I recently downloaded a copy of Charlie & The Latex Factory, a new novel by my friend, Tessa Ditner. Admittedly, I have only managed to snatch a few moments to read the first couple of chapters but I immediately recognised an incident concerning a character known as ‘The Sensei’ who was tying our heroine to …
Has Santa come too soon? Well, you can’t blame the old duffer if Jewell Marceau (pictured) had anything to do with it 😉 The good news is that as a special one week deal, I’m knocking a third off the price off my 2-DVD shibari tutorial set, ‘Japanese Rope Bondage: Tying people, not parcels’ on …
Recent events might have generated some interest in the history of the ‘Osada’ component of Osada Steve’s name. He has not always worked under this name. Some of the veterans of the shibari scene might recall his original pseudonym, Dr D Vice. So how and when did he come to be known as Osada Steve? …
Right! Since the cancellation, I have been rounding up the reserves. Nina is going to double as model so she can teach from inside the ropes for some of the sessions and Alex ‘Cobra Whips’ and a mystery lady are students with others being lined up. We are also meeting a couple of new potential …
As you might recall, I questioned the old “Mind the Gap” rule of safer rope placement (‘The Gap’ is the dip between the muscles on the outside of my arm above the red dot in the right hand image below) some while ago after blindly believing it myself for many years. I’m now convinced that, whilst …
After the disappointing cancellation of my live introductory class due to my student’s son’s hospitalisation, I have decided to serialise the the first volume of my tutorial DVD’s, ‘Japanese Rope Bondage: Tying people, not parcels‘, in three parts on Shibari.TV. The first part will go out tomorrow. The schedule is as follows: Sunday, 20 October …
I was all set up to broadcast tonight, admittedly with a last minute trauma when my PC needed to be re-booted then engaged in a lengthy disk check. As 7:30 approached, I started to wonder where my student was, so I called him but got no answer and left a voice mail. A few minutes …
Due to a happy accident, that is all part and parcel of running events, we have only discovered in the past 48 hours that the Flying Dutchman had been double booked by BOUND and Toppers, a super-friendly fetish club. Fortunately, one of the organisers, Goddess Cleo, is a good friend so, after a quick consultation with …
As you might already know, I have been playing around with live streaming shibari sessions with some degree of success. Admittedly, the broadcasts have been a little variable as I have experimented with the settings and hardware. The last one only being marred by an irritating clicking sound which, although I have no idea of …
Once again, Nina will be MaYa through an hour of tough rope with, no doubt, a little wickedness on the side. I know that Nina is filled with inspiration from the festival and some very successful recent shows, so expect this to be even better than usual. For those of you who are in time …