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In Memoriam: Master "K", 18 April 1950 - 26 Jan. 2026. Age: 75 The news of Master “K”’s passing touched me deeply. I met him in Los Angeles while [...]
In Memoriam: Shigonawa Bingo, - - Nov 23, 2025 The news of Bingo Shigonawa’s passing has reached me, and it carries a real sense of loss. His work shaped [...]
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 [...]
RopeMarks joined Onawa Asobi Europe 2024 in Antwerp as the European closing act. With the Shady Lady as my model, we brought an honest, direct RopeMarks performance to one of Europe’s key kinbaku events, known for its mix of Japanese and European practitioners.
In Memoriam: Saikatsu 才勝さんが, 1940 - Jul 1, 2024 4:23PM Saikatsu-san was not very well know in the West, he was the main assistent to Akechi Denki and took [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
