Natalia Osipova

Natalia Osipova as Kitri in a Bolshoi production of Don Q

The New York Times
Dance Review
Sending an Old Dreamer Airborne
By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
Published: June 4, 2010

“Dancing as Kitri in “Don Quixote” on Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Opera House, Natalia Osipova proved herself the most sensational ballerina now before the public. Kitri was the first major role for which Ms. Osipova — a Russian star of the Bolshoi Ballet, now in her second spring season as guest artist with American Ballet Theater —earned international acclaim. It’s clear why. She has a gamine quality; you can imagine this Kitri as the most riveting of street urchins. And she’s a theater animal. …”

The complete review can be found at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/arts/dance/05osipova.html?scp=2&sq=Natalia%20Osipova&st=cse

The New York Times
Arts Briefly
By DANIEL J. WAKIN
June 15, 2010

Star Ballerina Attacked Near Lincoln Center

Two muggers attacked Natalia Osipova, right, a major international ballet star, as she left an American Ballet Theater performance early Tuesday morning, striking her in the nose and stealing her bag, her agent said. Ms. Osipova had attended a performance of Ballet Theater’s “Sleeping Beauty,” in which she is scheduled to dance on Saturday night, at the Metropolitan Opera House and was crossing Amsterdam Avenue on her way home when she was mugged, said the agent, Sergei Danilian. “Two guys just came from her back and they hit her and they took her bag,” he said. “She was so brave and so smart — she didn’t scream,” he said of the 5-foot-4 ballerina. Ms. Osipova had left her money at home and her computer at the Met, but the muggers got away with her point shoes and a small hammer used to shape them. The Met doctor was to examine her on Tuesday, Mr. Danilian said, and would determine whether she could dance full-out during an afternoon rehearsal or would just walk through it. She will “absolutely, no doubt,” perform on Saturday, he said. The police also interviewed her at the Met, he said. Ms. Osipova, who is Russian, is a star of the Bolshoi Ballet and in her second season as a guest artist with Ballet Theater.

Personal Comment: The good news is she wasn’t hurt and only lost some pointe shoes. If Sal had still been living on the upper west side that wouldn’t have happened! No dancers or other performers at Lincoln Center or Carnegie Hall would have been dissed like that in Sal’s territory. The Don who is responsible for that area should be ashamed of himself!

My Blogs first birthday

My Blogs first birthday

Jill’s World is one year old: Actually the Blog was a year old on May 30th but I’ve been so busy with the ballet SI and a new version of Don Quixote that we are rehearsing for the high rollers club than I haven’t had a moment to think about it.

I want to thank Eric, a good friend and frequent reader, for recommending BlogSpot when Yahoo 360 converted its blog function more toward social networking. I’m really pleased that Blogger/BlogSpot has such a good platform.

The FDA and ulipristal acetate

ellaOne pack ulipristal acetate

USA TODAY
By Rita Rubin
Updated 6/7/2010

FDA panel to mull 'morning-after pill' effective 5 days after sex

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee will meet June 17 to consider whether the agency should approve a new emergency contraceptive that studies show is more effective than Plan B, the only "morning-after pill" on the U.S. market.

HRA Pharma of Paris launched ulipristal acetate in October 2009 and sells it in 21 European countries under the brand name ellaOne. As in Europe, ulipristal would be available only by prescription in the USA. Plan B, the brand name for levonorgestrel, is available without a prescription to women 17 and older, but those under 17 require a prescription.

Plan B is approved for use up to 72 hours after unprotected sex; even within that window, though, it becomes less effective over time. But two company-funded trials involving more than 3,000 women, published in February, found that ulipristal was consistently effective up to 120 hours, or five days, after unprotected sex.

In one randomized study, researchers compared ulipristal to levonorgestrel in women who had sought emergency contraception at family-planning clinics in the USA, Britain and Ireland within five days of having unprotected sex.

About 1,700 of the women received emergency contraception within 72 hours of having unprotected sex. Half got ulipristal and the other half received levonorgestrel. In the ulipristal group, 15 ended up getting pregnant, compared with 22 who took levonorgestrel.

Among 203 women who received emergency contraception 72 hours to 120 hours after unprotected sex, there were three pregnancies, all in women who had been given levonorgestrel.

The other study published in February focused on 1,241 women who had come to Planned Parenthood clinics for emergency contraception 48 to 120 hours after unprotected sex. All of them received ulipristal. About 2%, or 26, still ended up getting pregnant, but those who took the pill five days after unprotected sex were no more likely to get pregnant than those who took it two days afterward.

