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Friday, June 7th: Hojo Logic & Modular Tying
A four hour hojo-cuff extravaganza with something for all levels. “Hojo Logic” will be covered in the first two hours for participants of all levels. The following two hours will cover “Modular Tying” for suspension-ready pairs, and more beginner tying pairs are encouraged to stay and audit the class. Pairs wanting to participate for all four hours should meet the Modular Tying pre-requisites and be in attendance for the first two hours of the class. All tickets include access to both halves, however only suspension pair include the opportunity to suspend in the second half of class.
Part One: Hojo Logic – $100 per tying pair
The hojo cuff is an important tool in any riggers tool box. It’s infinitely useful, showing up often in both patternless floorwork and high level suspension harness patterns. It requires excellent tension management and rope handling skills. The endless possibilities for its application means that newer and more experienced riggers can look forward to building a skill that will offer them hours of practice, challenge them creatively, and improve their rope across the board. This course will start from the basics of what a hojo cuff is, will use hojo cuffs to recreate familiar bondage forms, and will end with free-form applications of hojo cuffs. Tops and bottoms will be taught to equally, as this class centers the unique person in rope over dogmatic tying techniques.
Pre-requisites: Tops should know how to tie a sturdy single column tie and have some basic comfort handling rope/tying people to attend. It’s ideal that bottoms have some experience being in rope.
Part Two: Modular Tying – $125 per tying pair
An advanced workshop exploring minimalist forms as a starting place, and considerations for building more robust structures in-air. This class is a step-through class of a pre-baked suspension sequence, and students will be offered creative prompts and suggestions for utilizing the same logic as a take home exercise.
Pre-requisites: Participants should be comfortable with suspension techniques and open to exploring minimalistic suspensions.
Participants must attend part one of this class.
Saturday & Sunday: Box Tie Intensive – $300 per tying pair
Learn the box tie with fuoco in this weekend intensive that takes a bottom-centric approach to box tie education. Each tying pair will learn about the anatomy of box tie and how to tie the arms to the body in a way that best suits each anatomical form. We’ll cover stemmed vs stemless box ties for different anatomical forms, cinch modifications, and third ropes appropriate for each box tie form. We’ll also cover stretching, strengthening, and general body care for the box tie form. Riggers will leave the series knowing one box tie pattern optimally-suited to their tying partner, as well as having been exposed to other patterns and the rationale for various modifications. Bottoms will leave with a more in-depth knowledge of their body in box tie, and the language to communicate with other tying partners the details of the harness that suits them best.
Tying pairs must commit to the series together. As we will not be learning one pattern or another, but rather learning to tie the best box tie for each bottom, it is imperative each duo attend the weekend together. This weekend is ideal for folks who have some familiarity with box tie already, but who struggle to find a version of the tie that feels safe/sustainable. We’ll discuss hypermobility, inflexibility, general pain and instability in box tie.
While fuoco will do her best to address the unique needs of all bottoms, bottoms with injury histories that prevent them from feeling comfortable in boxtie position may not have their specific issues addressed (i.e. if your question is a doctor-question, consult a doctor).
Pre-requisites: This class is best suited to tying pairs who have some familiarity with a box tie form already, as the conversation will be sometimes theoretical and step-through instruction won’t be offered.
Instructor Biographies:
fuoco (she/her) began her rope journey as a bottom in Phoenix in 2012 and shortly thereafter moved to London, where much of her early rope learning happened. Upon moving back to the US, she began presenting at cons and intensives around the country sharing her love of rope. As an educator, she’s decidedly non-dogmatic in her approach to teaching. Her classes aim to help bottoms to better understand their bodies in movement, and to offer riggers the knowledge to adapt their tying to the unique needs of their partners.
When she’s not doing rope, fuoco is a professional acrobat. Her dedicated study of the mechanics of the body make her especially interested in developing more comprehensive education for bottoms informed by these practices. She’s also a leftist who believes that kink is inherently political. She strives to bring her politics, her values, and an accountability for those values into her teaching spaces. She lives in Northampton, MA on Pocumtuck land.
Wren (she/her) is an artist, photographer, content creator, and host of the Shibari Study podcast.