We continue with regular updates to the website. 2020 is full of challenges, it teaches us patience and resilience. New! Week 7: The Rope Some of the most frequently asked questions are about the rope itself. The rope shopping page has been around for a while, with the goal of guiding those who are just …
Read more “Week 7: The Rope and major update to Week 1-2+Summer now available!”
I’ve been receiving a couple of messages lately saying how Rope365 is helping people around the world to keep up with isolation. It really helps to keep the motivation to update the website and make sure it brings the best content. Since the last post, I have worked a lot on making the website easier …
It’s April, which means… the pause is over! I’m really happy with my decision to take a break. I’m seeing things with a complete different eyes now, and writing doesn’t feel like a burden anymore, unlike how I was feeling for the second part of last year. When I pressed pause in January, I wanted …
The final season of summaries is now online and I have successfully completed my challenge for 2019. 52 topics, seven concepts to explore each week. Each concept can be a challenge, an experiment, something new to learn every day. So far six of those have been expanded in full online tutorials, with a seventh in …
Read more “Winter, a whole year of rope exercises now available and some updates”
A third season of summaries is now online. Fall is about rethinking how we do things in order to open new doors. This can be technical, this can be how we use our body, this can simply be challenging ourselves and finding out what happen then. Fall is there and somewhat incomplete, I’d like to …
The hogtie is a position in which all four limbs are tied together in the back. It was named after a techniques to tie pigs to make them helpless. It is an efficient way to bind someone in a restrictive position. We can find references to hogties in most cultures: martial art, law enforcement, damsel …
We’re halfway through the year with 26 weeks of exercises written down and posted! I’m really proud of where Summer ended up. It’s like a guide of all classic body positions and some challenges to explore the possibilities of the body When I started on that challenge of posting exercises every week, Spring was in …
Munenawa 胸縄 (chest rope), gote shibari 後手縛り (tie with hands in the back), ushiro takate kote shibari 後ろ高手 小手縛り (tie with hands high in the back), TK (short for Takate Kote), box tie, etc. It has many names and even more variations: the chest harness with hands in the back. Learn your first box tie …
This fourth week takes us on an exploration of ties that keep the limbs in a bent position. The variation on the leg is often called futomomo shibari 太腿縛り (thigh tie) or futo 太 (fat) for short. Different patterns and techniques, on the leg, on the arms, and combining those ties into more complex position. …
The Chest is seven different approaches to arms free upper body ties. A journey through different structures that will explore different sensations and aesthetics. Day 15: Ladder – Start with a single column tie across the chest and create a ladder structure Day 16: Weavings – Start with a diagonal single column tie across the …