The History of Clamping

Me, too. (Even though BG inspired me) I have one of those hose clamps with the big fat plastic key on it. Pretty danged handy! Maybe we can start a Hatfield v. McCoy conflagration with Cable Clamps vs. Hose Clamps camps going at it! We Hose Clamp guys can extol the virtues of the infinite range of iterations inherent in the Hose Clamps whilst the Cable Clamp guys can wax eloquent about the nearly poetic clicking noises made by their chosen device!

Who is going to get the animated turnkey avitar first?

Yes I love that RETCHHHHHHHHH sound. But I know a doctor who cringes when she hears one.

Nice thread, I would say that clamping methods have been around for a very long time indeed.

We have all probably when young played with our penis and gripped it at the base right? [I did] And we were doing a basic bit of PE right than, but didn’t know plus how many of us have joked about the elastic band thing around the penis? I know Friends who have done this for a joke, but the idea is still their and has been around for ages now. Cock rings are essentially constriction methods and have been about for years.

I think it’s when did it develop and mature, that answer is now over the past few years it’s started to blossom more into the mainstream.

When I started it back in 2000 I could find nothing that related to what I was doing and really had to make allot of mistakes and once my penis went black from a bad error but I lived and no bad side affects form that to date. I’ve tried nearly everything while clamped, from pumping, hanging, extenders, horses, jelqs, stretches .. You name it I probably tried it to some extent in the clamp. I think it’s the level that’s been made higher, with more routines now about, more men can jump into it with more knowledge than ever when I did it. I was blind, I didn’t know anywhere that did it, alright bub did the Uli thing along with some other members on here, but their wasn’t the feedback, the enthusiasm for what it could yield and anyone really testing it and pushing it to the limit. I’m SO GLAD it’s out into the mainstream PE forums because I have been BANNED at cheeky cherry some years ago in it’s early stages for talking about it. Apparently it was too dangerous and I was INSANE lol

Whatever the origins of clamping, it’s out on the main forums and can only grow and develop with more members getting to grips with the power that is the cable clamp. I also wrote a guide because of the such lack for information and was approached many months ago by a Spanish member of thunders to ask my permission if he could translate some of my material onto the thunders site.I said no problem and I hope to write another revision to the guide VERY SOON and would like anyone who’s interested to PM me and I can get a team sorted out. I would love a dual forum effort on it, I already have about six members from MOS on the team.

Oh yeah. Red is here now. You listen to this guy, he sure knows what he is talking about. Probably the all time #1 clamper.

I admit I haven’t read much from Big Girtha, but if Thundersplace and MOS could cooperate on this, that would make for the best possible clamping guide.

I just broke a Cable Clamp today. Cheap plastic—sometimes this happens. So I got out my hoseclamp and my nutdriver. They do work well. But you have to be careful not to overtighten them, I think.

But I suppose they are not as useful at nudist camps or at the movies, right BG?

IMO, Cable Clamps are completely useless as tightening devices for hangers. The adjustments are too coarse and they can’t be tightened enough. I don’t care for them for “clamping” as a girth technique either, but they are better in that role than used for attaching a hanger.

The hose clamps linked here somewhere with an attached wingnut-like, finger adjustable tightening screw look like a good choice for both applications. Should be better than a nut driver or 1/4” ratchet and, IIRC 5/16” socket for the last bit of tightening/loosening I used for hangers and EU’s.

Be careful with this stuff. There are many degrees of “clamping,” and this fact hasn’t been adequately addressed lately if at all. “Clamping” (I put it in quotes for now because to me it is an ill-defined, odd, relatively new term that is only a general category, not a specific technique, and I want to emphasize this vagueness) can run the gamut from very mild constriction that can be maintained for extended periods, through more intense restriction and engorgement for shorter periods, all the way up to Extreme Ulis, which completely close off all circulation. Many devices can be used for such constriction. Cock rings around penis and scrotum, an elastic wrap around the base of the penis shaft, or various clamps. EU’s are sort of a thing into themselves.

I think newbies should stay away from most of this. Do the Newbie Routine or something similar for at least 3 months.

is using a shoelace just as good as using a cable clamp?

red you the man!

pyro,

58 posts in and you haven’t read the Forum Guidelines ? Try it now, it’s fun.

Don’t even think of using a shoelace.

A hacksaw will cut your willy off more efficiently than a shoelace will. Still, if you insist on using the shoelace, as long as you tighten it sufficiently, it should probably cut the thing off too!

Well, I only used a shoelace in the start and it did work but it isn’t the most practical thing in the world and is more dangerous, in other words it makes a dangerous art more dangerous but it can be used, I used it and gained from it.
If you venture down that road, than make sure you tie it in either a loop knot or a slip knot, that’s the best knot for that because you can get out quickly if you need to.
Get down to the shop and buy either a cable clamp, hose clamp or constrictor/cable tie and use them.

Kudos to you, Red…it’s a noble idea and utilizes the collective aspect of the PE community. However, there ARE some things you may want to consider, mainly between TP and MOS.

In the MOS Alternative PE section, a thread titled “Anyone wonna help me?” contains a post that states this: “It will have ALOT of security measures on it thistime, the work will be copyrighted and I myself dont wont it to get anywhere but to MOS members here, its a MOS thing, by the community for the community”

Your post, your words, quoted exactly. Now, I don’t want to come across as if I’m busting your balls here, I’m not and I really believe that you have an altruistic motive and desire a collective effort. However, you must realize that you ARE a mod at a paysite and you have presented this idea to members and owners of MOS under the auspices of a “MOS thing” by the community for the community, yada, yada, yada.

You may want to edit or clarify your apparent new intentions with this project as they seemed to have diverged from the original intent as you described at MOS back in July (IIRC). I implore you to go back to MOS, read that post, and consider the implications. Some who volunteered support may not like the TP aspect of this approach. Also, the owners of that site may or may not be too keen on this convenient info sharing idea, after all, they did remove a thread listing exercises in order to increase sign-ups to the paysite.

Again, I’m not bustin’ em or trying to start another TP v/s MOS debate here, just pointing-out a few things that need to be considered. My intent is actually to AVOID any bullshit or conflict in the future and save you some complication and grief down the road a bit. Appears you are busy and put alot into this type of stuff, may want to “clear the air” so to speak before you get underway. We don’t need another “Big Al’s Secret Exercise…and Who Has a Right to Post What!” type of thing going on again.

Shit gets mean and you don’t want to get caught in the middle of that, trust me here. Then again, you know that already:) .

Anyhow, good luck and good girth to ya!

Damn it, I should have seen that in the thread you mention because your dead right man.

At the time when I wasn’t a thunders member because of my hotmail account I for obvious reasons wanted to protect my work so I wanted it to stay at MOS and also have certain security features on it, what are any ones guess! lol

Anyways now I’m a thunders member and can actually talk with members and work with them than what I said in that thread means nothing.

I shall go into that thread and quote that and make my intentions clear, that the work is a PE Community thing, but its a MOS+Thunders thing and that its for both forums. I will also talk with the team members, some of which are also from here on what we should do with regards to copyright and if it can be linked anywhere on the net.

It looks bad seeing that thread now because I’m asking for help here and yet saying its a MOS-thing.

You all must understand that their is and was no beef with thunders and those comments were just to protect the work and not have it leeched every were in the world, plus it would be hard on my bandwidth.

So consider it old news and the guide when done will be for both thunders and mos, plus hopefully if all members of the project agree for other forums if they choose to link it. Thanks for pointing that out at such a early stage because for obvious reasons it could have upset many and got ugly.