#learning the ropes

[ropesbypatricia]

Let's tie my favorite hip harness for self-suspension + the top vote of my recent diamond hip harness poll: The Diamond Back

This build is a sort of hybrid between a Swiss seat and a hip harness and it's my go-to for extended aerial play. It can be modified easily to accommodate different body shapes and sizes and it's an amalgamation of many different builds I've studied over the years from many great minds in rope

1-3) To begin, I will tie a single column tie (SCT) around my low waist - I can begin with my bight on either side of my body

*take note of which side your bight enters from*

4) I have secured my SCT in line with my belly button using a Somerville bowline, you make whatever SCT you prefer. I pull my SCT downward in a slight V shape

*whichever side of your body you started with your bight to build your SCT, that is the same direction we will begin tying our first leg wrap*

1) I make my first leg wrap nice and high running just beneath my butt cheek in the back

2) I friction over and behind my hip lines and my diagonal leg line exiting toward my crotch and approximately 1/2" from my SCT knot

*experiment with the placement of this friction for your individual comfort*

3) To adjust the tension in my leg wrap, I feed slack behind me with one hand and receive it in the front of my body with my other hand

4) I pull my working lines downward eliminating my transferred slack

5) I make a second wrap of my leg tracing below my first wrap

6) I friction up and over my leg lines, exiting toward the outside of my body

1) I equalize the tension in both my leg wraps and move over my inner leg wraps

2) I move behind my leg stem

3) And I move across my leg stem, ensuring I compact down all of my frictions

*you can see I've created another intentional upside-down V shape in the angle of my leg bands, and this will allow for more freedom of movement in my hip flexor*

4) I added another rope in another colour for clarity, and I mirrored my pattern on my other leg, exiting across my front and utop the last friction knot of my first leg to encourage it to stay nice and compacted

The next element we will build is a booty rope bridge which will capture both my leg wraps in a munter hitch

1) I run my line along the lower half of the space between my leg wraps and waist wraps all the way around my backside, and to the opposite side of the front of my body

2) I run my lines from tip to base of my finger, at the front of my body where I can better see what I'm doing

3) I shift my tensioned line back and under my butt cheek

4) I cut across my butt moving lower than my previous band

5) I move from tip to base of my finger again at the front of my body where it's easier to see what I'm doing

6) I slide that line back under my other butt cheek

7) I move up diagonally across both of my standing booty lines

8) I friction over and behind both lines exiting towards my crotch

9) to complete my munter hitch, I move my line from tip to base of finger again, exiting toward the front of my body

I take time to equalize the size of my booty bridge loops by adjusting my munter hitch, as well as flattening my leg wraps so they lay nice and flat like bands which will be much more comfortable when we take this harness into the air later

2) I move straight across the front of my harness running right above my previous pass

3) I continue to trace my previous wrap to the back

4) I make a simple twist around the top of my booty bridge friction moving my lines from tip of finger to base

5-6) I exit above my standing booty bridge band, pulling up slightly to maintain tension, exiting toward the front of my body

1) I added another scrap of rope in a third colour for clarity, and I continue the build by moving directly across the front of my harness again utop my previous pass

2) I make a half hitch (HH) around my booty band placing it in my natural gluteal divot

*experiment with placement of your HH here for individual comfort*

3) I tension my HH by pulling slightly upwards as I exit diagonally up toward my hip lines

4) I capture my hip lines with a simple twist, pulling downward into another slight V shape, I exit beneath my opposite booty band to create a mirrored HH on the other side of my butt

5-6) I maintain firm tension and pull these bands upwards slightly before completing my second HH and exiting toward the front of my body

1) Now we will perform a very tight weave and create a reverse half moons friction to incorporate our mid bands securely into our front harness bar. To begin, I move across the front of my harness running my lines above all of the previous passes

2) Weave from tip to base of finger

3) Continue behind the other side of my hip lines from tip to base of finger

4) I carefully cinch and compact the top of my half moons friction, careful not to overly tension my top midline pass as I cinch, and ensuring I don't accidentally nip up flesh or clothing in my ropes as I weave

5) I move over all of my midline bands, and under my leg stems following tip to base of finger

6) I carefully cinch and pull my working lines away from my flesh and leggings

7) continue behind my other leg stem moving my lines from tip to base of finger

8) I move over all of the midlines again, and back under my hip lines following tip to base of finger

9) With my half moons weave completed, all I need to do now is finish with my rope ends

1) You can finish your ends as you see fit, here I'm simply splitting my working ends and running one is them through my original SCT bight

2) half a square knot

3) the second half of a square knot

4-6) a look at the completed diamond back hip harness

Click here for a video guide to tying this harness as well as a look at how it maintains during transitions in suspension

If you give this build a go, I would love to hear about it! Feel free to tag me here or on any other platform we're grooving together on ❤️

Knots of love from me to you 💋🪢

#shibari #rope #self tie #rope tutorial #kink education #suspension #diamond harness #learning the ropes #hip harness #pictutorial

