Miss Gen 2023
It is with great pleasure that we announce that Studio Kink will be hosting Miss Gen at Studio Kink Sydney in January 2023.
Miss Gen has been tying herself up from an early age, and this fascination with bondage continues to this day. After seeing a bondage magazine in an Adult shop when she was 18 she discovered a name for what she was doing and the passion which would continue throughout her adult life was fuelled.
Miss Gen is known for her Energistic style of intimate rope which has evolved due to her previous studies as an Energy Healer. She envelops her play partner in a web of energy, enthralling audiences and making her play partner fly, even while on the ground. She considers herself a Rope Artist, not a Rigger, and together with her life-partners Georgia and –chewtoy- has performed her style of rope to critical acclaim both in Australia and Japan.
Miss Gen is a fluent speaker of the Japanese language due to living there during High School, and as well as teaching has acted as interpreter for the Sydney Rope Festival in 2013 & 2014, for Kazami Ranki, Nawashi Kanna and Kasumi Hourai during their various Australian tours, and has also interpreted in Japan at Yoi Yoshida’s event “O-Nawa 2014” where she also performed with both Georgia and -chewtoy-.
Her past influences and teachers include such Australian names as Mark DV8 from Sydney and __S__ from Melbourne, and such Japanese names as Nawashi Kanna, Bingo Shigonawa and of course Kazami Ranki.
In 2015 Miss Gen was appointed as an official Kazami-Ryu Instructor by Kazami Ranki and since then she has concentrated solely on deepening her knowledge of, and teaching of Kazami-Ryu. In 2018 she was recognised for this by being named by Kazami Ranki as the first “Shihan”, or Master Instructor/Head, of Kazami-Ryu Shibari with the responsibility of building the school throughout the Oceania region. She teaches rope classes weekly at her South East Queensland venue, Evil Girls HQ, as well as regularly travelling interstate and overseas to teach students of all levels.
Workshops
We will be running a series of Intermediate Level classes, in the format of a weekend workshop series over both Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 4pm ,and includes a break for lunch on both days.
Requirements
Ability to tie a solid, well tensioned 2 or 3 rope Gote at a minimum (arms free harnesses are also permitted)
Minimum of 7 hanks of rope for partials, 10 ropes for full suspensions. Jute or hemp ropes preferred.
If you have never suspended anyone prior, then you will be restricted to partials for these lessons.
Carabiners, a suspension ring or other appropriate hardware for both partial and full suspensions.
Weekend Workshop Series
Kazami-Ryu Half Mermaid Leg Binder
Saturday 7th January from 11am - 1pm
This version of a Mermaid tie binds the two thighs together while leaving the legs below the knee free to create shapes and/or painful positions with due to their “freedom”. Wonderful for using with both partial and full suspensions, as it has all the benefits of a hip harness built into it, with the additional of more pickup points down as far as the knees.
Level: Fundamentals - Intermediate
Uses of the Half Mermaid
Saturday 7th January from 2pm - 4pm
In this session we will look at some uses of the Half Mermaid leg binder we created in the morning, including both partial and full suspensions depending on your skill level. We can create some interesting shapes with the lower legs, twisted suspensions, or just use the untied lower legs to create painful semenawa positions.
Level: Fundamentals - Intermediate
Kazami-Ryu Strappado
Sunday 8th January from 11am - 1pm
The Kazami-Ryu Strappado tie has some interesting features which make it extremely secure but also quite “comfortable”, relatively speaking. In this session we will learn to tie this Strappado both just as a tie on its own and also as a base for partial and full suspensions. Please be aware that this tie can be strenuous on the model, especially if the model has difficulty putting their arms behind their back.
Level: Fundamentals - Intermediate
Strappado Suspension (partial or full)
Sunday 8th January from 2pm - 4pm
For our final session we will take our Strappado and use it for either a partial or full suspension depending on your individual skill level, and analyse its strengths and range of motion. Highly recommended is combining it with a Half Mermaid!
Level: Fundamentals - Intermediate