I frequently employ suspension techniques to great advantage but there are some concerns.   First of all, a good pair of suspension cuffs is a must. I currently make two styles, one semi-traditional and one not.  I do not use the traditional ‘T’ style of suspension cuff, which wraps around the wrist with a tongue leading […]

Wood Versus Plastic Wooden clothespins are a bit kinder and have less tendency to abrade, thus I would suggest starting with them. Plastic clothespins tend to have much smaller ribbed gripping surfaces, and a ‘feel’ much stronger than the equivalent wooden ones. Extremely small plastic clothespins are very nasty indeed, and many may be used […]

Here are a few items you can make easily and inexpensively for yourself. Maybe you want to be able to construct some toys instead of carrying things with you when you travel, or maybe you like the idea of using things you’ve made on someone. Either way, here are eight quick ideas for toys you […]

  Here are a few items you can make easily and inexpensively for yourself. Maybe you want to be able to construct some toys instead of carrying things with you when you travel, or maybe you like the idea of using things you’ve made on someone. Either way, here are eight quick ideas for toys […]

How Often? An average of one stroke every few seconds often proves best, with the exception of the spinning technique above, a fast version of which will seem constant. This ‘blow-rest-blow’ allows processing time to feel each sensation, and this rhythm once established may easily be changed for effect. No doubt some people will differ […]

Technique Repertoire The more ways one knows to do an action, the more effects may be created, and the less one’s arm aches afterwards. Varying the motions has a good effect for top and bottom. Practise the following until you can do them from various directions and speeds, they all feel and work differently. Knowing […]

As ‘flogging’ is something that covers much by way of different activities, I have taken the liberty of separating it into ‘light’ (entirely sting, no deep tissue effects), and ‘heavy’ (sting and/or thud, reaching and jarring deep tissue). *Hint* it is impossible to do ‘heavy’ flogging with a 20-tail chamois flogger, and quite difficult to […]

A ‘flogger’ shall remain for the moment ‘any flexible many-tailed striking tool where the tails are simple strips of leather or similar substances, designed for use on the human body’. In short, not bullwhips, braided cat-o-nines, crops, scourges, thudtoys and such, simply floggers. A braided cat is similar to a flogger in many respects, yet […]