Efficiency Brought to a New Level
You can do a three-year apprenticeship in theater rigging or cherry-pick your favorite short-cuts from this workshop and apply them to your tying.
Once you master these amazing techniques your kinbaku will never be the same.
What Awaits You Inside
Born into a family of rope and shackle traders, Higashi Ryuu (東龍) sensei is no stranger to the fettered lifestyle.
What is unique to his style of kinbaku is the introduction of professional rigging techniques.
Called Sajo-ryu (鎖縄流) or sabaku (鎖縛) the main characteristics is the chain-stitching style of rope application. Using these techniques will cut time to build and release any simple or complicated tie in half.
This workshop starts out with two styles of quadrupling the lines (平の and 丸の四縄, hira and maru shijo, flat and circled quadrupling).
We are then treated to a variety of applications and plenty of short-cuts aka 'rope tricks'. These are not gimmicks but serious, complex, and extremely useful for your rope sessions.
The absolute highlight is the ganjigarame (雁字搦め, full-body immobilization) suspension carried out with ONE 50-meter-long rope (see photo on top of this page).
Coil Like A Champion
The Curriculum
145 minutes
First Section
Available in
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after you enroll
- Intro, 5:20 (5:24)
- Flat Shijo (四縄. quadruple lines), 19:20 (19:28)
- Circular Shijo (四縄. quadruple lines), 17:10 (17:16)
- Sabaku-style rope coiling, 9:20 (9:19)
- Various rope tricks, 31:40 (31:45)
- Question re history, 3:20 (3:17)
- Rope cutting tools, 6:40 (6:39)
- Sabaku tejo (sabaku handcuffs), 14:30 (14:33)
- Ganjigarame (雁字搦め, full-body immobilization), 38:20 (38:32)