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Naka Akira

Meet Naka Akira, a prominent Nawashi master hailing from Japan, born in 1959. He is regarded as one of the youngest and most skilled kinbaku masters in the world today. Therefore, he has garnered a reputation as a favorite among enthusiasts and artists worldwide. Discovering Japanese Bondage At the age of 30, Naka Akira stumbled…
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Pedro Cordas

Pedro Cordas is a Rope Artist, performer, video editor, inspiring rigger and educator who resides in  Lisboa, Portugal. Pedro has performed mainly in Portugal, especially in Lisboa, where he resides. However, he has also participated in events across Europe, including the famed London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage. In the US, he has…
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Rope Bite Pgh

Rope Bite Pgh, is a dojo in Pittsburg, PA, dedicated to facilitating quality rope and Shibari education. Its goal is to provide safe and inclusive venues to learn, practice and play in a spacious and well-equipped environment. It was born as a social group of people interested in forms of rope bondage, including Shibari and…
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Zetsu

Zetsu begins his rope journey in 2006 when he took his first trip to Tokyo. There, he took lessons on Kinbaku, the Japanese art of erotic rope bondage, with Osada Steve. After Zetsu took these lessons, he began to pursue the study of Japanese rope Bondage. Zetsu studied in Los Angeles and his frequent trips…
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Butterfly

Butterfly is a female rigger and model who lives in Utrecht, The Netherlands. She regularly teaches workshops there, or wherever they call her around Europe. Butterfly bondage journey began a decade ago and brought her to Japan, England, Germany, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Sweden and Spain. While she was in Japan she took lessons with…
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Andy Buru

Andy Buru is a teacher, bodyworker and bondage artist. Moreover, he is a student of theatre, a medical massage therapist, a conscious kinker, and a teacher of rope bondage. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden. He believes that aesthetic beauty in rope bondage is not the purpose, but there is no reason to make things ugly.…
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Maestro BD Bondage Studios

Maestro BD Bondage Studios, are several Shibari Dojos around Italy, all founded by Davide La Greca. Davide founded the first Shibari school in Rome, and since then, the number of locations has increased. He manages all studios around Italy together with Lucio Pat Foster. Davide says Bondage Studios are an ever-growing project with deep roots.…
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Davide La Greca

Davide La Greca is an Italian rigger, Shibari artist ,and rope bondage teacher.Davide tried Shibari for the first time, back in 1990. Helped by a few pictures and a lot of imagination, he tied his partner. Later, in 2001, Davide started studying, and he finally decided to turn his passion into a profession. In 2004,…
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WykD Dave

Dave Rickman, known as WykD Dave is a United Kingdom based rope enthusiast. He teaches and performs Shibari internationally with her partner Clover. He started exploring bondage 22 years ago and was autodidact for the first 17 years. Then, he had a lesson with the Shibari master Osada Steve, which changed his way of tying.…
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Saara Rei

Saara Rei is a rope artist, model, photographer, performer and kink educator with a professional background in modern and ballroom dance. Saara is a lover of Kinbaku and has been practising since 2014. She believes that during a rope bondage scene, participants share an undeniable, intimate connection. Saara Rei has participated as a rope bottom,…
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