Odys

Odys, who also works under the name RiggerOdys, is an artist and educator in kinbaku working in the United States and the founder of KinbakuOdyssey, a studio devoted to Japanese rope bondage. His website writes the name in katakana as オディス. He teaches the style of Naka Akira, known as Naka-ryū, and describes his own rope as “sensually erotic semenawa”, a phrase the Rope Podcast also used when it interviewed him in April 2021.

Lineage

The about page of his site gives a dated account of his study with Naka Akira. Odys first met Naka at a workshop in Baltimore in 2016 and then went to Tokyo over several years to study with him alone. He joined Nawa Naka Kai, the rope group Naka founded, in 2018. In 2022, the page says, Naka introduced Odys in Tokyo as his student and endorsed him to teach basic Naka style. In 2024 Odys assisted at Naka’s two-day US workshop in Richmond, Virginia, and performed with his partner Paige at Naka’s Semenawa Study Group (責め縄研究会) in Tokyo. The site’s homepage names Riccardo Wildties as another teacher, whom Odys quotes from 2021 in a blog post, and his résumé lists online classes with Wildties from 2020 and 2021. In the 2021 podcast interview he named Naka Akira and Yukimura Haruki as the Japanese riggers who first inspired him.

KinbakuOdyssey studio

According to the about page, KinbakuOdyssey was founded in 2017 as a traditional kinbaku studio built for scene videos and photo shoots, laid out as a reconstruction of a small Japanese room (washitsu). The homepage says the space takes its look from Naka’s atelier in Tokyo. The studio’s logo reads 放浪緊縛 (hōrō kinbaku), which the site translates as wandering or searching. His résumé, which places the studio in Virginia, calls him its owner and designer, and also credits him with founding NOVA Nawa, a weekly skill share he ran from 2016 to 2019.

Teaching

Odys teaches together with Paige under the name Nakastyle Study Group of DMV, which his résumé says he founded in 2023 with Naka’s permission. The education page sets out four weekend workshops to be taken in sequence, from complete beginners up to full suspension: the Prep, Gote Essentials, Kata 1 and Kata 2. Gote Essentials covers Naka’s two-rope gote (the box tie), and the two Kata weekends work through classic Naka sequences with roundtables for tops and bottoms. Private lessons are given at the studio. The page also describes Semenawa Research Meetings, monthly sessions of discussion and two tying demonstrations meant to explore what semenawa means as a shared journey rather than a pattern; it says they will resume in 2027.

Bound Lark Rope Studio in Washington, DC, listed the Prep weekend with Odys, Paige and Perseme for October 17–18, 2026, and lists Kata 1 with Odys, Paige and Kym for November 14–15, 2026.

Performance

His résumé lists performances at Nuit des Cordes in Montreal in 2018, 2019 and 2020, a 2019 performance with Feroxisaurus at Rope in the Rockies in Denver, and performances at studio anniversaries. It also lists teaching at the ACE Ohio Rope Weekend in Columbus in 2018 and, in March 2023, an L.E.A.P. workshop titled “Semenawa – what’s in a word?” and a two-day NakaStyle workshop at Oblige in Detroit.