[saiyan-druid-art]

Yeehawgust Day 22 - Learning the Ropes 🐴

#yeehawgust #yeehawgust 2023 #learning the ropes #belated because i was distracted 😆 #arthur morgan #young arthur morgan #kid arthur morgan #arthur morgan fanart #rdr2 #rdr2 fanart #rdr #rdr2 arthur #fanart #red dead redemption 2 #red dead #red dead redemption #rdr2 artwork #rdr2 art #he is BABY #saiyan druid art #digital art #artists on tumblr #rdr2 community #red dead redemption community #rdr2 fandom #arthur morgan rdr2

[bugsnaxaudio]

I return from my month-and-a-half long hiatus to bring you… something that isn’t one of the requests in my inbox collecting dust!

Let me explain something pretty cool: in the game, if you and an NPC are in a biome and you're standing next to the NPC, you'll hear a subtle bass melody accompanying the BGM. It's a little detail I don't see many people talking about, but I really like it because I think it adds life to the environment (if that makes sense, haha).

However, these bass melodies are seemingly absent from the soundtrack you can find on most streaming services. I decided to give my best go at re-adding the bass melody into the album release versions of the soundtrack, and I think it came out pretty nice! I might do the rest if enough people find it interesting.

One of these days, I’ll finally snap out of my laziness and actively get onto the requests. But today? Not that day.

#bugsnax #audio type: music #learning the ropes #flavor falls #garden grove

[jules-van-hering]

I feel so pretty 🍋

#another tutorial by kinkyfemqueer #the matching reds on my favourite bedsheets make me so happy #learning the ropes #mine #rope #🐟

[skidar]

Yeehawgust Day 22: Learning the Ropes

Dan with his young deputy, Hayley, going over the basics.

#skidar art #skytown #dan ferro #sheriff dan #hayley trelawney #mouse #rat #anthro #hidden stars #yeehawgust #learning the ropes

[sonofsaviors]

Learning the Ropes (Eleanor and Logan RP)

@knivesovt

Sometimes, Logan wondered if it was a good thing or a bad thing that he seemed to take to this new world; not that he didn't miss his old life - Mom's absence was a wound that never healed, and what had happened to her...

He still had nightmares.

And to add to that was his separation from his father. Sometimes Dad made an appearance in his nightmares too, at least until he was too exhausted to even dream.

The young boy shook his head, clearing his thoughts. Dreams were for when he had a safe place to rest his head for the night and not before.

In an abandoned neighborhood, populated by abandoned cars and overgrown lawns, Logan was trying to find a safe place to bed down for the evening; the sun was setting, casting an intense reddish-orange glow over the buildings. Logan supposed, worst case scenario, he could sleep in a car again...

#knivesovt #Eleanor - Post Apocalypse Teacher #Learning the Ropes #Eleanor Brooks - Miss El #Eleanor Brooks - Momma El

[waywardwizzard]

"Wo de ma he ta de fen kuang de wai sheng dou."

"I think I should be the one saying that Captain," Simon hissed through clenched teeth.

He groaned when Mal put pressure on the shoulder wound. Shaking his head, trying to stay awake, the doctor tapped Mal's arm and pointed to something behind him.

"The-the med-"

Mal's hand shot out and haphazardly grabbed at the red bag he hoped knew should be behind him.

"Tell me what I need to do."

Simon's eyes fluttered. The Captain gently tapped the kid's cheek.

"Hey, hey, doc'. Focus on me. I need you to tell me what to do."

Hazy blue eyes met his. Cold fingers struggled with the zip and Mal scrambled to help.

"Ad-adrenaline. Sh-should keep-keep me..."

"You know, doc," Mal said while he loaded the hypo with clumsy fingers, "when you said I should start learning the ropes, I didn't think you meant like this."

Simon laughed breathlessly, pain etched onto his face.

"Sor-sorry."

Mal's eyes softened and he brushed a quick hand through Simon's hair, trying to hide how much it was shaking.

"You won't apologize when you see my needle work. There was a reason my ma never let me near a needle and thread."

#firefly #serenity #space western #browncoats #firefly fanfiction #yeehawgust #browncoats unite #sci fi #malcolm reynolds #simon tam #hurt #whump writing #whump #yeehawgust day 22 #learning the ropes #field medicine #gunshot #wounded #hurt/comfort #well sort of #browncoat for life

[whywishesarehorses]

Learning the Ropes - A Green Hand

Ed Quigley tribute piece; when I sell this one, I’ll donate proceeds to the trail org he rode with.

#horse #equestrian #horseblr #art #my art #pyrography #wood burning #Ed Quigley #Yeehawgust #yeehawgust 2023 #learning the ropes #branding #cattle branding #working cattle #cowboys #cowboy #bucking horse #rodeo #calf #bronc #I spent time burning when it was 105 out to have this done for the right day and then I forgot to post it omg

[yeehawgust]

The saying goes “this ain’t my first rodeo,” but everyone’s gotta have a first rodeo sometime. If this is your first rodeo, well that’s fine, pardner, you’re just Learning the Ropes!

