Why?

In the last two years we have been travelling a lot around Europe doing classes and workshops. Some of our students have loved our style and or pedagogy so much that they are always eager to have more. Unluckily travelling abroad for private class is very expensive and not always practical.

Also often during workshops the level of participants is very  varied, with a lot of beginners and therefore we cannot offer very advanced topics. This penalizes our most advanced students.

For this reason we had more and more requests, during the last period, for a Masterclass and we decided to accept the challenge.

This Masterclass offers intensive training, advanced topics and will be attended only by confirmed riggers. The best way to have a full immersion in our system.

When, where?

8 to 12 October 2014 in Prague.

We chose Prague because it’s a perfect city for a Masterclass. First of all the currency change is very favorable to people from the Euro zone. This means that food and other expenses are very convenient. In other cities of Europe 5 days of hotel, food and transport can cost thousands of Euros.   In Prague this will be very cheap.

Also Prague is a touristic city, there are low cost flights from most European cities at convenient rates and plenty of small cheap hotels.

The metro system is clean, fast and cheap, and our venue is a just 400mt from a metro station, so no problem moving from and to the city center or your hotel.

And do not forget Prague is beautiful, so well worth a visit!

How much?

The price for the 5 days is 500 Euros. Considering that our workshops of 4 hours range between 120 and 140 euros per couple, and that our private tuition costs 60 Euro per hour the math is easy…  7 hours a day of intensive advanced teaching for 100 Euros. Bargain!

And as mention above we have chosen a city that will make your travel and stay affordable.

Details for payment will be given privately to inscribed participants.

What can you expect to learn?

As our followers know Wildties has developed his own personal style. His rope is directly inspired from Naka Ryu, with a little bit more dynamism and transitions that come from his previous styles. Also communication and body handling are done in a very personal way that made his shows so appreciated throughout Europe. Also he is known for the excellent aesthetics, so powerful and traditional in look, that have granted him compliments from more than one Japanese master.

All this is what we call the LuXuria system, and this Masterclass is an intensive journey in our way of tying. We will cover all the technical part of some of the most traditional suspensions as well of some of our own personal ones. Floorwork in Semenawa style will not be neglected as well as some of the most extreme techniques for rope torture.

Aesthetics is so important for us that a part of everyday work will be focus on this subject. Through the use of multimedia as videos and pictures, we will analyze all the main concepts of Japanese rope aesthetics.

One of our main prides is that we teach people how to play and have fun and kinky sex through rope. This is why we will talk and teach extensively our communication and body handling techniques.

Every subject will be covered in a much deeper way that in usual workshops. The workshop is entirely in English but you can expect some translation in Czech, French or Italian when needed.

Requirements for riggers/models?

In order to participate you must be a confirmed rigger. If we do not know you personally we require you to send us a link to an uncut video featuring a full suspension. This is a very advanced class and it does not fit everybody. Attending without the necessary basis would slow down other participants as well as being dangerous for your model.

Models too need to be experienced. They must be fit and with a good experience in suspension. We will do some very tough Semenawa rope work and especially we will do lots of hours a day of training. Please consider well you experience before asking to participate.

Only 10 places are available, and, at the moment of issuing this document, 5 are already gone. So if you are interested hurry up and book your Kinbaku LuXuria Masterclass.

How is the venue?

The venue is incredibly well equipped. Unlike many workshops were single suspension points are provided, this venue will have plenty of bamboo beams, which fits better our style. There are also vertical post that we will use to tie some very traditional Japanese ties that very rarely we can show elsewhere due to the lack of this architectural feature.

The space is big, everybody will work comfortably.

We will have a projector for all the multimedia contents.

The venue is 400 mt from a metro station.

All info on how to get to the venue will be given privately to participant.

What to bring?

To take full benefit from our masterclass you should bring at least 10 pieces of rope. Jute is preferred to hemp. Diameter between 5 and 6mm. Length can vary between 7 and 8 meters though our recommendation (for average size models) is around 7,30 mt. Loose or medium lay rope fits better our style, please avoid super tight layed double ply rope.  Bring rope that you already broke in, we will tie a lot and it must be easy on your hands and on the model.

