Ring of blisters

Hello,
I’ve been doing PE for about 6 months, manual stretching and jelqing and now I’m doing manual stretching with a capn’s wench with a strap down to my foot pulling. I have a bit of a problem. I’ve done a search but nothing is coming up. I’ve been using my wench for about 2 months now and I am developing a ring of very small blisters on the shaft right above where the clamp fits on the wench. Several of these blisters have popped, leaving me with a rather uncomfortable scab. I’ve been able to work through it but I’m worried about it getting any worse.
I’m using a leather chamois as my wrap.
Any ideas?

Dymn

Yeah. Knock it off.

You do not want to ‘work through it’; you want to stop and give yourself time to heal.

Then, when you are all better, you want to use a whole lot less force. If you’re using the Wench to hang that means less weight. You may also want to look into a better and more comprehensive wrapping technique.

The skin on the shaft is thin and fairly delicate - you need to protect it properly.

That help?

Very good, thanks much.

What are you wrapping with?

Never work through a PE injury. Always stop and take the necessary time to heal before starting up again and take steps to prevent the injury next time. Usually those steps involve using less force.

I stopped for about a week and everything healed up and I started again. I was using a leather chamois (used for polishing wax on cars) as recommended somewhere on here. It worked pretty well for a couple month and I didn’t have any problems until recently. I’m now using 2 strips of self adherent bandages, ACE. One is thin and one is thick. I put the thin on first and then the thick, then attach the wench. My wench was also pretty well broken in so I made a new one just to make sure it wasn’t just that it was transferring the stress of the clamp. No blisters so far.

I knew I shouldn’t have been working through it, just needed a bit of a kick in the ass from you guys. Thanks.