If this approach to making money appeals as much to you as it does to me, you are going to like this. I’m not promising to equal the riches promised by generous African gentlemen who have specially selected you to share in their multi-million windfalls but you can certainly pay your bar bills and maybe …
We have just completed a very comprehensive tutorial for an archetypal old-style gote. It is Nina’s own variation on Marai Masato’s and very similar to Naka Akira’s with its roots in Yukimura’s. It starts with the 2-rope base, she then adds 3rd and 4th ropes, then finally shows how to add the suspension line and …
Done! I have just completed the full lesson on Nina’s hip harness. This is the extended and far more in-depth tutorial for Nina’s hip harness, an extremely stable and versatile suspension tie.It addresses the tendency of the more simple hip harnesses for the frictions to slip causing the leg loops to tighten and provides additional …
As you know, we have our ears pretty close to the ground at Esinem Towers what with the traffic through here. So, my hot tip for the next sensation on the rope scene? Having had the heads up from Gorgone and checked him out, I’d put my money on Ren Yagami. Here he is at …
Now that ESINEM Shibari Classes is on-line, I have made the entire Safety Section part of the free preview and thus available as a community resource. You’ll see it if you scroll down to the course syllabus at the bottom of the page. I know I need to update my nerve damage video and that’s top of …
After evaluating various Learning Management Systems and course creation software, I finally settled on a solution. To ensure maximum scalability with minimum downtime and administrative headaches, I decided on a managed solution with a blissfully user-friendly interface. After all, you want to learn shibari not become an IT geek, don’t you? Anyway, I have been …
Update: New site I just noticed this came up as a popular post. Well, a lot has changed since them. We chose to go with Teachable, which was a new specialised e-learning platform. It worked out brilliantly and we now have over 5,000 students and 50+ courses and tutorials. Come and see us at ShibariClasses.com. …
All of my ‘Tying people, not parcels’ DVDs are on-line on the new e-learning platform with a lot of supporting material, e.g. updated videos, additional examples, articles, links etc. It’s already becoming very comprehensive as the massive amount of existing material is grouped meaningfully, instead of being scattered around my site and others. The expansion …
Some recent discussions have made me much more aware of how fast things change in our field. New information comes to me daily, especially with the people who pass through this house and the threads in my Fetlife forum. We are all learning (hopefully). Consequently, hard-copy is becoming a poor medium as information is set …
In 2015, BOUND are joining forces with Pop-up Rope Events (PuRE), run by our regular performers, Fred Hatt and Miss Bones. As you’ll see from PuRE’s web site, they already organise all manner of intriguing rope-related events so this is a perfect fit. We will both be able to use our talents and resources in the most beneficial way …