Prague Shibari Festival, Sep. 2023
Hello beautiful rope aficionados! The Shady Lady here, part-time secretary (RopeMarks is a busy man!) & rope model for RopeMarks. Here I will write a little story about what we [...]
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09 2023
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02 2022
Advance your new kinbaku skill with these 8 steps
Kinbaku Elements are larger and smaller bits and pieces of information to learn and grow in your Japanese rope bondage, aka kinbaku or shibari, skill. You've started learning a skill [...]
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04 2021
Dunning-Kruger effect in kinbaku
Did you know? Knowledgeable people underestimate themselves while ill-informed people think they are brilliant! It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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03 2021
Upper body kinbaku ties
Upper body ties, especially a "gote" are a fundamental element of kinbaku, Japanese rope bondage. Learning a "takatekote" can take years to master
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08 2020
Kinbaku tutorial books
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 [...]
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07 2020
Learn kinbaku with these 3 steps
Kinbaku Elements are larger and smaller bits and pieces of information to learn and grow in your Japanese rope bondage, aka kinbaku or shibari, skill. This element will guide you [...]
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11 2019
Museum Night @ Nemo Science Museum
One of the more interesting bookings I got this year was a booking to do workhops interspersed with Japanese bondage demo's for the Dutch Nemo Science Museum during the [...]
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09 2019
Algemeen Dagblad Magazine, Sep., 2019, Netherlands: Sexperiments with Marith
I've had the pleasure to teach Marith Iedema the essentials of Japanese rope bondage for an article in the Dutch newspaper "Algemeen Dagblad". Assisted by Daisy we had a [...]
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07 2019
RopeMarks Ryū day @ Bologna project
My phone wanted attention, a message from Andrea Ropes. If I was interested to do a one day RopeMarks Ryū masterclass for the members of the Bologna Project in [...]
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06 2019
AnimeCon, 2019
For my second time on AnimeCon I have been asked to do three one hour activities, a lecture and demonstration, a beginners workshop and a essentials workshop. AnimeCon is a [...]