"If it were my daughter, I'd want her to have ulipristal rather than Plan B in her medicine cabinet," says Paul Fine, co-author of the studies, professor of obstetrics, gynecology and urology at Houston's Baylor College of Medicine and medical director of Planned Parenthood of Houston, southeast Texas and Louisiana.

More safety data are needed before ulipristal could be sold without a prescription, Fine and his co-authors wrote Feb. 13 in The Lancet.

Ulipristal and levonorgestrel work by inhibiting ovulation, Fine says. He disputed comments filed with the FDA on June 1 by Americans United for Life, an anti-abortion group that likened ulipristal to RU-486, the so-called abortion pill, which is its chemical cousin.

But Fine counters that ulipristal did not cause abortions in women who got pregnant after taking it.

Personal comment: In my entry for January 29, 2010 I mentioned that Elke brought along a supply of ellaOne to use after encounters with Adolph, even though she has a GyneFix IUD implanted, because she had heard how fertile he is. Anyway, the FDA will be holding hearings this week to help decide if they should approve ulipristal acetate for use in the U.S. as an emergency contraceptive. There is sure to be a spirited discussion, but I hope it is quickly approved.

Ballet costumiers challenges

NYCB seamstress copying a costume

The New York Times
June 14, 2010
By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

The Fresh Tutu Brigade

“If there is a heaven for people in the costume industry, it surely includes an infinite walk-in closet: one-stop shopping no matter the fabric, historical period or one-of-a-kind button needed.

For Marc Happel, director of New York City Ballet’s costume shop, reality is somewhat more challenging. He and his staff are charged with rebuilding costumes made years or decades ago, sometimes with materials that have long since gone out of style or production. Meanwhile, shrinking budgets, rising costs and an imperiled garment district make it increasingly difficult to keep City Ballet’s vast repertory looking fresh.

With seven costume-intense premieres this season, Mr. Happel and his staff have been on creation overdrive. But the work of maintaining existing ballets never ends. Audiences will see one of the shop’s major rebuilds this week in Balanchine’s “Scotch Symphony” (1952), the costumes’ lush black bodices, originally designed by the illustrious Barbara Karinska, remade after years of wear and tear.

“Different variations of the velvet have been used to alter them,” Mr. Happel said, the repairs leading to a mishmash of not-quite-right fabrics. But replacing the bodices meant the sleeves and handmade trim had to be redone too, with special attention paid to Karinska’s detail work. “It just became a much bigger project than initially we thought,” Mr. Happel said.

In the best of times, securing the right materials is quite a task, and shoppers like Tracey Herman, Mr. Happel’s assistant, delight in the thrill of the hunt. But over the last 15 years or so, as clothing manufacturing has shifted overseas and rising Manhattan rents have forced small businesses out, she and her colleagues have had fewer places to look.

“It used to be there were 10 button stores you would go to, and now there are two,” she said. “What the stores are selling more of tends to be mass produced, imported, not as high quality, and maybe catering to a different fashion sensibility.”

You might think that the Internet would be a paradise for costume makers and that new technologies would yield ingenious ways to recreate extinct patterns and dyes. Digital printing does allow for the cost-effective replication of old hand-painted patterns on fabric, sites like eBay occasionally yield finds, and authentic specialty items can be found on the Web. But the industry remains a largely local, personal one.

“It’s a very 19th-century art form,” said Jared Aswegan, owner of Barbara Matera, which makes costumes for performing arts groups ranging from circuses to American Ballet Theater. There’s no substitute, he said, for holding material in your hands. “Actually being able to see it and feel it and understand what it is that you’re getting, you really can’t get a sense of that on the Internet.”

What you see online isn’t always what you get in person, which leads to further delays. And time is a luxury costumiers seldom have, especially midseason. Mr. Happel mentioned one business, on the brink of folding, that sells his shop many everyday supplies.

“We are a little freaked out by that, because that means now what we have to do is get stuff shipped from California,” he said. No more sending a staff member down to 36th Street.

Of course, resourceful shoppers have their secret stashes. Ms. Herman remains in touch with many of the merchants who closed their doors permanently, no longer able to afford Manhattan. Some of them keep stock at home. (Only a very few moved to other boroughs.)

