Due to a change of plans, Nina will be here in early July and will be running BOUND on 6 July after all, while I am away in Australia. Even better news is that early bird tickets will only be a fiver and advance tickets a tenner. Where else can you get a night of shows and a peer workshop for that? In Tokyo, you would be paying £30-£50 for the shows alone. Make no mistake, although this is a jam session with many relative newcomers taking the stage, the standard is highly professional. In many cases, far better than I have seen in the SM bars of Tokyo and Osaka.
At the last BOUND, we kicked off with a short class for beginners which introduced the two fundamental ties, the single and double column. In line with my thinking that the way you tie is more important than what tie you do, I emphasised how one could achieve a different effect depending on the way you applied them. We then progressed into how to use these ties combined with simple wrapping techniques to communicate with rope. I’m convinced that these techniques should be taught from day one. If your brain is clouded by struggling to remember 60 plus steps of 3-rope takate-kote, you certainly won’t have much room left to think about the way to create the best effect on your partner. If the way you tie is second nature, you won’t be distracted by that aspect; whatever you tie will be automatically tied with that feeling even if you have never done it before. No amount of skilful technical tying is worth anything if it is done without passion and feeling. By George, I think they got it!
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