breath control

  • Beating Maxx

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    This shoot was tough to do and tough to capture on camera for a number of reasons. Our main photographer couldn't make it, so we had someone else step in at pretty short notice (thanks, Jeanette!). For most of the first half of the shoot, the next-door tenants were playing Really Bad Dance Music at club-level volumes - distracting, to say the least! (Hey, you try being a big, bad top with disco deedleing loudly in the background. :P ) To add to the chaos, we lost a whole card of stills from near the beginning of the shoot due to technical difficulties. And those weren't the only ways things didn't go as planned...

    Maxx is my primary partner, and we play in a very connected, high-chemistry way. Ordinarily, she's a massive painslut, wearing out my arms before she's anywhere close to done. This scene began as a fairly straightforward impact play set, but quickly became something more cathartic. Due to a number of factors, she was having a much tougher time than usual processing intense sensation, which turned the tears on much earlier than either of us anticipated. We played through it because we were both still enjoying ourselves deeply - as the smiles during and after the tears will attest - but it remains a good example of how scenes have a way of taking on a shape of their own regardless of either player's intent.

    We began with some garden-variety roughhousing, which soon evolved into a lot of me hitting Maxx with the Mean Thuddy Stick-thing of Doom. The original idea was for me to push her past the pre-negotiated bratting stage to a point where she was willing to beg me to put a pronged training collar on her. Because of the direction the scene went, we never reached that goal - but it gave me something to play with for next time!

    She had been making smartassed comments about the "giant zip-ties" that Russell and I are so fond of. I had planned to cuff her hands behind her back with them, but decided to use them as an impact toy first. As you might imagine, they pack a MEAN sting. Afterwards, I used them for their intended purpose while flogging her until she decided that they weren't quite as funny anymore. It was a hot, fun bit - and due to the aforementioned camera difficulties, we don't have any stills from it. You should be able to see it on the video, though!

    I experimented with a couple lazy-top forms of bondage (a scratchy hemp lasso and then suspension cuffs clipped to an overhead chain and pulley set) while I alternated between thuddy impact (which Maxx loves) and stingy impact (which she violently hates).

    One of my favorite toys was particularly tough for her--a heavy flogger made from "vegan leather" (rubber, for all intents and purposes), with narrow tails that split again halfway down the fall. Viciously stingy, very scratchy, and beautiful for raising marks! A short, intense flogging with that brought her to tears for the second time in the shoot.

    I decided to finish her off with one of her favorites, a whip that I actually bought specifically for her. It's made of heavy buffalo hide, extremely thick and almost luxurious. It packs one hell of a WHOMP - it's the thuddiest toy that I own.

    The flogging went on for much longer than is obvious from the stills, and by the end of it, she was feeling pretty done in. We took a break, to give her arms a rest (being bound up in that position is surprisingly exhausting) and decided that it was a good time to call it done. We were both floppy and endorphin high and ready to curl up together. Even though nothing happened as planned, it was still a wonderfully fun shoot for us!

    (107 stills, 36:33 of video, plus outtakes (640x480 QuickTime @900kbps), 259MB total)

  • I've always wanted to do this to a cop

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    (No, Joelle isn't really an employee of any police department. She had this cute dress though, and I meet some hot law enforcement officers from time to time...)

    Joelle does SM play in her personal life, but my impression is she's really more into the glamor fetish modeling end of things. I'm glad we got her to walk a bit on the wild side, this was her first shoot with us and she came back for another. We had a good time, I got a whole bunch of firsts- first time she'd had her face slapped, first time playing with electricity, first time having her cunt spanked, probably more... Her responses are very genuine, and I feel like a Bad Man for liking her nervous laugh.

    This was a very exploratory scene- she and I had talked over dinner about what she liked, what she was curious about, etc, and the scene was about experimenting from that. She said that her top-three turnons were hair-pulling, spanking, and breath play, so we started with those and came back to them throughout. The first part of the scene was mostly her over my lap or kneeling on things while I spanked, slapped, and otherwise tormented her (probably my favorite bit is me briefly using a wooden paddle on her breasts- that was so much fun that I thought up a big part of the other shoot we did with her keeping that in mind).

