Riccardo Wildties

Riccardo Wildties is an Italian rigger, rope artist and educator who works in the line of Naka Akira. Most published information about him comes from the biographies printed with his workshops, so the account below follows those texts and attributes their claims.

Path to Naka Akira

A 2023 workshop listing at Anatomie Studio in London says he came to Japanese rope bondage shortly after discovering BDSM and was largely self-taught in his first years, learning from many Japanese and Western riggers without settling on one style. According to the same text, he turned at the end of 2012 toward rope as aesthetic erotic torture, with a focus on semenawa, inspired by Naka Akira. He met Naka in Moscow in 2013 and from then on concentrated on Naka’s style. The listing says that in August 2014 he was invited to be the main event at Naka Nawakai, Naka’s private session series, the first time someone other than Naka had that role, and that in 2015 he formally became Naka’s deshi and tied a duo session with him in Tokyo. The text also attributes to Naka the view that Wildties’s rope is a particular “latin” interpretation that suits Western students and models.

The page for a 2020 event in Milan adds that he worked with Sugiura Norio in workshops in Japan, took part three times as a rigger in Naka’s private session series, and felt he had learned more from watching Naka tie than from any class. Workshop hosts in Turin and Chicago call him Naka’s ichiban deshi, or first disciple. These titles come from the hosts and the instructor’s own materials; no independent confirmation was found.

Kinbaku Luxuria

Wildties teaches a system he calls Kinbaku Luxuria. A Turin workshop listing describes it as grown out of the study of Naka Ryu and reworked technically to suit European culture, bodies and safety needs, and names classes such as The Iconic 6 and Body Lacing. The 2023 London workshop was presented by Wildties together with Red Sabbath. The system has its own certified educators: Heartland Kinbaku in Chicago says one of its instructors is certified in Kinbaku Luxuria under Wildties and that its curriculum draws on his safety, aesthetic and technical approach alongside other Japanese styles. The style’s official website was still under construction when checked in November 2026.