This great guy named Bruce emailed me not with a question (which happens a lot, these days) but with a handy dandy solution to a very common problem; when you need to practice ties, but you have no model handy, and you’re not quite mobile enough to practice ties on yourself.
To my utter surprise, one of my posts was recently featured on a podcast!
You remember that fun post about Consensual Non-Consent: How To Play Rape Your Partner? Well, a couple of podcasters found it while researching the topic for their podcast; and had a LOT of fun talking it up… these two definitely enjoy their work, and I can relate to that; it’s always fun sharing information on your favorite past times.
You might want to check them out, they’re highly entertaining 😀
Post play review is a practice I like to do following more involved bits of rope bondage and BDSM play. It helps me remember everything that happened (details often get fuzzy during the high of all the fun) and it also helps me to analyze what went well, and what I can learn to do better next time. They are always ridiculously candid and unpolished, so as to better capture the actual feelings of the moment.
Today I’m doing something a little different; rather than sharing my information and experience, I’m going to link you to a couple of great books on rope bondage and bottoming for rope bondage. I’ve just recently read these – and I’m really enthusiastic about them!
Over the last few weekends, Blue and I have been doing hip harness testing with various harnesses for rope suspension purposes. I really like hip harnesses; they’re a lot of fun, and honestly when you’re learning suspension I think they’re probably one of the most important directly suspension related ties a person should learn.
One of the requests I’ve had recently was for a fast bondage tie; here’s one to get you started. And oh yes! It comes with one of those fun and slightly embarrassing stories about how I learned some things the hard way.
I recently emailed all the people who were on my mailing list about what I can do to help you guys further; I think it’s great to have that interaction and build a bit more communication with you all.
I had a bunch of really great responses, and that has been enormously helpful. Because I got that feedback, I can now deliver more content in line with your interests and what you want to learn next; and sometimes, if it’s stuff I don’t already know, then it gives me a bit more direction for learning; I can learn it for you guys, make it simpler, and then share it with you all.
It’s a great win-win; I end up learning more rope stuff and testing it out, and that makes learning easier for you guys as well! I can even share my mistakes, so you can learn what NOT to do; several people have indicated that they found that helpful.
It’s sometimes a little bit embarrassing for me, but hey; if it helps you guys, I’ll continue doing it.
Other Things I’m Working On:
I’m currently working on setting up a shopping cart and sales page etc for Rope Bondage The Smart Way here on Rope Connections. I’ve had a bunch of messages indicating that Amazon is a pain in the ass for people to leave reviews on, and I’ve also had requests for different formats than just the Amazon one.
So basically I’m going to try and set up a system that allows people to purchase directly off the site, and hopefully receive multiple different formats in one easy download. There’s quite a bit of work involved, so I appreciate your patience, guys – I’m working on this every morning before I go to my day job, and I’m optimistic that it will be up and running in a couple of weeks.
Additional Material For the Single Column Tie
One of the responses I got back from emailing all you guys was a request from a guy named Tim for a video showing how to do the Burlington Bowline, going both over a limb and under a limb.
Here you go Tim! I’m also placing this on my “First Tie You Should Learn” post, in addition to the picture tutorial. I hope it helps!
Today I’m going over the results of a rope suspension learning session from a few weeks ago. I have two excellent reasons for documenting this – one of them is for me, and one of them is for you. Continue reading Rope Suspension: Applying Systematic Learning
I’m a kinky guy who once upon a time was challenged by his girlfriend to tie her up… and at the time, didn’t have a clue how.
That was six years ago.
A lot has changed since then… to the point where I’m now documenting, sharing information, and showing other people how to do all the things I couldn’t do back then.
I even wrote a book, designed to help everyone who comes here get past all the problems and difficult bits quickly, easily, and a lot more smoothly than I did.
Learning rope bondage in isolation is really, REALLY hard…
So I want to make it easier. For me, and for everyone else!
Try the “Start Here” page first; it makes it easier to find the good stuff!