Last Laugh Lambda

The video begins with Maude lying on her back on the bench, briefly exercising with a couple of dumbbells. As she does this, we see that Isabelle is all set for the tickling. Indeed, she's sitting on a chair, her wrists tied to two of the bench's posts, her ankles tied to either side of the big barbell that's resting on another part of the bench. So she's sitting with all four limbs up. A helpless turtle lying on its back.

Maude gets up, puts her weights aside and says "Now that I'm done working out I'm going to tickle you". Heh, as if she was actually working out before I started shooting. She gives Isabelle's socked feet a few tickles, then she decides that she prefers to do it without her fingertip-less gloves, which she removes. Then she really gets to work. Isabelle starts laughing immediately. After a few moments of tickling through the socks, Maude pulls one off, attacks the bare foot and Isabelle lets out her first squeal. The second sock comes off. The tickling makes Isabelle throw her head back as she grabs the side pieces of the bench posts that she can reach with her cuffed hands. After a couple of minutes I realize that I didn't tie one of her ankles very well, allowing her to slide it along the barbell. No big deal, it's quickly fixed.

The loose ankle is now secure, making Maude's job even easier. Sometimes she pulls the toes back, at other times she just scratches all over Isabelle's soles and toes with both hands, either both hands on one foot or one had on each foot. It doesn't really matter what she does, Isabelle's feet are ticklish all over: arches, sides, heels, toes... There are times when Isabelle goes totally silent, probably because it tickles so much that she can't make a sound.

After a few minutes Maude switches to a comb. It's quite effective, making Isabelle throw her head back with her eyes shut tight and her mouth wide open. It obviously tickles a lot, but Isabelle hangs in there (and hold on tightly to the bench's posts). In fact, as much as the tickling gets to her she barely ever asks Maude to stop for the entire duration of her torment. She's a tough girl. But that doesn't change the fact that she bites her own arm when Maude uses that comb on the pad of her big toe, like a fox trying to free itself from a poacher's trap.

Things cool down for a few moments. Maude prepares to work on Isabelle's upper body, but first she adds a bit of color to the scene in the form of two pairs of fuzzy dice, one pink and one purple, which she hangs from Isabelle's toes. They don't serve much of a purpose besides being cute, silly and colorful. It is amusing the see them dangle as Isabelle struggles.

Maude moves behind Isabelle and gets her in the ribs. Isabelle jumps and squeals, her fuzzy dice bouncing. She squirms a lot and turns her head to try to bite Maude. Feisty. I move the camcorder for a side shot, getting a full view of Isabelle, feet includes. That's so that I can move in to tickle her feet on the side without appearing on camera. The double attack drives her crazy.

So far Maude has only tickled the ribs and a bit of belly, but now her hands move higher and dig into the armpits. Isabelle is really ticklish all over. She growls and tries to bite Maude's hand, the naughty thing. I'd say she deserves to be punished. Apparently, Maude agrees. Reaching the armpits is really easy. It's a simple matter of standing behind her and reaching the armpits down front the front, though she also reaches from behind at times. Isabelle can do nothing to stop her.

It's amusing to watch Isabelle's hands, which alternate between closing into firsts, opening in total helplessness and grabbing the bits of metal on the post that are used to hold the barbell when it's in its highest position (they're kept lower in this video). Maude teases Isabelle's ears through her hair, eliciting a squeaky "Oh no!" Yeah, she's ticklish there too. On the neck as well, for that matter. When Maude finally stops (after about 15 minutes) Isabelle is out of breath, panting.

Maude goes for a different tickling method. While lying on the bench she removes her sneakers and socks, swings her legs back to show Isabelle her bare feet, spins around, slides in, grabs the barbelll for support and then uses her toes to tickle Isabelle's sides. Instant success. Isabelle complains that Maude's feet are cold. Maude teases her by putting her feet close to her face, which leads to failed attempts to bite them.

