user to temporarily halt the flow of time, leaving all other beings suspended while the user moves freely. The mechanics vary dramatically depending on who is performing it. For Guldo, the smallest and weakest member of the Ginyu Force, time stops as long as he can hold his breath. The moment he inhales, time resumes. This makes the technique powerful but extremely limited in duration, and repeated use drains his energy so severely that he struggles to even fire ki blasts afterward.

For Hit, the Universe 6 assassin, Time Freeze takes the form of his Time Prison, where he strikes opponents with his Flash Fist Crush to suspend them in frozen time. For Supreme Kais of Time like Chronoa, it is a basic ability performed simply by raising her hands and declaring "Freeze."

Guldo uses Time Freeze during his battle against Krillin and Gohan on Planet Namek. Despite being massively outclassed in raw power, Guldo's ability to stop time gives him a genuine tactical advantage. He freezes time to dodge attacks, reposition himself, and set up counterstrikes. However, his limited lung capacity means each freeze lasts only seconds, and the energy drain leaves him increasingly exhausted. Vegeta eventually ends the fight by decapitating Guldo while he is focused on restraining Krillin and Gohan with his Telekinesis.

Not Illegal, Technically

In the Dragon Ball Super manga, Jaco explains that time manipulation techniques like Time Freeze are not violations of galactic law because they do not allow the user to travel into the past. Only techniques that create alternate timelines are considered dangerous enough to be illegal. This is why Jaco did not arrest Tokunoshin Omori for building a failed time machine that could only freeze time, and why Hit's use of Time-Skip is tolerated by the Galactic Patrol.

An interesting detail revealed in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is that the user continues to age even while time is stopped for everyone else. This means Time Freeze does not truly stop all time; it only stops it for everything outside the user. Guldo is still experiencing the normal passage of seconds while the rest of the universe stands still. For someone with Guldo's limitations, this is largely irrelevant. But for a being like Chronoa, who can freeze time indefinitely, the implication is that she is always older than the frozen universe around her by the cumulative total of every freeze she has ever performed.