Buckfever's progress report/bananaman story.

8/23/2019

100% @ 36 minutes

Low tension @ 2 minutes and stopped.

Things were going well and then I chocked on my coffee and started coughing and that caused a little slippage on the attachment, which made the tissues at the attachment uncomfortable and I want to try for a hook up later so I just shut it down. Got 90 minutes of aerobics in and then after a warm shower strapped in for session number 2 and thought about tonight and wanting a full throttle EQ and I just shut it down.

I’m having a problem here. It is not that I’m not interested in pursuing this further, I am and perhaps in some ways I might be willing to consider carrying on even a bit further than planned. I’m just not willing to risk low EQ during potential sexual encounters to pursue it, even knowing full well that this will greatly impede progress.

Part of the problem is that the short run motivation has greatly diminished because when the EQ is full throttle those results are more than satisfying and anything beyond this is gravy. Also I’ve had occasion to take some preliminary measurements recently and at a less than full EQ, ( I don’t know how the hell you guys manage to keep it while measuring) base girth was well over 6.5” on 2 separate occasions and the glans was over 5.5”. This is with no girth work.

The max stretched extender length was at ~ the printed 9 on the steel tape measure or around 22.5cm. Very hard to see but I took a blurry picture which confirmed it and I checked again today and got the same spot best as I can figure. This is at a point here where I have lost a little bit of progress in the last 3 weeks.

So this means that in the last 2 years I’ve gained ~ 1.5-1.75 cm of stretched length in the extender. Based on the logged minutes during this time post newbie gains I am gaining at a rate of ~ 2.3cm/1000 hours. Contrast that to the total gain of ~ 5.25 cm of max stretched extender length since I started.(This is a conservative measure, I believe it to be closer to 5.375cm)

So what does this all mean to me as far as motivation?

Well for one, the short game is decidedly over. If I were to pick the loftiest of goals it would be to go for another 2.3cm which would require more than a 1000 hours as I would expect additional diminishing returns so that’s a minimum of 32 months.

And we have already realized exceptional results.

So no I am not going to have this interfere with my sex. Before I was willing to balance it out, now that has changed. Now where there is even the possibility of intimacy that will take precedence. Fact is I would be perfectly fine here cementing for 8 months and then running maintenance.

All that said I see no reason to not continue as time and circumstances permit. This is a better mindset for me. I’m not going to fight it.

8/23/2019

She said: “was that deeper than normal”? I said well you got me really excited. She said: “that was really intense”

It was a good evening.

I am skipping the extender tomorrow. My thoughts are towards looking for another good evening.

8/25/2019

100% @ 48.5 minutes

I think this is an interesting inflection point. It’s a point at which a modest amount of work has been done and acceptable results have been realized and the reasons to proceed from here are fleeting. Maybe a cm in a year.

This is the real point at which one must answer the question: “Are you willing to do the work?”

8/25/2019

Second session:

Low tension @ 57 minutes

Everything went well but at that point there was a small uptick in attachment discomfort and I’ve become very protective regarding attachment tissue condition.

I’m going to contemplate goals over the holiday weekend coming up.

EQ was great despite the work. Wondering if the effect on EQ is a cumulative result of the volume of work.

1 cm a year would be good enough.How about 0.5 cm a year? For me , not worth it. Yet we see guys pushing through year after year, so it is up to practitioner to decide.

I got to figure out how to do a poll I wonder what the consensus would be. I think it would depend on the effort required.

I’d probably be involved in some maintenance level of effort in any event. Something that is tucked in and inconsequential from an effort standpoint but with which a benefit would be realized. I think that 7.5-9 hours a week could be executed on with little intrusion on time.

A thousand hours over three years. Hmmm.

8/26/2019

100% @ 30 minutes

Had limited time. Finished well forward in the cradle. Even with the limited effort this past month, we seem to have made progress.

8/27/2019

100% @ 15 minutes

Planned to get up early and get to it, alarm went off took a piss and decided another hour sleep would serve me better. I’ve been working out like a mother fucker so sleep takes priority. I’ll need to put some thought into coming up with a schedule that better supports this effort and that I can tuck into my life.

8/27/2019

Second session:

34% @ 46.5 minutes

Just an attempt at something to put a session at the end of the day. Not my favorite but maybe I can make a shorter session work here, we’ll see how it impacts the morning.

8/28/2019

100% @ 62.5 minutes

New milestone, need to gain position in the cradle. The late session seems to have worked, well test it further. Once again though will be running into time commitment headwinds for the next week or so. Should be a better deal after that.

8/28/2019

Second session:

Low tension @61.5 minutes

Great day!!!

30 minutes into the low tension session, which is just compressing the springs and strapping in, I decided to take a measure and I could clearly see the 22cm on the top side of the glans so clearly the measure with low tension is over 22cm. Given where we started, it’s very hard not to be excited about this result.

As I tend to do at these inflection points I think to future goals. And while I’ve shared this privately I don’t know that I’ve made this thought public before. I guess I’ve held ~ 25cm of Extender Max stretched length as the ultimate benchmark. However given where we are say ~ 22.5, they idea of a commitment to another full inch of stretched length is for me beyond contemplation. I’m not saying that I may not embrace such a goal if the gap from here to there gets closed at some point, but for right now it’s just too much.

I think I’m comfortable with my original plan of adding another 5/8” to the extender and seeing where we land with that. Given the disruptive effort of the last month, I’ll probably take another month at this length before embarking on that 5/8” endeavor.

16 months for sure. We’re not playing here. So for this next phase I am looking to do more tucking in of the time spend on this, like we did yesterday when at the end of the day we added 45 minutes of effort to a time that would be spent on the computer anyway. I’m committed but we need to be more efficient. Because we’re looking to improve not just here but in all respects!!!

8/29/2019

100% @ 14 minutes

Just a quickie.

8/29/2019

Low tension @ 17 minutes

Everything was feeling good today nice flaccid hang so I decided to give the evening session a go. But something just didn’t seem right from the get go. I was tired though, but at 17 minutes it just didn’t feel right. I took it off and discovered that I had put the base on upside down. Called it, if I’m that tired to make such a mistake it can wait.

8/30/2019

100% @ 65 minutes

New milestone!!!

Gained forward position in cradle.

Nice to finish on a high note before heading to holiday.