Battle-Proven Tape Method for Foreskin Warriors

zero I read your progress log Zero0x progress Log (p. 2) and I think you may actually be a perfect candidate for this tape technique. I noted you’d had blisters and foreskin fluid problems, as well as glans pain. I feel my tape method here may solve those for you. It certainly works for me.

I also noted you’ve shot up to heavier weights quite quickly though, so that’s where our paths radically diverge. I am of the mentality that "we’re hanging for length, not strength" so we should milk all the gains we can out of the lighter weights and work our way up slowly, along the lines of 5.5Squared, Longerstretch, and Kyrpa’s methodologies.

I measure my BPSFL before and after each 1-hour hang, and enter those into a spreadsheet which calculates my strain percentage. For example 19cm pre BPSFL and a 19.7cm post BPSFL would be a strain of 3.68% (19.7cm-19cm)/19cm=0.0368

When my strain has dropped below 1% for a number of sessions, that is when I’ll increase my weight by 8oz (half a pound only).
Very slow increases.
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Wow thank you, this is a great post. I have just ordered my vacuum hanger and, whilst I could find plenty on routines, was struggling to find anything that showed how to actually use it. Looking forward to trying this out. A quick question, would you say that micro-foam tape would work well here? I assume regular sellotape is out of the question but am open for advice from the more experienced.

Yes, 3M Microfoam tape is king!

I’ve only tried three types of tape on my dick. The first was a self-adhering bandage tape. This stuff went on okay but if I had any kind of slippage or skin rollover, it was extreeeemely painful. It has sort of a rough grippy texture (which is how it grabs onto itself) and when your skin gets raked across that rough grippiness, especially under tension inside vacuum over long periods of time (1-hour hang), it’s excruciating!

I also tried 3M’s Micropore tape, which is a much thinner kind of paper-like tape. This stuff went on well, and worked well during the hang, but removal was a huge pain in the ass. The paper-thin tape is so thin it’s almost impossible to find the end and peel it up. I had the best luck getting it wet with a warm washcloth and then kind of ripping the whole deal off at once, or in large chunks (the paper tears pretty easily). That’s the main downfall with this tape that you’ll see other guys mentioning - it’s hard to get off and can be painful to get off. This tape used to be the standard for vacuum hanging, but once you try the Microfoam tape, you’ll immediately see why everyone has switched over to it.

The 3M Microfoam tape is absolutely amazing by comparison. It is so much better than these other two tapes. It has a nice stretch to it which makes it easy to pull some tension on your wraps and get them snug with its elastic stretch effect. It grips skin well, but not too much, and it grips onto itself extremely well - so when you overlap your wraps, they will be extremely stable, as it grips onto itself super well. The foam tape has some thickness to it. Maybe 1/16” or so. And this thickness makes it really easy to find the end of the tape and peel it up to unwrap each of your wraps around the shaft and over the tip. And because the adhesive doesn’t grip the skin TOO strongly, it is extremely low pain to remove. Even the wrap over the urethra and frenulum area comes off almost completely pain-free as long as you just peel it slowly and let the adhesive release as you go. I never use water or anything to remove it. I just gently peel it off. No problem at all.

So yeah, I’m totally sold on the 3M Microfoam tape in the 1” thickness (that’s the size I use for this method), and I think it works amazingly for our purposes. My only complaint is that a roll only seems to last me about a week, or 10 hang sessions - but this only comes out to about $100 per year in tape (if you buy them by the 12-pack) - which is an extremely small price to pay for a bigger unit!

Try taping glans too instead of the toe cap.

Just to clarify, you wrap completely flaccid first?

Yes. The wrapping process is for vac hanging which is done while flaccid.

Have you seen the recent Total man video that advocates taping whilst erect to minimize chance of blisters/injuries? I am new to vac hanging and up until now have been hanging flaccid like yourself.

I haven’t seen it. I used his taping video last year, sounds like it has changed. I haven’t had any issues or blisters while hanging so think my current approach is working. Also if he is taping whilst erect, for whatever reason, he will still hang flaccid. You don’t hang while erect

No, but your glans will expand to fill the bell, unless the bell is extremely oversize.

I would expect that having the wrapped glans approximately match the size of the bell would reduce tug on the tape.

I see. So tape while erect to mimic the size of your glans under vacuum expansion, then let go flaccid, get your kit on and hang?

