Wednesday, January 18, 2012

supported shoulderstand partial suspension

I attended the code party at Mid Atlantic Leather (MAL). 

I really wanted to tie up codyTx.  He said that he was interested in suspension with the provided winch, but wasn't eager to spend a lot of time tying.  I suggested a variant of a yoga inversion pose, but with bondage.  I was delighted with how it turned out.  But in a very dark room there weren't real photos.

soundsFun and I recreated the pose this evening (in good lighting).

We spread out the cowhide suede side up.

I tied soundsFun's hands behind his back in a rope wrist cuff.  Since I was going to be placing weight on his shoulders I did not pull his hands fully together, using the frapping lines to hold his hands apart from each other. 

I tied single column ties on his ankles.  For comfort I used a fast quadrupled rope technique to give a total of eight wraps around each ankle.  I had him lie down on the cowhide, with the winch just above his hips.

I tied his ankles using the suspension taut-line hitch to a spreader bar.  I used the winch to lift his legs over his shoulders.

I made soundsFun repeat the Suzanne Deason prohibition about turning the head in this pose.  (I really really like her video "Yoga Conditioning for Weight Loss", the best designed yoga video I have ever seen or heard of. I got it years ago on a whim at Costco.)

I adjusted the height of his hips until the position was usable.

adjusting the height of the hips made this position usable

A little while later I pulled his hips up higher.  I spanked him by hand, and used a miniature rubber flogger on his exposed buttocks.


I will do this again..