The Undertaking of a Rope Project, but I Need a Little Help

Ok, so back in January 2011 I was approached by MataLeao about creating a presentation on human anatomy and how it relates to rope and present it at the Jersey Rope Experiment (JRE – they rock btw). I was happy to oblige and made a class for human anatomy with relation to rope despite knowing very little about rope. The class went well, but sparked the interest of my life-partner Ever. Through conversation with her the idea came about of creating a class on how to change the body to allow for greater tolerance with suspension. From there the idea developed into a class not only for suspension, but also for rope bondage.

In more detail, the class or classes will cover how to assess the body for limitations and weakness both with postural assessment as well as movement assessment. With that information, corrective mobility and strengthening/stabilizing exercises will be taught in order to correct for weaknesses and limitations. Through correction of limited mobility as well as increasing spinal and joint stability you can improve tolerance for being in bondage or suspension because the joints are better supported and muscles can handle the stress as opposed to the stress being placed through the joints, nerves, and arteries. There is also the added bonus of reducing injuries, pain, improving metabolism, and correcting posture, but the main goal is improving your experience with rope bondage and suspension. Additionally, I am going to try to cover a variety of techniques that the top can do by adjusting the bottom through cuing and basic physical therapy techniques as opposed to adjusting the ropes.

Below I have listed topics that I would love getting your (bottoms and tops) input on.

• What are the most common reasons that people have to come down from suspension or out of bondage?
• From the perspective of the bottom, what do you find most problematic while in bondage or suspension to be able to maintain the tie?
• Aside from adjusting the rope or the tie, what do you do to allow the person to maintain bondage or the suspension?
• What do you feel are the critical elements for being able to maintain bondage and suspension?
• Sort of a similar question, what do you find are the factors that most limit someone’s ability to stay bound or in suspension?

Here is where you all come in. Being that I am not even a rope novice, I want your input on these topics. Feel free to post here or on FetLife. I am hoping to gain more information on other factors beyond changing the tie or adjusting the rope. The focus of the class is not for the actual rope, but more so on other factors that can be utilized beyond rope that can affect suspension and bondage. Thank you in advance for everyone’s input and I look forward to continuing with this project to make into something useful and effective for the community.

I would also like to extend special thanks to MataLeao, WickedBlueGlow, LqqkOut, Lochai, Ten, Roughmercies, Bendy, Poison Beatrice, David Lawrence, Midori, and The Hammer for your input already! And a special thanks to my life-partner, Ever, for spurring me into action for this class.

Cheers to your health,

Lynk

Come Celebrate the New Year at The Winter Solstice 2011

Winter Solstice is a 3 day, 3 night event from December 31st to January 2nd with tons of classes, plenty of play time, and a New Year’s celebration that is not to be missed!

For more information on classes and scheduling, check out the website at http://www.thewintersolstice.net!

Specifically I would check out the classes that are being taught by some great presenters including Pyro Sadist (who will be featured in of my classes *evil grin*), David Lawrence, Dov, MChristian, Master Don and slave orja, Master Steve and slave tami, MargoEve, Elkor, and Ms. Khiki just to name a few. There will be multiple tracks for education on different days including Rope, Dominant, Submissive Master/slave, SM, Polyamoury, Singles, and more.

The special events are also going to be great!

There is a New Year’s Eve party in the hotel featuring food, drinks, and some of the best company you can ask for!

The Bootblack Brigade will be at Winter Solstice this year for your leather care needs and half of their tips they are generously donating to the Carter-Johnson Leather Library. The
Other special events include morning bootcamps on Saturday and Sunday morning for those of you who are fitness freaks like me or who are looking to get started early with your exercise resolutions for 2011. Who is the instructor for these mornings of torture…I mean…these energy boosting, fat burning workouts? Why its me! Your local Doctor of Physical Therapy and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist.

There is also a “special event” that is occurring during one of the classes. Brian aka Pyro Sadist has graciously volunteered himself to be on my table as the Demo Bottom for my bodywork class. Now for those you who do not know, Brian is a Sadist (hence the name). The entertaining component of this situation is, so am I, and for those who have been on the receiving end of my handiwork know full well the “therapeutic” pain that Brian will be in for as the demo bottom.

Oh, and I nearly forgot to mention the presence of the phenomenal DJ that will be working this event, DJPet who has been the man behind the music at events like The Floating World and Dark Odyssey.

So check out the FetLife event page http://fetlife.com/events/23218 and the website http://www.thewintersolstice.net to help you start 2011 with the best crowd for some kinky fun!

DC Presentation on Body Mechanics

Here is the FetLife link for the class I am presenting on Body Mechanics of the scene.

http://fetlife.com/groups/307/group_posts/499638

Its on March 6th from 1-5pm at Castle Griffin

Sign up for the event is through Event Bright (click for the event sign up)

If you are not part of FetLife, but are interested, please check out the links to the right under  ”Kinky” to sign up. Its free and easy to sign up. If you don’t want to sign up, drop me a message here so that I can send you the details.

Cheers to your health,

Lynk

Why weight loss makes things more painful

Ok, I am going to be the science geek here.  I have posted this on FetLife, but thought it was appropriate for this blog as well to answer questions about why if you lose weight, your pain tolerance decreases.

As you increase your physical activity, particularly with resistance training you increase the proliferation of your nerves. Basically to increase muscle recruitment your body grows the nerves and the neural connections inside of the muscles and joints. This results in a greater position awareness and increased recruitment of muscles.

Although BDSM activities do not stimulate muscle contraction, apply enough stimulus to a nerve ending and it will be interpreted as pain (bright light in the eyes causes pain, but your eye has no pain receptors). Since the nerves have a greater number of connections in the muscles and joints they are more sensitive to feedback from the outside environment.

The increased sensitivity is also possibly due to the loss of fat because fat, like the brain and eyes, is one of the few substances that does not have pain receptors. So with the loss of fat you literally lose the pain free padding that is protecting portions of your body. Therefore strikes will be able to reach more sensitive tissues more easily with a decrease in body fat.

One last thing, I promise. Exercise stimulates blood flow to all areas of the body including the skin. With increases in blood flow you have more oxygen and nutrients (key components of healing and growth) delivered to all areas of the body (skin). More blood flow can theoretically results in a increase in the nerve endings and nerve proliferation, making the skin more sensitive to strikes.

Sometimes it is the reverse and people can tolerate more impact after fat loss, but I feel that may be more due to the increase in tolerance of physically demanding activities. Plus, as we increase our fitness level and response to fitness the body more easily enters a state where we can push ourselves (perhaps more mind over matter) and that allows us to tolerate more physically strenuous activity.

On the other hand, more organs (hopefully they are not being hit) and bony parts stick out with decreased body fat. This tends to narrow the striking space so more blows are delivered to a smaller area and that area appears to have a decreased tolerance, but really it is just getting hit more often than usual.

Hope I didn’t make your eyes glaze over and feel free to contact me or post here if you have questions.