ROPEMARKS RYŪ
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Writing about kinbaku, teaching, rope technique and the ideas behind RopeMarks Ryū. These articles go deeper into subjects that do not always fit inside a workshop.
FROM THE ROPE LAB
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Technique, experience and thoughts from years of studying, tying and teaching kinbaku.
Muganawa 無我縄
Something that I can very much relate to, perfectly put into words by Nawashi Osada Steve, http://tokyobound.com/blog/?p=317 Quote: "In essence, a muganawa session is set apart by its emphasis upon the passive [...]
Naughty but Nice, a group exhibition
Starting 1 August until 12 September 2010 the ABC Treehouse in Amsterdam is hosting the group exhibition "Naughty but nice", RopeMarks will be present with five pieces a kinbaku demonstration and kinbaku [...]
London Festival of the Art of Japanese bondage
On short notice (2 months, that's short for us 🙂 ) we received an invitation for the London Festival of the Art of Japanese bondage on June 25-28. From the announcement and [...]
No BITCH, Workshops, Croatian TV.
A few weeks ago we got asked for a main stage show during the BITCH party on February 21. That's cool, although we always have some reserve for the BITCH party; the [...]
Black and Blue night, Rome, Italy
In May Stefano Laforgia booked us for a weekend in Rome, Italy providing a workshop and show for the Black and Blue night.We arrived in Rome on Thursday evening and got picked [...]
Nawa Open, 2008
Slowly, very slowly, life is getting back to normal; not there yet but getting there. More and more I catch myself thinking about future project instead of house-related subjects 🙂 In-between all [...]
Kamasutra Erotic Fair, Sep. 2007
Most of the Dust of the three day erotic fair Kamasutra has settled. It were 3 very long and heavy but rewarding days. First of all we decided to use our bamboo [...]
San Francisco, CA., USA
Wow... It's just like a real city 🙂 We have of-course been doing the tourist things, in no particular order: Union Square, China Town, Ride the cable cars, visited Fishermans Warf and [...]
Summer break and California, USA
People, What's been happening with RopeMarks? We've received that question from a number of people. We have been doing no shows, no workshops and no fotoshoots. The reason for all of this [...]
