Studio Friction Advanced Rope Intensive:

For Wall intents and purposes

With Switchtext and little knots

Cost/Tying Pair: WRAPPED Member Price - $50 |

TIED Member - $40 | BOUND Member - $30 

When: Sunday, October 6th 12PM-3PM

Description:

What do we do with all these wall points?!?

You may have noticed that Studio Friction has a number of wall anchors throughout the space, 276 of them to be exact. These wall points are a fun way to add variety to tying scenes. 

This class will include the suspension and the transition of your bottom from a hard point to the wall, and then will continue to one or two wall transitions and transitioning back to the hard point before descending to the floor. 

All students will be expected to have suspension experience and riggers expected to have experience in basic up-line management and some transition experience. Participants should come prepared to tie a solid, sustainable chest harness and a hip harness. As always, everyone is welcome to participate up to their own comfort level or just observe portions of the class that are beyond their current skill set.

Riggers will need a full rope kit, rigging plate/gear and 6-8 carabiners.

In this class we will cover:

• Wall specific risks and limitations such as bi directional compression and wall abrasion 
• Brief review of consent and negotiation specific to this activity, partner check in
• Negotiating for a spotter
• Arms front chest harness (for the least compression and most comfort for this class an arms front harness is recommended)
• Setting up your wall points & gear
• Transitioning to the wall and back

Due to limited wall space this class will be limited to 10 tying pairs. Some tying pairs will be double up to take turns transitioning on the wall and spotting each other as space allows with 5 wall point stations. 

About our instructors:

Switchtext (he/him)

Switchtext is a designer, co-founder and creative director of Studio Friction. He is more interested in sensations and understanding the elements of rope bondage than mastering someone’s specific pattern. Switchtext has been tying for 17 years. He has learned so much in that time and he really enjoys knowing he has so much more to learn.

littleknots (she/her)

Introduced to shibari in 2018, littleknots fell in love with rope from the moment it touched her skin. Intentionally seeking community, she has been involved with Studio Friction since 2021. Primarily an active rope bottom, littleknots pursues the challenge of shibari as an extension of her yoga & meditation practice. Aware of the edge between discomfort & pain, she seeks to find comfort within the discomfort. lk loves a single point futo (pain slut anyone?) Forever a student, lk enjoys curriculum classes, intensives, stands for education of persons in rope, and is always looking to learn.

Important Registration Information:

• Please arrive on time or a bit early so that we can get started promptly.
  
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