Rope Magician

I’m a magician, but not the kind of magician you’re thinking of. I don’t wear a tuxedo or a top hat. Neither do I wear gothic makeup or pretend to be the coolest guy on earth. However, I do have something unique to offer. I don’t do card tricks, fire tricks, or knife tricks. I do tricks with ropes; that’s why they call me the “Rope Magician”.

Now, I do family shows, mostly. Also, I present a show seven weeks a year in one of the best hotels in Las Vegas. That’s why whenever a reporter or a fan asks how I learned to play with ropes, I lie and say that I used to be a sailor. The truth is, I used to be a rigger.

I’ve enjoyed Shibari since I was barely twenty. I think it’s sexy as hell, and I like the fact that not any idiot can perform or enjoy it. You know what I mean: any moron can put some handcuffs on his girl’s wrists, but it takes a man to perform a good Shibari scene.

Now, as much as I enjoyed it, I wasn’t making any money from it. So, I decided to look for a way in which I could turn my skill with ropes into something more profitable. And that’s how I came up with the idea of the “Rope Magician”. 

Of course, I had to carefully develop my tricks. First of all, to make them faster, because on the stage or the screen you don’t have as much time as you would have in a studio. Then I realized I had to take most of the sexiness out of it. No one wants to see you tie their partner up and turn them on. If there’s a rule in showbusiness, it must be that everybody has to have fun.

It’s been two years since I first performed as the “Rope Magician”, and it has been quite successful, not to mention that my bank account is fat and happy.

This is my Shibari story.