Arm Bind

by Japan Rope

	Step 1: This tie is pretty easy. Let's start by wrapping the wrists just as we've done before: around a couple times with the bight end of a doubled rope.
	Step 2: Two or three times around...
	Step 3: ...and through the center of the wrists. See how we're using the working end of the rope (in my right hand)? That's so the rope doesn't "slip-knot" around the wrists, cutting off circulation.
	Step 4: Knot this up and we're here. Simple wrist tie, knot on top, with a small loop that might come in handy if you're feeling clever.
	Step 5: I've only repositioned this a bit, nothing has really changed.
	Step 6: Once around the body, above the breasts, with your doubled rope.
	Step 7: Pick up the line here to give it some tension, keeping the line from falling down and your partner from spinning like a top.
	Step 8: Now we go once around that rope in back, about elbow height
	Step 9: Around the forearms once.
	Step 10: Note how the ropes form a kind of X pattern at this point. This is what we're shooting for.
	Step 11: A close up of how we did the ropes. We want to keep the final product from moving around, shifting, and generally falling apart on us -- so we've under that center tension point, then over the top and under before going to the next step.
	Step 12: Now we go under or over the bottom-right portion of the X.
	Step 13: And now we take it around the breasts again. This time underneath, returning to the back and running the rope under the arms, and then behind our center structure.
	Step 14: Here's what it looks like from the front at this point. A clean, simple look from this view -- the band above the breasts goes around the arms, the band below does not.
	Step 15: Almost done. One of the neat things about this tie is that there are almost no knots. It goes a lot quicker than you might think. Once more around the forearms, lower than the first pair...
	Step 16: And then up again to the same place that this rope last went around the center spot
	Step 17: Under and around to balance things out.
	Step 18: Snug up whatever needs adjusting, and finish with a bow as I have, or another solution for whatever is left over is to go straight back down to the wrists. A third idea might be to seperate your doubled rope - one end going right, the other left - and wrap the lines going above and below the breasts, bringing them closer together and adding a bit more tension to the whole array.
	Step 19: A last look from the side. Simple in front, complex in back. A good tie, with only two knots: one to start, one to finish it.