RisingUpTo7,
This is my second reply to this thread (my browser crashed while trying to post the other one!), but I’ll try again anyway!
I new to hanging so if I get something wrong, I’m sure a vet will jump in and correct me!
OK First of all, your picture is poorly annotated. By this I mean that it does not name a very important structure in PE, The suspensory ligaments.
In your picture is shown as a cream coloured area between the pubic bone and the penis.
The fastest why to get gains is to stretch these ligaments so that they allow more of the inner penis to hang outside the body. This happens because as they loosen, the penis drops (notice how it is now exiting the body slightly “uphill” in your picture?) and so more penis is revealed outside the body.
Bib’s LOT Theory tells us that as your LOT drops, this is a measure of how much looser you have made the ligaments. A very low LOT indicates that you stretched the ligs to a point that precludes much more gain from this angle of hanging (BTC or SD).
Once you have stretched the ligs as far as possible, then , yes, it makes more sense to pull in a direction opposite to the direction of the penis in order to stretch the Tunica.
So OTS or Fulcrum hanging are now of benefit.
Obviously, there is no reason why you couldn’t hang OTS from the outset, however, what you are missing out on is the “easy” gains associated with lig stretching.
Do to the fact the penis is made up of soft tissue, I think that the only way to get “not-wanted deformation” is an injury.
So basically you need to;
1. Work out your LOT.
How can you effectively target an area if you don’t know which area to target?
2. For higher LOT’s, hang BTC or SD to maximise lig potential
3. For Lower LOT’s, hang OTS to maximise tunica stretch.
4. Be aware that as you gain, your LOT may change and you may need to change angles in order to ensure future gains.
5. Don’t change angles unless you throughly exhaust a particular angle. Just because you have stopped gaining at a particular weight/time combination doesn’t mean you will not continue gaining if you increase the weight and/or time of hanging. Obviously, use common sense when increasing weight and/or time.
6. Hang at fatigue. Im not sure who said it, but if your not hanging at fatigue, then your just playing with yourself.
Thats about all I can think of right now. Hope this helps.