Edit : In the end I was not sure about the tutorial/story format so I made a new thread here, formatted only as a story. For those who like looots of details though, keep reading
The tightest self-bondage hogtie ever.
I've always loved tight hogties, and I mean really tight ones with my elbows tied, ankles pulled passed my hands arching my back and with a rope keeping my head up, but its pretty hard to achieve this in self-bondage scenarios. Even if you set the security aspects aside, there just seems to be no way to get everything as tight as a partner can make it... until now! After years of trial and error I finally managed to tie myself up in an extremely tight hogtie yet one that doesn't cause rope burns, loss of sensation and that can be escaped securely, and this is how I finally managed it.
For the equipment, since I prefer ropes to leather, that's almost exclusively what I use. I go with various lengths of silk bondage rope for most ties directly on my skin, but I also use nylon ropes to tighten everything since they don't stretch, and finally a camping guy rope for tying my big toes. There are also a few keys accessories that I really can't do without even it I want to. Mostly 3 cord tightener carabiners used for camping in which I can feed the nylon ropes and tighten them only one way (I'll call them one-way carabiners going forward), and a few metal rings, mainly large ~2.5" diameter ones, and smaller ~1" ones.
I also use a harness gag to tilt my head back, it's the easiest, but when I didn't I had to tie my hair. I have very thin hair and I find that every hair tie technique I tried ended up slipping at some point so what worked best before I bought a harness gag was essentially to tie my hair in a Chinese style bun with a hairpin or a pencil, reinforce it with a hairband and use the stick as an anchor for the rope. Of course my hair needed to be a minimum long for the stick hair-tie to stay tight, about shoulder blade length I'd say, but without long hair no hair-tie will work anyways when you have hair like mine.
Now before I start, a few remarks I don't really want to go over while in the action, so feel free to skip these it you want.
1 - I had to test a few of the lengths in advance by trial and error to get the right tightness, especially for the elbow rope and the extension holding the one-way carabiner for my wrists.
2 - The metal rings are used as mean of pulley, when using them like that it is imperative to never pass more than one rope in one ring, otherwise when tightening the ropes will eventually cross over one another and they will get stuck. I had to cut through a few lengths of good rope learning this one.
3 - Still on the security side, you may be tempted to replicate my tie using the ring device boundAnna talks about to replace the one-way carabiners I use. Don't. You cannot loosen the ring device like you can disengage the one-way carabiners so you have to cut the rope, and in this position, you will not be able to manipulate or reach any scissors.
4 - Of course a few steps and ties can be modified, an example is the chest harness that I use which is not pretty, but it's efficient and there's a lot of rope passes since when tying myself, I have to move a lot and the ropes won't stay neatly placed like when someone else ties me.
Ok enough teasing, let's get into the action!
I finally arrive home after quite the strenuous day. Everything that could go wrong basically did, but I'm still in a pretty good mood because tonight I'm going all in for a self-bondage session. I don't even bother having dinner, I basically ate throughout the day anyways so I drop my bag and I go straight into my basement to prepare my little setup. I unroll a large rug in the middle of the living room, my basement floor is way too cold to lie directly on. I gather my bag of ropes and accessory from my storage room and back in the living room I strip down and I grab one of my 1.75" ballgag. I love tying myself while gagged. I choose black one with three breathing holes in the middle, which I strap carefully under my loose hair, you'll see why I chose this particular gag later on

Anyways, I sit down on the rug as it's time to do my legs! Legs are always the easiest part in self-bondage, but there a still a few important points I need to think about here. I have to tie my big toes, my soles, my ankles and my knees, and on each tie I want to add a small metal ring on the back side of my legs that will act as either pulley or anchor point. Basically I go with double column ties, and when looping the rope to cinch, I just pass the cinching rope through a metal ring, that's it. Sitting on the floor I get to it and tie my legs in this order : feet->ankles->toes->knees, Why? The soles of my feet are the hardest to tie since I need to lean forward a lot and it's much easier if I can have my legs slightly apart otherwise, well my breasts pressing on my knees prevent me from leaning far enough. The same logic could apply to my toes, but I want my ankles to be tied first so that I can tie them back to my ankles since too much tension on the toe ring can become painfull. This way my toes act a bit like the pillar of a cable-stayed bridge (I had to google the name of that thing to explain it

