To launch our new Google+ Community for ShibariClasses students, we are giving away free rope sets to two lucky winners. In the past week, Nina had the bright idea of setting up a special group just for our students. Whilst every tutorial has a ‘Q&A: Ask Bruce and Nina’ comments section where they could ask questions and generally interact with us, a sense of community was missing. The new group provides exactly that.
How to join
I apologise for all the false starts. The initial problems were down to a faulty link and then, because we were asked by members to make it secret rather than closed, that link didn’t work. Just as we got it up and running, Facebook took exception to something and flagged the group for review pending deleting offending content. The only problem being we have no idea what might have been flagged as ‘fraud/spam’. I suspect they’ll close the group since we didn’t know what to delete. Anyway, Facebook’s policy is too censorial for most of the photos and is bound to be an on-going pain in the butt, so we have made other plans.
We now have a Google+ Community which has much more permissive terms of service, i.e. nudity is OK but actual sexual actrivity isn’t, so all should be fine.
Group invitations are strictly for ShibariClasses students, so if you are not already enrolled you’ll need to do that first here. You don’t even have to sign up for any tutorials, although why you wouldn’t at least subscribe to the free ones beats me. I’ll email out a new invitation link to all existing students.
What and why
Anyway, what’s going on there? Obviously, being social media it’s social and we can get to know each other but the biggest difference is between being almost on your own as an isolated student working on your own and actually being on campus. It is much easier to share knowledge and inspiration. More people benefit when ideas and critiques are shared. It’s easy to post videos and examples to achieve this. It also means we as teachers can be more responsive, not only to questions but also to student needs.
FREE ropes and 20% off at ESINEM-Rope!
We will be giving away two full sets of 8 ropes, plus ‘get out the shit bits’, in 5mm and 6mm versions of a new loose-laid version of my classic best-selling Tossa jute. I have a very limited amount of this new rope, less than 200m of each remaining. So, not only will you be the only kid on the block with this but we hope you’ll give us feedback and be part of fine-tuning a potential new product. Here you can see my classic Tossa and the new long twist version.
Winning will be as simple as guessing the weight of the sets pictured, the nearest to each wins. The good news is nobody comes away empty handed as there is a 20% of all rope on ESINEM-Rope to welcome group members until the end of the month. You’ll find the coupon code in the pinned post in the group announcing the competition. Of course, we’ll be doing more promotions and exclusive offers soon. See you there.