**Version française en dessous.** Leading Japanese kinbakushi, Kazami Ranki (‘The Atrocious Nawashi’), will be returning to Europe and teaching his first Paris workshop this April. Coming from Osaka there are many elements to his style that are distinctly different from the Tokyo based schools that we are more familiar with in the west. He creates …
I’m steaming ahead with the editing having done a fairly good rough edit of the first 30 mins. I’m getting the feeling this could be quite a comprehensive set as I’m going to keep going till I’m happy we have clear and complete content. However, we keep thinking of extra things and saying “Oh, it …
I have decided to brighten up the new year for some lucky customers at my on-line store, ESINEM-Rope, by giving away a little freebie with some purchases. I have an initial batch of twenty mini, key-ring sized copies of the infamous industrial-strength Hitachi Magic Wand. I have had good reports on these little babies. They hit …
Tomorrow at 6pm London time, I’ll be live streaming a 1 hour session with Nina tying MaYa. If you have seen some of the videos and photo shoots, you’ll know how hot these sessions can be 😉 Be sure to not to miss the first full live broadcast. See it here .
Some while ago, I published a video and article about some experiments I did to test for radial nerve sensitivity in the upper cinch area. During my internet forays, I stumbled upon a video by a certain well-known rigger seemingly spreading the very misinformation of which he complains! Maybe one of us is misunderstanding the …
I just had sample orders of 3 types of rings come in. I’m delighted with the wood and steel tubing ones, which are 230mm/9″ in diameter like my trademark ring. You can see them here with fuller descriptions. However, you won’t see the ABS ones listed in my rope shop as shibari rings as they …
I really must apologise for the site outages this week. I have been trying to get to the bottom of the issue but am getting confusing replies. Some months ago, I was told that my server needed upgrading to a new 100% reliable Xen server, so that’s what I did (see header image). When this …
It is worth checking back on articles as I often add updates if further thoughts occur or information is otherwise updated. I have decided that this will provide easier and less confusing access to information via a limited number of articles, rather than a multitude of posts on the same or very similar subjects. It …
Recently, a thread was started on Fetlife by somebody who was nervous about buying from my eBay shop having had previous bad experiences online. Here are some comments from the thread. Unbelievably, they were entirely unsolicited and no bribes changed hands! “Esinem’s reputation here on FetLife is pretty much above reproach. My purchase of his …
Things are moving ahead. I have a secondhand AP Dillon 15,000lb/6800kg dynamometer arriving in the next day or two. Admittedly, it’s overkill but it was a tiny fraction of its new cost, so was an irresistable bargain. Here’s the brochure which will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about it. In simple …