Sabaki 捌き
Japanese for handling or skilled control; in rope it means smooth, dexterous rope handling, and in some glossaries specifically the way rope is coiled.
Jisho glosses sabaki as handling, control or use, with examples that run from a knife or reins to footwork. Rope glossaries apply it to rope but differ on its scope. For Shibari Study it means dexterity, handling rope smoothly and skillfully, a skill not limited to bondage. Andrea Ropes’s glossary narrows it to coiling: the way a particular rope master winds rope, whether to prepare it for tying or to put it away.