Our trip to Czech Rep. was born really casually. We had received an invitation on Facebook to the Shibari Circle event, a monthly peer rope event in Brno. Redsabbath contacted Kirei, one of the organizers, and asked if they would be interested in a workshop or some performance. Despite they never had international guests, Kirei was very enthusiast and decided to organize two days of Kinbaku Luxuria workshops and shows.

Things moved very fast and in a few days the event was scheduled. We have been very surprised because despite being their first experience organizing this kind of event, and despite the fact the Czech community is quite new to ropes, these people have set up a huge event in only one month. Thanks to Kirei, Borg, Freya, Soptik and many others Kinbaku LuXuria held one of it's best events ever!.

Day one started with some private tuition in the morning and guess what? It was on one of our favorite topics, Semenawa.  Three intense hours of rope torture techniques and predicament bondage. As you all know this is the direction LuXuria has taken since a while.

In the afternoon we held the first workshop with 10 couples. The venue was fantastic, a big room with a wonderful wooden floor, suspension points and some beautiful thick mats. The workshop treated connection, Ichinawa, and rope scene building. Also Redsabbath held a little class for rope bottoms and we talked about how to practice and develop muscle memory and flow. All the participants seemed very enthusiastic and they did a great job. Some beautiful moments of connection have been shown by all the couples.

In the evening we held our two shows for an audience of 60 people! The guys at Shibari Circle did an excellent work of communication and managed to have such a large public participate.

First show was mainly about transition, the old Luxuria style or "circus" as we now define it. It was quite visual and we know people, especially if not into BDSM, love it. Side suspension, double ankle, tk suspension, hip harness suspension and a long single ankle suspension to close the show. Speed and brutal transitioning.  Once again Redsabbath gave a proof of what a tough model she is. Not only the show was hard but she had modeled for class all day and had a little flu.

Second show was a traditional Semenawa show, the new course of LuXuria's kinbaku. We were quite hesitant to do this in public, especially since part of the audience was not into rope or BDSM. But we felt we had to express ourselves the way we like it so we went for it. Kirei did an incredible job and found a big bamboo to use as suspension point, which is how we prefer to work at present.

This show was totally different from the other, the rhythm was slow, music very low, each position kept for a long time to give the model the time to feel the ropes, to suffer them. Between different position Redsabbath had the feet on the ground to rest a few second between different torture positions. We started with a very slow TK, and then a very splitted suspension in which she received a heavy bastinado. Then a very tough vertical suspension, with one leg pulled up very high, one of Wildties' favorites this period (as you might have seen in many of the latest pictures). Here she received some genital torture through coconut rope as well as some intense erotic stimulation. Then it was time to lace her thighs and suspend her reversed by them. Gag, clamps with weights and some sizzling waxing. She really took an incredible amount of pain. But… this is not the end, Wildties was very inspired and wanted to give her some good honest sense of shame. He lowered her to the ground, legs tied up and used his wooden dildo on her in front of all the audience.

A very sensual and dramatic untying ended the show, with Redsabbath shivering exhausted in the rigger's arms. Despite the big public we held a real private session. The new, genuine LuXuria style.

Feedback after the show has been incredible. Most girls said it was the hottest thing they ever saw. We received some of the warmest and most touching compliments ever (including some saying that Wildties set a new standard of the term sadistic bastard). Moments we will never forget. The night continued with a bondage party until 2 am. Both model and rigger were so overwhelmed and exhausted that they could do no more rope that night, but still we enjoyed the beautiful atmosphere and hospitality.

On day two we held workshop in the morning. Main subject being how to freestyle. It was fun to see the riggers challenged by some quite bratty bunnies. Also we answered many questions and gave a lot of one to one advice.

Sadly at 3pm we had to leave for the airport, but the wonderful moments spent in Brno will always be in our heart! We loved Czech people of the Shibari circle so much. and they loved us so much, that we already started planning a second event for the near future!

Before leaving Soptik (a man with a fetish for shears lol) gave to wildties a pair of very special EMT shears. Much better than the usual ones, they cut 200% better and are made of an incredible heavy duty metal. They will always be part of our rigging equipment.

It has been an incredible experience. We met so many great people and felt all the warmth of Czech hospitality. A big thanks goes to Kirei for believing in us and wanting us their first international guest. To Freya for the huge effort in organizing the event, the three days of hard work at the venue and for doing all she could to make us feel comfortable at all time. To Soptik and Simona for hosting us at their place, taking care of us and being such a good company. To Borg, a man of great sensibility and our personal driver. A big thanks to all the people involved in the event, all the students of the workshop and all the audience of the show.

Special thanks to the photographers that took some incredible pictures and videos of the two shows… You will see them soon on our website!!!

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!

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!