HenRigger

HenRigger is a rope teacher, performer and photographer based in Copenhagen who also works under the name Nawa Shashin. He teaches and performs as a pair with Rose, known online as _TheBoundRose, and his site presents their teaching as covering both the tying and the tied side of the rope. Classes are offered in Danish and English.

Training

His site says he is a certified student of Yukinaga Max and attends weekly classes at the Copenhagen Shibari Dojo. It lists workshops he has taken with Naka Akira and Iroha, Hajime Kinoko, Gorgone, Akechi Kanna and Kagura, Anatomie, RopuNawa and Freya, Discover Kinbaku, and Tifereth and Joan von Brook. Event listings from Embodiment Rope Space in Cape Town add Tori and the pair Alexander Ma and Natasha Nawataneko, and describe classical shibari and kinbaku education as the base of the pair’s tying. Figures for his experience differ by source: Rope Space introduced him in 2026 as having more than twelve years of experience, while the pair’s own site gives more than 17 years combined.

Teaching

According to the Cape Town listings, the pair have volunteered at Rope Space since 2025, where they teach workshops. In May 2026 HenRigger led a short “bitesize” workshop at Rope Space’s Greve venue on the gote, covering its history, safety, its variants and fitting it to different bodies. His own site lists weekly classes from beginner level up to suspensions and transitions, a three-part floor-play series, a class on floating bamboo, and workshops on semenawa, on torsion in floor and suspension work, and on Yukimura-style tying and aibu-nawa. Shorter “show and tell” sessions cover other kink topics and include one on the history of Japanese bondage. Private tuition is also offered, partly through the Copenhagen rope shop Ropes & Riggers, which the site names as its sponsor.

The site describes his approach as calm, pragmatic and non-dogmatic, built on classical education and mixing traditional influences with a more modern, dynamic style, with attention to connection, intention, aesthetics and emotional storytelling. Its stated principles are that rope can be for everybody, that some adjustment can always make a tie work, and that feedback from both partners drives progress.

Performance and travel

HenRigger and Rose have performed at the Erotic World fair and at ManiFest, where their site says they gave a water-shibari show on the main stage, as well as at private events. Their performance page describes two registers: athletic, acrobatic sets for festival and club stages, and slower, more intimate pieces for small rooms.

Embodiment Rope Space in Cape Town first hosted HenRigger in December 2024, for a performance at its third-birthday night and a floor and semi-suspension workshop. He returned with Rose in February 2026 for a performance evening, a Yukimura-style floor workshop and a partner-tying class. He also offers photo sessions; his site describes him as a qualified photographer who documents a tying session from before the first rope to after the last knot is undone.