Portable, easily concealable Suspension Tripods are a goal sought by many a Kink! There’s a Great discussion going on over at Fetlife about them.
If you are willing to spend a bit of cash (not much, really) and take the time to learn, here’s the basics you’ll need to know.
BondageLessons.com has a rundown on the materials and techniques. See the page Here.
YouTube has a great video showing us all how to tie a tripod. I’ve included it below.
This really is a cool bit of technique for anyone interested in building a basic, portable suspension rig.
Just remember…BE CAREFUL!! And you do this at your own risk. Any suspension is dangerous and DungeonPlace.com takes no responsibility for your actions.
This Scene was created by the collaboration of Mindnbody and NickM with their mad rigging skills. Their victim? Of course it was the beautiful DarlingEvil.
My involvement was a complete surprise, since the Scene began while I was doing my turn as a DM and was relieved before the Scene ended.
Flogging a bound woman
MindnBody was busy working DE as well. Floggers, canes, quirts…for DE it was a scene that pushed her as she’s not one who’s keen on high pain.
I’m thinking it was the rope. She IS keen on rope. Rope is a smile and a tonic in her kink DNA.
Such a fun Scene…I think we need to do it again soon. Perhaps as a wedding gift.
DarlingEvil and I are very fortunate. We live in an area with an active BDSM community that strives to educate its members. Through the years I’ve seen many presenters come in to share their knowledge. A very, very few have left me with so much as Lew Rubens.
Some of you may be familiar with Lew’s work. He currently operates the Site www.boundndetermined.com where his amazing and innovative rope work is on display.
Earlier I mentioned that Rope was never a big priority in my play; for DarlingEvil it’s a passion. She loves the feel of rope, she loves tying people, suspending them and playing with her helpless victims.
Imagine how she felt when Lew taught her how easy it was to suspend someone my size…or larger?
Tutivillus suspended by DarlingEvil
It’s an experience I look forward to seeing her post. But imagine…a whisp of a woman easily suspending a person twice her weight and nearly a foot taller?
We had been studying rope for a few months prior to the class and had learned enough to boggle our brains.
What Lew taught us in those 16 hours simply blew our minds. Amazing. We’re still processing it.
Rope was a pain in the ass – it drove me nuts. Even before I was invited to leave the “Boy Scouts” I hated working with ropes and knots. Tedious, memorization, crap knowledge vying for the limited storage space in my already crammed head.
Then came kink.
I opted for traditional and non-traditional restraints. Some of my favorites were faux-fur lined restraints I picked up at a local pet-shop. On and off in seconds, sturdy, easily connected to carabiners and chains. Their main drawback was DarlingEvil could slip out of them in no time.
I began looking seriously at making some very evil leather restraints.
Then came the rope. . . and the conversations.
Do not get me wrong here and don’t get your “wadding” panties at the ready. This is not a Manifesto about the “Death of Traditional Restraints in the Modern BDSM Community”. Until they make Leather Flavored (and scented) rope I think we’re safe.
Rope is a beautifully versatile thing. It’s cheap, it comes in a nearly limitless selection of sizes and colors and styles and you can tie it to almost anything! As a restraint device it is incredible.
Best of all…if someone decides to walk away with your $5 rope? Well…it’s a lot better than someone walking away with your $105 leather cuffs.
I have forced myself to put away all of the restraints. They’re in a big metal box, where I cannot easily get at them. I will not use them for now. Instead I will get into the habit of using my rope and my knots.
Now, I still want a pair of those leather bondage mittens…I can’t do those with rope…
DarlingEvil and I attended an amazing workshop this weekend taught by Lew Rubens. DE and I will do an in-depth write-up a bit later, but it’s worth mentioning how much we learned!
I’d done 1 suspension before this class. My rope skill consisted of this:
basic hogtied sub
By the end of the class I was doing this:
face down ankle tie suspension (picture by Gina Fury)
Amazing. We learned Safety, technique and some amazing rope work!
Thank you Lew! And thank you to ALL who put this class together.
(This picture makes me smile and is COMPLETELY unrelated to this post…other than it makes me smile.)
In light of Centering, I’m engaged in battle with various bits of my body and the world around it to fight off this year’s version of The Plague. I don’t have time for it. I don’t want it. I will not yield.
So I sleep, I take care of myself (as one should when faced with Plague) and attempt to quaff various concoctions whose origins lie somewhere between Witchcraft, Voodoo and Marketing.
I’m also centering around various aspects of planning. For the sake of focus I’ll stay on topic and try not to spin too far off the subjects you expect for this venue.
The two prime targets are Scenes I’m involved in as “victim”. An “energy pull” and a “suicide suspension”.
The pull is fairly easy to plan for. Get hooks, get piercing needles, get stuck and have fun. Manly displays of Herculean Feats of Strength are always good times…especially since the other victim and I will be in kilts.
No word yet on the fishnets.
The suspension is proving to be a bitch of a different name. The hooks and needles are easy. The rigging is easy. The location is easy. The knowledge is…well, that’s been some study, talking to a few of the “right people” and then simply do (hoping it’s done well). But there’s this damn piece of equipment used as a balancer. It goes from the lines coming from the needles to the rope being used in the suspension – keeping everything centered and even.
That’s hard to find. So I’ll probably have to have it made.
Planning. It keeps me busy and keeps the Plague at bay.
“I want to put a paper mache head on someone who’s been suspended and turn them into into a Pinata!” I said as the ropework began.
Nick_M turned from a knot and piped in “We could stick candy in their ass!”
It was an impromptu scene. DarlingEvil and I had talked about the whole Pinata idea earlier that evening. Now it was partially coming to fruition.
No, we didn’t get a chance to stick candy up her ass and hit her with the foam bats.
DarlingEvil in rope
Nick_M and MindnBody did the hard work. Watching the banter between DE and those two was hillarious. Once DE was up te floggers and torture began. At one point Nick_M took the DM duty from me and let me play with my suspended darling.
Photo by DeviantTe
It was glorious!
I know DE will be writing about this soon, but damn, it was a fun scene to be a part of.
DE acts as both submissive (on loan) and Rigger in two different scenes. She’s nervous…very. Mostly about the suspension she’s doing with MindnBody’s help. He and I have no doubt…she’ll suceede splendidly.
I am taking my girl to the party, scening with her and conducting a nice, solid flogging on another girl.
