Erect or Semi?

I know I saw a post in this section that said “if you are not fully erect, you are on the road to injury” when referencing pumping (by one of the moderators that frequents this section). Well, I’ve seen several other posts here and there that seem to suggest that others don’t go the fully erect route.

So, I’m very curious to why others go full, semi, or whatever. Is one better for stretching versus another which is better for expansion?

Do you mean (1) entering the tube erect, (2) staying erect while in the tube or (3) achieving an erection after a pump session?

Personally, I go in fully erect and then try to loose it after I pull it out to jelq.

But I get the impression there are a hell of a lot of variations out there. So, do a lot of people go in semi and get full? Or go in full, let it get semi and them pump up some more?

A number of people think you get the best results with an “unloaded tunica” - meaning not fully hard.

I was advised to go in at 70 to 80% by those people.

Sometimes I go it at that level, other times at 100%.

I don’t stay totally hard either way.

If I go in any softer I don’t feel like I get anything out of it.

If you go in totally soft, you need to adjust the pressure very very very slowly.

The harder the better and then some… get it hard as a rock, then get it in the tube and pump it up. once you’re at max pressure, Squeeze your abs and do loads of kegels so you can feel the blood forcing down your dick and feel it getting bigger with each squeeze. Oh and LOTS of heat - get a heatpad off ebay and wrap it around the cylinder.

That is exactly how I do it. But, it does seem like a lot of other people have reasons for doing it different.

Some of the vets on the forum say that entering erect is better because the expansion achieved when entering soft is gained mainly by drawing lymph fluid into the penile tissues. In my serious pumping days I always tried to enter erect or as near as I could manage.

Since I usually do a 5min jelq to warm things up before pumping, mine is usually semi.