Thursday, March 17, 2011

climbing webbing partial suspension

My first partial suspension was performed using climbing webbing
One of the traditional climbing harnesses is the Swiss Seat. But even using climbing webbing, this wasn't as comfortable as I would like.
It really felt that additional wraps were necessary to spread the load further. 
I spent the early evening one night practicing a doubled version of this hip harness on myself.  Careful weaving seems necessary to prevent the wraps from collapsing onto each other. 
Later that evening soundsFun and I experimented in the dungeon
testing the harness
using the harness in bondage
For use in the partial suspension spread eagle, I tied the hands using a simple single column tie.  I later learned to substitute a rope corset for the wraps in a limb loop.  This prevents the rope from collapsing on top of itself, and spreads the load for better comfort.