Safety sheers or rescue hook. Mandatory.

While you can bring gear like rings and karabiners it will not be used. We will tie in our own style so either on bamboo, beams, posts or on rope rigging points.

A mat if you want to be comfortable on floorwork. We will not provide the because we never use them.

Comfortable clothes for tops and bottoms.

 Download file as PDF KLInfopack (1)

For all info and booking contact: freebri@gmail.com

I somehow consider the London Festival 2012 the begining of this year for LuXuria. It was our last "circus" show and the begining of a journey that brought us to what we are now. Lots of things have changed since then, both in our bondage as in our personal lives. We had many highs and a few lows. We met some incredible people in our numerous travels around Europe. We made new great friends and lost some of the old ones. Life is like that, always changing and evolving.

We have had an incredible year of success. We visited so many different countries (some more than once) doing shows and workshops, we launched our images and clips for sale sites (wich are having an unexpected success), we did tons of photoshoots, we worked together with some of the most awesome riggers.

Unluckily we could not perform at the last London Festival. We were not even allowed to attend it, and this is one of the lows of this year. Celebrating our birthday with all our friends from all over Europe would have been great. But the incredible number of  support messages we received daily during the festival (including the ones of Naka San) are anyway the best birthday gift we could have been given.

Our last show, in Cantada Bar Paris, has been none the less a great way to celebrate our anniversary. A show in wich there were only few minutes of suspension, no visual stuff, just plain emotion and good semenawa. So many people in the audience had tears in their eyes, despite it was definetly an SM show.

More and more riggers are making love to their ropes, we are following a different path, we are making love to eachother. I guess this is the secret of all the great feedbacks we had this year, including the incredible words Kinoko had for us in St. Petersburg. This is why so many people shed tears during our last shows. We are even more determined in following this path, regardless of the fact that specializing oneself into a particular style may make us loose a few costumers.

In all this, I (Wildties), have very little merits. Redsabbath and Morgana have been the real engine of our accomplishments. Their continuous support in the hard times, their dedication, their heart, their way of living bondage as an act of love rather than a way to seek visibility or popularity. They pushed me to change my way of doing ropes regadless the fact we might have lost costumers. They incouraged me every day, they made me the rigger I am. More than once they brough me back on track, the supported me in the bad times, they gave me absolute trust.

Friends have been crucial too. The real ones, the ones that are always there when you need them I will not mention them directly, they know who they are, they are real friends and as such they do not even need or want to be thanked. They are there thats all.  Actually one I'll mention… The one with the ugly t-shirts… thanks for being there! …mate we must visit Decathlon together, really 🙂 Oh.. and the polite asian man who sent me as a gift Japanese rope because he thought I deserved it.  And the Brit couple who cuddled us when we were down. Ups, yeah, also the french guy who was there in one of my hardest moments. Shit I said I would not have written all this! Ok stop! lol

Whats up for the future? We always claimed that LuXuria never stops. And that is it, we have already started to book events for the next year, most of the comunities we visit want us back and this is a real treat for us, trips overseas are also planned. We will focus even more in teaching our style and our vision of ropes. Our Skin and Ropes series of workshops is about to start and we are working hard to increase our production of images and videos. Some very good collaborations with other riggers/organizations are about to start, because we do believe bondage is about sharing. Lots of other interesting stuff will be announced shortly…

This solar year will end in beauty with an event in Vienna, at the Vienna Shibari Dojo, and a great two day of ropes in Paris with Wykd Dave, organized by Ecole des Cordes.

Thanks to all who shared the magic of this year with us, riggers, models, students, audience, friends and foes. We love you all!

Redsabbath… well you know it, do you?

Wildties

Teaching at Lisbon Fetish Weekend has been one of the best experiences we have ever done! We had a great success and met some of the best and most friendly people!

We arrived in Lisbon on Friday night quite late and MasterM__ picked up us at the airport. He drove us to the venue were the festival was already started and we had a chance to meet the organizers MikeG, isabel and MistressPatrizia that also run the website http://www.consensual.org.pt, an educational project for the  Portuguese BDSM community.

