Ibinuphis (Markus)
Swiss rigger, photographer and Osada-ryū instructor who has tied since a first workshop in 2003, co-founded the Seilschaften rope jam in 2007, helped set up Secret56 in 2010 and has been an official instructor entitled to hold Kyu exams since 2022.
Ibinuphis, who also uses his first name Markus, is a Swiss rigger, rope photographer and Osada-ryū instructor. He co-leads Secret56, a rope space in the Zurich area, with RedRopeTiger (Amber). The facts below come from the Secret56 website and from the dojo list of Osada-ryū.
Rope career
Secret56’s team page dates his interest in rope bondage to his first workshop in 2003. In 2007 he was among the founders of Seilschaften, a monthly rope jam and gathering that still runs today and describes itself as a safer space open to all genders, with particular encouragement for FLINTA* people. He was involved in setting up Secret56 in 2010, and in the same year the rigger Jack the Rigger introduced him to photography; the page describes him today as both rigger and photographer.
Osada-ryū and Yukimura-ryū
The team page calls workshops with Osada Steve in 2011 and with Vinciens of Kinbaku Studio Vienna in 2012 the ones that set his direction, and says he has concentrated on Osada-ryū and Yukimura-ryū since 2012. In 2018 he and the Secret56 team, together with Harukumo, organized Osada Steve’s first visit to Switzerland. He received permission to teach Osada-ryū in 2019, and since January 2022 he has been an official instructor entitled to hold Kyu examinations and to train new trainers. The official Osada-ryū dojo list names him and Jack the Rigger as the licensed instructors of the Secret56 dojo, licensed since 2022.
Secret56 teaches the school’s nine Kyu levels, counting down from Kyu 9 to Kyu 1, each with its own program and an examination at the end. Once a year Secret56 and the Aijo Dojo hold a joint examination day; for 2026 the studio named Vinciens, Jack the Rigger and Ibinuphis as the three examining instructors, with Vinciens leading. The studio recommends that students be examined by an instructor other than their own teacher wherever possible.
Teaching and writing
The team page says he has led workshops and rope trainings in Switzerland and abroad. Secret56’s current program, which he runs with Amber, includes a beginners’ lab, foundation and progress labs, semi- and full-suspension workshops, private lessons and the Kyu training. With Kinbaku Studio Vienna it also hosts a free monthly online meeting on Zoom about the theoretical, philosophical and historical sides of tying, where no techniques are taught.
The team page calls him a rope nerd with a strong interest in the history of rope bondage, which shows in his collection of specialist literature and in articles of his own. The Secret56 website publishes historical pieces, such as a September 2026 article marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Osada Eikichi, whose student Osada Steve went on to develop Osada-ryū.