Finally, this is a great question to ask our Discord community! You can share pictures there and get lots of troubleshooting opinions. If you're on the Discord already or if you join and post about this, feel free to tag me and I'll take a look at your pictures and offer some more suggestions. 

Hi! Thanks for your question. Fuoco here to answer your question. This is a tricky one to answer without being able to see what you're tying. My first instinct would be to ask you where the suspension line is being attached (closer to the chest will lift the chest more and load the legs in a more secondary way). My second suggestion would be to make sure that your thigh wraps aren't just tight around the thigh but that the stem you create with them is also very taught. Even as you just begin to apply the slightest amount of lift, you should be able to feel down the lines that travel between the gote, ankles, and thighs, and ideally you'll feel that there is an even taughtness where the lines branch between the ankle and the thigh. If the line to the thigh is at all slack, the thighs won't pick up, even if the rope around them is tight. 

Thanks for your question! It's a really good one. Putting your carabiner through the bite isn't the same as rope on rope, as the added friction that you generate through the lift has the capacity to stress the rope quite a lot. So using a carabiner can have a big impact on how much load you actually generate when lifting, and consequently, how much you stress your rope. However, you're absolutely right that a carabiner right through the bite is a less ideal choice from a safety perspective than putting the carabiner through the epsilon or through a double bight. The method that Gorgone shows here of putting the carabiner through the bite might be an okay choice for a load line attached to a very light part of the body, like an ankle, that won't be heavily loaded during the suspension. A safer choice is definitely to clip into the hanger or a double bight, and that's what we'd recommend for any main load like (like the suspension line on a chest harness or hip harness).

Definitely! A loosely tied and loaded blindfold is a great alternative to hair rope :)

Thank you so much for this feedback! We've made a note of this to reference when casting upcoming productions! 

This is a tengu pattern, not taught on our site. But if you search for "tengu" you'll find other harnesses a lot like this! 

Jon Sawa You're right. Thanks for pointing that out. This harness is hard to categorize, as it lives in a bit of an in-between space between suspendable and non-suspendable. We appreciate the feedback :)

Like Alex said, that's a munter hitch! You can find more information on that structure in the Friction Lexicon class :)

Chroknots Thanks for chiming in! We were coming to say the same thing. Kinoko is mentioning placement not necessarily to say that just below the top wrap is where the nerve is, but that we shouldn't start the top wrap too low, in order to leave room for a safer placement of the bottom wrap as well. Later in the video (just before the 9 minute mark) Kinoko also mentions the tension difference between the top and bottom wrap. This difference combined with the effects of the kanuki can help to minimize pressure lower on the arm where the nerve is exposed.

Ivan Erik Kragh Thanks for that suggestion! We were gonna say the same thing :)