How tight do you clamp?

I’ve been getting into this clamping thing on and off lately as it seems to be the latest craze. One thing that surprises me, after reading through almost all of the clamping threads, is that nobody really mentions how tight they clamp (I know, I probably missed it somewhere).

It seems that everyone that clamps uses the infamous “cable clamp” (medium size), but there are a wide variety of girths among the members here, and a wide variety of settings on these clamps, so I have no idea how tight most of you are clamping.

I, for example, have an erect girth of about 5.8 inches, and put on my clamp while I’m still fairly soft. I tighten it as tight as it gets (on the last notch) and kegel more blood in from there. I also have my clamp wrapped, and by my best estimation, I am clamping the base of my dick to about 3.5 inches circumference (girth).

I’ve also tried putting on the clamp after I have a mean hard-on, but I can’t get it as tight and I don’t seem to get as much engorgement when it subsides.

So what I’m wondering is if there is such a thing as “too tight,” because my erections haven’t really been up to par lately. I’d love to hear some input from everyone regarding your girth, and what notch you go to on the clamp (or the measured circumference of the inside of the clamp).

I clamp with around 50-70% and I clamp until I get good engorgement. Then when I’m fully erect I’ll clamp it down 1-2 more notches. I get about a 110-115% erection I would say with my clamp.

I clamp as tight as I can and fully erect without any discomfort except maybe a pulled hair or something

I start about 50% hard when I clamp it down as tight as I can then masturbate until I am fully engorged. I can’t say what percentage but I am 5 1/2” midshaft and I clamp it up past 6”. At this point my veins look like they are holding on for dear life but I haven’t caused myself any pain or injuries.

On another note, I am using a different type of clamp. It is a flexible vinyl clamp that has an adjustable wheel that turns to tighten and loosen. I bought it at Wal-Mart for about $2 and to me it is the best clamp I have seen since it is flexible to accomodate all shapes and sizes of dicks, yet also has infinite adjustment on it. (Think of how a zip-tie works.) It can handle up to 220lbs of pressure so I don’t think I’ll ever have to worry about this thing breaking either.

Dangrzne25,

More infomation on the flexible vinyl clamp, please.

Thanks.

Well, apparently, I clamp tightly enough to cause small red slightly raised spots to appear all over my dick, which now have turned into whitish spots! AAUUUGGGHHH! I love clamping, I hate clamping, I love clamping, I hate clamping … .

:)

Hope those spots clear up for you real soon dangle.

Thanks Thunder. They’ve now turned from red spots to white spots . . but I know that if I stress my unit, they’ll turn red again. The white spots are basically the empty ghosts of where the red spots were.

I’m about to make a depressing post about shrinkage during this break.

I clamp almost as tight as possible. The first clamp I put very tight and the second not too tight :) . I use somekind of a cloth beetween skin and clamps. I´ve also tried clamping “behind the balls”, but it isn´t very comfortable. Anyway, clamping is great!

BTW. How many clamps are you guys using??

Maybe BigGirtha could give us some opinions about this? He is the master…

I am just starting clamping and I clamp as hard as I can. I use a sock as wrap and a medium sized clamp. I can close it until it has 2-3 notches left. I don’t get purple or cold during the 15 minutes sessions I tried so far. So for me it is hard to see how you can clamp too hard.

Oden

I use one medium sized cable clamp for my 5” EG and don’t use any wrap during most of my clamping sessions. I put it to the last notch at the base. I do it with IR light and hence have constant heat. I know I’m not getting my max engorgement with my set up. Last night I did the same while watching a porno and got good engorgement. Post clamping I observed the white hard wired vein before my glanse which is the indication of edging to my max limit. Fortunately it disappered after a couple of hours. I had this vein 2 months before with dry jelqing with intense pressure (in the office rest room, after pea) without warmup.

I’m taking it slowly with my clamping and planning put a wrap to increase the tightness.

I’m realising that the meduim cable clamp without any wrap for my 5” EG wouldn’t produce as much engorgement as you guys see with your 5.5”+ EG, putting it to the last notch even with a wrap.

I stretch for a couple of minutes after heating up my dick. I jelq for a couple of minutes in every direction. Then I move to clamping. I put the wrap around the base while semi erect, then place my twist clamp into place with some space to “blow up”. I edge for 5 minutes, then apply then tighten the twist clamp. I continue to edge and tighten the clamp until I feel it is at the point where if I clamp harder it won’t be safe. Then I put the other cable clamp below the glans. GREAT EXPANSION!

I read somewhere that turning slightly purple after 10 minutes is okay, but give it a break then. Turning black is always way too tight. Son as I start to turn purple, or 10 minutes, I unclamp.

That isn’t true. A lot of guys on this site start out black, so color isn’t always a good indication. :D

I don’t use a cable clamp, but I wrap on occasion. Gray Theraband. Depending on how tight I wrap I can set it for a short 10 minute dick-turns-purple set or slightly looser, allowing for 20-30 minutes or more without too much darkening. I prefer lower intensity for more time.