The venue was a huge facility, very high ceilings, and fantastic wooden floor. A beautiful exposition of illustrations from some of the most famous BDSM artists was in display and 5  award winning short bdsm themed movies were projected. We had a little time to socialize and then we were drove the our hotel, a beautiful luxury one, but before we had a nice car tour of the town's city center.

Unluckily by that time Wildties started having the symptoms of a a very bad throat ache and uprising fever.

The day started with a great big breakfast and the MasterM__ came to pick us up. We went to the venue for a private tuition with MikeG and MasterM__. Subject of class were hishi gote shibari, face up suspension and futomomo suspension. Despite we have abandoned this style for our shows and are dedicating ourselves to Naka Ryu presently, it is still fun to teach these things. The fast progress made by the students and the two spacey models enjoying the inverted suspension gave us a great satisfaction.

After class we had time to rest and have some great Portuguese food while the organizers starting setting everything for our show. I was quite surprised to see them pack the room were the performance was to be held with chairs. It seemed unlikely that a kinbaku show would attract more than a handful of people in such a community, so new to BDSM and were rope is practiced just by very few people. But believe it or not the job these guys have done has been so amazing that 100 people filled every possible space in the room! 100 people willing to pay for our show, most of them totally new to rope. Wow, MikeG and the others did such an incredible job!

Wildties fever was rising, but the show had to go on. Good new was that finally we were given a full hour for our show. We are not theater actors, nor we are interested any more in circus bondage. We need our session to be built slowly. Finally we had all the time we needed! Bad news was that we had planned to use a takatekote instead of a gote (arms crossed high in back vs arms parallel to the ground) in show for the first time. But Redsabbath had never tried that arm position for such a long time. Wildties was quite worried but the little redhead is as tough as a nail and wanted to go for it. Also it was going to be our first show entirely in Naka Ryu, 7mt ropes, no use of the bite, etc., so this was adding an extra challenge.

We entered on stage hand in hands, Redsabbath knelt on the floor and was tied in a strict tk. Wildties tied the rigging line and left there there for a bit. That arm position is very powerful on her head, makes her space, she loves to feel it and needs also time for her body to adapt. When raised to standing position and main suspension line was adjusted accordingly, Wildties tied the 3rd rope to the tk. Redsabbath was looking so fucking beautiful in that traditional tk.

After that point memory fades… Fever, emotions, the palpable tension in the audience. We just remember that she went through three of our favorite positions, the split, the one with the leg up high and an inversion with a body lacing. She had pleasure and she had pain. Gags, bastinado, whipping, crotch rope. We were honestly so lost in our session that we could not even describe it, so many details are too confused. When we finished Wildties was worried… He had lost sense of time and thought he had performed only 20 minutes. It was a shock when organizers said that he had gone through all his appointed hour.

Feedback we received after the show (and are still receiving) is stunning. What touches us the most is the number of people that said that they had seen many bondage show before us and always found them boring, aerial performance that was in no way sexy. While our show was loved and made hot even those BDSMers that were not into rope. Also there was a guy that saw a show a year ago at FIP party, when Wildties had just moved to Paris. Though not a rope guy he saw the difference. His description of what changed in our style since then nailed exactly what we are trying to convey to the public. Transitions and fly around were fun, but that's not why we started rope. And now we are showing exactly what we love of rope: beautiful suffering, lovely squirming, pain, shame, intimacy. Most people did not believe we did not rehearse the show (we did not even know we had an hour of time until few minutes before going on stage), and this is a good proof of how everything was fluid and natural.

After show some wine was served and believe it or not the organizers transformed the room in a great play space in just half an hour! The spent month building equipment, so good such I've seen in very few parties in Europe. All kind of benches, bondage devices, cages etc. A great party started and believe me it was one of the best I've seen. Unluckily Wildties fever by that time was really high and we could not stay much. Before going though Redsabbath wanted to try a sensory deprivation box. Just cause the beating she had in show was not enough she got some more in the box. Wildties would have loved to tie the beautiful Portuguese girls but he could barely stand so we left for the hotel to have some rest.

