Vac hanging
I had some time over the holidays so I broke out my TotalMan vac hanger setup. I’ve had some bad luck with vac hanging in the past, getting blisters but reading so many here extolling the virtues, I thought I’d give it another try. I went back and watched Mike’s videos and meticulously taped my glans with several layers of 3M Micropore tape.
I’m now in my 3rd day’s session and I have to tell you that it’s pretty damn comfortable. Currently I was Bib hanging at 12 lbs (down from the low 20s earlier this year due to an extended break) so I thought I start vac hanging at 7 1/2 lbs. First sets were 20 minutes. I felt no tell tale pain in my glans and made sure numerous times that I was still tight against the inside of the chamber.
Today’s sets have been 40 minutes each with 8 3/4 lbs and still comfortable, no slippage at all, no discoloration(which always went away with a few minutes of jelqing) and best of all, no blisters.
With the very firm grip, I can’t imagine a problem going over 10 lbs but for right now, the comfort has made me a convert. The longer sets are a big plus as well. I usually took ~10 minutes in between compression sets to stretch & jelq, now 3 40 minute sets with a 5 minute breather in between and I’m good to go. Of course before any session I use my rice sock and warm up stretch for about 10 minutes. I’ve read folks talking about 1 hour sets and I can see that’s not going to be a problem to get to fairly quickly. I will of course go slowly ramping up the weights.
Another positive aspect is when I would hang BTC with the Bib, those frigging wing nuts and the one long threaded bolt would poke into my ass. Well no more of that. The stretch from the vac hanger also seems to involve more of my cock. With the Bib, as I reached fatigue, I found it necessary to move the hanger back on my shaft a bit on each set so there was more of my cock in front of the hanger not getting stretched. Now the the entire length of the shaft is getting stretched. That might accelerate gains.
I still like to use my Tugger for my ADS though. This vac hanger would make an excellent ADS for those not interested in stretching your shaft skin into a faux foreskin. For me, seeing that new foreskin over my glans is amazing.