Adventures In Rope
Some people love love love rope. They love the feel of it on their skin, the feel of being secured, the look, the process of getting there. Others love doing the tying – the rope running through their fingers, the beautiful designs that they create. People can spend hours with rope, getting in and out of different ties, wearing it around, etc.
I am not one such person. Rope frustrated me. It takes so long to do, and it really tends to cut into my play time. I’ve been suspended, but it took so long to get up, that by the time I was flying, all my joints hurt, and I was up for all of 4 or 5 minutes before I had to come down. I’d rather just use good restraints and a spreader bar.
However, I have decided that it’s important that I learn how to do SOME rope stuff. Not a ton, but some good basic ties. They will definitely come in handy. I’ve taught myself the gauntlet/corset ties already, since I can do them on me, and don’t need someone to practice on. Next step is to find a willing Guinea pig who will let me try out some basic bondage ties on them. Hmmmm…
I have both Two Knotty Boys Showing You the Ropes and Midori’s The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage. While I am completely broke, I would love to get Lee Harrington’s Shibari You Can Use. If anyone else has any other suggestions on how to learn some basic basic basic rope stuff that even I can understand, I welcome any suggestions. Otherwise, I’ll definitely update you as to how this…adventure of mine turns out.
-Essin’ Em
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There’s nothing like hands-on practice. It helps for me to make a distinction between practice time and play time. Practice time being when you give your very generous bottom something else to distract them for awhile (a movie, someone else to talk to, etc) and you practice doing ties or working out trouble spots, over and over again; but no one is expecting to get anything sexual or invigorating out of the experience.
As for as other resources go, two knotty boys have a youtube channel with some good stuff, though mostly fancy decorative knots. And twisted monk has some good, basic instructional videos on his website.
I’ve found most public rope events to be super hetero and man-dom oriented, which isn’t a scene i love overly much, but usually people are pretty nice in any case.
ooh, i love rope. i love the feel of it, and the look and the looks my baby gives me.
but it is time-consuming, and it doesn’t really happen often for that reason and others.
also, though, the fact that it is more complicated and time consuming than other things is sometimes nice – i find it relaxing and sweet.
First, I’d like to point out that we aren’t related, in spite of any similarity in names :-)
If somebody needs more than 10 minutes to get you suspended, they don’t know what they are doing! Anyway, if the rope is applied right, the tying IS play time and not something to be rushed to get to the ‘main event’. It’s like going out for a nice meal. The objective is not just to fill your belly as quickly as possible but to enjoy the ambience, company, presentation, texture, flavour etc. For example: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=7664946402249303543#