Horses are great for girth once you get used to them. Some people use horse440’s original method for squeezing the blood out of the head (forcing a small ok over the head), others simply squeeze the head. To squeeze you really need to use 2-3 fingers and a thumb. Its important to hold a kegel for the length of the horse (around 30 seconds).
Steer clear of erect bends. A lot of guys have noted injury from this exercise (which is why you won’t seem many mentions here). You are talking about applying a lot of force to potentially very small areas.
The horseshoe bend is a horse modification, the best description I’ve seen is by hobby on PEForum in this post. Its not so much an erect bend as a pumped bend.
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I’ve been gradually working into these between pumping sets over the past 2 weeks.I get mostly erect and clamp off with an OK at the base, then let most of the "hardness" of the erection subside while I kegel as much blood as I can ahead of the OK. I try to get 100% engorged, but not "erect" - similar situation to a Uli. My dick stays semi-flaccid behind my OK grip. DLD, is this what you mean by "100% erect"?
Then I bend slowly. The tourniquet grip has to be really tight, even then I still lose some blood past it during a bend and need to kegel more into the shaft. I straighten my dick out when I pump in more blood (every 5-10 seconds), then go back into the bend. I spend around 20 seconds bending a direction before I move on.
I have a hell of a time gaining girth, but I’m hopeful horseshoes mixed with pumping will do the trick.