If 5 days of intensive training with Osada Steve appeals, you had better be quick as the first course for 14-20 April sold out in 24 hours! Assuming you haven’t been living under a rock or totally disinterested in kinbaku, he will need no introduction. If the former, you can find out more on his …
Sometimes one stumbles across hidden gems in the most unlikely places. In this case, a student directed me to video showing a “takate kote” to ask my opionion. What I found was a Japanese fusion box tie that gave a mere nod to a t-k. However, upon looking up the URL, I came across a …
OK, I think we have the membership system working finally. This means that all the full paid membership options of 30, 60, 120 days or a year are now available giving you access to all areas with special early bird rates from as little as $7.45 per month. These reduced rates will be held for …
I recently came across a post on Fetlife entitled ‘Buyer Beware’ and noticed my name in the slug, so opened the thread with some trepidation thinking I might have an unhappy customer. What I found was far from that! It turned out to be somebody asking for feedback about my eBay shop who had had …
I have heard from Steve that he is planning to be in London 16-20 April to run some master classes. I hardly need to introduce him but if you want to know more take a look at his blog and web site. His classes are extremely popular so register your interest by letting me know …
I have recently been pointed to Fetbook, which is a new social networking site for kinksters. In fact, it bears some resemblance to Facebook and MySpace, so you won’t have any problem finding your way around. Quite a few of us have fallen foul of the Facebook or MySpace Police, who seem to think that …
People are keen to see more than the free public content and have been asking about full member access. It is not available yet but it should only be a few more days. Meanwhile, I have been busy loading content: videos from Toubaku, the last two year’s London Festival of the Art of Japanese Rope …
Whilst I have been galavanting around the world teaching, I am aware that I have been ignoring the opportunities closer to home. Maybe having to travel 5,000 miles or so to Tokyo for my tuition gives me the impression that travelling to London for my classes is nothing. Of course, just crossing the Thames to …
My new tutorial DVDs, ‘Japanese Rope Bondage: Tying people, not parcels’, have been selling very well and getting rave reviews. We have exceeded all our most optimistic sales targets, in spite of a hiccup caused by some faulty media on the first NTSC version. Fortunately, I chose an excellent supplier who promptly re-pressed the entire …
It was observed on one of the forums that many of the Japanese rope masters, e.g. Randa Mai, Arisue Go, Osada Steve, seem to start a takate-kote in much the same way. Namely, the wrist tie commences with the bight passing upwards between the wrists and the back, then completed as a standard single column …