The following morning we had a little tour downtown and ate some great fish. Lisbon is beautiful and we hope to have a chance to visit it properly.

Despite the party ended at 5am the night before we had a good number of people attending the workshop. We spent 5 hours doing good ropes and having fun. We talked a lot about safety, connection, bondage for sex etc. We had a lot of positive feedback and many people wrote to us willing to visit Italy for private class in the future.

Evening ended with a great typical Portuguese dinner in a wonderful restaurant with the organizers. Useless to say it was delicious.

These people are building a new community, facing all the difficulties you can imagine, and they are doing an awesome job. All their didactic and artistic initiatives are contributing to raise the level of the scene in Portugal in a huge way. I have no doubts that Lisbon Fetish Weekend will soon become one of the main fetish events in Europe.

Enjoy the gallery of our show in the beautiful images by Fabrice Ziegler.

Kinbaku LuXuria is under attack! 5 blocked accounts on Facebook, pictures, flyers and links reported daily even in secret groups dedicated to bondage… Whats going on?

It is well known that the world of Bondage is highly competitive and full of envious people. Denunciation on facebook seems to be one of the favorite methods that some suckers use to bother their competitors. We always had to face this problem but now things are getting worse and worse. It is a daily attack to anything we publish, each picture, each link, each flyer.

On one side it's a proof of how well we are doing. It is no mystery that Kinbaku LuXuria is one of the most active bondage realities in Europe. We have monthly events in almost every European country, invitations to all the best rope festivals, our video and picture production is great and constant. Our popularity is growing so fast that we are amazed our self.

Getting reported and blocked is not a real problem. Our team has some six accounts and we will continue promoting our work. It's just annoying and actually shows the level of these little weasels. Little envious people that instead of trying to improve their work vent their frustration in front of a screen.

Some might suggest that it's simply the Facebook police keeping an eye on us. No not at all. We have been reported some 15 times during the last year in private groups dedicated just to Japanese Bondage. We created new accounts, with no report history, and still we get reported. Morgana shared for over 5 years pictures of her naked modelling and never got reported. guess what? as soon as she started pubblishing Kinbaku LuXuria bondage pictures she started being reported on a weekly basis. Also the timing is symptomatic. Each and every time we achieve a big success or we schedule a new event, when a Japanese master shares one of our pictures or when a collaboration with some other rigger gives some incredible result, when a pic gets 4500 loves on Fetlife or when a magazine publishes our pictures, that is the moment when images get reported.

Wanking stupid weasels. You are not even brave enough to play it clean. You refuge in anonymity cause you don't have balls. Well you really think you will stop us? Damage us in any way? Did your denunciations ever stop us from publishing our work… NO, and it will never. We are currently increasing the number of Facebook accounts, since 5 out of seven are blocked. Seven ain't enough? We will have fourteen.

LuXuria will go on, with the help of all our supporters, making better work every day. As always LuXuria NEVER STOPS!

"This fire is burnin'
And it's out of control
It's not a problem you can stop
It's rock n' roll"

Happy Birthday LuXuria! Today we celebrate our first year of activity and boy… this has been an incredible journey!

So many things have happened this year, so many people supported us, so many new friends were met. This has been such an incredible year we can hardly describe all the beautiful adventures we went through. We started as an almost unknown group of bondage lovers, a rigger and some models, and within a year, we managed to become one of the most active realities of the European bondage scene.

And all this was done only through our passion and dedication to Japanese Bondage. We had no important sponsors, no money, no experience, no place to hold classes or shows in. Even finding the money to buy rope, at the begining, was something difficult.  But we had heart, guts, passion. We had to fight for every centimeter, but we never gave up. Each member of the team had to learn how to do communication, improvise our selves photographers or video editors, learn how to manage a website. But we loved what we were doing, we loved our dream and we worked hard enough to make it come true. We had ups and downs, hard moments to deal with but we always managed to rise again even stronger than before.

It is a wonderful coincidence that in the day of our birthday we found in our mailbox a copy of Massad Magazine featuring a wonderfull six page article of us, with lots of pictures.

