From: mlloyd@westmark.Stanford.EDU (Mike Lloyd)
Subject: rubbing things
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 17:45:54 GMT

OK, so some people have had some trouble rubbing things, or more
specifically, with those head-lifts I talked about.  We have a genuine
miscommunication if you get ouchy hair-pulls with this idea; there
should be no substantial strain on the hair at all.

Imagine a big, heavy piece of furniture.  You can take the weight of it
without actually moving it, right? (Cuckoo's Nest notwithstanding)
Well, the idea here is a bit like that.  Again, the first bit is easy
and quite delicious: get your hands into the victim's hair, one hand on
top (base of hand towards forehead, fingers towards back), the other on
back (base of hand at neck, fingers towards top).  You want the hands
(esp the back-of-head one) to have no chance of sliding over hair, so
(whinge! moan!) you just have to work the hands in well from both ends.

OK, now the back hand *should* be placed so that your palm cups over the
point where the neck stops and the skull curves out (if your victim
cannot hold their head upright, do some work with your top hand to get
the skull, neck and spine in a neatish vertical line).

So this back hand should have a good grip around that back-of-head
bulge.  Now you want to think of that heavy piece of furniture: take the
weight of the skull (and tell your play-partner what a large brain they
must have, or that they are big-headed, as appropriate).  There is no
motion implied here; just increase the pressure with the back hand,
pushing up (and slightly in, for grip) on the skull.  This will reduce
the load on the victim's neckmuscles considerably, and if held for a
second or two, released, and repeated, should provide some of the
desired jellification.

Throughout, do what you can to stay aware of your top hand; with this
and several other tricks for working on necks when the victim is
upright, that hand is needed to avoid painful flopping as you give hir
neck muscles the badly-needed holiday in Acapulco.  The problem is
really only stylistic; this arm must take a lot of strain at some
points, so you need to angle it well, and it can be an ungraceful moment
when you take the hand away (yeah, it sticks ...).  Basically, practice.

Am I any clearer?  I think I have to leave it at the above.  If it still
ain't working, get in touch (keep it net-based, if nobody minds).
Perhaps I'm being unclear because my Big Problem(tm) just now is the
absence of any victims to do this to who are closer than about 3K miles,
so I hope you are suitably impressed with my martyrdom in describing
this stuff (*self*snicker*).

If I can get a reward, I'd like to hear from other sculptors in muscle
(no, not Schwarzenegger; Mama G springs to mind - you out there, Mama?)
about non-obvious tricks.  I wouldn't have tried the above by chance,
and I know one other back-stretch that never ceases to amaze me: it
looks like it *should* hurt, but people love it.  However, if head-lifts
are causing netwide ouches, I'll leave that until we have clearer
communication.  Anyone with ideas to trade, I'm all ears, since (moan) I
can't be all back for a demo.

hugs, rubs, lifts and stretches
Mike
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