Newbie questions about manual routine

Hello, I’ve been a member of this site for 2 years now; I tried doing the PE routine when I first joined and did like a week or 10 days and lost interest/life happened.
I am starting anew and decided to commit this time. I started my routine just last monday, so this is the begining of my second week; I am doing a 2on1off and 3on1off routine since it fits my schedule. I do however have some newb questions, I did try to search the forum for answers, but couldn’t find answers for what I have in mind exactly.

My questions regarding stretching:
- I am still a dabbler and am trying different type of the basic stretch; circular stretches, power stretches and the sort. I already did my routine for today and I have noticed that unlike last week, when I am stretching straight out or any direction besides up for 30+ secs I feel that the ligaments near the base of my penis have become ‘loose’, unlike last week where they were feeling stiff and sturdy.
Is this normal? Or is it a bad indicator? And how should I proceed?

- Regarding Jelqs, I am doing exclusively wet jelqs, and jelq and hold. I do have an obnoxiously large fat pad (I am working on losing it) so when I jelq the skin just move with my ok grip, so I have to use my other hand to hold the skin back at the base.
My question is whether this is counterproductive? And whether I should change to another jelq method that circumvents around this issue?
- Another question is the intensity of the grip and the level of erection during the jelq. I don’t seem to feel the jelqing when I am like below 50% erection, I do however feel the blood pumping up when I am close to full erection at like 70-80%.
Should I jelq only at higher erection level or any erection level will do? Keeping a higher erection level while jelqing is quite a challenge :/ I have to restore erection level every 20-25 strokes (I am only doing 160 strokes right now —60 reps) which became time consuming. And how tight should my grip be? Extra tight? Mild?

Thank you in advance.

Welcome back, Javax.
1. This doesn’t sound concerning to me. I’d continue stretching as you are, listening to the feedback from your body each time.
2. I also use my non-jelqing hand to hold my scrotum back, which sounds similar to what you’re describing. I think it’s helpful to do this, and then my hand is ready to go in position for the next jelq .
3. My erection level changes throughout the duration of my routine each day. I actually think it’s probably helpful to have different levels of erection, perhaps there are different benefits for working at these different levels. What I do to help maintain my erection though is I do a very short Kegle towards the end of each jelq. Some people use porn :-) I don’t fuss with porn, because it screws up sex and erection level for me.

Good luck!
EZd

Thank you EZduzzit for your answers, appreciate it.

Not going to look at porn either, I’ll try the kegeling method.