The bad news and the good news For now, the bad news is we are not supplying the long-awaited Econawa jute. The good news is that Econawa Newaza is the perfect floor-work rope at a price you are going to love. Let me tell you how this came about. Not long ago, I wrote enthusing …
The weakest link I have been doing some testing recently to see how to avoid rope breaks since it is the weakest link in our suspension rig. Other than rigger error, if somebody gets dropped, it will be the rope that let’s them down, literally. At first, I thought finding how much tensile load a …
I wrote a few weeks ago that Nina, Sophie and I were off to Bordeaux for the shibari scene inauguration of La Maison des Soupirs. The venue is going from strength to strength with, in addition to a whole Pandora’s Box of glorious dungeon kit, a new shibari studio with multiple points. All the photos …
The question to answer before ‘How can I learn shibari? I decided to make a new video, ‘What is shibari?’, because I see so many posts on Fetlife asking “Where/how can I learn shibari?”. The problem being that nobody ever clarifies what they mean by shibari. If you follow these posts, you’ll see all manner …
I am delighted to be hosting Osada Steve for his London shibari workshops, which form part of his extensive summer tour. Once again, these classes will be held at our favourite local venue, The Flying Dutchman, on 10-11 and 17-18 August. Limited availability: Only 17-18 August now available Who is Osada Steve? Steve began his …
Maison des Soupirs We are Bordeaux bound as we have been invited to the official opening of La Maison des Soupirs, a private BDSM club, run by Eveil Desecours, in a gorgeous old farmhouse, not far out of town. It’s well worth checking their page for up-coming events or if you fancy a kinky break. …
We are expanding ShibariClasses by branching out into beginner’s BDSM tutorials with the help of selected collaborators. We appreciate that a lot of you already enjoy other kinks or are keen to expand your repertoire. Having been around the scene for a couple of decades, I have got to know who’s who in the field …
30 stunning full colour photos Milla Reika’s photo-book ‘The Descent of Inanna’ is now available. This is her first photo-book, featuring 30 full color photographs of her recent stage performance, ‘An Adaption of The Descent of Inanna’, is now on sale for a limited time at 4000 yen (free shipping), which is about $36 or …
Those lovely people from Camp Cyberia have invited us out again to their little patch of dusty madness in Blackrock City to run some free workshops and dangle people from random art objects (last time this included a massive steel rhino). It’s early days yet but the plan will be to hold the workshops in …
After some discussion, we now have the agendas for the two weekend master classes in London on 10-11 and 17-18 August and discounted early bird tickets are now available. The venue will be the same as last year’s, The Flying Dutchman in south London. To find out more about Osada Steve and his teaching, see …