I hate to rain on your parade, but one feeding hardly merits an educational thread on how you fed your snake, once...
You contradict yourself by saying you've earned the snakes trust, yet you later say you "wear him down to eat psychologically" and that you "cornered him" and were "more stubborn to get him to eat". So where's the trust here??? Scaring your snake into striking defensively is hardly an accomplishment.
And saying that you want to talk about how you fed vs the advice from people with years and years of experience makes me think no matter what advice you get you're going to do your own thing anyway. People suggest that you wait a week and try feeding again after a refusal. You disagree and do your own thing because you think a species that regularly goes months between meals with no ill effects is starving after a week (and apparently not that weak mentally).
People with knowledge and experience are willing to offer advice and suggestions based on years and years of experience, research, successes and failures... but, I guess with that one feeding under your belt you know more than the rest of us. There is a wealth of information at your fingertips, for free!! But it only helps if you apply it.
Good luck to your snake, I fear he's going to need all the luck he can get.
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