I wish more people would take the time to do their hair and make-up and dress up formally when pulling and suspending… I remember once suspending someone in my back yard (with their parents incidentally) that wore a wonderful formal dress during it — their theory was that this was at least as important to them as the prom, so why shouldn’t they wear something they thought looked great? Anyway, this particular picture is from Toddy and Pandemonia with Circus Carnis.

Note: To be clear, I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with suspending in street, clothes, nude, in PJs or sweats, or anything… People should wear what makes them comfortable in order to get the best experience…

Marjolein appreciates that driving a gas guzzling polluting car is killing the Earth, so in Maastricht, Holland, she rides her bikes through the streets. That said, I’m not sure that T.A.O.S would agree that this isn’t a lot more effort? (Just kidding: this photo is from a Lifestyle Maastricht suspension event).

It doesn’t matter who this is a picture of (and I think it’s actually an old picture anyway), but I always cringe when I see this particular hook placement for pulling — and I see it very regularly. When someone pulls, they never lean backwards (since humans tend to fall over when they do that), but pullers almost always do lean forward… Think about the way the hooks will rotate when the body leans that way, and you’ll see that they can easily either rotate out completely, or rotate just part of the way, hooking and piercing the inside of the hook channel. Ouch!