Adapt or Die: Taking Flight

with Ojipan, goodmosttimes, & ordinals

Price per pair: 

BOUND Members $80 |TIED Members $90 | WRAPPED Members $100

Have you often found yourself staring at a class description that includes the requirement of a “suspendable,” rope pattern? Have you ever wondered what “suspendable,” even means? Saturday’s workshop offers a diagnostic process that helps to understand the sustainability of harnesses in suspension.  This class is appropriate for intermediate to advanced level students. Practiced knowledge of harnesses and frictions from the tying partner coupled with an ability to communicate clearly from both parties is required. Some experience with attachment for suspension and managing suspension lines is helpful.

About the Instructors:

Ojipan (he/him)

Ojipan aka Andrew has been involved in kink and BDSM, in one form or another, for over a decade. He has rigorously been studying rope for over 10 years. Andrew’s work is heavily influenced by the work of Akechi Denki, Nawashi Kanna, and Hajime Kinoko. He has instructed at Bondage Expo Dallas 2015-2018, Bondage Expo Denver, and Ropecraft New Orleans. Along with goodmosttimes, Andrew is currently the lead instructor for the Devil Mask Society Cell program.

Ojipan: FetLife • Twitter • Facebook • Instagram

goodmosttimes (she/her)

goodmosttimes aka Melissa (she/her) started her rope education, as a bottom, in early 2012. She has since been expanding her knowledge as a switch and loves to share new techniques from both sides of a tie. Fortunate to be based in Los Angeles, CA, she has happily been part of the Devil Mask Society since its inception. She is now one of the lead instructors for their Cell (topping) and Cell X (bottoming) classes and the driving force behind many of their local events. She has moderated annual rope bottoming panels at her local dungeon and helped produce Ropenspace LA, NARIX 2016, and Kinoko’s Los Angeles Cyber Rope performance. Melissa has studied with an array of visiting international and domestic instructors and cites Hajime Kinoko, Nawashi Kanna, and Wykd Dave and Clover as major influences. She has also performed locally and at Folsom Street Fair, and taught at Ropecraft NOLA, BED (Dallas and Denver), FapCon 2018, and at weekend intensives across the US and Canada with her partner, Ojipan.

goodmosttimes: FetLife • Twitter • Instagram

You can connect with Ojipan or goodmosttimes at www.devilmasksociety.com.

ordinals (they/them)

ordinals (aka Roz) is a fix-it femme, kitchen s/witch and joyful provocateur of no particular gender. Drawing on over a decade of instructional experience, their focus as a teacher is the intersection of queer embodiment, neurodiversity, and kink. Roz co-leads the Devil Mask Society’s bottoming program, Cell X, with goodmosttimes and has taught at a range of conventions in the US and Canada. When not making undignified faces in rope they enjoy wildly complicated cocktails and curating cheese boards. You can find them on FetLife as ordinals and Instagram as ordinals_.

Prerequisites and Equipment:

Class Level 2: 

For Tops: Experience and confidence with chest, hip, leg harnesses and some experience with suspension including upline safety and management.

For bottoms: Experience and confidence being in harnesses/suspended, stress & pain management skills.

For both: skilled negotiation and vetting of partners, specific communication and problem-solving skills

8 - 12 lengths of rope, between 6 - 8 meters (20 - 25 feet), sufficient and appropriate equipment for single point suspension in the manner most comfortable for the students.

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