This classic chest harness, known and practiced by riggers throughout the world, is simple, secure and, when applied properly, can be used for suspension. Using this as your primary upper-body suspension attachment harness means that your partner’s weight is supported by their rib cage and not their arms, reducing the risk of radial nerve injury so common with the standard TK (Takate Kote). Also check out the Suspension Shinju, an update that is even more interconnected and good for suspension.
This tie can also be used for breast bondage: Make the upper and lower chest straps very tight, then use the line that goes between the breasts to cinch the upper and lower chest straps together, thereby trapping and accenting the breasts. Other breast bondage techniques can be found in the Cross-your-heart Breast Harness and the Cinch & Wrap Breast Bondage tutorials
The video shows the more classic method of building the top strap first. The pictorial version shows an alternate where we build from the lower strap first.
Notes: If you plan to use this for suspension, make sure the lower strap is not too low. You don’t want it around just the lower ribs; the ribs in the center and upper chest are much stronger and more able to safely hold a person’s weight.
If you are tying a larger body–doesn’t matter if it is due to muscle or fat–you need more support or it will become unbearable quite quickly, so add more wraps to the upper and lower straps. Instead of stopping with 2 as I do here, add 3, 4 or even 5. If you need more rope, just extend it 🙂
For this tie, I used one 30′ (~9m) piece of Natural 6mm provided by my affiliate Twisted Monk. But my model is quite small and you may need more.
Where should I put the suspension upline?. Is it around the upper straps?
Can this be safely used in conjunction with a tie that puts arms behind the back?
Certainly! In fact, that is my preferred way to do a box tie. I start with a Shinju, then put my partner into a Box Tie position, add a Somerville bowline around both wrists, then connect it up into the Shinju. If I want to trap the elbows, I use the tail of the SB to do to and might use a slightly modified Extended Lark’s Head Double Column of similar technique. But you could also do a variety of Armbinder or other techniques to trap the arms. Have fun exploring!
Would the bottom lines be tucked under the breasts if she wasnt wearing the suit?
Yes, directly against the skin of the chest, just below where the breasts connect to the chest. You normally want that strap of rope as high on the rib cage as you can get it and still be low enough that you don’t get any breast tissue under the rope.
Ive tried this with 8m rope only size I have so far. My partner isnt large but quite tall and the rope ended when making frontal V and this is with skipping half hitch at the back. I had to remove one upper wrap to make it work. What do you suggest here – extend the rope Then it will be too much I think.
In a case like that, I would try to consume more rope earlier in the tie. That is, I would actually add an *additional* wrap to the bottom strap and maybe to the top strap as well, then, when I run out, extend my rope with a shorter rope and use that to do the shoulder straps and front before locking off in the back.
When adding additional wraps to the upper and lower straps, above the 2 wraps shown in this tutorial, how often do you reverse the tension? If you reverse tension only once, I could see doing it only after the first wrap, or only before the last wrap. On the other hand, you could reverse the tension in between each wrap, but it also gets a bit messy, because you’d be creating another secondary bight on each reversal, and you’d have to choose which previously-created secondary bight to use for each new reversal. Is it okay to just wrap and have only one reversal either after the first wrap, or before the last wrap?
Yes, if adding multiple wraps, you can just continue going around until done, and then reverse at the end. If you do that though, lock it off with a stronger friction, like and X friction. You can see this being done in the Gote Shibari tutorial (albeit there there is only two wraps in that example, but this can be done with more). https://www.theduchy.com/takate-kote/
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