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 …
There’s been a bit of discussion on Fetlife recently about single column ties and I have posted a couple of tutorials in response, e.g. a simple rule for the single column tie. This has veered off into discussion of the Somerville whch has many advantages. However, I haven’t mastered the knack of tying it with …
I have become aware of two suspension related incidents recently, one where the model ended up hitting the floor and the other was within a hair’s-breadth of the same fate. As I have no desire to name names, it will suffice to say that both were highly respected performance riggers. I have removed all names …
As those who follow my ranting will know, I regard Douglas Kent’s ‘Complete Shibari’ tutorials like the curate’s egg: good in parts. The good parts are excellent and well-researched but in others he is clearly out of his depth or venturing into ‘shambari’. In many ways, he has raised the bar in bondage tutorials with …
The inverted ‘Y’ connection for hooking into the two wraps of the box-tie (takate-kote), taught by the likes of Osada Steve, seems to be used pretty much universally. I much prefer the version where the line is locked into a short bight thus avoiding ‘burning the bight’. This is a definite improvement over the way …
This was made in order to settle some debate about the causes of failure of bondage rope. In another video, we were shown how synthetic rope could easily be cut using friction. In this example, the static part was cut due to the heat generated by friction. I wanted to test if my belief that …
I have made a number of revisions to my original nerve damage study in the light of experience, discussions with models, fellow riggers and my teachers in Japan, further study of how the top Japanese riggers tie and access to better medical modelling software. That said, we are all different and there will never be …