“Now we just call them, and we either get a box in the mail or we don’t,” she explained, but only as long as those supplies last. And then? “That’s a good question,” she said, laughing. “Certainly you can always get things made, but it becomes at what price and are the tools and the material even available anymore?”

Trades go out of style too. Marcia Ceppos, who runs Tinsel Trading, which her grandfather started in 1933, said that younger generations aren’t particularly interested in running family businesses. (Ms. Ceppos has no children and is unsure of Tinsel’s future.) And Mr. Aswegan is beginning an internship program for skills like sewing and embroidery, which he says are “heading onto the endangered species list” as people look to more lucrative careers.

The sour economy has only exacerbated these trends. Many remaining garment district stores are reinventing themselves to stay afloat: Tinsel Trading has diversified its stock, while Mood Fabrics has benefited from its association with the television show “Project Runway” and started its own production company, Preview Textile Group, to better cater to the needs of small, belt-tightening designers.

The strategy, said Eric Sauma, one of the owners of the family-run Mood, is to focus “on our smaller designers, who just need small yardages, and be able to grow with them.” He noted that many of his smallest customers were bringing production back to the United States — cause for hope, he said.

Costume shop budgets are shrinking too. Ballet Theater, which outsources all of its costume work, started the Costume Fund in 2003 for restoration purposes. Mr. Happel said he was hoping for big donors for ambitious rebuilding projects like “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which still has its original 1962 Karinska-designed costumes.

Meanwhile, the show must go on, and costumiers have many masters to please. Beyond designers and choreographers, balletomanes have long memories and strong ideas about what a costume should look like. And dancers often become attached to, and even slightly superstitious about, old costumes, preferring to deal with disrepair and sweat stains than to break in new versions.

Yet they can see the difference. On a recent Thursday morning the corps member Faye Arthurs, who was being fitted for a new “Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet” costume, exclaimed with pleasure over the subtle range of colors in her new tutu.

Mr. Happel nodded in somewhat harried agreement before hurrying off to a storage closet, where row upon row of diaphanous, bejeweled costume hung.

“I walk through here a lot by myself,” he said. “It’s exciting, you see the history of this company in all its costumes. It’s also frustrating, because I see all there is to do.””

Personal comment: Our costumiers have a lot of the same problems with sweat and wear, but we have only had a ballet Co for 8 years and for most of that time rented costumes. It’s been only in the last three years that we opened our own costume shop to make costumes rather than to do minor repairs on rental ones. We have some really talented costumiers we lured away from Hollywood because they wanted a more stable career and the big studios were shedding most of their costume shop capacity. Even with the dip in revenue from the recent recession I’ve been able to hold on to the talent and not had to skimp on the materials for costumes, though many of the showgirl costumes themselves are pretty skimpy. Only rarely do we have a costume disaster where a girl bleeds through her tights and tutu. One nice thing about a strippers costume is that the outer costume; coats, skirts, tops etc come off early in the performance so there isn’t really that much wear and the performance lingerie that gets soaked in sweat - or ripped off if the girl is working the house - isn’t that expensive to repair or replace.

The FC2 and recreational sex

The FC2 Female Condom

The FC2 and teens: At St Lucy’s we believe “Sex is pleasurable and pleasure is good for you”. The pace of the Summer Intensive is horrendous so the students need a proven stress releaser. That’s why we recommend recreational sex rather than controlled pharmaceuticals to allow the students, especially the women who are (because of our hormonal fluctuations) more emotional than the men, to relax quickly enough to get a good nights sleep. We also recognize that providing young women with sex during our Summer Intensive in a well protected environment with STI screened partners doesn’t fully prepare them for the real world. So we have ‘Reality Days’ where the girls wear the new nitrile FC2 condom under tights for class. A lot of the girls start out thinking wearing an FC under tights is a bit sluty, but they soon come around when they see that they can get away with it undetected. For most girls, even the smaller ones, if properly positioned the lined crotch gusset of the tights usually hides the outline of the FC labia ring – unless the girl is wearing custom tights or has them pulled up with the waistband rolled over a belt to emphasize her mons veneris and vulva, or unless she is wearing transparent seamless tights such as Wolford Fatals. In the case of transparent or skin tight tights or if the girl is unsure of the attractiveness of her pelvic line the labia ring is compressed and inserted in the vagina as though inserting a diaphragm and becomes totally invisible. Then if the need arises with a finger she can hook the ring and pull it out and be ready to rock and roll. We provide private time on Reality Days for a student and her partner to use her FC. The man is familiar with how to use it and the precautions needed so he doesn’t slip out so it is an intimate learning experience for each student.

