Pretzel

Everyone has positions that they do regularly. Hogties, frog ties, chair ties and such become part of a rigger's palette of ties. Some positions get more play, but everyone has a certain way that they execute them. Crisp coils, raw wrapping, nylon rope, cotton cord, strict, playful, ballgags, wadding, tape and cloth all become parts of the signature that brands a person's work.

Just as importantly how people do the ties is just as telling. I've always viewed rigging as sculpture where I mold the damsel. It is just as artistic in some cases as putting pencil to paper or paint to canvas. Even further, there are customizations folks do with positions that make them unique. I have names for a lot of my "takes" on the standard positions. I have a suspension I call the "Do Not Disturb" and a chair tie called "Furniture on Furniture." They differ with each model but contain some overlapping key elements.

One of the tougher ones I have is called the "Pretzel." It starts as a lotus tie and although it gives you plenty of time to meditate you're probably going to be thinking about how much you want out. I worked with a gal called Spiral a couple times. We did a nice struggle and grope sequence in a black catsuit and a fun spanking sequence in a sport dress. Each time her elbows were crushed. The position that made the shoot though we only got 2 minutes of video because it just pushed her to the max. That was the Pretzel.

See her tap out of the Pretzel, get spanked, get groped, wiggle like hell and rock a killer catsuit in Crushed Elbows and Catsuits!

She wore red and I made her ass cheeks match!

I sat down a bit back and decided on some themes I'd wanted to be consistent in all of my work. Spanking was one of those things. Am I a huge fan of spanking? I'd say not particularly, but I do so love to make a girl squirm. Spanking certainly does the trick. That's when I began experimenting with crops, floggers and mild spanking.

It's an element that works for me on a couple levels. The obvious is that in a damsel in distress video you can guarantee a lot of distress! Equally as important you now have a way to extract compliance or information from a damsel. "I'll never tell you where the key is!" WHACK!!! "The key is in that drawer over there!" Finally, man-handling has always been on my list and having your hand on someones cheeks is a great way to get that element.

I will fully admit that I'm not the greatest spanker. I will also admit that a favorite girl of mine is not the best at setting limits for me. We warmed her up, and I told her I'd spank until she said it was too intense. We set the limit and then away we went for the video. I told her to take as much as she could but say enough when it was too much. And so ten minutes later she said enough. The next day she emailed me about the bruising, the trouble sitting and some canceled shoots. Now before you think I just beat people's asses raw I need to say this was a test between two people that trusted each other and wanted to see how far the spanking could be taken. She wanted to know her limits as much as I wanted to push them. However, I have pulled back the level of intensity I use slightly since this :)

If you want to see a very pretty gal getting groped, mauled and her ass reddened like you'll never see anywhere, check out Angelique in Spanked and Mauled.

Kendra James what were you thinking?

It's always fun to go through video and pull out the odd things that happen during a shoot. Like when the dog gets loose and gets into the scene or UPS picks the the perfectly wrong moment to need a signature on a delivery. I should do a blooper reel someday! I do actually have a piece of video where the model told me her boyfriend would be checking up on her once an hour and if she was indisposed I should pick up and tell him she'd call him right back. Sure enough in full restraint and tape-gagged the phone rings, I pick up and I say the classic, "she's a bit tied up at the moment, she'll call you back." He said to put the phone by her ear and she mmmphhs four times. After the shoot she told me they agreed that any number of mmmphs other than four would mean call the cops. I find that funny until this day! Why four? Who knows, still damn funny though.

My first shoot with Kendra had some funny moments as well, mainly because she's a hoot to be around. I still have a vivid recollection of her in a naked lotus tie, neck to ankles, and hearing, "little help please." I know I've told the story but turning around to see nothing but feet and you-know-what was a bit shocking, very funny and just plain awesome from a perv point of view.

Some of the things that really get my wheels turning though are when I see expressions and wonder what is going through their heads at the time. It's fairly obvious when the expression means "just get this over with idiot!" Other times it's a bit harder to read. I was working on screen shots and just had to put up this one from Kendra James in Vintage Vixen Hogtied. I had recently re-mastered it for better color and a higher bit rate. I took the screen shot because it had drool, and I LOVE drool. Nobody plays a character in distress better than Kendra, so it could just be play-acting. The more I look at it though the more it seems to say that she knows the only way I'll get the camera out of her face is to drool. I can't even view it anymore without knowing she's thinking, "here, it's all over my bra now, happy, now film something else already!"