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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
