The best advice I can give, and it took me months to figure out is this.
You can hang with a completely soft head with normal color, it is possible. The hanger is designed to do this….but….
You MUST CRANK the fucking shit out of the hanger all the way down as tight as humanly possible. I use profanity and caps to illustrate the importance of the above statement. If you do this, the stress will be applied to the shaft and internal tissues and bloodflow will be reduced but not cut off. This is the best possible scenario for safety and gains.
If you don’t, you are doomed, and the stress will applied to the head, inflating it, ballooning it, and also cutting off bloodflow to the head as well. Also, since you are not applying stress to the internal tissues you can forget about gains as well.
Before I put the weight on, the teeth are completely meshed. Don’t be afraid to tighten as much as possible.
I have no problems with my glans and hang OTS which is a position that (due to gravity) already reduces bloodflow to the head. If I can do it, you can.
"The world is a one way mirror. What they see, is what you see. What do you want people to see?" Women. If you're going to swing...swing for the fucking fences. "The reasonable man insists on adapting to the world. The unreasonable man persists on having the world adapt to him. Therefore, all progress in the world is made by the unreasonable man." "Success is not a surprise."