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 …
If you haven’t heard of TheAngryNawashi yet, you should do. He is a man of considerable wisdom unconstrained by the advice of “if you haven’t anything nice to say, say nothing”. Whether one agrees or not, it is refreshing to see somebody not being afraid to speak their mind. Unrestrained praise does not improve our tying, whereas …
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 …
I discovered this video in which Randa Mai shows how he rigs a suspension point and discusses kinbaku. There are also links to various other videos of his work in this article. [private] Here’s a link to his web site. You’ll find the photo gallery here and video here. [/private]
I seem to have finally got to grips with the gallery plug-in! This means that the gallery uploads are gathering pace. So far, there are 29 photo galleries, some with 150 or so pictures, and 8 videos uploaded. Unless, you are logged in, you won’t see all the content. Free members will see some of …
Here’s a seasonal preview from my session with Jewell Marceau to wish you Yuletide greetings. I hope you enjoy the final results, which will include video and stills. We shot some typical ‘damsel in distress’, as this is what Jewell is best known for (…well, there are a couple of other things she is well …
I found these definitions in a book on NLP but I’m sure they have cropped up before. Anyway, they apply very much to learning to use rope. I say “use rope” as opposed to knowing how to tie as I think they are very different. Knowing how to tie is the technical bit in my …