How is that couriers call as soon as you go out even if you haven’t left the house for days? This morning, I’d decided to accompany my friend, Adam Anarchy, on a motorbike ride to the Porsche dealers in Chiswick for a test drive. Might as well take advantage of the last few sunny biking days before …
This has been a busy week or two for Shibari.TV. So far, we have aired the first two parts of the serialisation of my tutorial DVDs. I need to get the hang of running multiple short videos or edit them into one video as we had a couple of false starts. I think we had …
I was finally prompted by one of my visitors to upgrade my shibari site for mobiles and tablets. Having had too many new technologies to take on board recently, I had been reluctant to delve into the mobile module. Actually, it seemed surprisingly easy with only a minor bit of reformatting being required and I’m …
This is a question that I am sometimes asked. The consensus from manufacturers seems to be a maximum load of 250kg. They don’t seem to qualify if this is the maximum load or maximum user weight. One assumes this relates to the users weight, so one can halve that for a single ring as it is likely to be …
I seem to have been able to upload most of the members from the old site. It looks like about 85% went across but some of the loss might have been duplicates. I will investigate or you can simply re-add yourself. There is only the free member category at the moment as the premium content …
Whilst a few have been very vociferous in the campaign against the recent attempts by the government to control and censor the internet, a huge majority have been doing no more than tut into their tea and sleep walk into a very restrictive era. Do not underestimate how much power the ‘little man’ has when he makes the …
I was listening to Nina coaching a private student this evening whilst she introduced the very first steps towards suspension. When she had guided him through the stages of setting up a floor based suspension with MaYa, she began to quiz him on the possibilities and the potential effects on her. How will this change …
I have just uploaded several hundred pictures from a Japanese themed shoot with French model Evan by Cortez77_fr to the members area. This is massive series required two galleries for the sequential shots of a face up takate kote with transitions; almost a tutorial for more experienced riggers who have a good grasp of the …
I have finally got around to uploading two new galleries of some new suspensions with Maya. One is a smaller gallery of black and white pictures inspired by one of the ties in Sugiura’s photos, the other a much more comprehensive colour shoot with a demanding bamboo rigged suspension. This is not to say that …
It seems fairly common practice to run the suspension lines up to the ring or karabiner and then back through the bight where it comes off the knot, depending on how much rope is left, this might be repeated several times. This means that the bight carries a high load on a single strand (see …