Precipice
Sydney rigger and co-founder of Studio Kink in 2015, known for a clean, methodical style centered on dynamic suspension and for partial-suspension intensives drawing on his study in Japan.
Precipice, who also appears as Precipice Malum on event listings, is a rope rigger, educator and performer in Sydney and one of the founders of Studio Kink. The studio’s own page says it was formed in 2015 as an educational cooperative by Mark De Viate, Aleni De Viate, Lani De Viate, Nawarei and Precipice, and its team page lists him as a co-founder and as an instructor there from 2015 to the present.
Style
Studio Kink’s team page describes his rigging as clean and methodical, centered on dynamic suspension and paired with subtle mental techniques, so that the rope works on the mind as well as the body. A 2024 event listing adds that his interest lies particularly in the mental side of BDSM and that he has studied rope in Japan; Studio Kink’s own course page says his partial-suspension teaching was heavily inspired by that time in Japan, without naming his teachers there.
Teaching
According to the 2024 listing, he has taught regular classes and weekend workshops since 2013, and the team page says those classes have covered a range of subjects and levels. His partial-suspension course at Studio Kink was offered as an introductory and an intermediate day, built around four themes the course calls immobilize, expose, control and play: rope mechanics and safe line management first, then body mechanics, then adding a power-exchange element, and finally progressions that combine them. In the intermediate class he demonstrated the exercises on his co-presenter.
He has also taught the format outside Sydney. In September 2024 the Melbourne organizer Sacred Primal Arts hosted a seven-hour Partial Suspension Intensive with him at Moss Studios in Brunswick, aimed at riggers and models with some prior workshop experience and noting that no exercise was compulsory. In the OzBound 2019 class list published on Studio Kink’s site, he was listed for two advanced classes: Restrictive Suspensions, on limiting a model’s movement in suspension for a stronger psychological effect, and Vertical Bamboo, a bamboo suspension in which the pole is turned upright.