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

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!