    The second part of the scene involved her in a simple bondage position using a vertical chain and a spreader bar that I think really showed off her beautiful body:

    Joelle had expressed great interest in the electric flyswatter and the pokey-zappy-thing. Once she was immobilized, it didn't take long to satisfy her curiosity about those very completely. ^-^ I also beat her with a big piece of foam (hard swing, little impact, fun for the top who just wants to let go), slapped her breasts a bit more, and finished off the scene with her counting ten good hard slaps at her cunt for me, followed by two more stinging slaps on her face.

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  • Dreina on the Rack

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    I love shooting with Dreina! She's smart, sassy, sexy, and a TOTAL wiseass. Her mouth is constantly writing checks that her ass can't cover, which is just about the way I like it. Not that I need an excuse to hurt her, really, but it's nice to feel justified. *g*

    Also, she and I have been friends forever, so the chemistry is really good and the communication is really solid, which makes for some hot scenes. This particular one was our first time playing together on-camera, and one of my favorites overall.

    We started off with me using flex cuffs to secure her to the rack so that she'd be nice and still while I cut her clothes into tiny shreds with my knife. Once she was exposed, I had a lot of fun flogging, slapping and caning her breasts!

    She got VERY tender and sore in that area after a while, so I kindly alternated with some strokes of the horsehair and rubber whips to her cunt. I'm a helper.

    I saved the most fun part for last--at least, the most fun for me.

    I'm not exactly sure why cute, naked girls are even more cute when they're soaked and sputtering, but they are. It's one of the great mysteries of life. Hosing Dreina down with a huge squirtgun , aiming for her mouth when she made smart comments (so, like, several times a minute) was intensely gratifying. It also had the added bonus of making the last few minutes of impact sting even more.

    By this time we were both pretty done in, so I toweled her off and took her out of bondage. There was some entertaining rough scrubbing in the process. :) All in all, it was a most satisfying afternoon's work!

  • Manhandling Kelly

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    This is another of our much older shoots, with our friend Kelly. Lauren and I had had a wonderful time co-topping her at a private party months before (thanks S!), and wanted to explore those possibilities further. Kelly was quite happy to oblige.

    The focused attention of TWO big mean people can be pretty overwhelming. Normally in a scene with one top and one bottom there's a little bit of contest to steer the scene, but with two-on-one most of the time the bottom can just enjoy the ride. ^-^ I say most of the time because if the two tops aren't able to sync up the contest ends up being between them, and it's not so fun for anybody. Fortunately, Lauren and I did a good job of this one, and Kelly had a blast.

    Have I mentioned how much I miss the wall in the basement where we used to shoot? We spent most of the scene working off that wall, taking turns holding Kelly while the other person did mean things to her. She _loves_ deep muscle grabs and strikes. We did a bunch of manhandling, punching, and even some tossing her back and forth between us. Lauren terrorized her with a really big knife for a while, but pretty much the whole scene other than that she was actively struggling. This meant that Lauren and I had a great time, too...

    We finished up with some water play- the scene we'd done at a party that inspired this one was built around Lauren and I finding out just how much water we could get Kelly to intake (and when she just couldn't drink anymore, how much she could osmose). That was outdoors- for this, we laid down a tarp and took turns pouring water over her. If you hold someone in place, and slowly pour water over their mouth, they can alternate drinking and breathing for a while, but eventually they _will_ start to panic. Kelly has exceptional control and managed pretty well, but still ended up quite thoroughly soaked.

  • Hands On

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    Shooting with Maxx is always a joy. She's my primary partner off-camera, so we know each others bodies and kinks very well. That usually translates as a whole bunch of chemistry on camera, and this shoot was no exception. We did a lot of edgy play, but somehow what comes across is more sweet than anything, I think.

    We thought that it would be fun to do a scene entirely without toys. There's an intimacy to playing with just your bare hands that no implement can match. I admit that i did cheat, a little, but I justified it by saying that knives are tools, not toys. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it...

    I remember that she was in an extremely bratty mood that day. We're both switches, which can make for amusing energy struggle at times. Given the opportunity, 9 times out of 10, Maxx will try to flip me. Sometimes I let her, and sometimes I don't, but I wasn't having it this time! *g*

    I got her hands cuffed behind her (cuffs are accessories, not toys, right?) and started doing very mean things to her nipples right away. I wanted that takedown energy, hard and fast, to drop her. She didn't go down easy, and watching her struggle with sensation and stubbornness and her own desire is a big part of what's hot about this shoot for me. I wanted to pit her against her own obstinacy--to do things that were hard for her until she asked me to stop, or until she complied in some other way.

