This 2 day course is designed to teach a well rounded set of harnesses, safety, uplines and general knowledge to begin your suspension journey. Classes can be taken stand alone, but we recommend taking both days as a complete course. They are taught weeks apart so you can practice in between. 

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You MUST purchase tickets in advance -> Purchase Tickets Here

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Day 1 - Nov 17th - Hug, Hip and Uplines

Day 1 focuses mostly on tying skills and patterns, with specific information for both the top and bottom about safety, communication and tension. We will teach the hug chest harness (arms front and bound), the bones and rope hip harness, a dragon thigh harness, upline hangers and lock-offs, and go over the terminology, suspension types, risks, aftercare considerations, and safety topics to think about and discuss before the next class. 

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Day 2 - Dec 15th - Bottoming, Safety, Getting in the Air, Butterfly and Futos

This day will be a mix of a safety deep dive, getting in the air and a few additional harnesses / ties that are good to have down. Specifically, we will deep dive on bottoming, communication and other safety issues, how to lower someone, problem solving, practice getting everyone in the air, and then learn the butterfly chest harness (arms free) including how to add the hip loaders (or tie in other hip harnesses), cuffs, and Futos. You will get one-on-one feedback on your ties and the suspension. Plus there is time to practice and incorporate that feedback. 

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Class Details 

  Times - 10am - 5pm

  Class size - 20 people

  Price - $70 per person if classes are bought individually, $130 if purchased together

           - ticket price includes lunch 

 

Prerequisites​

• Willingness to mess up, laugh about it, breath, give you and your partner a big "thank you for showing up", then trying again. 

• Knots and Frictions - Tie a single column tie, munter, half hitch, and good to have either an X friction or a U friction with a half-hitch lock off. 

• Tying skills - you should be able to extend your rope, create a reverse tension, hold tension while you tie, manage the rope 
• Communication - both participants should have rope tying communication and pre-negotiation skills. They should have already discussed the types of touch, tying level, and physical or emotional areas that their partner needs to be aware of.
• This is a "high risk profile" activity, so most importantly we all must leave our egos at the door. 

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What to Bring

• You should bring at minimum 6 x 30ft and 2 x 15ft pieces of Shibari rope (ex. hemp, jute, nylon, posh). 

• You will need at a minimum 4 climbing rated carabiners or a suspension ring / climbing plate with the needed hardware to secure that to the provided upline straps.

• Emergency sheers, aftercare stuff, patience, mat if you want it, yoga block or other sitting cushion, slippers to go to the bathroom with, closed top water bottle 

• This series mostly requires a tying partner (the safety classes wouldn't). The high risk nature of this material make it outside our studio's risk profile to have pickup play happen at the class. If you are looking for a partner, we suggest trying to find someone either on our vetted member's Discord or at one of our rope jams.  

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Covid Policy 

We are requiring same day rapid test results, masking is optional. If you feel sick, don't risk it. Covid rules may change if cases increase.

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Food and Beverages 

Water, soda, tea and coffee will be available. Lunch will be ordered that morning and you can choose what you want that includes options for most food restrictions. More info will be provided to all ticket holders. 

 

Directions / Parking 

Plenty of Free parking

Directions will be sent out the week before the event to ticket holders (it is located in Salem MA)
 

Ride Share - Member Chats - Other Questions

Vetted WCR members have access to our Discord, which is a great place to post for ride shares. 

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Policies and Code of Conduct

It is important that you review the below documents prior to attending any Witch City Rope event. Keep in mind, by purchasing your ticket, you are agreeing to these policies and code of conduct.

Event Waiver

Members Code of Conduct

Consent Policy & Incident Reporting Protocol

Covid Policy

Refund Policy

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Schedule

    9:30 – Doors open (please be here no later than 9:45) 

Sign in, check Covid test results, students pick spots, etc.

  10:00 – Doors close - No more attendees are allowed to enter the premises.

    1:00 – Lunch

    1:45 – Wrap up lunch and get back to it

    4:45 – Class starts winding down

    5:00 – Officially done, space closes 

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Class Etiquette

- Many etiquette items are covered in the Code of Conduct  (we worked really hard on it, so give it a read)

- The class is a casual event, so please wear what you feel comfortable in. For models tight fitting clothes or just not much clothing is the easiest to tie in. For riggers, make sure your clothing does not restrict your mobility in any way.  

- We suggest you to be barefoot or wear shoes on the dance floor to prevent slipping (not just socks). 

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Tickets

- You much purchase your ticket in advance -> Purchase Tickets Here

- NEVER let money be the reason you don’t come. We are still working out how we want to do a scholarship ticket program, but if you have a deep commitment to learn and share rope but not the financial means to attend this class, please email us so we can see how we can help.