Tight Bondage - I'm in a bit of a knot.

[fetishdj]

Joints do have a nasty tendency to wear away with time, unfortunately. I think all the advice above is sage and will help a lot. You need to not only prevent pain/discomfort in the here and now but also prevent any damage getting any worse in the future.

You thought about doing a set of standard warm up/cool down and strech exercises before, during and after any bondage session? This may minimise discomfort. Also, look into massage techniques to help with those trouble areas. There may be something your Dom can do to you before or after a session to ease the pain of those joints.

[KitsToy]

@Matin
Exercise?.... hum.. Exercise! I've never really thought about it like that! Great tip, thank you. I've been meaning to get into shape anyways. I mean, I'm fit, but not athletic.. and it always helps to have the proper motivation

-uses bondage as an excuse to get that six pack- ^-^

I did some, but not all - I'm not entirely sure what dips are, of the exercises.. and now I'm wishing I'd had the foresight to stretch first >.> Especially before the calf raises and squats.. Ah, this is going to be tough to get used to.

Is it just me, or does it seem like this is common amongst our generation? I used to be exceptionally active, especially as from six to eleven years old when I was taking three to for TaeKwon-Do.. which is probably part of the reason I'm such a mess. But then.. then I discovered the internet and it all went to hell. It seems to me as though 50% of the time you meet someone late teens to early twenties, eventually a proverbial pissing contest is going to break out to dispute who's got the most going wrong for them.

@Everyone
Ah, I've got to cut this short.. time to grab a shower while the bath is still accessable. I'll finish replying when I'm back.

Thank you, Everybody, for your responses

[KitsToy]

@moptop and leo9
I do already have conversations with my subs/Doms, both before and after we play, discussing both our wants/needs/concerns/etc. I like to keep the fun - fun, and the dissapointment - away. I've had too many (well actually just a few) experience where we forwent any communication, and resulted in being either a rather dull experience, or too intense.

But.. asymetrical, and particularly Japanese, bondage has always fascinated me.. though I'll admit I've never done any research into its practice. Do you have any good references you could suggest? If not, please don't go out of your way or anything.. All I needed was the inspiration - I'd never even considered this to be a solution..

@fetishdj
I like the idea of a warm up and cool down, but how do you suggest mid-session exercises? Ahh, I'm feeling rather unimaginative right now.

I have always wanted to take couples massage and erotic massage therapy classes.. but for now, at least, I'm reserving that for when I find That Someone.

All of the above advice truly is sage ^-^ Thank you all again, not only for helping me with this - but also inspiring me to think of new ways to approach other things which I'd previously ruled out.
-Kit'sToy

[Matin]

^.^

ok. dips. french dips are "sissy" dips, tho there's nothing sissy about them.

http://www.police.gov.hk/offbeat/842/images/s01_1.jpg

here are regular dips
http://www.tfsmedianetwork.com/ee/im...hesfit/dip.jpg

and it's true about how messed up our generation likes to say it is.

i blame jackass

but us martial artists really got it bad. you can't abuse yourself for so long and then just stop. once you're on it you really have to keep up conditioning or all the little dents and scrapes start to tell.

but if you can persist you WILL regain the range of motion, but it's going to suck. a lot.

lol me and my girl are both in that first phase too right now. i'll always be more than happy to commiserate

-matin