Practice, practice, practice. Pillows make great practice dummies – they leave behind one to two strokes worth of lines to show you if you’re getting a good clean stroke, and a good vertical line. The time to make an “oopsie” isn’t on someone’s rear, it’s on someone’s pillow. (That sounded dirty, didn’t it?) Know your rear ends. And your thighs. And your calves, and breasts, and soles of the feet. Know where you can hit (those places), and where you should never hit (the spine line, base of the spine, kidneys, joints, hands, face, head, neck, shoulders, ankles, knees…just nowhere with bones, joints or major nerves, okay?). Kneel, Lean and Rest. Actually, kneeling, leaning, resting, bent over, on all fours, face down-ass-up…put the bottom in a position where they’re supported and where the body part you want is available for play. Caning causes a sharp jump and sudden sla...