Vendor: McHurt
Over the next couple of days a large population of (gay) kinksters will migrate to Berlin for Folsom Europe – if you are not even there already. So with this review I want to draw your attention to my first ever visited and still one of my absolute favorite kink stores in the whole world – McHurt. Located in Tempelhof, close to the U-bahn station Alt-Tempelhof on the U6, it is a bit of a journey from the gayborhood. But if you are interested in unique BDSM toys, especially impact toys like paddles and whips, make the journey! My playroom houses more than 50 toys from them and still every time I find something innovative, something that creates a new sensation that still adds to my impressive collection of sensory tools! If you want to see some of those in action, find me at Quälgeist from Friday through Sunday.
And now, without further ado, let’s look at this paddle.
Construction
The basis of this paddle is a spatula shaped paddle made out of four massive layers of bridle leather. They are glued and sown together, burnished and deburred for a really solid, smooth and quality feel. For added rigidity a stiff metal spring is housed between the layers of leather. At the bottom the middle layers create a loop to house an elongated D-ring for easy storage.
On this mini version the handle is 13cm long before it tapers over 2cm length into a 8.5cm diameter round head. On the backside both the handle and head are just smooth bridle leather. On the top sits a 7.5cm diameter half-sphere of garment leather covered firm foam. While the handle is always black, the garment leather cover comes on black and burgundy.
Playing with the Mini-Punch
Back in the day, McHurt used to have plenty of padded toys with different degrees of firmness and impact area size. making the store a Mecca for people who were into soft, thuddy impact play. Especially for beginners who think that impact play is just (stingy) pain, these toys were perfect. They showed them that impact play could be anything between just a light thuddy massage and excruciating pain. Overall, these toys were perfect for warmup. As far as I know – with Slingking closed down – nowadays, the (Mini-)Punch is the only padded paddle available, so let’s see how it works as a – soft – impact toy.
Despite working with rather firm foam/ padding, the Mini-Punch’s padded punch is quite dampened. Hitting with it does not create sting at all. Because of this, the (Mini-)Punch is good for warm-up. Yet due to the half-sphere shape, you have to work a bit to spread the impact over the entire warm-up area. So it takes some time to properly warm-up the ass and tights.
While the impact is dampened through the foam, repeated, especially high frequency impacts at the same spot can quickly become painful. It is not the lightning pain of sting, but a dragging, lasting one. If you really put some punch into the impacts, the Mini-Punch can be quite a bruiser. So be careful if the impacted body area is visible. The small form factor invites to hit body areas you would otherwise not hit, like the back of a boot worshipping sub. Please apply the same sensibility like with a thuddy flogger and only heavily hit well padded or bone guarded body areas to avoid injuries of the organs.
The mini form makes the Mini-Punch a good toy for CBT, especially ball slapping. For this, only the smooth side works. The ball-shape pushes the balls away instead of delivering meaningful impact. The smooth side is just small enough to be great for large area bastinado or targeting the very sensitive area between thighs and ass. Due to the leather being so dense and stiff, the pain is quite stingy. Bating a sub with the nice, thuddy side and switching to the painful stingy one is quite easy because the handle is so small and fits easily between two fingers.
As the name indicates, there is also a Maxi-, on in this case simple Punch. The larger version has an overall length of 35cm and the padded halfsphere has a diameter of 10cm. When I bought this toy, I intentionally went for the mini version. It is more nimble, perfect for targeting small body areas like the balls, thighs or soles of the feet. Of course, when you want to warm up a large body area like the ass cheeks, the Punch is better. But all things considered I find the Mini-Punch more versatile. If you look for a lazy top toy, the Punch might be for you since the longer handle can develop more momentum.
Conclusion: Thuddy bruiser with a nasty side. | |||
Pro | Cons | Where to get | Price |
Thick and firm padding for deep thud | Very focused impact of the padded side | McHurt | Mini-Punch: 39€
Punch: 54€ |
Small & nimble | |||
Very Well made | |||
D-ring for storage |