For my knees I only really need to tie a rope and ring above them, but today I want to feel as secure as I can so I also tie my legs below my knees. I then use the cinch ropes from both above and below my knees to secure a single large metal ring, to which I clip a normal carabiner. I'm almost done with my legs, but I make a little side note here to come back on why I chose the particular gag I'm wearing right now. You see I'm not particularly a drooler, I basically never drool wearing a gag, except for this one. I suppose the breathing holes enable my saliva to seep out before I reach the threshold at which I stop making saliva, but the result is there all the same, and even if it took a fairly long time to get there, now sitting on the floor, folded forward working on my legs, a small line of saliva starts to drop down on my breasts and stomach. I don't really like the sticky feeling of drool on my skin (yes, and other things too), but it's exactly what makes it just the right thing for self-bondage, where even if I'm tied, I'm still in control of everything. The fact that I can't stop myself from drooling like that brings me a little bit closer to the feeling of helplessness I crave. Anyways, back to me fumbling under my bent knees, I just clipped a regular carabiner there which I will call an extension carabiner. To this extension carabiner I attach the third one-way carabiner, and I pre-feed the end of a short nylon rope through it. This will be the setup to tie my wrists later on. The nylon rope itself has a a canadian jam knot (at least that's what the website I took my inspiration from called it) pre-tied at the end which will be used to cinch my wrist rope. As I said earlier, nylon rope doesn't stretch and is fairly hard and slippery, and this canadian jam knot makes it perfect for the job since when the rope is not under tension, my wrists basically get automatically uncinched, or very easy to loosen with minimal struggling. Grabbing the rope loop I premade for my wrists I pre-feed it in the jam knot just to hold it there.
Now my legs are tied, the chest harness is ready, time to prepare the elbow rope and thread the hogtie tightening ropes! For the elbow rope I have a 10m rope that is folded on itself a few times, resulting in a loop similar to a small hula hoop. The size of this loop has to be tried a few times to get the sweetspot. Speaking of hula hoop, I essentially pass my whole body in this rope like I would indeed use a hula hoop, and then I feed the loop inside the lower ring on my back, resulting in a smaller loop of rope protruding from the ring in the middle of my back, just like the boundanna technique, but I much prefer this one since the harness keeps the metal ring at a fixed height which is just perfect for my elbows. A this point I double check that the length is ok by passing my arms through it and checking that it's comfortable and that I can free mylself, but not easily. I still need my elbows free for the rest, and I'm almost done so I need to change my gag.
I scoot a little on the rug and grab my harness gag and two hairties, which I use to tie my hair in two separate ponytails. I ungag myself from my regular ballgag while sucking air in to prevent more drool from falling on my chest with mitigated success. Drool apart, this ballgag was really just to prepare my jaw for the rest. I take a few sips of water as I never know how long I will want to stay tied, I slide a blindfold on my forehead and then I finally strap my 2" red harness ballgag in place making sure everything is snug. Satisfied, I scoot again and change from sitting on my butt, to sitting upright with my legs bent to the side, exposing the soles of my feet and their many metal rings to me. The hogtie ropes consist of two long nylon ropes with a small carabiner on one end. I clip the first carabiner to the upper ring behind my neck, thread the rope down to the ring on my feet, back through the upper ring, and down to my ankles where I thread it through one of the two one-way carabiner there. This one will take the bulk of the tension, bending my legs back and pulling them easily passed my hands. The second rope I clip to the D-ring on top of my harness gag, down to my toe ring, up again through the D-ring of the harness gag and down in the other one-way carabiner on my ankles.
Now I'm getting pretty excited. I throw two thick throwpillows on my rug and I maneuver myself to lay on them on my belly so that one is under my upper chest, and the other one under my knees, already arching my back slightly like I'm lying face down in a hammock. Since I tied my knees both above and below and attached the ropes to the same metal ring, my legs stay slightly folded behind me, my feet just sticking in the air with a bunch of while nylon ropes hanging from them. I reach on my face to lower the blindfold difficultly since it's pinned under the straps of my harness gag, but that's great since there is no chance that it can slip out accidently, or that I can rub it off myself. My arms still free for now I blindly feel for the hogtie ropes protruding from the two one-way carabiner near my ankles and I start pulling on them in alternance. The rope slowly feeds through them without going back until I identify the one linked to the upper ring of my chest harness, usually to one on the right. I start pulling more and more, the rope zigzaging between my feet and my back using the pulley effect to make the tightening even easier, I pull until the line is taught, pulling slightly on my shoulders. I grab the second hogtie rope and I pull on it, this time wrenching my head back and pulling on my toes. The tension is delicious, there is absolutely no slack, but I just need to pull sideways on the ropes to free them from the one-way mechanism of the carabiner to get free. I tighten both ropes a few inches more. Time to finish this tie. I reach higher behind my back and feed my arms through the elbow rope still dangling there. I wriggle my arms a bit to make sure I'm comfortable and I feel around to grab the wrist loop presently linked to my knees that lies somewhere on my right side. I loosen the cinching jam knot, feed my right hand through the loop, and making sure the cinching nylon rope stays between my wrists, I feed my left hand through the loop. With a bit of effort I nest my hands between my buttcheeks and my folded legs where I can feel the third one-way carabiner with the tip of my fingers. I pull and the nylon rope linked to my wrists tighten and tighten, closing the loop between my wrists and cinching everything snuggly, slightly pulling on my arms at the same time. I stop moving for a moment to take a few instants and take it all in now that every rope is in it's place. Still, there is one little step left before my hogtie is really complete.
