Going to put up thoughts, walkthrough,pics and vids of my suspension here, so if you are squeemish back out back out now.
First off let me say a big thanks to the pmp suspension crew for hooking me up, sean and kay were completely awesome, and donated the fee to charity.
Secondly Damo and Jenizzle, yes I am now a Fat bastard.
So I have been wanting to do suspension for as long as I remember, when I seen that it was going on just a bit away I knew I had to so exchanged a few fb's with Kay about sorting myself out to do it.
So come the day, I arrive down, and we decide what we're going to do, we go for the normal 4 hooks in the back and up normal (suicide).
It will get graphic from here on out. This is not safe for work. You have been warned
So first things first we had to get my hooks in so I could suspend,after they had sterilzed my back, I got the larger hooks as I'm a big guy and they actually couldn't pull enough skin for the second set of hooks( at least that what It sounded like to me, I may be wrong) so I had to do a 2 hooker with them being sideways so there was more area.
the larger hooks
So this is what it looks like when it is actually in my back
and this is a video of the left one being pierced
So once that was done I had to make my way to the suspension area with Kay and sean making sure none of the rather large assembled crowd touched off me and ruined the sterilized areas.
I don't get nervous or adrenaline buzzed because I always go into my own little space. So I was up on stage with kay talking me through what was going to happen while she was hooking me up and tensioning them properly.
And from a different angle
As you can see I'm a fairly heavy guy and Sean who was controlling the lift would be a lot lighter than me so I knew I wouldn't get up crazy high but that was grand with me as I have a morbid fear of heights.
So after a bit of a slow tension lift to get me on my tippy toes as I was walking back and fourth with Kay talking me through it, it started to get uncomfortable cos of the weight so I asked would it be best if i just lift up my legs, which I did and Sean managed to get my fat ass up in the air.
I have to say once I was off my tippy toes and my full weight was on the hooks it feels a lot better and is quite comfortable.
So after a bit of spinning around in circles side to side etc with Kay keeping an eye on me making sure everything was good and that I was still comfortable she asks if I wanted to try and lift her, So I know that Kay knows her stuff when it comes to suspension and reckon that if she thinks adding her weight onto the hooks aswell wont be too bad well thats good enough for me, so I wrap my legs around her while she grabs on bring the weight up to around 25-26 stone on the two hooks and this is what it looks like
(for those that don't know Sean is the guy leaning back holding the rope. Tbh lifting and swing with Kay didn't hurt it just felt like more pulling on the skin and was slightly less comfortable.
All in all I was only up about 10-12 mins but with my weight I decided to come down as I didn't want my first time to end up being painful so called it myself.
As soon as I touched down I saw the womans face and knew she was dying to do it, but unfortunately it was booked up.
So I'm having the hooks removed and myself patched up when it turns out that the next appointment had cancelled, so I ask Kay if she could fit my gf in and luckily she could. I'm going to cut this short. She was up for 20 mins and could of went longer and loved it all, she was up a bit higher than me as she is about half my weight.She also had 4 smaller hooks going veritcally, and she is in worse shape than I am today regards being sore where i am just tight feeling but absoloutely says it's worth it and will do it again
When you get off the hooks and on the ground it's mad as you get a natural high and still think you are weightless. This was an amazing experience for me and was over a decade in waiting. It is definitely something I will do again and recommend that if you were humming and hawing about it to just talk to the pmp suspension crew and just go for it.
Obviously I am going forgetting stuff, but if you've any questions about my experience feel free to ask
