Originally Posted by JSM87
My question is how does one know when one has achieved the right “tightness” of clamping, such that blood is allowed to flow in (or be kegel ed in) but stopped from flowing out? I assume that there is a point at which the clamp is so tight that even the inflow of blood is prevented and thus defeating the purpose.
Clamping really is a art form and does take some expiermentation to get it down correctly. I don’t even fully understand yet what is causing my girth and length gains but I do a variety of clamping styles through out the day (I have lots of free time at the moment ;) ). I do what I call IC (Intense Clamping), MC (Moderate Clamping), and LC (Light Clamping) which is basically low pressure clamping for up to hours at a time sometimes (usually only for a half hour). LC is like girth wrapping and using PEWeights to maintain the girth after a clamping set for a long period of time (I don’t think LC is actually needed but since I have the time and I think it is safe enough then I might as well mess around a little with it). MC is simply moderatly clamping (now clicking all the way with the cable clamp), IC is of course clicking as many clicks as possible and/or using more padding/wrap and higher engorement levels when clamping down.
Now as for your question on what is the right clamping “tightness” level for clamping with a cable clamp/cuff I would say that no one truly really knows and it really is a individual thing (everyone is different, but there I believe there are certain tricks that can be used to achieve close to the perfect “tightness” every time easily for every clamping set — more on that later in the post). It is a subjective thing and takes determination and expiermentation to start achieving success and gains. I truly believe that from my expierence and knowledge that it is IC and MC that is what gives gains. LC is just a supplement to the clamping session (I could go into the reasons why one would LC but that would be a bit much for this post).
One trick that I just came up with (after tons of expiermentation) to achieve a nice “tightness” level easily every time for clamping is to take some foam grip material (I got mine from cutting off the foam grips on the 6 second abs handle bars, heh, you can also buy foam grips off ebay or somewhere else on the web). and then cut out 2 pieces of the foam grip material shaped to roughly the same dimensions as the sides of interior cable clamp sides. Then take some crazy glue and stick the non foam side of each of the 2 cut pieces of foam grip on to each respective interior side of the cable clamp being modified. I personally didn’t put any foam grip material on the bottom part of the cable clamp (the round part) but one might consider this if they try this idea for CS gains (I still think my CS is getting lots of pressure but I have my reaosn why I don’t want to put too much pressure there from past PE expierences dealing with the CS). I would go into more detail but I am already taking way to much space to answer these questions. I really need to work on my summerizing skills. ;)
It really really is important to use the right amount of wrap or material I’ve found to achieve that perfect “tightness” level. That is why I designed that little modification above to the cable clamp. For some reason a certain amount of padding is needed to use my cable clamp correctly for maximum expansion. Now if you were talking about the Air Clamp that is a whole different ball game and you would have to look at how to clamp sliglty different from my expierence.
One other thing I forgot to mention is you do not want to clamp down on a 100% fully hard erection. BIB talked about this and the reaons why not too and from my expierence he is ouviosly right. You just can’t get the same intensity and expansion from clamping down on a FBE (Full Blown Erection) then you could if you clamp at about 80% (80% as in your dick is fully engored yet just at the point where is about to get hard but is still pretty soft would be ideal). There are many tricks for this actually, you could also just get about a 50% erection clamp down moderatly and allow for slow expansion before getting to that perfect point then looking at some porn and kegeling and clamping kegeling clamping until the right intensity is reached for a clamping set.
Originally Posted by JSM87
What are the visible signs, etc. That tell you that you are ideally clamped (to maximize engorgement and expansion pressure)? Should engorgement increase slowly but steadily during the 10-15 minute period that the clamp(s) are in place? What should it look/feel like?
The visible signs are your dick should visiablly look and feel a bit bigger at the end of each clamping set. I notice that the first sets don’t cause too much expansion then the later sets are when the expansion really starts to show and feel. Yes engorgement should steadily and slowly increase during a 10 to 15 min set.
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I hope I didn’t bore or confuse you too much man. I just wanted to help you by giving you some real info from my expierence that you could study and think about to help you out with your clamping. Good luck with the gains. :)
