Originally Posted by Baba_Booey
There’s no reason to buy the Grip because it has no advantage over the LG. The LG can handle over 20 lbs, while the Grip is only made to go up to 8 lbs. There are mods to increase the max weight with the Grip, but not by much. The soft parts on the Grip are also thin and need to be replaced frequently, which is expensive.I’ve never used any of the monkeybar products, but the LG is obviously better because you can hook a hand pump up to it, instead of sucking on a hose to remove air and not knowing what hg you’re at.
The worst thing for me with vacuum hanging was that it was often painful on the tip of the glans and it made the skin on my glans very dry. It’s was more comfortable than compression hanging for me until around 15 lbs. I could’ve made it better by doing shorter sets and less total time per day (I was doing 2 sets a day, each at 1 hour 30 minutes and I was over 19 lbs for a while), but I went back to a Bib Hardcore instead.
I actually emailed monkeybar about purchasing a hose adapter to convert the supplied 1/16” hose to 1/4” so I could use my vacuum pump and his response was:
“As for removing air - it should be removed till there’s no air left. In all cases, your skin will stop further extraction once it touch the cylinder wall. Thats more than enough for our purpose.”
“As for tubing, the size is too big for converter. Also, we don’t recommend using vacuum pump, its too much for our purpose. Actually, its big problem in that many people over vacuum.”
Do you think a vacuum pump is better? Sucking by mouth, I assume you just suck as hard as you can (this is what I do) and you can only get to a certain vacuum pressure with no worries of too much pressure?