    We did a lot of impact play, closed fist strikes on her upper arms and chest, and some deep hard muscle grabs. That wasn't too tough for her, but the open-handed slaps on her ass and thighs were. Maxx HATES stingy sensations, but the fact that she was already high as a kite on endorphins helped her process them, and gave us both a nice feeling of "pushing". (Never believe that bare hands can't inflict as much pain as most toys. The marks of my palm were still visible on her inner thighs a week later!)

    I also took advantage of her position to do some breath and bloodflow restriction play, which is something that turns us both on a lot. Most people lump these types of play together, but the sensation they provoke is very different. Blood flow restriction - choking - evokes a very languid sort of feeling for most folks, whereas breathplay most often creates a panic reaction. Both are very, very hot--and neither should be attempted without doing thorough research on the subject first.

    Eventually my hands got quite tired, so I added my boots and teeth to the mix. I pushed her around on the floor with my Docs for a while, but then the temptation of having her down there was too much for me to resist. She's very good with her hands as well, you see, and with her mouth...

    I wanted to prolong things for a bit longer. Rather than letting myself get off against her tongue right away, I made her stop what she was doing and lavish the same care on my boots. That was a delicious torment for both of us, but we didn't have much tape left and I'm not made of stone, so I pulled her back to me. It's usually difficult for me to come in front of the cameras, but this time I totally forgot that they were there. Hooray for good chemistry (and a very talented girlfriend)!

    Orgasm is one of my favorite ways to end a scene--especially if it's mine--so we let things draw to a close after this. You can tell by the matching grins on our faces that we were both very happy with how it went. In fact, we were impatient to get home so that we could play some more! :)

  • Marking Up Madison

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    This was the first time I got to play with a Big Name Bondage Model. ^-^ I have joined sites in the past because Madison Young was on them, so I started out a little nervous. Once we got going though, this was a pleasantly rough shoot. We actually did two more scenes with her that day, and she was quite well marked up going into them (Lauren had her for scene #2, and was not happy with me), and for the next several days.

    This was only my second time shooting with someone I hadn't played with off-camera, so I started out with my usual roughhousing, manhandling her against the wall (note the padding we put up, we'd done most of our shoots to date in the basement of a house Lauren and I lived in which had a concrete wall that I miss fiercely), some breath play, fucking her mouth with my fingers and slapping her face. Basically, my various favorite getting-to-know-you things mixed in with tearing her clothes off. Once we were going, I flogged the heck out of her front, then brought her to the floor for some good hard pussy spanking.

    The entertaining thing about the flogging... The scene actually starts out a little slow because I a) was just getting to know her, and b) was perhaps a little star-struck. Once I figured out that really it was okay to hurt her though, I made a plan. I'd get her adrenaline really going with a jolt of serious sting (she'd said she liked sting), then back down to a warmup level and ramp up from there. So, I chose a nice stingy flogger, and snapped it (i.e. just the tips) against some sensitive belly skin. She didn't blink. I thought "hmm, maybe I misjudged and was a little short and it just sounded like the tips landed," and moved in a little for the next couple strokes. Still casual conversation. Double hmmm... Okay, let's work the Same Damn Spot like that, without a break between. Finally started to get some good breaths and pain processing around that point, but I was about ready to look at my flogger to see if it was broken somehow. ^-^ Madison has both a high pain threshold, and very good pain processing skills (which are two separate and more-or-less unrelated things).

    So the scene escalated from there. Something that I'm fond of is using surface sting on areas you wouldn't normally hit. Transmitting thud into someone's (for instance) kidneys via a solid flogger stroke to the kidneys is A Really Bad Thing. Using a horsehair flogger to turn that same area bright red without transmitting much force beneath the surface can be really fun, on the other hand. Similarly, using a 'popping' throw to lick the sensitive skin of a pretty girl's belly with fire gets me hot. Madison is a natural redhead, so she started pinking up quickly. There's a nice moment (about 13:05 on the video) where you can see her really start to get into it- I'm working down toward her pubic mound and she spreads her legs and pushes her hips forward. That made me very happy at the time, and it still does.

