Bird2: interesting that this is coming around because this is basically what I’ve been turning to in the length part of my workout. I started doing variants of this because of a reccomendation in a rather ‘esoteric’ book on men’s sexual health by this guy, Mantak Chia.
In his length workout you get full wood, inhale deeply, grasp the pole as deep on the base as you can go, hold your breath (he calls it “locking” the breath), kegel, and then slide your tightly grasped hand an inch or two up the shaft (thus creating a jelq-like swell north of your grip). You then proceed to bend your dick over to the left thigh where you “beat it against the thigh” while breathing deeply and pulling outward. He reccomends beating your dick against your leg 36 times. You then repeat the process on the right thigh and then do it pointing straight out. This is then followed by pulling it out toward each thigh and rotating it clockwise (and then counter clockwise) in the same manner. I also do it down and up. I’ve started doing it for longer than I do my flacid stretches and length gains are still coming. In fact, this month (even though I’ll probably post a 1/8th inch length gain on my log) I’ve been able to measure a 1/4” gain a couple times.
I think the main thing to focus on with these exercises is a REALLY DEEP AND THOROUGH WARMUP and the fact that the majoity of the fatigue ends up being on your LIGS.
Under full erection strength the ligs are already pretty maxed out so that if you then apply a force to them which further stretches them….well, then you’re really hitting them. For this, you should heat them up really well.
And then there’s the matter of GRIP. When you’re doing flaccid stretches, there’s so much keeping you from getting a good grip and really stretching on those resistant, down deep ligs. However, when you’ve erect, and everything is taught, simply pushing in any direction that there is resistance GIVES A WELL FULCRUMED LINE OF FORCE UPON THE ROOT OF YOUR DICK (ligs).
Since I’m doing these every workout now I’ve started to really heat the base of my dick better too. I think that’s really important with these.
I also am less interested in the angle you’ve mentioned (straight down) than the straight out, left, right, and straight up positions as I kind of intuitively feel that emphasizing the straight down erect bend could affect erection angle/strength over the long run….but then, maybe the kegeling makes up for that.
Anyway, I’m with you Bird2- I feel these really work well if you hold a good stretch against the grain of a kegel while pressed in a direction your dick wouldn’t normally be in while erect.