Posts about my teaching activities.
They can be found in the ryu/blog section.
Two RopeMarks masterclasses at KinkOn 2026 in Bologna, an unforgettable heatwave, an amazing model, and a weekend of playful, dirty kinbaku.
For Balkan Bound II (2025) I travelled to Serbia with Keira as my model. We taught Playful and Dirty Kinbaku, hosted two kinbaku talks, explored Belgrade, and closed the event with a performance. A few impressions from our time at the festival.
Don’t Trust Jute to Be Strong. Trust Yourself to Use It Well People often ask me how strong jute rope is. I get the question in workshops, in [...]
When I teach workshops or when I'm at events one of the many questions I get is "are there any good kinbaku tutorial books to learn from?". Learning kinbaku is [...]
We’ve just returned from a weekend of teaching at Pinse Camp in Denmark, where we had the pleasure to spend two full days with around seventeen rope couples in [...]
We - RopeMarks & the Shady Lady - are currently on an airplane that is taking us back to Amsterdam, after having spent five days at the Kinbaku Studio right [...]
What should beginning (or aspiring) rope bottoms know? This quick guide aims to present some answers to that question. It’s based on my personal experience of when I just started [...]
What should beginning (or aspiring) rope bottoms know? This quick guide aims to present some answers to that question. It’s based on my personal experience of when I just started [...]
Tying or being tied semenawa-style is quite popular in today’s Japanese inspired rope scene. Semenawa is often understood as ‘torturous rope’, but is a context-dependent and nuanced term that can [...]
Tying or being tied semenawa-style is quite popular in today’s Japanese inspired rope scene. Semenawa is often understood as ‘torturous rope’, but is a context-dependent and nuanced term that can [...]
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