I'm trying to remember what it was like when I first started. I guess there may be a time that a flogger or a paddle is enough but now it is just a warm up tool for me. From that point on, riding crop would be consider painful to me, but a cane is needed for me to remember that session.

However, having said that, I've seen a couple in which the top, Eric uses nothing but a very long single tail on his slave Kelly. From warm up all the way to the end of the session, nothing but single tail. To me, that's too much work for a top, as there is easier warm up tool, but surely his slave like single tail, even on warm up. I guess if it floats her boat...