10 tips for the single column tie:
What you didn’t know you didn’t know
We have just produced a new free tutorial for ShibariClasses: ’10 Pro tips: The single-column tie’. You might be surprised at what you didn’t know that you didn’t know as we go into greater depth than other tutorials.
The single column tie is the basic ‘ingredient’ of shibari
The single column tie is the basic building block of shibari and seems very simple. However, there are many ways to get it wrong and quite a few tricks to getting it right with optimum efficiency.
It’s all about how you do it
It is also likely to be the first tie that you apply, in one form or another, to start your rope session. This means it is the most important tie as it is the one that will create the initial impression and set the mood. Get it right and you will exude dominance, proficiency and efficiency. Fumble it at at your peril! As with everything in shibari, the important thing is how you do it.
- Tying up versus tying down: When you need to make your wraps upwards and when you make the downwards makes a difference.
- A rule to get the knot right every time: Can’t work out why you sometimes end up with the less efficient reef knot and it collapses? Here’s an easy way to always get it right.
- Avoiding changing hands for greater efficiency: Wondering why some people tie faster, yet it seems to effortless?
- The trick to closing the knot: You formed the knot in the correct way but it stills doesn’t work properly?
- How not to get twisted wraps: Are your wraps twisting in spite of doing the right knot? Here’s why.
- Finger, don’t fist: Working elegantly and effortlessy in tight spaces.
- Don’t push, pull: It sounds obvious but you’d be suprised how often people forget.
- A change of direction: So, what if you want to change the direction the rope wants to go?
- Being a better wrapper: Another easy way to make flat, evenly tensioned wraps.
- A lightning fast way to tie the knot: My pro tip for tying wrists for a gote (aka TK or box-tie)
As with all our tutorials, this goes into far more depth than the usual basic ‘How To’ videos. You will learn about efficiency and effectiveness and also the ‘why behind the tie’.