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lovebottom	Posted: 2006-05-15 12:00
Forum Regular Canada 560 Posts	I've been whipped like this a few times (only on my back) and I love it! The reason has nothing to do with artifice or appearance. It has to do with the steady application of strokes, without pause. And yes, it does get me zoned out faster than regular flogging.

pinkwind	Posted: 2006-05-15 12:08
Dun quhynging! United Kingdom 10,319 Posts	Lovely though two handed flogging looks when demonstrated, i love best the way Andy lifts off the floor when he puts all his energy into one lone flogger, especially my favourite, funnily enough made from...elk! -- pink... Master Andy's emotion... From Each According To His Abilities, To Each According To His Needs.

SoCalToyMan	Posted: 2006-05-15 19:35
Forum Initiate United States 26 Posts	champagne_: [quote]SoCalToyMan: 95% of the time I use 2 floggers ... that being said I don't always do the flourentine pattern/ figure 8....I can vary the strike angle, intensity and rhythm to my desire. I don't do it for asthetics, but rather for me it helps me get into my rhythm . I can feel the music, and atmosphere better it seems when I am using two floggers. I will also at times do a florentine with 2 bull whips . hmm 2 bull whips? What is the length of them? I have a few matched sets that Vic Tella made for me. When I play at the local clubs with bullwhips I try to only use 4 footers. There are some local people who will do it with 5 and 6 footers and it's incrdible to watch. There's a guy out of tampa who flourentines flaming whips/poi...I'll try to find his site and post it.

nina_de_la_diosa	Posted: 2006-05-15 19:47
Forum Slut Canada 1,429 Posts	SoCalToyMan: There's a guy out of tampa who flourentines flaming whips/poi...I'll try to find his site and post it. Might this: http://www.firewhip.com/index.html be the site you meant???

VolcanoCBE	Posted: 2006-05-15 20:25
Forum Maniac United States 5,540 Posts	elk: I assume since you took the time and trouble to learn it, you feel it is worth learning. Are there specific situations when the Florentine method would be preferrable to using a single flogger? I didn't find it all that much time and trouble. I know 3 different patterns, one I figured out on my own, one I learned in a class, and one I figured out from watching a BDSM vid. Didn't take more than an hour or 2 of practice before I was ready to move to a human target. Actually, by the time I got to the third pattern I only practiced about 30 seconds, to make sure I could do it without tangling the floggers. I did use relatively light, short floggers at first. I don't know that there is any particular situation that calls for it. It's just one more of the range of sensations you can get out of floggers. Although I did discover a few advantages. Once I had 2-handed flogging down pretty well, I could switch hands in mid-stroke when using a single flogger. Comes in handy when you are using a heavy flogger and your arm needs a rest. Or I can do this behind-the-back hand switch to go from flogging the back with my left hand to flogging upward on the ass and thighs with my right hand without interrupting the flow. If I make sure I have other floggers in reach (or have an assistant to hand them to me) I can change floggers without pausing. And I can add a lot more thud to the situation by bringing my hands together and hitting with both floggers down at once. -- Volcano Founder: Pink Pistols Central Texas www.pinkpistolscentex.org Ted Kennedy and Laura Bush have killed more people with their cars than I have with my guns

Psychoktten	Posted: 2006-05-16 00:34
Forum Slut United States 1,662 Posts	I originally learned how to florentine by learning Poi, but the movements are incredibly similar. As a top, I like using the florentine for a couple of reasons. A: it's damn impressive in a club or public scene, B: the constant whoosh gives a nice fear reaction, and you can pull back and just let it woosh for a while, letting your bottom wonder when you're going to start up again, and C: it's a great warm-up or break in pattern. It's something different, and it helps to have lots of tricks up your sleeve. As a bottom I like the feeling it gives. I like the rythm and the feel of constant impact. I would never want that to be the only thing used on me, but I woudln't want single hand to be the only thing used on me either. Variety, my friends, is the spice of life. Plus, if you get good enough where you can really mess with the rythms, placement and intensity, you can do some REALLY awesome stuff. -- High Priestess of The cult of the sisterhood of the man with the salt and the knife and stuff "For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds..." Anias Nin, Feb. 1932 from Henry and June E-mail me ~ Learraln@aol.com

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lovebottom

Posted: 2006-05-15 12:00

Forum Regular

Canada
560 Posts

I've been whipped like this a few times (only on my back) and I love it! The reason has nothing to do with artifice or appearance. It has to do with the steady application of strokes, without pause. And yes, it does get me zoned out faster than regular flogging.

pinkwind

Posted: 2006-05-15 12:08

Dun quhynging!