My glans fits the bell amazingly well. It’s a struggle to get it in but I think it’s worth it as there looks to be little or no gap between glans and bell and not much expansion. Though it’s been a while since I was last hanging, will give it a go next time to see if it feels different.

I wrap while flaccid otherwise my glans won’t fit in the bell. It’s probably not a good idea to wrap during erect with microfoam tape due to the thickness of it compared to the micropore version.

Yes. I tape while 100% flaccid, just after taking my pre-hang BPSFL measurement.

Once taped, I then achieve a semi or nearly full erection and install my vac chamber and sleeve. Erection fades as I make my way over to my BTC hanging bed and velcro-wrap my Thermedic FIR heating pad around my shaft, and hook up my weights. So no worries (for me anyway) about hanging erect. Always pretty flaccid again by the time the weight is on, and any remaining “erection” for sure goes away in the first minute or two.

Somewhat related to what you guys are discussing, I’ve noticed, as my hanging weight has increased about a pound, I’m noticing more engorgement of the glans towards the end of my 1-hour hangs. This engorgement can lead to some minor pain in the last 5-minutes or so, with a fairly dark purple glans and a bit of tenderness when unwrapping the tape after the hang. However, all is back to normal once I get about the third wrap of tape off, and definitely back to normal once all the tape is off.

So what I’ve been doing is when getting a semi erection to install my vac chamber and sleeve, I try not to kegel or flex blood into the glans, which gets sort of held there by the tight wraps of tape, like a cock ring. If I do get a fairly hard erection and notice my glans engorging, I will squeeze the glans to get as much blood out of it as possible and back behind my tape wraps. Then I’ll install the vac chamber and sleeve.

This approach has cut down the pain at the very end of my hanging sessions. My glans is still getting engorged towards the end of the hang though. I believe this is caused by the higher weight and the higher vacuum required to hold that weight, sort of acting as a penis pump, and causing the glans to expand just the same. One possible fix (I haven’t tried yet) is to combine the older Total Man tape method I saw, where he tapes an X across both sides of the glans. These extra bits of tape would help support the sides and prevent them from expanding, since my tape method is sort of an inverted-T, with no support on the upper right and upper left parts of the glans, except for the toecap covering it.

I’ll try that one of these days and report back.

As I’ve increased my weight a bit, I decided to switch over from my starter unit, the Phallosan Forte, to my LG Hanger, and holy shit it’s amazing. I am so impressed. Everything about it is more solid, doesn’t lose vacuum over the hour, thick sleeve installs so easily and doesn’t try to roll my skin forward over my tape. Everything about it is a major upgrade. I’ve been using it (with FIR heat) for a couple weeks now and just tore my first sleeve on it, so I’ll need to take that off and replace it. That’s the only negative thing I have to say about it. Hope my next sleeve lasts longer. But the material is soft and I know the heat is harder on them, so we’ll see.

Highly recommend the LG Hanger!

You can get this it’s cheap and works like PF silicon pads. I already cut the top of it , so I don’t need to buy more . Size about 5-6cm ,

Ever evolving process.

I’ve since bought a Silistretcher 2 and it came with micropore tape. The instructions said not to retract the foreskin, but all that was doing was giving me edema and stretching skin instead of the interior of my penis.
I used the micro pore tape to fully encapsulate the head and enough to hold the foreskin back. Used the cap it came with and proceeded to hang.
The micropore tape is no joke. It definitely works keeping pressure building up and causing blisters! I just finished my 4th 20-minute session with 12LBs. No bruising. No edema. No blisters. Nothing. I have always done three 20-minute sessions max because my head just can’t handle the pain of the pressure, but I’m kind of thinking about going again.
The only drawback is that micropore tape is ridiculously painful to take off. Don’t worry! I figured out a way!
It takes a bit of time to remove it if you have to use the restroom, but reapplication is easy and getting no blisters or edema is worth it:

1. Use some hand sanitizer on the tape and massage it into the tape. There’s a slight warming sensation, but no biggie.
2. Have COOL water ready to rinse it off, because hot or warm water WILL HURT.
3. Once the hand sanitizer is gone, warm up the water and the tape will come off easily.
A. There will be some sticky residue after you remove the tape, but its manageable if you were just removing the tape to use the restroom.
B. I thought about making a little hole just in case, but it seems risky because it may break the seal the tape makes
4. If you’re done hanging for the day, douse your member with a generous amount of olive oil. After 15 minutes or so, the residue comes off easily.

Happy hanging! :D