While Maude pokes her big toes into Isabelle's belly I manage to climb on the bench behind her with the camcorder and tripod. This is not only to get a top shot of the action but also to provide Maude with support for her back with my legs. That way she can use her hands to tickle Isabelle's feet while using her toes on her belly at the same time. She's basically using all four extremities simultaneously. As Maude attempts to slide her toes into Isabelle's armpits, Isabelle bangs her head on her own fist as she lunges with her teeth. Nice try. Eventually Maude shoves her toes into both armpits. Isabelle tries to bite her again, so Maude tells her that she hasn't washed them in three days (fortunately not true). Isabelle replies that it doesn't matter and tries again.

Isabelle's big toes are now pulled towards the ends of the barbell with shoelaces. Maude picks up an electric toothbrush, clicks it on and goes to work on Isabelle's toes. The brush scrubs in between the toes, the bases of the toes, the pads, the tips and the tops. Then it explores the rest of the foot. This isn't the most intense scene of the video, the sensation apparently being milder than when using other methods, but it does tickle, Isabelle whisper-giggling the whole time. We also get some good close-ups of her feet.

After a couple of minutes Maude switches back to a comb, saying "This is going to tickle..." And it does. In addition to using it in a sawing motion (including in between the toes), she also used the pointy end to repeatedly poke the ball of the foot.

Maude gets up and goes around the barbell so that she can get close to the left foot. She says "I'm going to bite your big toe". Indeed, she's preparing for some tongue/teeth tickling. Isabelle says she doesn't know if it's going to work, but the first few nibbles on her big toe prove that is definitely does. Maude adds some vicious tooth attacks on the ball of her foot and her arch. She repeats the routine with the right foot. I ask her if she can use her tongue a bit. She makes a face but gives it a try. The tell the truth, she doesn't like that oral approach very much. She's more comfortable with nibbling. I guess she feels it's not quite as gross as putting her actual tongue on Isabelle's feet. Whatever, she gives a few licks from time to time, which feels very weird to Isabelle, but she mostly uses her teeth, which are more effective anyway. In the end, while Maude is still nibbling on the right foot, my hands appear in the shot to tickle the left for a few moments.

Eventually Isabelle says that her butt is sore because she's on the edge of the chair. To be fair, she's been sitting like that for over half an hour, so it's probably time to give her a break, even switch ticklees. However, I ask Maude to tickle her for just a bit longer. While she does this I move the camcorder to get a shot of Maude's feet sticking from under her butt (she's sitting on them). I almost make my move too late, but manage to give her a quick tickle just before she moves away. Not an essential shot by any means, but I do like Maude's cute surprised squeal.

Isabelle looks rather tired at this moment. I ask her how it was. She answers "Exhausting. Funny. My butt hurts." Fair enough. Time for a change.

It's Maude's time to be tied to the bench. She's lying on it on her stomach, her face to the camcorder. Her wrists are cuffed under the bench. Her ankles are cuffed together and tied to the barbell, still resting on the lower support posts. While I'm shooting Maude in close-up, Isabelle tells her to make a face. She sticks out your tongue and you can notice that it's pierced (assuming you didn't notice that detail in the previous scene). You may also noticed that she changed her clothes, which now includes army-like camouflage pants.

Isabelle slowly rolls off the left sock and starts scratching the sole and base of the toes, making Maude giggle. Then Isabelle pulls on the right sock, tickling the sole before the sock is completely off. She then pounces on both feet. Maude is a little trickier to tickle than Isabelle, but the latter succeeds in keeping her going more or less continually, though Maude does tends to laugh fairly silently at times, in between loud outburst. Her laugh is quite varied, unique and hard to describe. Once in a while she makes whining sounds (almost like a squeaky door at times, which is kind of amusing) , but at other times she either giggles or laughs out loud. In her position she can't do much besides let her hands dangle beneath the bench and swing her knees.

Maude resists Isabelle's initial comb tickling attempts, making agonized faces more than laughing, but after a few seconds Maude cracks and lets herself go. I think Isabelle has more success when working the base of the toes, between the toes or the ball of the foot, but the rest of the foot is also ticklish enough. Maude tries to squirm a bit, shaking the bench. This causes some squeaking, but it's not too bad and after a few minutes I manage to find the source of the sound and to silence it. Isabelle gets more aggressive with her comb, getting even better results out of her wind instrument (aka Maude). She also gives a hairbrush a try, but while it works quite well the short time it's used, it turns out to be a bit uncomfortable for Maude.