We are particularly proud of this article especially because it features pictures of some of our former models. They do not appear anymore on our website, but their contribution to making LuXuria what it is, and making Wildties the rigger he is, will never be forgotten. Whithout them we would not be were we are.

But thats not all… As we often say LuXuria never stops and we are about to get a plane and fly to Czech Republic for a couple of workshops and two shows, one of our usual transition/circus shows and one in pure traditional rope torture style (wich is definetly the new path we are following). And this is only one of the many events to wich we have been invited this year. Our agenda is already totally full. And this is a further proof of how much good work we have done this year.

We are happy, proud, excited. But we know we still have a lot to improve, a lot to learn, a long road still to walk. We will work even harder this year to improve our bondage skills, make better shows, make our workshops even more interesting and produce many more captivating images and videos.

As mentioned many people helped us in this wonderful year. We would like to thank them all but we would end forgetting some. So we will keep it general, who is in our heart knows he is…We thank heartily all our supporters, all our inspirators, all the friends that have been close in the difficult times. We thank all the photographers that worked with us, all the models, all our students. Especially we want to thank all former members of the Kinbaku LuXuria team. All this is still yours too.

A great year behind us, a greater year infront. Stay tuned because LuXuria never stops!

 Ok the site has been rebuilt. what had to be deleted is gone, we set up a new portfolio page and new banners have been created. Also a few new galleries have been added.

Now its time to think about the real deal… BONDAGE!

Our calendar is becoming more and more busy every day. We are receiving invitations to teach and perform all over Europe. We will write about each event in advance so keep following the blog to be updated on our moves.

February will be a very full and creative month. We have already 3 scheduled shoots with some incredible photographers, actually three of the most quoted. So stay tuned because there will be some incredible picture sets coming very soon!

Also we will perform at two big events in Paris, details on this also will follow in the next blog entry.

The great unexpected success of our little homemade preview has encouraged us to work even more in that stylistic direction. feedback from all over Europe, Usa, Russia and Japan have been massive, and it was just a homemade test shoot!

 February should be the month in which we will film the first real movie of our new bondage video production. We will have a great videomaker, three cameras, superb sound and great editing. That's not all! Some new great models will take part in the project and we will shoot in a number of fantastic locations.

So there are a lot of things going on and lots of news to come. Stay tuned and read our blog to have all the latest info on our work!

LuXuria Rocks!

As you may have have noticed lots of picture sets and videos have been removed from the website. Months of passionate work, of feelings, of beautiful bondage gone in smoke. 

The decision was not taken by Kinbaku LuXuria. Two of the models portrayed in those images and videos asked us to remove them. Honestly this is something really we really disagree on, not only for the great damage this causes to us and for the big deal of work it will take to make new banners, video teasers, flyers etc. What really is upsetting is that those images and videos are anyway spread all over the web. Blogs, websites, bondage organizations, photographers will continue to display our images and Kinbaku LuXuria will be the only one not to benefit from it. Also some material was posted just a couple month ago on request of one of the models, together with an extended commemorative biography.

We could have said just no, but we want to avoid any contrast so we took the sad decision of removing the material in question. It has been like deleting bits of our heart and soul. We are sure that the emotions we shared through those pics and videos will not be forgotten by our public. Nor will the contribution those models gave to the birth and prosperity of Kinbaku LuXuria be forgotten.

We are sure the models will have the same honesty an not use the images and videos in question to promote themself or other bondage organization.

We are still waiting for the videos of Redsabbath and Wildties performing at Bound, LFoAoJRB and in Russia. For different reasons none of this videos have yet been given to us. We hope to be able to have them and publish them soon even if we strongly doubt it will be fast.

As mentioned our new video production is work in progress and first clips may be issued within a month or so. Also we have quite a few new shootings scheduled with some new, beautiful models. So stay tuned because some great material will be soon uploaded.

We thank heartily all who loved, liked and commented beautifully, on our site or elsewhere, the material that has been removed. Your support has a great part in our success!

And here are the results of the Bondage Awards, and guess what? LuXuria had incredible outcomes!

