Back to the real thing - ozbondage laced leather armbinder.
Today, I did a good job, perhaps nearly a too good one, not sure. Point is, that I figured out a way to tighten the lace more evenly along the length of the armbinder.
Preparation: Open the lace of the armbinder just wide enough to get both arms in, while the armbinder hangs on my shoulders. Get one arm in and make sure, that there are no wrinkles. Then get the other arm in slowly, going back and forth, avoiding wrinkles as much as possible - perhaps the hardest part. Finally, go to the corner of a table and use it between the crosses of the lacing to pull the armbinder straight. Wrinkles are painful, so they must be avoided at all cost! Then get to your favourite door-handle and get the end of the string over it.
The closing method is easy: I keep my arms straight and apart, just as far as the armbinder allows. Then I pull on the string (see a few pages earlier) without really giving way with my arms. I could sort of feel and hear, how the string went through the eyelets and tightened over its length, without really making the armbinder tighter. When I had the impression, that the string was completely "straight" (zigzagging through the eyelets), I let my elbows be pulled together slowly, always keeping some resistance.
The result was the best, I have ever achieved. Perhaps it was just pure luck, but I don't think so. I will make more tests soon. The best thing was, that I got rid of most of the slack around the elbow joints. Actually, I didn't pull as much as I could, because I noticed, that the armbinder got pretty tight around my wrists (and, in fact, it is my hope, that once perfectly laced, the wrists will be caught securely - but better not in self-bondage). It is a while ago, that I have used this armbinder, so I cannot compare exactly, but today, it was pretty hard to pull one arm out. I think, the slack on the elbow joints is also due to my securing method. I think, while pulling the lace, the armbinder and the muscles of my upper arms are shifted upwards a bit. Once I release the tension, both go down and "collapses" around the elbows, where there are immobile bones only.
Ok, initially, I wrote "perhaps nearly a too good one". I did so, because this was the first time, where I felt my wrists so close together. I didn't pull the lace as much as possible, because I got a lucky hunch... For future tries, I will add an emergency escape near the wrists. In case it turns out, that it isn't necessary, I can remove it again.
For those, who don't want to read back, here is, how I set up the lace: It is threaded normally, from bottom to top, then both ends fed through a string stopper from opposite sides. Then the ends are fed through the last eyelets (again) opposite the original "last eyelet". The ends are then tied together to form a loop, that can be attached to a door handle for example.
Today, I did a good job, perhaps nearly a too good one, not sure. Point is, that I figured out a way to tighten the lace more evenly along the length of the armbinder.
Preparation: Open the lace of the armbinder just wide enough to get both arms in, while the armbinder hangs on my shoulders. Get one arm in and make sure, that there are no wrinkles. Then get the other arm in slowly, going back and forth, avoiding wrinkles as much as possible - perhaps the hardest part. Finally, go to the corner of a table and use it between the crosses of the lacing to pull the armbinder straight. Wrinkles are painful, so they must be avoided at all cost! Then get to your favourite door-handle and get the end of the string over it.
The closing method is easy: I keep my arms straight and apart, just as far as the armbinder allows. Then I pull on the string (see a few pages earlier) without really giving way with my arms. I could sort of feel and hear, how the string went through the eyelets and tightened over its length, without really making the armbinder tighter. When I had the impression, that the string was completely "straight" (zigzagging through the eyelets), I let my elbows be pulled together slowly, always keeping some resistance.
The result was the best, I have ever achieved. Perhaps it was just pure luck, but I don't think so. I will make more tests soon. The best thing was, that I got rid of most of the slack around the elbow joints. Actually, I didn't pull as much as I could, because I noticed, that the armbinder got pretty tight around my wrists (and, in fact, it is my hope, that once perfectly laced, the wrists will be caught securely - but better not in self-bondage). It is a while ago, that I have used this armbinder, so I cannot compare exactly, but today, it was pretty hard to pull one arm out. I think, the slack on the elbow joints is also due to my securing method. I think, while pulling the lace, the armbinder and the muscles of my upper arms are shifted upwards a bit. Once I release the tension, both go down and "collapses" around the elbows, where there are immobile bones only.
Ok, initially, I wrote "perhaps nearly a too good one". I did so, because this was the first time, where I felt my wrists so close together. I didn't pull the lace as much as possible, because I got a lucky hunch... For future tries, I will add an emergency escape near the wrists. In case it turns out, that it isn't necessary, I can remove it again.
For those, who don't want to read back, here is, how I set up the lace: It is threaded normally, from bottom to top, then both ends fed through a string stopper from opposite sides. Then the ends are fed through the last eyelets (again) opposite the original "last eyelet". The ends are then tied together to form a loop, that can be attached to a door handle for example.
