Web Ed who does Chicago Spanking Review wrote:
Here’s a question for you, which I hope you haven’t answered (and I missed): When paddling someone, I’m a real stickler for correct positioning, believing it to be central to the experience, insisting that knees be kept straight and bottom turned up and stuck out. So what are your (both or your) views on this subject, from both perspectives (giving and receiving)?
We are keen to get the position correct – for safety and to obtain the maximum sting. I was prepping a short post on this subject just a day or so before your comment. So I will merge it here.
Would You Spank Here?
The watermark on this picture shows it was taken during a professional spanking photo shoot. Like many professionally done spankings, I consider the area the spoon is resting on to be out of bounds. Since there is redness there some professionals do not share my view.

We don’t spank that way around here. Would you spank that high or do you like to be spanked that high?
Also Bacall recently found your How To Paddle reference. We think a lot professionals would benefit from adhering to it.
I was also able to locate a post we made on New Years Day of 2010 also titled How To Paddle.
Good question sir. We hope more people will adopt your excellent guidelines.