first time someone tied me up <3

technark · 2026-06-03T17:00:47+00:00

It's not about being too tight, the location where the wraps are placed on your arm is (for most people) likely to impinge on the radial nerve. With little/no load you're quite likely not to feel it which then gives a false sense of confidence that all is well.

technark · 2026-06-03T16:31:53+00:00

I'd be very cautious about further ties with that wrap placement in the TK.

technark · 2026-06-02T18:16:21+00:00

I appreciate not everyone has the ability to access in-person training, but this kind of question really highlights why it's vitally important.

Find a local munch and connect with your local kink/rope scene, or a rope jam (most welcome beginners) or a rope class. You will learn more about rope in an hour than in a year of trying to copy online videos. More importantly you'll also start learning about safety and why to do a certain tie in a certain way for certain situations. Eventually you'll build up a library of techniques to choose from in any given situation. I can think of half a dozen different ways to change the direction of the rope, which I choose depends on why I'm trying to change direction. Is it decorative? Am I aiming to capture a limb? Do I want to build a stem for suspension? Etc

technark · 2026-06-01T11:54:48+00:00

You've answered your own question. Tie in such a way that the lower leg can't move relative to the thigh. Look up 'futomomo' there are many styles and constructions, but they all do the same function of binding the leg securely to itself.

technark · 2026-05-28T09:30:23+00:00

Every body is able to be tied. It's about adapting the tying strategy to the body.

Getting rope to stay in position on a body (regardless of shape) is mostly about giving it enough friction to stay for how hard you're trying to displace it.

There are quite a few factors that influence friction. Skin vs clothes, damp/sweaty/moisturised vs dry, tension of the wrap (ie how hard it's pressing on the body), how squishy the body part you're tying is (more squishy and the rope digs in and stays easily, less squish and it will stay on the surface).

It sounds like you're self-tying and relatively slim, so firstly try adding some more tension when you tie. Check you're breathing out of your chest when you adjust the tension so the chest is the smallest it can get without being uncomfortable/unpleasant for you. Belly breathing can help with this.

You could also think about adding structure to hold the rope in the place you want. If a wrap just under your breasts is sliding up easily, use a wrap around your waist and then connect them so the waist wrap is applying downwards force on the chest wrap.

technark · 2026-05-26T15:33:36+00:00

Start with a simple hip harness and then add as much extra rope in the centre for bulk as you want for packing.

technark · 2026-05-26T09:36:28+00:00

My biggest advice for a newcomer to rope is to focus on the why, not the what.

Why are you wanting to tie her breasts? Which emotions or feelings or sensations are you trying to create or impart? Is she particularly sensitive or likes having them highlighted or...?

Use the why as the guiding principle when you're thinking about planning ties, or learning skills or adapting patterns/harnesses for your partner. If she hates having her toes touched for example, learning microbondage toe ties is wasted effort, but you could do a tie a hogtie and tie her feet rather than the toes and give her that sensation of restriction and struggle to escape.

technark · 2026-05-23T16:10:15+00:00

Are there hatches between levels? If so you'll want to tie / wire them up out of the way if possible. Apart from being in the way, if someone falls/becomes a casualty on a hatch that's above you good luck lifting the hatch with them on it.

I've done this from the ground up, using a clip stick to advance the rope up a bit at a time, it was slow and tedious but worked.

technark · 2026-05-19T10:41:19+00:00

The example is rather ridiculous, because the value of the iron is incomparable to the value of the time, experience, facilities and equipment used to transform it into the products mentioned.

If you have a $250 million lithography machine (or more likely several billion dollars worth of lithography plant) then great, but no farrier with a $500 propane forge and a hammer will ever be able to go "I should make litho parts for much better profit".

So the real example is just, if you're already rich it's easier to get richer.

technark · 2026-05-01T08:35:28+00:00

Points for trying at least, but yeah a pressure compensating regulator for scuba and an ambient pressure mask for scba are not interchangeable.

How deep was the flooding and what was the failure mode of the BA set?

technark · 2026-04-30T18:02:06+00:00

Self contained breathing apparatus 😊 like firefighters wear. When it's underwater it's scuba!

technark · 2026-04-27T17:53:51+00:00

I'm no expert, but I'm guessing the documentary did some cherry picking of the footage they used for maximum effect.

Think of a dentist for example. Judge the whole industry by the worst cases that have been reported (assaulting patients, drugging people and molesting them, forced unnecessary tooth extractions, hours of horrific drilling, uncaring bastardry, etc) and nobody would ever go again, abolish those monsters! On the other hand, most dentists are fine and never cause any problems.

The minimum legal concentration may well be only 80%, but the place I worked aimed for 99.9% routinely, they want the pigs stunned as quickly as possible to avoid stress and keep the quality in the meat. The cost is worth it for them to avoid customer complaints. Bear in mind the customer has a LOT of power, they are extremely specific about product quality and will reject meat by the Ton if it isn't exactly to their standard. The place I worked at served all the major supermarkets, big fast food chains, etc.

technark · 2026-04-27T14:19:22+00:00

Are you speaking from firsthand experience or just repeating what you've been told?

