Houston, We Have a Problem

Handling Turbulence in Suspension with Sam Jay and Zero-Gi

price per tying pair: 

BOUND Members $30 |TIED Members $40 | WRAPPED Members $50

Friday May 9th, 7PM to 9PM

Take our dynamic safety model for a flight test in our crowd favorite suspension risk management crash course, “Houston, We Have a Problem: Handling Turbulence in Suspension.” After learning how we ideate about danger, proactively and reactively identify, and solve a diversity of problems in the air, you will have the opportunity to practice in a dynamic problem-solving exercise based on a Yoko Tsuri transition sequence. Loved equally by suspension-ready intermediate flight cadets and seasoned experts alike, this hands-on partnered workshop will help you maximize air time, optimize crisis management, and minimize probability and costs of unwanted risks, building trust and living to tie again another day. Learn our TK secret sauce and expand your rolodex of TK tips, tricks, and adaptations, or sub in your preferred side suspension upper body harness!

Things to bring:

• Your favorite swivel and rigging plate, ring, and/or carabiner system
• Standard suspension rope kit
• Water bottles, notepads/pencils, blankets, meds, snacks, or anything else you or your partner need

Prerequisites:

For any tying pairs suspending

• Basic hardpoint and suspension equipment evaluation and risk awareness
• Bondage risk awareness and anatomy/body mechanics in rope suspension
• Multiple transitions in suspension including side-loaded and inverted
• Side-loaded box ties, or any alternative upper body harness you can both rock in side suspension
• Following instructions and asking for help while suspending, both from instructors and partners
• Communicating and managing any required adaptations with your tying partner

For those rigging

• Managing and handling multiple uplines in suspension
• Tying and loading non-collapsing suspendable single columns and at least one solid upper body harness that you can tie quickly and securely with consistent and accurate tension and placement
• Making all adaptations required for your tying partner

For those being suspended

• Sustaining and communicating effectively through side-loaded chest ties and inversions.
• Communicating adaptations and adjustments for your body in suspension

Sam Jay & Zero Gi DISCLAIMERS

• We are not licensed instructors of anything here.
• Some things we've picked up from others, but these are our own interpretations
• Other things are our own Inventions

About the Instructors:

Sam Jay he/him, Zero Gi she/her

Zero-Gi and Sam Jay are best known for their NYC Street Shibari project and for their without-a-net high-altitude urbex suspensions, which gives them a unique perspective on suspension safety and dynamics. Around NYC, they are known for their speed, performing at Torture Garden and local burlesque/circus/aerial venues with suspension routines in under 10 minutes. They’ve been teaching and performing together since 2020, including internationally, but the dirty secret is that it’s really all just about the hot ties at home.

Before joining forces in 2018, Sam Jay picked up strong fundamentals from 2011 to 2017 in the Osada-ryu-based Melbourne Rope Dojo, where he was one of the first five students. In 2017, he decided to tie partners rather than to tie styles, and that has made all the difference. Zero-Gi caught the rope bug in 2017, and while she owes a great deal to her rich education in a broad diversity of styles from tops, bottoms, switches, and self-suspenders worldwide, she has always rooted her core practice in dedicated solo study, challenging assumptions, interrogating standard forms, and eventually developing and crash testing new ties on her own body first. Together, Sam Jay and Zero-Gi have continually pushed the envelope on a global stage, from single toe suspensions and death-defying heights to popular new ties, techniques, signature transition sequences, inclusive adaptations, and dogma-ditching expansion of the standard rope repertoire.

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