FAQ Party - 13 mei 2006

Mijn eerste show als knoper…

The weeks before I wasn't very stressed with the idea of giving a show. Until the day before.... On Friday I first realised that the show would be the next day already. Damn, that's pretty soon! Friday and the remainder of the Saturday  was pretty nervous... hoping that everything would go as planned.
The drive up to the party wasn't a big success. We got lost, and when we finally found the way, it was closed. In the end we arrived an hour later than we had planned. But we were in time for the show. First we had a drink and dragged a totally surprised Lydia onto the dancefloor for a bit of dancing before the show. Lydia had never been at a fetish party before, and looked as if she had landed on Mars.


During the dancing and waiting my confidence grew, but so did my nervousnes. I was glad when I could finally start. Rigging, hurrah, that's what I came for. From the moment I started tying, I didn't see much more from the party. It went great!!! A lot better than any of the rehearsals. I felt that I tied much more supple and when Lydia finally hung the party really got started. I had lots of space. Great, a show with 2 metre long bamboo rod, but the swing I use for practice is also about 2 metres wide, so it doesn't leave much room for movement. I had already tried - without the rod - if Lydia could handle swinging and turning in a suspension, and that went very well.... and now I could push and swing her around with the rod and all attached. Now that was action!
I noticed how much fun "playing" during the was. The rehearsals had gotten more and more boring the more we had been repeating the same ties over and over again.... but with all the space I had and the pretty faces Lydia was making, and how beautiful she hang in the light... Yeah, I was enjoying myself!


I had the feeling that the show went by pretty fast. And then there was the moment that I had feared the most. The untying. Iwas afraid that perhaps all the ropes would get tangled and I would need an eternity for the untying. So this was one stress-moment in the show. I had even bought a few additional biners so I would be able to tie each rope to a separate biner. That turned out well, each rope through its own biner prevented a lot of searching for the right rope ends, something that had bothered me during some of the rehearsels.


After the show I saw that Lydia needed some cuddling, so I cuddled her while she was still in her harness. That turned out to be a deep subspace trigger for her; Lydia sank away, and for the remainder of the night she went completely quiet. Fortunately we had someone to drive us home, so we all got home safely.



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