‘Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask’ about the primary tool of our trade, I strongly recommend this article which delves back into its origins, showing amongst other things 3,500 year old rope! [private] In his “History of Rope” Bill Fronzaglia provides some fascinating facts. Well, fascinating to us rope geeks …
I’ll start out with a disclaimer: I am not an engineer or physicist! That said, I have a logical mind and can apply it practically…and there’s Google. I started thinking about rope breaks and it seemed to me that friction is a big factor. It has been speculated, not unreasonably, that the ‘sawing’ action of …
As more and more people are doing bondage performances these days, I thought I’d share some insights from my performance career. Admittedly, there is probably a massive amount I don’t know as I have never had any formal training in that area and becoming a performer happened largely by accident. In fact, getting up in …
On Saturday, 1 December, top French rigger Dr Phil will be running a suspension master class at The Flying Dutchman. The contents of the workshop would be a continuation of Kazami Ranki’s course and the theme will be suspension techniques, attention to details and behaviour. Dr Phil’s reputation is as a rigger technician who focuses …
We decided to conduct some rather Heath Robinson tests to determine the loadings on the two wraps of a t-k during suspension. We always knew some orientations like face-downs with the legs pulled up high near the axis of suspension produced crushing constriction on the upper wrap but not relatively how much or how much …
OK, I know we have been a bit slack about doing gallery updates but you either get posts or piccies as there aren’t enough hours in the day. We spent all day yesterday shooting with Spanish photographer, Antonia Penia, whose work has graced the pages of such illustrious organs as Playboy. Talking of which, I …
We were doing an experimental shoot with this evening with MaYa as model and, as is often our practice, a dog-earned copy of one of Sugiura’s books for tying inspiration. As most of his photos seem to feature old style rigs on bamboo, we set up the pole and the newly recovered backdrops I had …
I’d say most of the real knowledge on kinbaku only started to get a foothold in the west about 5 years ago. Almost all of us, including me, seem have underestimated the subject and undoubtedly still do. Every time I think I have gained a reasonable degree of understanding, another layer is revealed. There seem …