Whipping and Flogging

Please read  also Safety, and Safety: whips

 

Even if with the forehand stroke explained in the preceding article is enough for punishing, it is good knowing several different strokes with different results, for being able to produce a full range of sensations on your sub.

All strokes should be practiced in a similar way as the one explained above.

Reverse Forehand

You can also deliver a forehand from the left, by passing the whip and your arm over your head, hitting the other side of your bottom's body.

 

The flick

The easiest stroke, fit for beginners but useful for everyone, is holding the tails of the whip on your left hand, and throwing it as you used to throw a towel when you were a child. (But do not crack the whip as you did with the towel). This will "snap" the tail on your bottom's flesh.

If you never had a towels' fight as a child, the trick is creating a little tension between your hands. Hold the handle of the whip on your right hand, the tips on the left, put a little pressure with your right hand to the front, and when you have enough tension, release the tips and flick your wrist. The tails will shoot straight to the front. Hold always the tips of the tails, not the middle, because if so, the points will hit your left hand when released.

For a milder result, do not tension the whip, just use your left hand for helping in pointing the tails.

If hitting from the right, your left hand should go behind your neck for short whips, and behind your waist for long ones.

 

This technique allows for great precision, because the whip will go straight along the line of tension. Just align the whip with the target, as you'll do when pointing with an arrow.

You could also hit from left to right, as shown below or, actually, for any position in which you can manage putting your arms for building the tension.

I believe that this technique is best with floggers and straps. A cat or a single tailer could hurt when snapping over the body. I prefer the last one with a belt on the buttocks and upper thighs. Let the bottom's legs free and hit on different points and you'll see her performing a very erotic kind of dance.

 

Punching

This stroke is made actually throwing the tails of the whip to the front. You move your arm backwards slowly but bent instead of extended. For hitting, bring your arm forward and extend it while flicking your wrist as if you were to throw a ball at your sub. The tails of the whip will pass at your side from the back and go straight to the point of the target at which your arm is pointing, as in the flick throw above.

The tails will snap over the target (be careful if the points are hard, because they will hit with force), with a different sensation than that of a normal lash.

The backhand stroke

Another common stroke is the backhander. Cross your arm across the front of the body and, with your knuckles pointing to the target, hit from the left, by extending your elbow and making your arm cross back in front of the chest and going to the right. Be careful. The backhander is less precise than the forehand throw, and it is more powerful. In the forehand, you use the muscles on the front of your shoulders, with some help from the forearm muscles. In the backhander, you use the muscles on the back of your shoulder, with the help of your triceps, both stronger that the others.

 

The backhander can also be thrown from several angles, from diagonally up to down as shown above, to horizontally left to right, to diagonally from below.

 

Published: 07/07/04