Author: Soptik

Workshop Questioning the Gote

(Presenter: RopeMarks & Spring, Workshop level: L2-3) Once you know how to tie a gote, or maybe a few different ones… there comes a point where you really want to get it, understand it,...

Workshop Suspensions and transitions: the next level

(Presenter: RopeMarks & Spring, Workshop level: L3, registration required) So you know how to get someone safe up in the air, or you even learned some suspensions in a certain style? Then it’s time...

Zor Neurobashing & Margout Darko – Announcing perfomer

Zor Neurobashing: is the founder of MadridShibari (2015), an organization focused on shibari teaching and performance organization, and co founder of Madrig Peer Rope (2013), a bi-monthly rope jam/peer rope event in Madrid. He...

Workshop Building blocks for unlimited predicaments

(Presenter: Soptik, Workshop level: L2-3, registration required) Predicament bondage is the art of restraining a person so they are only able to set themselves in limited positions. Each of these positions may be so...

Workshop Sadistic bondage – going deeper

(Presenter: Soptik & Sophia Rose, Workshop level: L1-3) Do you already know usual sadistic ties and tricks? It is time to go deeper.  Let’s get into your model’s head. Being sadistic is not always...

Workshop Strappado in partial suspensions

(Presenter: Soptik, Workshop level: L3, registration required) Strappado used to be a tool of torture in medieval times. Let’s use in modern and safe way. We will leverage its full potential in partial suspensions. We...

Workshop Chair bondage on the floor

(Presenter: Soptik, Workshop level: L1-3, registration required) If you expect to learn how to tie chairs at this workshop, you would be disappointed. You will learn how to creatively tie your partner to a...

Workshop Tying tight – how, where, why

(Presenter: Joan von Brook, Workshop level: L1-3) Would you like to tie tightly, but you are afraid to do so? Does your model prefer solid tension, but it is too strenuous for you to...

Workshop Organic aesthetics & play

(Presenter: Yoroi Nicolas & Joan von Brook, Workshop level: L2-3) One of the most interesting way to present a body inside rope is to twist it. A body organized this way is also more...

Workshop Yoko-Tsuri and I

(Presenter: Yoroi Nicolas & Joan von Brook, Workshop level: L3, registration required) My main study of Kinbaku was with Arisue Go about the Yoko Tsuri. Anytime I am lost inside my technique or research,...