United Kingdom
10,319 Posts

Lovely though two handed flogging looks when demonstrated, i love best the way Andy lifts off the floor when he puts all his energy into one lone flogger, especially my favourite, funnily enough made from...elk!
--
pink...

Master Andy's emotion...

From Each According To His Abilities, To Each According To His Needs.

SoCalToyMan

Posted: 2006-05-15 19:35

Forum Initiate

United States
26 Posts

champagne_:
[quote]SoCalToyMan:
95% of the time I use 2 floggers ... that being said I don't always do the flourentine pattern/ figure 8....I can vary the strike angle, intensity and rhythm to my desire. I don't do it for asthetics, but rather for me it helps me get into my rhythm . I can feel the music, and atmosphere better it seems when I am using two floggers. I will also at times do a florentine with 2 bull whips .

hmm 2 bull whips? What is the length of them?

I have a few matched sets that Vic Tella made for me. When I play at the local clubs with bullwhips I try to only use 4 footers. There are some local people who will do it with 5 and 6 footers and it's incrdible to watch. There's a guy out of tampa who flourentines flaming whips/poi...I'll try to find his site and post it.

nina_de_la_diosa

Posted: 2006-05-15 19:47

Forum Slut

Canada
1,429 Posts

SoCalToyMan:
There's a guy out of tampa who flourentines flaming whips/poi...I'll try to find his site and post it.

Might this: http://www.firewhip.com/index.html be the site you meant???

VolcanoCBE

Posted: 2006-05-15 20:25

Forum Maniac

United States
5,540 Posts

elk:
I assume since you took the time and trouble to learn it, you feel it is worth learning. Are there specific situations when the Florentine method would be preferrable to using a single flogger?

I didn't find it all that much time and trouble. I know 3 different patterns, one I figured out on my own, one I learned in a class, and one I figured out from watching a BDSM vid. Didn't take more than an hour or 2 of practice before I was ready to move to a human target. Actually, by the time I got to the third pattern I only practiced about 30 seconds, to make sure I could do it without tangling the floggers. I did use relatively light, short floggers at first.

I don't know that there is any particular situation that calls for it. It's just one more of the range of sensations you can get out of floggers. Although I did discover a few advantages. Once I had 2-handed flogging down pretty well, I could switch hands in mid-stroke when using a single flogger. Comes in handy when you are using a heavy flogger and your arm needs a rest. Or I can do this behind-the-back hand switch to go from flogging the back with my left hand to flogging upward on the ass and thighs with my right hand without interrupting the flow.

If I make sure I have other floggers in reach (or have an assistant to hand them to me) I can change floggers without pausing. And I can add a lot more thud to the situation by bringing my hands together and hitting with both floggers down at once.

--
Volcano
Founder: Pink Pistols Central Texas www.pinkpistolscentex.org
Ted Kennedy and Laura Bush have killed more people with their cars than I have with my guns

Psychoktten

Posted: 2006-05-16 00:34

Forum Slut

United States
1,662 Posts

I originally learned how to florentine by learning Poi, but the movements are incredibly similar.

As a top, I like using the florentine for a couple of reasons. A: it's damn impressive in a club or public scene, B: the constant *whoosh* gives a nice fear reaction, and you can pull back and just let it woosh for a while, letting your bottom wonder when you're going to start up again, and C: it's a great warm-up or break in pattern. It's something different, and it helps to have lots of tricks up your sleeve.

As a bottom I like the feeling it gives. I like the rythm and the feel of constant impact. I would never want that to be the only thing used on me, but I woudln't want single hand to be the only thing used on me either. Variety, my friends, is the spice of life.

Plus, if you get good enough where you can really mess with the rythms, placement and intensity, you can do some REALLY awesome stuff.
--

High Priestess of The cult of the sisterhood of the man with the salt and the knife and stuff

"For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds..." Anias Nin, Feb. 1932 from Henry and June

E-mail me ~ Learraln@aol.com

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