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Adapted from Shibari Study Rope handling and Flow Today we covered three key concepts in rope handling: The Stick, the Hook, and Throwing. The stick– we always hold our rope taught to make it look like a stick. When we wrap around or fold around the body, we are always holding the stick strong to…

We had a great class on Saturday that was in many ways, the culmination of 5 months of Windy City Knots: Not only did we have a new intermediate rigger join us, but we made impressively made it through all of the beginner material (7 lessons) and not one but two of the fundamental floor…

Hello WCK, After consulting with Sagi, some of the other rope tops in town, and gathering feedback, I’d decided to make just a few small changes to Windy City Knots.  1) Beginner class will happen only once per month moving forward. For beginners, you should make extra time to practice on your own or get together and…

We had only a beginner section today and reveiwed Leg Ladders, the Sommerville Bowline, and the overhand single columns. We also learned an alternative Sommerville called the Fast Sommerville.

At the Saturday class we did a lesson on foundational concepts in the intermediate section: Reverse Tension, Half-hitch, Munter, and the X-friction • Reverse Tension • The half-hitch • The munter/nodome The Half-hitch is not fully attached to the rope, and requires tension in the direction of the running end to hold. The munter/nodome is a…

At the beginner class on 11/2, we went over the Running End and the Bight End, the overhand single columns (basic and with quick release), the Sommerville bowline, and the double column. We even had time to do a self-tie of KissMeDeadlyDoll’s Self-Suspension Chest Harness from Shibari Study. On Sunday, we had an intermediate session…

We had a great class today. In the beginner section we went over Square Knot vs. Granny Knot, The Summerville Bowline, Double Columns and leg ladders, and how to extend your rope using a Lark’s head. In the intermediate section, TickledKink showed us how to tie a nice clean leg ladder and improved an attached hand tie. We…

Today, we had a nice big group and could split into beginner & intermediate sections. The beginner section reviewed the running end and bight end, the overhand single columns, and the Sommerville Bowline The intermediate section did various things including a quick upper body chest harness (the two-band simple one from Tiziano’s book) as well…

We reviewed the Summerville Bowline and single/double column ties. We looked at a couple of Shibari books for inspiration and then ended with a review of the spreader bar technique 🙂