Time for some upper body tickling. Isabelle straddles Maude and grabs her ribs. I suggest that she actually sit on her, but she says that she can't since Maude tends to raise her pelvis, throwing her off. Still, she does manage to lower herself into position. The tickling is quite effective, and while Maude's arms are somewhat lowered in this position, Isabelle succeeds in pushing her fingers into her armpits.

The straddling position only lasts for a minute or so, but Isabelle goes back to the upper body while kneeling next to her victim. Maude sometimes raises her torso above the bench and bounces kind of like a barking seal. At the very end we see that Maude's big toes are tied to the barbell now. This is useful for the next scene.

With those big toes tied, the comb is more effective than ever. Too bad Maude find this method too uncomfortable, which makes the scene shorter than planned. But no matter, while Isabelle move to the other end to tease Maude's face, I take her place at the back to work on the feet some more, even though the toes are now free again.

Isabelle has some fun with a feather. A simple tool, not always very effective, but it works on Maude's face. She gets feathered on her neck, her nose, her ears.... She moves her head from side to side and tries to grab the feather with her teeth, but Isabelle is agile enough to keep her laughing. I join in and dig into Maude's ribcage. She gets more intense and actually claps her hands under the bench. The seal comparison comes to mind again. I don't stay there for very long, letting Isabelle take over the rib job. Later she plays with Maude's feet some more. Then, as I move in to relieve her at the feet again, she goes back to the upper body. After combing her soles for a while I give her a new taste of the hairbrush. Very effective for the time she can tolerate it.

Maude is still lying in the same position, but this time Isabelle is lying on the floor under the bench. While they're technically facing each other, neither girl can see the other's face much, and even Isabelle, who's the only tickler at this point, can't really see her targets. But it doesn't matter, she feels her way around.

Isabelle's hands move to the sides and up to grab Maude's waist. She can't see what she's doing but she's in familiar territory. Now, the tricky part for Isabelle is that while Maude's wrists are cuffed together, she can still reach down with her hands. So Isabelle isn't fully safe from retaliation. Getting tickled disrupts some of Maude's attempts, but she does try to poke Isabelle half blindly. Her first tries come closer to poking Isabelle in the face than anything else, but I see some potential for some wild action there. But before the situation really changes, Isabelle raises her legs and wraps them around Maude's butt as best as she can, like she's hanging upside down by her legs. Well, not really wraps them around. She mostly rests her feet on Maude's behind. But it does give the illusion that she's somewhat more in control of the situation. However, Maude gets more aggressive, forcing Isabelle to fight to get her tickles through.

I move behind the girls, at their feet, and I pull Isabelle's socks off. I figure that as long as her feet are up there they might as well be bare. She plays along and keeps them there, even though she must suspect that something else is coming her way. Sure enough, I give her left foot a quick tickle before I go move the camcorder. She yelps.

The scene blends into the next one, which is basically the same but Maude's hands are now free while Isabelle's ankles are cuffed together, hooked over the small of Maude's back. So both girls' feet are up and at the back and both girls are free to attack the other on the other side of the bench. A very amusing position, if I say so myself. Maude quickly realizes that, in addition to having as much access to Isabelle's upper body as her opponent does, she can also (barely) reach her feet by reaching behind her, though she never gets to see them. Each girl can see the other's hands coming for the upper body, especially Isabelle.

The action gets somewhat chaotic (in a good way), the girls constantly changing their tactics. They can either protect themselves or attack, or possibly both at the same time. Maude can attack Isabelle's very ticklish and more easily reached feet, letting herself open to attacks from below, or she can struggle with Isabelle's hands to see who can get through the other's defenses.

To make things even more complex, I join in. I begin by getting Isabelle's foot. Wild squeals result from this. I can only use one hand at this point because I'm operating the camcorder with the other. Isabelle desperately attempts to shove my arm aside with one foot. I move to another vantage point just as Maude finds that she can easily squeeze Isabelle on the thighs and behind the knees.

