GanRaptor

GanRaptor is a Polish rope performer and teacher based in Warsaw. With Slaanesh, his collaborator and co-author, he runs nawado.pl, a Polish-language bondage and shibari handbook and workshop project, and the video-course site GanRaptor.pl. GanRaptor.pl presents the two as pioneers of shibari in Poland.

Performance

According to GanRaptor.pl, his shibari shows have drawn audiences at well-known fetish and BDSM events since 2009, and the site credits his stage work with careful costumes and props and a theatrical, emotional style of staging. A 2017 Onet.pl article reproduced on nawado.pl says the pair appeared on the Polish television talent show Mam Talent in 2013. The nawado.pl chronicle records recent shows, among them several performances at the Gothic Fetish Party at the Voodoo club in Warsaw in 2023 and 2024 and a show at TOBU 2026 in Bydgoszcz in July 2026.

His work also reaches beyond fetish events. GanRaptor.pl lists rope set design for films and theater, including a production with opera at the National Theatre (Teatr Narodowy), and says his persona and work were written into a crime novel. The nawado.pl site records rope styling for a shoot in the fashion magazine Viva! Moda in 2016 and rope work for the music video “Sznur” by the band Wij in 2026.

Teaching and publishing

nawado.pl describes itself as an open-ended multimedia handbook of bondage and shibari technique, illustrated with photographs, videos and texts made by its two authors. It deliberately leaves out some decorative detail so that the explanations stay clear. The Onet article dates the website to around 2010 and says the pair started running workshops after concluding that learning in person works better than theory alone; at the time, most of their workshops were organized with the Institute of Positive Sexuality (Instytut Pozytywnej Seksualności). The chronicle records workshops in Warsaw, Kraków and Rumia in 2023, and GanRaptor.pl says the project has taught more than 2,000 students in Poland. GanRaptor.pl sells Polish-language video courses, including two Shibari Basics levels and a 2026 course presenting his revised version of the T-K (box tie).

Outside Poland, GanRaptor.pl says he has repeatedly taught as a guest instructor at a dojo in Berlin, in the Rhein-Main region, and in Copenhagen, Tallinn and Moscow. The chronicle adds a weekend of workshops at the MyShibari club in Denmark in June 2025. The site also lists workshops and training sessions for psychologists, sexologists and therapists.

Approach and media

In the Onet article, GanRaptor says the aim of tying is a shared emotional experience for both partners rather than technical display. GanRaptor.pl puts safety first among its stated values. Besides Onet, the media page of nawado.pl lists interviews with Portal Kobiet (2016), Magazyn WP on WP.pl (2017) and the TOK.FM radio program Dobry seks (2019).