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The Workshop
Level: Solid beginner / Intermediate 
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Prerequisite:
rigger: You are confident with a 2 TK/gote, any style. A plus is knowing the RopeMarks style gote. You have a basic confidence with uplines on a bamboo.
model: You are able to recognize and communicate good/bad bodily sensations and are familiar with the differences between nerve and circulation impingement. You are comfortable in a basic gote. A pre is experience being in full body ties.
This is a full-day workshop where you’ll learn both the art of suspending and being suspended. Suspensions are visually stunning and can be incredibly exhilarating, but they do come with risks. Our aim is to equip you with essential knowledge and foster a safe, shared experience, empowering you to apply what you’ve learned once you return home. Therefore, we emphasize safety, technique, and communication, progressing your skills for takeoff.
We’ll prepare you for suspensions by focusing on several key aspects. First and foremost, you’ll enhance your gote tying skills to ensure they are proficient and reliable. Next, you’ll improve your uplines tying skills to ensure they meet the demands of your desired suspensions. Finally, you’ll develop a comprehensive understanding of how forces act on the human body during suspensions, keeping safety as a top priority throughout the process.
In Japanese rope bondage, the gote is often the core of any suspension. In this workshop, we will not only use gotes but also explore how the gote is a classic element of Japanese rope bondage and kinbaku. As this is the tradition taught by RopeMarks, we find it crucial to start with the gote. During this initial part of the workshop, we’ll use your gote tying and receiving skills to assess your general proficiency in Japanese rope bondage. As a famous kinbakushi once said: “Kinbaku begins and ends with a gote.”
Next, we’ll build on your knowledge of the gote and uplines, guiding you through three full-body suspensions. During these sessions, we’ll introduce several smaller ties to add variety, fun and challenges to your suspensions.
We recognize that not everyone will have the same level of proficiency with tying or being in rope. Therefore, we’ve designed this workshop to accommodate different skill levels, allowing each tie to be performed at a pace that feels comfortable for you and your partner. Regardless of your starting point, your skills will progress to the next level. By the end of this workshop, both riggers and rope models will have advanced to an intermediate or strong intermediate skill level.
Program
Timetable
10:30 Doors open
11:00 Introductions and workshop part 1
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Workshop part 2
17:00 End of workshop
18:00 Location must be cleared
Topics
The topics that we will address are:
- Gote refresher
- Uplines refresher
- Three full body gote-based suspensions
- A handful of smaller ties to have fun with during your suspensions
- Anatomy & safety
- Communication
- Rope handling
- Aesthetics
Each topic will include safety information, details to improve your rope handling, specific techniques to improve your tying and to deepen the connection with your partner. During the workshop there’ll be plenty of room for experimenting and personal advice.
The Practicalities
- Come as a familiar rigger and model couple.
- Please wear comfortable clothing.
Our workshops are clothes on and non-sexual workshop, but no doubt you’ll be inspired to bring your new skills into your private intimate play at home.
For the models: you’ll help your rigger by choosing a tight-fitting outfit. - Bring at least 8 pieces of rope, ~8-10m in length, 5-6mm thick.
It will be helpful to have a few shorter pieces, i.e. 2m and 4m in your set.
If you need rope, follow this link: https://ropemarks.com/rope/
. - We will take care of coffee, tea and snacks.
Drinking inside the dōjō is only allowed from a bottle/container that you can close. - This workshop will be held in the English language.
- Please also see our FAQ .
I want to participate
Great! Please complete the ticket ordering process
https://ropemarks.com/register/
(one ticket allows access for one couple)
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Refunding & reselling
If you need to cancel please contact us asap via workshop@ropemarks.com.
Tickets for this workshop are non-refundable, but can be sold to another couple that meet the requirements. In order to ensure fairness we kindly ask that you do not sell your workshop ticket to another couple. Instead, contact us as soon as possible. We maintain a waiting list of interested couples who are eager to participate.
If you have an interested couple that would like your ticket, please have them reach out to us directly. We will handle the ticket transfer process based on the order of inquiries received. We will do our best to facilitate the transfer but we cannot guarantee availability for your new buyers. Priority will be given to those on the waiting list to ensure fairness.
When we replace you for another couple you will be fully refunded.
If we are not able to replace you we use a refunding ladder.
Please see our Frequently Asked Questions for the ladder 
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If the cancellation comes from us you will be fully refunded.
Questions?
We have compiled a list of the most common questions.
Follow the next link to go to our Frequently Asked Questions .
Is the answer to your question there?
If your question is not in the workshop text or our FAQ please send a mail to workshop@ropemarks.com
Presenters
| Who’s RopeMarks?
RopeMarks, also known as Bob Roos, is a kinbaku professional from Amsterdam, the Netherlands He started studying and specializing himself professionally in Japanese rope bondage (shibari, kinbaku) in 1999. Over his career he studied in the land of the rising sun under the lineage of the late Akechi Denki (明智伝鬼) and Naka Akira (奈加あきら). RopeMarks’ work reflects the traditional techniques taught by these leading kinbakushi but is vastly complemented with his own distinct and unique style. He is famous for his energetic performances in Japanese rope bondage in which he combines traditional kinbaku with his own distinct and unique style. |
Who’s Maya?
Maya brings warmth, curiosity and a deeply relational form of submission into rope. She does not experience bondage simply as a pose or a technical exercise, but as a way of connecting, surrendering and allowing herself to be led. She is playful and emotionally open, drawn to intensity, control and the tension between being challenged and being cared for. In rope, her body, reactions and vulnerability become part of the conversation. Trust, desire, struggle and a certain dirtiness can all exist alongside tenderness and genuine connection. What matters is not only how the rope looks, but what happens between us while the tie is being created. |
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