Neat coils make for escape foils

When two arms become one!

Every so often I work with a model that really, and I mean really, tries to get loose. They shimmy and shake, wiggle and wriggle with all their might trying to loosen the ropes. Delicate fingers capped with shiny polish reach towards knots and pick at rope coils. They rub their faces against anything to get that gag out and if given the chance will roll everywhere to find something to help with release that would only come from the end of the set.

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I will tailor a restraint based on their requests. I will make adjustments, I will redo certain aspects and I will respect any limit. I will tie you up quickly and release you even faster. I'm a firm believer that if you can't get somebody out in the time it takes to cut them loose then you deserve to spend a lot of money on new rope. Anyone who has worked with me also knows that despite how flexible I am you will be restrained tightly, completely and with everything as taut as possible.

I had a model ask me once, "Jesus, why do you have to tie so tight?" I offered to loosen things up for her. She refused and said, "It's not a complaint, I just really want to know why everything is so damn tight." I really had to think about it after the shoot. Why did I tie so tight? Am I an ogre? Is it just visually appealing to me? After a couple days mulling over it I was putting together a clip sampler for a website interested in me helping them with content. Going back through my footage I realized I used to tie tight but much more modestly. The rope was snug and neat, but there was a lot less of it and it was much less strict.

I worked with a model about two dozen times during those early days who was for lack of a better term a character actress. She didn't do lines very well and couldn't handle complex direction. The way she handled that was to tell photographers she was a great struggler ... tie her up as tight as you want, and she would do her best to get free until you said, "cut." The first time I worked with her she actually got loose. I was shocked. I watched dumb-founded as one knot came loose, followed by her ankle ropes, followed by her going into a drawer, followed by her finding nothing but using the corner of the drawer to work loose the knot on her wrists, followed by her rubbing her elbow ropes on the mantle until they slid off. She had no concern for personal comfort. Her entire goal was to endure anything to keep struggling and get loose.

I realized at that point the reason I tie so tightly is that it's the only way a girl won't get loose. It was a simple matter of form following function. My goal was to show true restraint, and my tagline was heroines at their most helpless. That means nobody gets out until the shooting is finished. My footage showed a clear evolution from the time she showed me what happens when a damsel actually tries to get loose. Each time I worked with her she tried harder to get loose, and I made things more and more impossible for her to free herself.

She never got loose again, nobody has. The experience did show me though what a real damsel looked like, and it taught me that if someone really wants to get loose you really need to be strict to make sure they don't!

HeavenLee

I had the pleasure of working with HeavenLee a number of times, but I've never released any footage of her. She passed on several years back, and I just didn't have the heart to publish material of someone I liked as a person, enjoyed working with and was no longer with us. I guess it felt a bit morbid and made me a little sad. I mean when she was at her worst I sent her a bunch of free XBox games and would get emails about how it was great of me because she couldn't get out of bed.

I was going through some of the material recently, and it changed my mind. Something that happens when you shoot is that the camera stays on sometimes when you're untying someone and you're just chatting. There were conversations where she talked about how much she loved bondage, relished the challenge of tight restraint and wanted to become one of the best bondage models in the business. She'd have a huge smile and laugh and then tease me about how I tied too loose. It made me realize that I hadn't been focusing on the HeavenLee full of life.

That's when I came across this tape. She had been sick for several months and I was the the first person she'd shot with in almost 4 months. She came in and told me that she wanted to be tested, she needed to know she could still hold up. I was a bit apprehensive, but she assured me it was alright. I tied her tight, cocooned her in a black sheet and did a scene where she was carried upstairs and put through her paces. She grunted and writhed cocooned, then dressed, then topless and then hogtied. She was non-stop motion for over 30 minutes where her elbows were welded bone-to-bone and the hogtie was merciless. She definitely still had it! She kept wriggling until she had nothing left. That's the HeavenLee I'm going to remember now. She wanted to be one of the best and goddammit she is.

Check out HeavenLee in Bagged Beauty Tested and Bested to get a glimpse of one of the best bondage models anyone could have had the pleasure to work with!