While I can definately get into tickling without, I tend to prefer for a more intense time to have bondage for two reasons.
First is that I often can't help fighting. If you're doing a good enough job on me, I am going to fight you at least some. If I happen to also be in an extremely hyper mood, I'll fight big time. I can't help it. Since I happen to be pretty strong and have hurt people in the past, I prefer to not risk their safety. So, bondage is a safeguard for them.
Second goes right along with the first. If I'm able to move around and fight more, I wear out both myself and my ler and the play time has to end sooner. I'm sure we'd all agree that this is not a good thing! 😉
However, I do enjoy playing without bondage as well. I love tickle fights. But, if the other person is going to do the tickling and I'm going to be the one getting tickled, then it's especially fun when it's a surprise attack that catches me totally off guard.
The ideal scenario in my book would be to be caught that way, end up wrestling around getting tickled silly and then get restrained to continue the job painfully slowly once I'm already losing my mind. Now that would be FUN!
AFA the whole thing of doing it on video, I would think it would be dificult unless you have another person filming and plenty of room to move around. Otherwise, you'd likely be constantly getting out of camera range during the session. Drew & I actually taped ourselves having a tickle fight once. It was very distracting to have to keep remembering to stay within a certain limitted area so we'd be on camera.