Shibari/RopeWork Appreciation

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The Golden Rule of Risky Business
Any time someone is tied in such a way that the rope can end up supporting their body weight, the risks are significantly stepped up. The most important factor in managing this extra risk is to acknowledge one simple fact:

You are going to fuck up.

Everybody makes mistakes, eventually. If you develop your technique based upon the assumption of your own infallibility, when you finally do make a mistake, the consequences could be severe. Instead, I recommend forming, and practicing, and constantly reminding yourself, of the following habit:

Always be more than one fuckup away from disaster.
This means employing redundancy, both in your external technique -- using ties where a single thing wrong won't cause critical failure -- and in your internal technique -- giving yourself checkpoints and checklists to verify your own thinking at critical junctures.


- Crash-Restraint
 
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The Golden Rule of Risky Business
Any time someone is tied in such a way that the rope can end up supporting their body weight, the risks are significantly stepped up. The most important factor in managing this extra risk is to acknowledge one simple fact:

You are going to fuck up.

Everybody makes mistakes, eventually. If you develop your technique based upon the assumption of your own infallibility, when you finally do make a mistake, the consequences could be severe. Instead, I recommend forming, and practicing, and constantly reminding yourself, of the following habit:

Always be more than one fuckup away from disaster.
This means employing redundancy, both in your external technique -- using ties where a single thing wrong won't cause critical failure -- and in your internal technique -- giving yourself checkpoints and checklists to verify your own thinking at critical junctures.


- Crash-Restraint

Sorry Moochie, I couldn’t resist this. I read through the guidelines in the linked document and had to chuckle at this: #interviewing-your-bottom.

I knew what it meant, but can just imagine a novice reading it and thinking wtf, is this person talking out their arse.

I agree, it is a serious business as a rigger, looking out for all the danger points. In that pile driver pose, one slip up and a potential broken neck.
 
Sorry Moochie, I couldn’t resist this. I read through the guidelines in the linked document and had to chuckle at this: #interviewing-your-bottom.

I knew what it meant, but can just imagine a novice reading it and thinking wtf, is this person talking out their arse.

I agree, it is a serious business as a rigger, looking out for all the danger points. In that pile driver pose, one slip up and a potential broken neck.

I read through the interviewing your bottom section again and couldn’t see what was a chuckle... It might be because I would appreciate a top who knew to ask me the important things like whether I’ve eaten before or if I have injuries of special considerations.

I don’t think this blogger is writing for a couple, but rather for a negotiation pre-rope-scene with someone newly met or a new partner.

I meant this as a bit of a reply to these posts I saw in another thread here. Suspension, for the prepared, practiced, and risk-aware can be extremely rewarding.

Someday soon-ish, I want to self-suspend. :)


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I read through the interviewing your bottom section again and couldn’t see what was a chuckle... It might be because I would appreciate a top who knew to ask me the important things like whether I’ve eaten before or if I have injuries of special considerations.

I don’t think this blogger is writing for a couple, but rather for a negotiation pre-rope-scene with someone newly met or a new partner.

I meant this as a bit of a reply to these posts I saw in another thread here. Suspension, for the prepared, practiced, and risk-aware can be extremely rewarding.

Someday soon-ish, I want to self-suspend. :)


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Ah sorry, a combination of my sense of humour and the language variations between countries.

I wasn’t referring to the content of the article at all, just the sub heading ‘interviewing your bottom’. I fully understand the use of bottom within the context and lifestyle, but I was thinking what someone from outside who came across photos and reading this article not knowing what ‘bottom’ meant in this context.

I could imagine their response of why would anyone want to interview a bottom, arse, tush, bum, whatever your version of the body part is, when it can’t respond in a meaningful way.

My excuse is I was brought up on Monty Python style humour and could visualise a sketch based around it.
 
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