    One problem eventually occurred though- we had two more scenes planned with her, and she was shooting with someone else the next day. So, we'd planned not a lot of marks. I gauged the intensity of what we were doing based on where she was at, how her processing was going, rather than on the degree to which I was marking the heck out of her from thighs to breasts. We got a good intense scene going- she actually cried, which she said had only happened once before in a shoot. Eventually though, we were at the edge of starting to draw blood, and I was getting concerned about the marks lasting (and the need for more easily disinfect-able toys). She was still good to go, but I also thought I should probably leave something for the next two scenes. I didn't want to just drop the scene, so I thought about ways to briefly max her out to properly end it...

    Madison Young can take a _really_ hard cunt-slapping. I said something to the effect of "Let's find out how hard I can hit your cunt," and escalated from rapid little stingy slaps, up to bringing my hand down just about as hard as I though was safe. She took that, held her legs apart for me, and had I think a great time of it. After a while, I realized that she wasn't going to tell me to stop anytime soon, and that Lauren would kill me if I broke her for the rest of the day, and called it. I'd still love to go back and continue that part of the scene. I've spanked the heck out of her pussy since, (see part 1 of Madison in Trouble) but the intensity there was more about how long I was doing it, and the angle was more surface. This time was just broad straight-in impact, with a 'how hard can you take it' dynamic, I'd love to do a scene around that if I shoot with her again.

    The camera is a little shaky at times- I edited this quite a while ago, and I didn't want to lose any of the good bits. This was also our first shoot using multiple cameras. Running more than one video camera is really handy, especially when you're doing as much real-time play as we do. If you're constantly stopping and starting and staging you can get different angles and it doesn't matter if the camera person was moving during that one beautiful moment. You really get nothing remotely like the kind of connection we like that way though, and it's much less fun for everyone. With two cameras running, you can cut back and forth to cover when one of the cameras jerks around switching angles, and show much more of the scene the way it happened.

    whew... I kind of went on, but I thought there was a lot interesting about this scene. Hopefully you will too.

  • Enjoying Maxx

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    This was the first shoot we ever used, and my first time playing with my real-life primary partner, Maxx, while the video camera rolled. It's still one of my very favorites, though it will be obvious to anyone who's seen our recent work that we've learned a LOT more about video, sound, and lighting since then.

    Maxx and I have great energy together, and I think that it shines through better in this shoot than in any that we've done. We didn't really have much of a plan of action, IIRC...we just started doing the things that we both enjoy. We started with some takedown, wrestling-about bondage and boot worship, then moved to the rack for intense thuddy impact and knifeplay. She was in sort of a "bratty creature" role for much of the scene, so we explored that and had fun with it.
    We wrapped things up with cocksucking (the debut of the "OMG-that's-huge" camo cock!) and rough, happy, connected fucking--my favorite way to end things with Maxx!

  • Hurting Sadee

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    Sadee is a regular (if infrequent) play partner of mine, and one of the first people we shot with. It had been a _long_ time since we'd played, the early shoot (up soonishly) might actually have been the last proper scene we did together. I'd done a scene with someone else off-camera a week or so prior where we just hadn't connected, so I really put a lot of attention into the warmup and creating-connection parts of the scene. It worked extremely well, I think this is one of the top fun-and-connected scenes we've done to date. We've got good chemistry to start with, we did simple and fun things, I was very happy with this shoot.

    We played around with some simple bondage- wrists cuffed behind her around a cross, then her on her knees with thumbcuffs behind her back (tougher than it sounds). The main focus was impact play, though. Lots of slapping and punching, a weighted sap, and a riot baton- I'd been saving the baton for a police-themed shoot but I knew how happy it would make her. :)

    Sadee really likes having her face slapped- we finished the scene with a challenge. I told her that I'd keep slapping her face so long as she could maintain eye contact with me (brief involuntary blinks from something swinging toward her face aside), and when she broke eye contact the scene would be over . She tried really hard, but eventually bit her lip, looked down, and tears started welling up. When you set up a scene to end like that and someone's trying to be good for you, it's important to let them know they did well- I gave her plenty of aftercare, and we ended a really hot shoot on a very good note.

    (211 stills, 37:01 of video (640x480 QuickTime @900kbps), 270MB total)