While it’s the same principle as going to work wearing a diaphragm, which most smart diaphragm wearers do there are two opposing views about a dancer wearing an FC before she has a demonstrated need to use it, probably because the labia ring can be seen through tight clothing if it is not positioned correctly. The first is that she is a slut who is thinking about spending time on her back working under a man when she should be concentrating on perfecting her art. The second, and in my opinion the correct one, is that she is a forward thinking woman who likes being prepared to take advantage of an opportunity for recreational sex in the safest possible way. Rather than being a submissive slut she is in fact using her knowledge to protect both herself and her partner while getting the most pleasure possible from a sexual encounter. Realizing that when the moment is right she may not have time to search through her dancebag for her box of condoms and insert one before the window of opportunity closes she is prepared. That seems to me to show initiative and be by far the better course when a girl wants to take advantage of an opportunity for recreational sex and does not know her partner’s sexual history, but longs to have an intimate encounter with her hunky male.

Slit kits and recreational sex: Every one of the SI students is given a slit kit. It’s not as elaborate as the ones given to the escorts who complete their training but it covers most situations. A SI slit kit contains a place for the students own dial or blister pack if she is on the pill a place for her cervical barrier needed as a gas guard during dive-sex and four FC2 condoms, six prefilled applicators of DiveGel, a selection of male condoms, three different size cock-rings and a dose of Plan-B One-step (levonorgestrel) in case of an accident. For any item used the clinic has refills/replacements including refills of all brands of birth control pills the students are taking. We have the students carry the kits in their dancebags or reg bags when they are taking dive-sex lessons so they will have their supplies nearby if needed.

A ‘new man’ and the FC2: For sex with a new man with an unknown sexual history I have switched to using an FC2 for protection in addition to an Oves. A Nitrile FC2 is far less likely to burst or tear than latex or polyurethane condoms and the material has as good heat transfer properties as the best ultra sheer latex. And wearing the condom myself rather than depending on my partner I’m in control of removing it so there is no quizzical look or question if after removal I slip a used one into a pouch on my side of the bed. Readers who have been with me from my days posting on Yahoo 360 will recall that I save the condom from the first sexual encounter I have with a man so I can have his semen analyzed for the quality and quantity of his sperm but more importantly to detect any STIs he may be carrying. I also keep the condom in its own compartment with his name and the date of the encounter. Switching to the FC2 requires a larger compartment (to accommodate the labia ring, the open end), but it’s worth it for the improved safety and the fact that I’m in control of the condom at all times. The only thing a girl has to be careful of when using an FC2 is that on the withdrawal stroke he doesn’t slip out. If he slips out you need to be really careful that he reenters inside the labia ring and not outside the sheath which could lead to all sorts of unpleasant surprises. I make certain that he doesn’t slip out by wrapping my legs around his waist or his upper thighs to lock him to me and limit the length of his stroke keeping most of him inside me once he is inside the sheath. I make up for shortening his stroke by pulsing my vaginal muscles tightening just a bit in time with his thrusts and withdrawals (One partner called it ‘double clutching’ which stuck in my mind) to provide a superior tactile encounter for his glans. It’s a cousin of the ‘ripple grip’ technique, but ‘double clutching’ a guy while wearing an FC2 is a much more gentle experience for him.

Rude noises and a sense of humor: The female condom is a lot more likely to produce vaginal farts - called a Queef or quife and pussy fart - from air being expelled around the sheath during thrusting than while using a male condom. A couple can be so distracted by the sound the interruption can take some of the urgency from an approaching orgasm to the extent that they have to refocus. So it really pays to have a good sense of humor.

Ballet Summer Intensive - update: Today is the start of the second week (6/13-6/19) of the SI and so far our improved screening procedures seem to be working. The first week saw some pelvic bruising and even as physically active as the students were at home and with the week of ramp-up prep all of them needed deep body massages, lots of ibuprofen and smelled of liniment. One of the first fun things we did during prep week was take the girls to Body Buffers and they all got a full body wax, everything but eyebrows and scalp hair was removed. For most it was their first full body wax and one or two who had to be coaxed into getting waxed (peer pressure really) were nearly in shock afterward. But 600 mg of ibuprofen and liberal application of a soothing aloe vera gel during a full body massage brought relief and now they all are strutting around admiring their smooth legs and pubes in the dorm mirrors. With their Balanchine bodies – long legs, short trunk, small breasts, long neck, and small head - and no pubic hair a lot of them look like they are 11 instead of 17 or 18 years old.

