As mentioned in one of our previous blog entries Kinbaku LuXuria has an incredible amount of events scheduled, most of wich allready feature on our agenda page. In the next few month we will be visiting many different countries for shows, classes and workshops.

Our first international travel of 2013 will be in Czech Republic!

The Shibari Dojo in Brno invited us for two days of workshops and performance, also we will attend their rope jam party.

All information on the event may be found on their page: http://www.shibari.8u.cz/kinbaku-luxuria-in-shibari-dojo-brno/kinbaku-luxuria-en/

We are honored to attend this event and will try to show them a bit of LuXuria style kinbaku.

Also we are glad to announce we will hold two performances, one featuring our usual multiple transitions one of them to be in pure traditional style as you can see in our rope torture video!!!

Many other events are planned and many are being scheduled at the moment so stay tuned and visit our blog for all the latest news!

 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!

It is never too late to talk about this great Halloween party I had the luck to attend last month.

I was in Paris for some class and my friend Morgana, who modeled for my classes, invited me to join her for the Halloween party at Cris et Chuchotements, a very popular BDSM club in Paris.

I had heard a lot of good things about C&C, especially about their Friday afternoon party called "Les Goûters du Divin Marquis", but I couldn't imagine that it would have been so good!

The club is divided on many levels, with small rooms that give a very intimate atmosphere. Each room is furnished in a very classy way and fully equipped with all kinds of BDSM implements. Crosses, spanking benches, rigging points can be found everywhere. The bar serves every possible drink and free snacks where available.

Being Halloween's night party the club was literally packed with people and the energy was really good. All kind of BDSM folks hang out there and it was amazing to see how many different personalities have choose C&C as their regular gathering point for BDSM nights.

I had a chance to finally meet in person DocVale and Philippe De Beaumond, two french riggers, that run a monthly event called "L ECOLE DES CORDES", still held at C&C. I had a great time doing rope with them and I strongly suggest you attend their event if you are in Paris.

I must say that in such a great night one would never stop tying… My designed victim for the night was Morgana, a beautiful French model and my great friend. The poor girl was tied three times during the night, each well over 30 minutes and I didn't spare her from heavy transition, SM, and a good deal of mean stuff. Her stamina is amazing and I was absolutely surprised that she was able to take one of the hardest bastinado's I ever gave almost as nothing (but she had a blue foot for a week lol).

I also did a double suspension with Morgana and the beautiful Lin. Obviously unable to tie with any connection, and help by the sparkling personality of the two models, it turned out into a very funny cabaret. I guess my skills in French language must have improved because everybody was laughing at my jokes.

What to say more? C&C is a great club both for people into ropes and for those that love other forms of BDSM. The organization is great and all the folks that hang around are super cool. I strongly suggest to attend to their events! On my part I'll be there very soon!

Enjoy some of the pics of that wonderful night and stay tuned for more news from Paris!

Kinbaku LuXuria will be giving two workshops qnd four (yes I said four!) shows in Russia!

Thanks to Boris Mosafir we have been invited in Moscow and St. Petersburg from Nov. 30 to Dec.4 to hold two workshops and perform twice in each city.

Wildties and Redsabbath are honored for this invitation and will do their best to show some of the best LuXuria style and bondage to the growing Russian community. Theese guys are really great and their bondage scene is growing in a very fast way. Also a few of them have already performed internationally in events like The London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage showing some incredible bondage.

Unluckily, even if invited, LuXuria could not partecipate to the Ropefest festival that Boris organized some months ago. So this invitation is even more welcome because the scene there appears to be really good and all the reports from ropefest where great.

Four shows in three days is a lot but Wildties is very confident because redsabbath is one of the toughest and most hardcore models in the scene! Also we will hold workshops in both cities. We would like to explain our vision of rope bondage and shibari, put the accent on rope as play and erotic activity rather than as a performance art, pure LuXuria style!

This is the program of the workshop:

Introducing Myself

-who am I
-my vision of Shibari/kinbaku
-show vs session

Theory

discipline vs practice
feelings vs tecnique
how to train, best exercises, importance of katas
self learning
Confrontation of two popular styles (Osada Steve vs Akira Naka)

Practice

TK pattern vs tK concepts (tension, tightness, distribution, spine etc)
Osada/Kinoko tk2
tk3 main concepts
tk personal variations
predicament bondage

Kinbaku LuXuria will finally be in Rome for a workshop and two ( yes two! ) private sessions! Since the great success that our workshops and private sessions are having throughout France we decided to create a special event in Wildtie's native country. Date is June 16, the location a small beautiful theater in the northern part of Rome.

Workshop will cover basic safety issues as well as a couple of main ties of shibari / kinbaku. Also there will be an extensive part dedicated to erotic power exchange through ropes and the "gran finale" will be bondage for sex!

Two private sessions are scheduled, a highly erotical floorwork session and a hard SM suspension performance. The models will be Redsabbath and Gorgone, need to say more?

few place are left so if you are interested either in the workshop, the shows or both, please drop us a mail!

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/