Planning is necessary for real debauchery. I decided to go through the store clockwise from the door.
I made it about halfway through the store before I was helped by a very nice salesman. He helped me pick out a new set of detail safety scissors.
I made it though another quarter lap of the store before I was helped by one of the floor managers, who helped me with and into restraints.
I needed a new small suspension bar. I also wanted a large suspension bar with an attach point in the center.
While I was there I picked up some blue nylon rope. Normally I use undyed hemp rope. But I was looking for color and strength.
I came back to Seattle. My purchases, including the rope, arrived by mail, and it was like XMas. I brought one length of rope with me to work so that I could caress it while working at my desk.
To use my shiny new toy we did a classic partial suspension.
Nylon rope is known to be difficult to work with. If is much easier to give rope burns than hemp rope (bad). It is much more difficult to tie knots that hold (bad). It is very very strong (good).
I cut two of the ropes in half down to 25 foot lengths.
The chest harness is the torso variant of the suspension boxtie. The hip harness is a tripled swiss seat with a friction on top over the hips. The ankle is a western variant of the limb loop.
The nylon rope makes the taut line hitch used on the vertical lines dangerous. A lower coefficient of static friction makes the rope slip in ways that I had not experienced before with my hemp rope.
I used all three connect points on the new suspension spreader bar. To get the body position correct, I should have instead attached the chest to the same shibari ring as the hips.
I like my shiny new blue rope, and look forward to using it more.