Death in a drysuit

Abi at Lake Tahoe before diving

Discipline training: Yet another fatality that could have been prevented! A pregnant teen bled to death in her drysuit when she miscarried and hemorrhaged during a dive with Abi at Adolph’s Lake Tahoe estate. She had been enrolled in Adolph’s erotic discipline class for two weeks and Abi suspected she was at least six weeks preggers (from the level of hCG) when she let her dive. Because she was tested for pregnancy electronically every morning before breakfast the teen never saw the results of her tests and because she was on Seasonique in the middle of her extended (eighty-four day) cycle there was no reason for her to think she was preggers, like if she had missed her period or had irregular bleeding or if she had been nauseated which is very common during early pregnancy. Abi said she was taking a chance the pressure wouldn’t cause the nineteen y/o any problems because her sponsor had paid for her training and that time slot was the only opportunity she would have for months because she was booked for modeling projects.

It happened while Abi had her on a field trip at Tahoe doing pogo squeeze dives. That’s where a student wears one of the schools GNT drysuits and releases air from her suit until the water pressure squeezes the rubber restricting her ability to breathe. The release of air reduces the suit buoyancy and accelerates the diver’s descent to the lake bed which was at about 80 feet where they were diving. The instructor accompanies the student down during the first descent and stays on the button during the students remaining cycles Once on the bottom the student re-inflates her suit and, rises to 20 feet, then deflates her suit repeating the cycle again. She was required to complete four cycles, each cycle taking about seven minutes with a minute or two on the bottom before starting her ascent. Any one of those depth swings and suit compression cycles could have easily triggered the teens miscarriage. Our clinic Gyns agree there couldn’t have been a diving exercise more likely to cause a miscarriage and that’s what I think Abi was instructed to do.

That the student had to take the course now doesn’t explain why she was taken diving in Lake Tahoe. They could just as easily have worn drysuits in Adolph’s training facility. He has student dive gear at both locations. Tahoe is a high mountain lake with an average surface elevation (above sea level) of 6,225 feet while Las Vegas is about 2,030 above sea level and the water in Tahoe is snow melt so with the altitude the water is very cold. It doesn’t warm up much by September so it is still ice cold in early June. The additional 4,000 feet of elevation made diving in Tahoe even more dangerous because atmospheric pressure at 6200 feet drops to about 12 psi +/- (depending on temperature etc) rather than the 14.7 psi at sea level so a series of 80 foot dives in Tahoe is a good bit more strenuous than when done in Adolph’s training facility in Vegas, especially for a pregnant diver.

Abi said the student didn’t show any signs of distress. She just moved slower and slower as she became weaker as she lost blood. We think she didn’t notice the blood filling the boots of her suit because she was wearing an adult diaper to collect her urine that is always squeezed out on long deep dives and the diaper absorbed a lot of the blood until near the end of the last dive to the bottom she became unconscious and it was at that point that Abi was alerted that something was wrong and worked to get her to the surface and to the marina where there was an EMT station. But by then it was much too late.

Men in Ballet boots: I think ballet boots are primarily female disciplinary footwear. However, there are some of us who enjoy wearing them for the feeling of power and knowing that we look stunning in them. That’s obvious from the looks of envy we get from other women and pickup lines we hear from men as we stride confidently in pointe boots over almost any surface. But you have to have the figure – long shapely legs and tight, high, hard buns - and the ability to walk in them correctly (no mincing wobbling steps) or you come off looking like an neophyte BDSM Sub rather than a Domme or at the very least someone who knows what she is doing while wearing ballet boots.

With men in ballet boots it’s an entirely different matter. There are so few of them that expectations are low. Men are not judged by if they can walk in ballet boots well, they get raves if they can do it at all, which often seems all that matters especially if the persons commenting have never worn BBs themselves. My point in mentioning this is that Adolph wears ballet boots and he has been doing it long enough – he started in Germany when he was in his early teens while he was in ballet school – and often enough and he has a German work ethic that makes him a perfectionist so he is quite good at it, for a man. With his trim figure and lovely strong manly legs in tights and ballet boots he is extremely attractive to women even the ones – me included - who know how cruel he can be. We all seem to be able to delude ourselves that “yes he is brutal with this woman or that teen, but “I know he respects me and will be a gentle lover”. We just see his strength and his beautiful body with his package expertly presented in a pair of custom tights that fit him like a coat of paint and we all go weak in the knees as he strides by in a pair of Gepetto’s custom made Pleasure boots. Of course with me I know I will be relatively safe as I have contacts and I can perform functions that he needs. Well, I think that’s the case. And being that close to a dangerous man is such a huge adrenaline rush. I love not quite knowing for certain if I will survive a sexual encounter with him.

