This is the unedited version of a video I found on youtube right near the start of this year, the other was removed.
I find it quite strange watching this. While I feel sorry for the kids and what they are forced to do, I go to training four or five days a week and ask people to do these same things to me. Last night we were doing partner stretches and the person I was working with was too scared they would hurt me and so hardly helped with the stretch at all.

So i've been researching kinbaku, Shibari and the general area within western style bondage that deals with similar types of binding and tying(this research is not part of this blog as I want to keep my workbook rated 'G').
I've taught myself different techniques and as an initial experiment I tied myself into an asymmetrical 'hog tie'(Hands and feet bound and connected). My left foot was tied to my right knee, my right foot was tied to my right thigh and my hands were tied to my right big toe.
This kept me in a back bend when my hands were behind my head, cut off the circulation to my toes when my hands were in front of my face, and numbed my left hand when I got the rope joining my toes to my hands wrapped around my chest/back.
When I lost the feeling in my hand I panicked and tried to untie myself as quickly as I could(this proved difficult at first because of my hand being out of action, and until the blood was running through there again properly I couldn't get any knots untied).
As I was doing this to myself I figured everything that I tied I would be able to untie just as easily, this has proven to not be the case.
I like the unexpected dynamic of not just making it look like you have been tied into a prone position, but doing it to yourself and managing to tie yourself so well that you are actually stuck in that position(I did manage to untie myself but it could be a challenge for next time, to actually get stuck tied up in the ropes).
I feel good about this. the thought that I might have actually been forced to ask my flatmates for help, or even better, to have had to wait for my girlfriend to turn up looking for me makes me chuckle.
admittedly, my rope-work is nowhere near the standard of some of the people I have been looking at, but seeing as it is my first time, and I was tying myself I am pleased with the results.
I think I need more rope.
Either another length like the one I have, or an individual piece that is really long.

Video and stills coming soon.