Locking the upper portion of a splines movement.


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[EDIT]: I figured out how to do this but now I need a way to convert the spline to bones.
and maintain the rigging of the ikspline solver any ideas?

Hello. I know I am new here. but I recently started 3d modeling about 2 months ago.
I have been progressing fast.
I rigged a model of gear for a character in a game.
My problem is, that the character has chain links coming down in the front and back of the body from the waist down.

I rigged the chains with an Spline IK Solver.
This allowed for the chain to move properly but I want to lock the position of where the first link is so that it is attached to the armor and the rest of the links would only move but hang on to that one link.

Here is a screen shot of my armor.


I have tried locking the position of the first link and its ik but its still moving when I move the other links. can someone possibly help me with figuring out how to make the first link stay in place but the rest allowed to move and stay attached to the first.