Thursday, March 17, 2011

Research and Development - bondage in the style of boundGods

I find the bondage in the boundGods videos to be beautiful.  Many of the positions are comfortable and useful.  The videos seldom involve purely decorative macramé. (I do sometimes jokingly refer to my ropework as applied macramé.)  SoundsFun and I were mesmerized by the video Bad Biker and a Daddy's Boy.

BoyInSea came over one Sunday afternoon.  I explained to him that it had been an exhausting week, and I was not emotionally ready for a scene, but that we would probably both enjoy a research & development session. 
Research & development allows us the freedom to try things that may fail.  So we decided to try to recreate the bondage from the amazingly hot suspension scene.
I got out an iPad of the photos from the shoot.  I put upbeat music on the radio. 

The chest harness and wrist ties were simply applied standing.  The leg ties were applied with the boy face down on the incline/decline bench, his body and weight shifted first to one side then the other.  I knelt to his side, using my knee to brace him into position for tying. 

Once he was lifted there was a problem.  His left shin gave gave him problems.  Feeling around, there were physical differences between his left shin and right shin.  A major adjustment to the knots didn't make him comfortable. 

I lowered him to the ground and retied using the knot strategy from the video deap vs luca - Live Shoot.  It was significantly more comfortable for his left shin (and in general).

The position allows the bottom to shift from upright to flat.  Weight shifts between the thighs and the chest harness. 

The vine from the chest to the Shibari ring is my favorite part.  The position is quite useful.
 
Before the retying of the legs for shin comfort


After the retying of the legs for shin comfort