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.
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Technique, experience and thoughts from years of studying, tying and teaching kinbaku.
Regarding Circulation by Jay Wiseman
I thought I would raise an important topic, a specific question: Has anyone ever encountered a bondage-related injury specifically attributed, with a reasonable degree of medical certainty exclusively, to cutting off circulation? [...]
Kikkou vs Hishigata
When applying a karada there is often confusion about naming it. As we can read in the RopeMarks Ryu glossary, a bondage does not have a name, when a name is used [...]
Safety introduction
There is a lot that can be said about safety. The most important probably is; be safe, sane and consensual. Take all normal precautions as you would in any other form of [...]
Breast bondage
Something not directly related to Japanese bondage, breast bondage. However, big breast are a Japanese fetish, actually anything Western is "hot" in the East, just as anything Japanese is "hot" in [...]