After a few deep breaths I set myself in motion to wriggle away from lying on the throw pillows. They were useful to ease the tightening process, but now I want to feel the full effect of the ropes. I rock a bit to tilt myself on my right side, falling on the rug in the process. I start to wiggle away with the little movement I am able to make, mostly pivoting either from my shoulders or my knees until I feel I'm far enough from the pillows before I finally try to rock myself back on my belly, and there is it. Complete bliss. Without the help of the pillows to fight off gravity, everything tightens all at once and I am now hogtied on the floor, arms pinned behind my back, wrists pulled towards my knees and stuck between my buttcheeks and my ankles. The hogtie ropes are pulled so tight that my knees are not touching the rug below me and my breasts are barely brushing it. My head is pulled back so far that if I could see anything I feel like I would be staring at the ceiling and the tension makes me bite on the thick ball in my mouth in a way that makes it difficult for me to emit even the smallest of moans. I'm in paradise.
I can stay like that on the floor like that for as long as I want, with enough practice I managed to get all the rope lengths just right so that I never get any tingling sensation which is usually the hard part about self-tying since to adjust the slightest detail I essentially have to untie myself almost completely, but this time it's perfect. I've been lying there for probably 20 minutes, it's quite hard to tell in this position, when I decide it's time to test my bonds. That's always a fun part ; for safety reasons I left a few pair of scissors lying around and now I give myself the personnal goal to try and reach one of them. As you can imagine it's not gonna be easy tied as tight as I am, and on top of that I'm blindfolded, keeping me in complete darkness. Still, I try. The closest pair is to my right, about two feet down near the edge of the rug. Using the same technique I employed to wriggle myself away from the pillows, I rock myself from side to side I finally fall on my right side again. With my head close to the ground I try to rub off my blindfold, but it is absolutely futile and I know it, it's not the first time I try this, but I am going to try again anyways. With my head pulled back, nodding is impossible so I try to turn my head instead and create a bit of friction with the rug. After a few tries I come to the same conclusion as always, not gonna happen. The silk blindfold is already sticking to my slightly damp body, and even if that was not the case, the straps from my harness gag are making an excellent job at pinning it to my face. Maybe if my head wasn't pulled back I could remove it, but right now, well I'm out of luck.
Still lying on my side I start to wriggle like before, a bit of rotation from my shoulders, a bit of rotation from my knees. This time I can't feel myself getting away from the pillows so I really have no idea how far I move each time. I think I have about 3 feet until the edge of the rug, but since I place myself in a different spot on the rug for each session, I really have no precedent here. I take a few pauses every five minutes (I think), and after about 20 minutes I feel the cold floor at the edge of the rug. Excellent, now I just have to go down about two feet. I rock myself back on my belly, a process that takes a few more tries than before since the floor is just a bit lower than my rug, my hands and feet now colliding with he hard concrete after each failed push. After about 5 pushes I roll back on my stomach and am greeted back by the sweet tension added from gravity while in this position. From here moving down should be fairly straightforward, just wriggle back and forth like a caterpillar. Well easier said than done, and to my surprise the main culprit is the rope pulling my hands towards my knees. You see I don't always use this rope since the ropes keeping me hogtied do not rely on my wrists, and even with a simple loop around my hands twisted in an 8 figure, the fact that they are pinned between my ass and feet is very restrictive in itself, so most of the time I don't really bother with the knee-wrist cinching mechanism. In fact, I often skip it since it's long to set up and then I still need to search while partly hogtied to grab the loop, a lot of effort for a little bit of flavour... or so I thought. Apparently I never tried to move back and forth with my hands tied to my knees in this fashion, because I just now realize that's it's basically impossible. My back is always a bit more flexible and I can pull my head back a bit more, but my arms and the nylon rope holding my wrists to my knees do not give any play at all. Even so I am a bit perplexed because I'm sure I did it before so what's new now? Well remember when I said that only the upper knee tie is necessary, turns out I was wrong. If I had just tied a ring to the ropes above my knees I could have pulled the ropes slightly up my thigh, and I remember having done it in fact, but now the knee ring is attached to both the ropes above and below my knees on my folded legs, so there is no way to make it move even a fraction of an inch. The result is that it's absolutely impossible to get my butt in the air and temporarily lie on my knees and breasts like the caterpillar move I described earlier. Flabbergasted by my discovery, I still squirm around to experiment as best as I can, pulling, moving, twisting, but the best I can manage is to slightly rock back and forth like a toy boat on the floor, making me realize that quite the sizeable wet spot is forming beneath my nether region. In any case, no chance of moving an single inch back or forward this way. The realization almost makes me cum on the spot even if that was not the intended goal of today's session, but right now, I sure wish I had tied a crotchrope on myself.