#learning the ropes #writing prompts #art prompts #drawing prompts #daily prompts #Yeehawgust #yeehawgust 2023

[ropesbypatricia]

Rope Techniques ~ Tying without a partner

Here are a couple of tactics I have utilized in practicing shibari when I'm not able to work with a partner

First: Here's how I added "elbows" to my plastic mannequin to enable her to be placed into a gote or box position

The arms of my mannequin disconnect at the shoulders, so I started by removing them and then sawed them apart at the elbow

Next, I stuffed both open ends of the plastic arm halves with foam pool noodles I had on hand

I connected the stuffed arms by running bent lengths of wire hangers into the pool foam to act as a semi-adjustable joint

Finally, I wrapped and secured both new joints with a length of ace bandage and some duct tape - I dress my mannequin in a body suit so the rope has something to grip; the plastic mannequin skin lacks the toothsomeness of human flesh

Second: a simpler and very similar effect can be achieved for gote/tk practice without a mannequin. You can throw a hoodie over a full-backed chair, such as a kitchen chair, and stuff a rolled towel inside the joined arms of the hoodie as pictured below:

Sometimes we cannot tie with a partner. These pictures were taken during the COVID lockdowns, for example.

And while these inanimate accommodations cannot take the place of partnered learning, they have helped me to advance my understanding of patterns and builds and rope handling along the way and I hope they may be of use to some of you too!

*This is the mannequin I modified above which was gifted to me by my SO*

#shibari #rope techniques #partner free tying #tying without a partner #learning the ropes #mannequin #thoughts on rope #kink education #practice makes progress

[dop2nz]

#Yeehawgust 2023- "Learning the Ropes."

Yep! These folks're learnin' the ropes, all right- they're learnin' that they can be tied up, dragged, tossed on a railroad track, thrown off a cliff, you name it- with ropes!

#yeehawgust #yeehaugust 2023 #learning the ropes #funny pics #photoshoppery #funny memes #joke #rdr2 fandom #rdr2 fanart #rdr2 arthur

[stillprocrastinatingsorry]

#my art #rottmnt #chibi #learning the ropes #of wtf is blend mode

[baubeautyandthegeek]

Learning The Ropes - Casey Matthews/Rosalita Sanchez, Kate Riley/Rhonda LeBeck

A/N: Day 22 of @yeehawgust and we're getting some more @thetremorssaga up in here.

Kate Riley and Rhonda LeBeck had been working with Casey Matthews ever since she moved to Perfection, so when Casey asked if they minded her bringing in a friend to ‘learn the ropes’ with them, they had agreed easily. Now, with Rosalita listening and learning every day, Kate found herself smirking as she joined Rhonda at the tent edge with a fresh can of cola from the cooler they had brought with them. “She seems happy…” “Young love.” Rhonda murmurs, leaning closer. “She’s a quick learner too…. Look at her.” Rosalita is coated in a fairly thick coat of dust and grime, mostly sand, smiling as she helps Casey settle the last of their set up of wires and sensors. They’d worked around El Blanco, selecting a safe area of land just outside Burt’s land, a place they all knew El Blanco ignored. Learning the ropes had lead to Rosalita lending them a hand and, much as neither Kate or Rhonda would ask, charming Casey into loving her all the more.

#tremors #tremors 2: aftershocks #tremors: the series #tremors saga #rosalita sanchez #casey matthews #kate riley #rhonda lebeck #rosalita/casey #casey/rosalita #kate/rhonda #rhonda/kate #yeehawgust #yeehawgust2023 #yeehawgust 2023 #day 22 #learning the ropes

[chocolatepeanutexpert]

#danger #ships #learning the ropes #dock

[bizarrepotpourri]

Słuchej, paciuloku. Bier rzić na wózek, zdupiej do tego chlewa z którego wylazłeś, i ani słowa o naszym gościu, ja?!

Czyli jak przetłumaczyć ze szkockiego na śląski.

Ktoś podobno tak swego czasu próbował przetłumaczyć coś z Kiplinga, zastępując brytyjskie dialekty polskimi gwarami, ku wielkiemu niezadowoleniu przytaczającego przykład. Ale co innego zrobić ze strażniczką więzienną ze szkockiej (mniej więcej) prowincji, opieprzającą wścibskiego dziennikarza słowami "Lis’n ‘ere, ya funt. Git oan yer trolley, feck off tae wha’ver sty ye came oot of, and nae a word aboot oor Sassnack guest, y’ear me?!"

"Bier rzić na wózek i zdupiej, paciuloku ty." 🤣

#po polsku #moja twórczość #polskie tłumaczenie #Special Officer 432 #Learning the Ropes #ślonska godka #gwara śląska