Tied to a mimosa tree.

Postby Harold » Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:48 am

For those not familiar with it, the mimosa tree is common to the southern USA, and its trunk (a smooth bark) rarely goes straight up. The one in our front yard started at about 8 degrees off vertical and maybe was more than 10 before its first branches started. I could climb it by "walking" up the first branch with my hands (maybe 5.5 feet up) and walking up the trunk. Once up I there several places I could stay with little or no effort.

I had been playing tieup games with a younger boy a few houses down from us. A Tarzan movie I saw on a Sunday afternoon "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" showed Boy tied first to some kind of cross and then to a tree. I had wondered why he couldn't get out of it boundit, but didn't realize then his hands had been tied behind his back before being tied to that cross (perhaps a misnomer, the horizontal part of it was just big enough to support his feet). When tied to a tree there were only two coils of rope above his elbows around his torso and one above his knees and I don't think his hands were tied.

Anyway, I had my back against the tree with my arms at my side while my friend spiraled a rope from my feet to my shoulders. I thought I could pull an elbow back to get my hand free of a coil and it would make it easier to get out of the rest of them, but no such luck. The entire length of my arms were trapped in a pocket defined by my torso or hips, the tree, and about a dozen coils of the rope. My elbows and other parts of my arms weren't going anywhere. I thought I felt some slack under my right shoulder and tried to move there, but that only succeeded in moving me around to near the back side of the tree--I was wearing a cotten shirt and it slipped easily around the trunk. When we started I was leaning against the tree but after falling to the back, the vector of my weight the tree was supporting was now done by the rope. My friend pushed me back to the front side before untying me.


I doubt I have been tied up for over 20 minutes by other people when I couldn't get out, but have spent weeks in self bondage, but those are for another day.