So here I am, I have done it. Hogtied, my legs folded in a single limb, arms pinned to my back, blind, mute, unable to stimulate myself even a little bit despite how horny I am. This is the tightest self bondage hogtie I have ever managed to tie myself into, and it is everything I dreamed of. By now it feels like I have been tied up for more than an hour and it probably is the case. I haven't reached the scissors, but my goal never really was to do so. I am satisfied enough to know that if need be, I can probably just pivot by about 90 degrees and tilt back on my side to wriggle my way to them, and that's really all I needed to know. It is now time to untie myself. Now I explained in great details how I got myself into this position, but also that getting out is supposed to be very easy.
Right now the critical rope keeping me tied up, as I knew before but just now discovered exactly to what extent, is the one cinching my wrist loop and pulling down on my arms. To get free from it I simply have to reach with my fingers to the one-way carabiner which is positioned just at the right distance for me to push on the nylon rope and get it disengaged from the one-way mechanism. The particular distance that the extension carabiner, large ring and one-way carabiner combine into was definitely the hardest to fine tune because if it was too short, then I would not be able to untie my hands and I would truly be stuck, and stuck good. The tricky part was that when I tried to find this perfect length while lying on the floor, experimenting with only my wrists and knees tied, I always ended up with the carabiner too close to my hands in the end because once I'm hogtied, my hands actually become quite closer to my knees due to the severe arch I'm into. Anyways, in the end I did manage to find the perfect match and my fingers reach on the right side of the carabiner to push the rope out of the mechanism just as intended, and almost instantly the tension on my arms loosens.
I'm not exactly close to be free though, I'm still severely arched in my hogtie, but now I can wriggle my wrists a bit and uncinch them, eventually freeing them from their tie. Of course even with my wrists free my tied elbow don't make this exactly easy, but that's also part of the thrill. I feel around me for the loose ends of both the hogtie ropes. The one on my left is fairly easy to grab since I moved a few feet to the right, but the one that was on my right is actually now stuck under me. It's not a real problem since I simply tilt myself on my left side and grab it around my navel while it kind of wraps itself around me. Back on my belly I disengage both hogtie ropes, starting by the one connected to the harness gag. My head slumps forward, and soon after my legs unfold behind me, freeing me from this strenuous hogtie. I take a few minutes to just lie there, still gagged, in the dark, my elbows tied behind me and my legs still partly folded and upright because of the connection above/below my knee tie.
Soon I will roll on my back, sit up and gradually untie myself, but right now I just enjoy the fact that I finally achieved it, the strictest self-hogtie I could ever tie myself into. I think my favourite part about this tie is that although it's still very safe and easy to get out of, it's also extremely easy for someone else to render this tie inescapable. Just grab the two loose ends of the hogtie ropes and voilà. I think fantasizing about my partner comming home and finding me in this position is one of my favourite fantasies. They arrive home, come down in the basement and see me tied up like that, grab the loose ends comming out from both one-way carabiners, tighten them just a bit, and use the remaining rope to cinch my elbows before they push me to the side and strap a vibrator between my legs, leaving me to try and reach the scissors by myself while I'm forced to cum over and over.
The end.
P.S. This ended up a bit longer than I expected, I hope it was a nice read!