But before talking of our placement we would like to spend two words on what we think of the competition itself. Bondage is not competitive and this particular contest is more about popularity than about the quality of the bondage. Also the voting system is quite awkward, allowing people to vote for themselves  and self inscribing into different categories (i know some European riggers that inscribed themselves practically in every category… lol).

As the contest is made mainly for the American audience the presence of Japanese style riggers among the top positions has always been almost insignificant in the past years, due to the larger networks of american bondage artist's as well as a major focus on western bondage.

Still this results makes us very proud! And not only for the result in itself, but mainly for the people that decided to inscribe us in the first place and then supported us through all the competition.

We were running for 5 categories and we ranked within the top 5 in every one of them, including 3 podiums of which one is a 1st place! We think we can honestly say that we are the top ranker among the Japanese rope people!

So here are our placements:

1st place for Best Picture.

A great picture by Cuore Nudo. And guess what… it's not a fancy circus suspension, but a moment of deep connection during an untying, between Redsabbath and Wildties. This proves that people appreciate the heart and feelings that we put in our bondage, one of our distinguishable trade marks!

3rd place New Bondage Website

Since it was born our website has offered lots of new picture sets every month. A huge effort that is well priced by this placing. Honestly I would have expected even something more looking at our competitors, but still this it's a great result.

3rd place Best Glamour Bondage

We wonder who inscribed us in this category. But yes we did have a glamour period, especially during some past cooperation's (see sets like Stoneage of kinbaku and River). Still the support of people is appreciated even if we do not really feel represented in this definition.

Runner up for Best Rigger

This is a big surprise! Wildties is indeed a good rigger but we did not expect him to be so popular. He is rigging since less than a couple of years and already being up there, representing the world of pure Japanese style ropes, is a great honor! Despite this result makes us very happy we are quite disappointed not to see up there some great European riggers that would have well deserved to be ranked.

5th place Best Model

And this is what we are more proud of! Seeing Redsabbath up there, between all the pro models, makes us so so proud. People priced her way of living ropes, the emotion she shared through her pictures and her shows. Despite being a non professional model Redsabbath has one of the biggest heart for ropes that you can possibly find around. In this year with LuXuria she spent more time hanging by one ankle than walking on two feet, this results is so so well deserved!

We would like to thank all that supported us (mostly people that enjoyed our work through Fetlife), but in the first place those who inscribed us in the different categories. Your appreciation is the best price to our work.

We also hope that our placement will contribute to make Japanese style bondage more and more popular and that next year all the great European riggers will see their efforts prized as well because they well deserve it. To some extent we are even ashamed to have ranked higher than some of our greatest inspirers. With the growing popularity of Japanese Bondage we are sure that everybody's work will be rewarded as it deserves next year.

Thanks People!

As we wrote in a previous post we will expose some pictures at the Exhibition of Erotic-Kink Photography In Lisbon, Portugal, from 1st June to 1st July. Famous photogrphy magazine Super Foto Digital dedicated an article to the event and one of our pictures is Highlighted! Enjoy the beauty and class of Redsabbath suspended in a yoko tzuri while wearing some rafinate lingerie.

Unluckily we will not be able to attend the event, but we strongly suggest it to our friends! Beside our pictures many other great shibari and kinbaku art works will be displayed.

http://lisbonfetishweekend.com/exposicao-de-fotografia/olhares-consentidos-2012/

After exhibiting a selection of our shots in The Art of Contemporary Shibari Exhibition that was held in Texas, at the Houston FotoFest International between March and April 2012, Riccardo Sergnese aka Widlties will exhibit some works at the Internation Exhibition of Erotic-Kink Photography In Lisbon, Portugal, from 1st June to 1st July.
We'll be guested again among very famous names of the erotic and Kinbaku photographers, like Suffering4Art, Captured Erotica and Hikari Kesho.
This is first collective exhibition organized in Lisbon, and will see approximately 30 works exposed to audience, within The Lisbon Fetish Weekend, the event that will launch it officially, a full weekend dedicated to the universe of eros, kinky and alternative sexualities.
We are very proud to have been invited and curious to know the portuguese scene!

http://lisbonfetishweekend.com/exposicao-de-fotografia/olhares-consentidos-2012/