How tightly should I be squeezing?

I’ve searched and, either I suck as searching or there aren’t many threads related to this topic. I’m new to jelqing and PE in general. I’ve been small my whole life. I want to make gains and I’ve read the newbie routine. My question is that there isn’t anything that I can find that tells how tightly I should be squeezing when I jelq. I don’t want to hurt myself but, I don’t want to waste any unnecessary time either.

If someone could point me to a thread or explain that aspect of the technique to me I would be in their debt.

Thank you.

From what I have been able to gather from numerous threads on here is that one should only squeeze enough to move blood from the base towards the head. To me this would be enough to see the head start to engorge a little and there be no pain at all associated with it any where along the shaft nor in the glans.

Hope this helps some.

Start light and listen to your penis. Soon you will have a feel for what’s happening as you do your PE.

The idea is to gently stretch the chambers of the penis, not pop them.

I found it best when a girl does it to me. They seem to get it just right always squeezing hard enough but never doing any damage. I can never get it right. I always seem to hurt myself!

I am worried that I squeeze too tight. I have a fairly high threshold when squeezing my penis so I’m not sure I’m a good judge.

Is post jelq flaccid size a solid indicator of progress? I was having a good pump for a large portion of the day until the last session. My flaccid size seemed to go backwards on the last round. I haven’t jelqed in 2 days just to be safe.

That sounds like the turtle effect.
Could someone please explain this?