Hello, Everybody! Happy Thanks Giving, to all who celebrate.

My name is Ash. I go by Frosty Cucumber on Discord. I've technically been tying for 9 years, but with a lot of breaks and varying levels of intensity. My latest round of intensive study has been going for about two years now and part of what's kept me so excited through this time is the community I've found through Shibari Study. You all are awesome and I'm very happy to have found such a passionate, supportive, and friendly group of kinky friends.

I've been working on a few things lately, but one that really stands out is vertically loading harnesses. The live class on this topic a while back was awesome and helped tremendously, but I still run into problems sometimes. Most recently, I vertically loaded the ShSt Fishermans Harness and the waist rope loaded like crazy. My tying partner said she's been in other vertically loaded fishermans harnesses before that didn't load it so intensely and I'm wondering if there are different patterns for that or if maybe I just did something wrong.

It makes sense to me that that wrap would always load heavily in the ShSt pattern because it's the lowest wrap and is fairly tight. I guess I could really intensely tighten the other wraps, add more wraps to the waist, or maybe I'm find a pattern that doesn't have the waste rope?

In the moment in question, I just added some rope to her legs to push against and take some of the load, but I'd love to know what other modifications I could make in this situation.