The camcorder now shows the girls in their entirety, so not only can you seem them tickle each other, but you can also see my contribution at foot level. Right now it's Maude's turn to suffer the comb. So she's laughing her head off even though she's arm wrestling with her downstairs neighbor, neither girl managing to do any tickling for now.

Another point if view. The camcorder is now facing the girls. Hands get through and there's simultaneous laughter. I move again, this time to get a close-up shot of Isabelle's face from above (well, not directly above, otherwise I'd only be getting the back of Maude's head), right as she bangs part of herself on the bench, which motivates her to be even more aggressive with Maude. I can't see her doing it, but Maude gets her really good right then, as Isabelle lets out a few long, semi-muffled but still high-pitched desperate squeals/screeches (due to her voice it's not nearly as loud as you might expect, which is a good thing, because it might have sounded nasty, what with the camcorder being so close). Oh, right, now that I move the camcorder around I now realize that the real culprit is myself, attacking her foot, still holding the camcorder at close range with one hand.

Apparently we just took a short break, because the girls are now at rest. But not for long. Isabelle is the first to strike, and she skillfully hits the armpits as if she were able to see them. Maude seems incapable of lowering her arms in protection for a few moments. To give her a chance I work on Isabelle's feet again. But somehow, Isabelle manages to keep the advantage, Maude having trouble defending herself. But Maude bounces back, growling and forcing her way through to Isabelle's upper body, this despite Isabelle's attempt to playfully bite her arm. She even gives me a great shot of Isabelle's face as she screams in ticklish agony (it's a really good thing I'm wearing headphones as I'm typing this while watching the footage, otherwise I'd be worried about the neighbors).

I'm now filming from behind and above, slightly to the side. That way I can get a decent close-up view of both pairs of feet as I help (or hinder) one girl after the other. Isabelle says "Maude, don't move!", which makes Maude ask "What do you mean, don't move?!" I admit I'm not entirely clear on what was going on right there. No matter. Maude gets her hair in her face and spits it out repeatedly.

I move the camcorder for yet another shot of both pairs of feet, but this time from an angle that shows Maude's soles and Isabelle's tops. I notice that while Isabelle has longer feet than Maude's and thus wears a larger shoe size, they're also narrower. Interesting. The action stops for a few moments as you see me move in with a shoelace. I tie it to Isabelle's cuffs and pull it back to tie the other end to the barbell. It doesn't change the position much, but she can't move her feet as much as before.

The camcorder is still aimed at the four feet, which are now made even more vulnerable to my own attacks. I give the girls the cue to start fighting again. I start by scraping the comb on Maude's feet, but you can hear Isabelle's laughter in the background at the same time. Also Isabelle's complaint that she banged her head. Maude comforts her by saying "It will pass" and by reaching back to tickle her left foot. Isabelle gets it pretty bad, since I just decided to let Maude alone for now and attack Isabelle's other foot. But Isabelle fights back (attacking Maude, not me, of course). I reward Isabelle's efforts by moving the comb to Maude's feet. But that doesn't mean I'm not tickling Isabelle's foot with the other hand at the same time. Pretty neat, really: the girls are tickling each other's upper body while I'm tickling both their feet at the same time. Isabelle claims that she's getting a cramp in her toe. I respect that, so I simply start tickling her other foot. In fact, I leave Maude's foot alone and use one hand to grab Isabelle's big toe and the other to saw at her foot with the comb. But through all this Isabelle keeps on fighting, so I move to Maude's feet again. She's especially receptive to getting the space between her big and second toes scratched. Very nice desperate laughter there.

The scene is almost over, the girls getting tired and hot. But I ask for a last intense sprint. This is a full body shot. To avoid appearing in the shot I climb on a chair, raising my face outside of the picture. The girls fight wildly but don't cause much damage, mostly grabbing at each other's arms. It turns out that I provide most of the tickling, alternating between Isabelle's and Maude's feet from above, though Maude does help with with Isabelle's feet when she realizes she's just not getting anywhere with her upper body. I lean over so that I can tickle her waist with both hands.

In the end, I'm heard saying "Whew! I think that's enough for this scene". The girls had a lot of fun doing this, but they totally agree with me. Time for a break. Then some more tickling. But that's for another time.