Save over $2,500: 12 months access to all 12 parts for the price of one! This bundle includes all 12 parts of our in-depth shibari ‘suspension techniques’ series, which is most comprehensive course ever produced with many hours of video tutorials, documentation and numerous examples of suspensions by top performers. If you have mastered the …
Within the next few days, we are finally expecting the delivery of some amazing new shibari rope. After nearly 2 years of testing and fine tuning, the new rope has landed at Felixstowe and is currently going through customs. What’s different? Firstly, the way it is made is very different to the shibari rope which …
We have just completed and uploaded shibari ‘Performance Techniques: Part III’. In this third part of the series, we will look at what makes a shibari performance and explore the various types of kinbaku shows. Having been on the western shibari scene since its earliest days, I have not only seen many hundreds of shows …
Save over £2,400: 12 months access to all 12 parts for the price of one! This bundle includes all 12 parts of our in-depth shibari suspension series, which is most comprehensive course ever produced with many hours of video tutorials, documentation and numerous examples of suspensions by top performers. If you have mastered the basics …
We are determined that ShibariClasses maintains its position as the best online shibari school, so we have been busy making it better. Thanks to your support, in three short years, our enrolments now grown to many thousands. Judging by the lovely comments we receive, we must be getting it right. Here are some of the …
And we will prove it for free! Rope handling skills are fundamental to the difference between tying people and parcels. In my opinion, far too much teaching is orientated to painting by numbers and that’s not what it’s all about for me. Until about 12 years ago, when I first visited Japan for lessons with …
It has recently come to my attention that another rope supplier is attempting to benefit by using my ‘Amanawa™’ trademark for a product he is launching! I suppose that I should be flattered that they chose my brand out of all the names out there. It clearly stands out as the ‘gold standard’ and the …
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 …
We have just uploaded Part XII of ‘Suspension Techniques’ making this the most in-depth shibari suspension course ever! These are not just 10 minute YouTube demonstrations but full multi-media tutorials with every step shown and explained in detail. You’ll learn not just the ties but the engineering behind them in the ‘Suspension Techniques’ series. Here …
Beyond ‘Tying people, not parcels’ In my first shibari tutorials for beginners, ‘Japanese Rope Bondage: Tying people, not parcels‘, my focus was on teaching ties and how to perform them with connection. In ‘Shibari: The Easy Way‘, we develop this approach further by both simplifying learning by explaining the basic building blocks and by teaching …