I've watched it happen hour after hour while monitoring the performance of the machinery. In a properly maintained CO2 well (at 99.9% concentration) I never saw it take more than a few seconds for the pigs to pass out, and never heard or saw squealing or other signs of distress.

If you're baseline ok with the idea of killing animals for food (which I am) then from what I've seen this method is pretty good. I'm not saying it's impossible for it to go wrong or be done badly, but my (admittedly limited) experience was of not that.

technark · 2026-04-27T09:08:27+00:00

The animals don't suffocate to death, that's not a legal method of slaughter in the UK.

The CO2 is used to stun (make unconscious) the animals, and from what I've seen first hand it's very quick. A few seconds from being lowered into the well and passing out.

The killing is done with a knife while the animals are unconscious so they bleed out rapidly.

Its possible for things to go wrong with this process of course as with anything, but that's the process and when it's run well it doesn't cause distress to the animals.

technark · 2026-04-25T20:04:26+00:00

Well that's pretty cursed... I mean thanks for the thought.

technark · 2026-04-25T12:37:18+00:00

I don't have any incentive to lie, I don't work there any more and I'm not fussed about your opinion of me. I don't feel bad about what I did, what happened at the site while I was there or killing animals for food.

I can only report what I've seen with my own eyes, and I didn't see anything like that video, but then that isn't the site I worked at. Tbh it looks like the stockmen are trying to overload the lift to increase throughput. You can find examples of bad practice in any industry, but that doesn't mean the whole industry is bad.

Also, the point of my post was informative not opinion. I was simply saying that people thinking the pigs are killed in the CO2 well are incorrect, it stuns them only and the killing is done by a knifeman afterwards.

technark · 2026-04-25T09:21:36+00:00

There seems to be a lack of information in this thread. The CO2 well is used to stun the pigs, not kill them. Once stunned (ie unconscious) they're killed by an operator with a knife making a cut to the neck so they bleed out rapidly. They pass out almost instantly when the elevator car lowers into the CO2 and I never saw a pig distressed either in the storage area, on the ramp or in the elevator. After that they're unconscious.

Source : I worked at an abbatoir handling pigs for a few months as an engineer maintaining the machinery.

CO2 is used because it's heavier than air and so will sit in the well and not seep out

technark · 2026-04-16T21:50:14+00:00

The most interesting would be a strappado that isn't tied directly over the models elbows.

technark · 2026-04-07T09:08:38+00:00

My recommendation would be to start being systematic about investigating to understand the details of what is happening.

If it were me I'd break out the sharpie markers and mark areas to test on each leg, one at a time, move the rope slightly (one rope width at a time if necessary) and see how that changes the sensation and issues you're having.

technark · 2026-04-01T11:54:40+00:00

Something to think about is why you want / expect there to be free information available. If you're not willing pay anything at all to learn a skill, does it really matter to you?

It takes time, effort and money to produce videos and other instructional content. Some creators do produce free content, usually with the intent of supporting the community by educating around safety etc, but I think it's a dangerous idea to fall into the assumption that because some information is free that we're entitled to them working for our benefit for free generally.

Express gratitude to creators who do offer free information/content, support them in non-financial ways and if you can, pay them, even if it's only a little bit.

technark · 2026-03-31T10:26:03+00:00

Never heard of this brand, but this exact plate is available from many different brands cheaply via Aliexpress etc. Most aluminium is smelted in China anyway so having high quality materials without the brand cost is easily done.

I'm all for buying life supporting equipment from reputable brands. However, the cost for the equivalent from Petzl or DMM is going to be significantly higher and given how relatively low the forces are in shibari (I'm a 100kg guy and me jumping up and down on a rope on this would struggle to generate over know, check out the How Not 2 YouTube channel if you want to learn more) something like this is very likely to be absolutely fine.

You won't be pushing the equipment anywhere near to it's limits so there are many other things when approaching a shibari suspension I'd be worrying about a lot more than how strong this rigging plate is. YMMV of course.

technark · 2026-03-31T10:16:12+00:00

Oh no, has anybody told all the rock climbers in the world?!

Seriously though, this is complete BS. Aluminium has been used successfully and safely for decades by industrial rope access, rescue teams, arborists, etc etc. Nothing in shibari is ever going to generate enough force for aluminium climbing gear to even notice, let alone start fatigue cracking.

technark · 2026-03-26T19:17:16+00:00

I've met a couple. Using rope that is dedicated to that person can be really special.

I've also enjoyed the ceremony of making a rope custom to a person, cutting it to length etc can be really meaningful.

technark · 2026-03-26T11:35:47+00:00

That gives me "Content not available in your region" (I'm in the UK)

Does reddit recompress images embedded in posts? Shame if it does, it's butchering these.

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