Abi, discipline training and asphyxia

Discipline training in vintage SCUBA

Adolph hires a new Pool-Assistant: Ellen, the Brit-chick who was Adolph’s previous PA never returned. [For more about her sudden departure see my entry for May 7, 2010] The new PA is who I thought he would choose. It’s Abigail (Abi) the gorgeous 24 y/o German with auburn hair. She is an expert swimmer/diver who he hired to teach an underwater bondage course at Splash. Her method of teaching divers results in an amazingly high accident rate, which is something that Adolph appreciates as he is continuously pushing the envelope as far as dive safety is concerned so she will fit right in. [For more about Abi see my entry for March 18, 2010.] In her way Abi is as much of a risk taker as Elke, who almost lost a student during a dive outing at Adolph’s place at Lake Tahoe, but she has an iron will and can stand up to Adolph where few other women can or will. Like me she is a bit Bi and we both like wearing latex and enjoy rough sex and she is talented en pointe so we get along well. We seem to be able to anticipate each other’s needs and are wonderful in bed together.

The 30 meter screen: Adolph has had heavy nylon netting hung across the well at a depth of 30 meters (about 100 feet) to prevent divers in trouble from sinking all the way to the bottom where it would be much more difficult to help them or retrieve them. It doesn’t catch the small discarded bits like birth control devices, (rings, IUDs, diaphragms or caps that are frequently pulled out of students undergoing discipline training, but SCUBA sets and divers can be easily raised off the net and 100 feet is easily within reach with Nitrox.

Swim cap asphyxia: Abi had her first experience with crisis management at Adolph’s the other day when a student she was disciplining with breath control was w/o air too long when she had her swim cap pulled over her face while she was fastened to the wall 40 feet below the surface. She was French and had been sent by Tanaquil for discipline training because while she was beautiful and in demand and had potential as a young courtesan she had an unpredictable streak which Tanaquil wanted broken. As far as we know she has no immediate family and no one outside the business knew she was coming to Adolph for disciplining so Tanaquil thinks no one should be looking for her. However Tanaquil is furious because she’s lost someone she was grooming to enter the highest levels of European society

The exercise: It is a relatively straight forward discipline exercise that is practiced in shallow water before the student is taken to test depth and strapped to the wall. A story line is established so the student can fantasize about being attacked while making a porn film while wearing vintage equipment. There is a great deal more truth to that scenario than we usually tell a student. Basically, the students own swim cap is used as a minimal rebreather bag after removing her mask. With her mouthpiece still inserted her cap is reversed filled with air as you would do to purge a facemask. Then her mouthpiece is removed and the air filled cap is pulled over the students face and the chin strap is fastened behind her head to prevent it accidentally coming off. There isn’t even a good breath of air in the cap once it’s pulled down on her face correctly it just prevents the wearer from drowning. After the first exhalation she is drawing the carbon dioxide back into her lungs and the latex cap collapses against her face as she tries to suck air into her lungs. It’s like closing the canister air intake on a gasmask while allowing the wearer’s exhalations to escape. Almost immediately there is a vacuum in the mask/cap and no air can be drawn into the lungs so asphyxia is only minutes away at the most.

When I’ve had it done to me it is a truly terrifying experience and it’s not as though if you could get the mask or cap off your face you could breathe, you are under water! There is the regulator mouthpiece floating nearby, but unlike with a gasmask when using a cap you are blind as well and with your arms strapped to the wall you may as well not be wearing SCUBA at all and are at the mercy of the person conducting your training. In this instance the girl’s twin-hose mouthpiece was floating just above her head when she suffocated. Had it just been a straight asphyxia scenario Abi would have been in control, but the student had such a lovely body that Adolph wanted to take her during the exercise. He had penetrated her and was well on his way to ejaculating when Abi pulled the cap over her face. However, he wouldn’t let her put the students mouthpiece back in until he came in her and by then it was too late. The video shows her squirming and her back arching as she struggled in the restraints but it was hopeless.