Valls

Valls is a Barcelona rigger and organizer known for rope work with bamboo. The biography published with the Invasión Panda events lists Valls as a founding member of Rope Jam Barcelona, active from 2017 to the present, and describes continuous research since 2018 into shibari that combines body, rope and bamboo. Since 2019 Valls has also organized group rope meetings in forests and mountains.

Training

The same biography lists a long sequence of study. From 2016 to 2018 Valls trained continuously at Barcelona Shibari Dojo with Sensei Vic in Yukinaga Max Ryu, which the listing describes as a fusion of the Osada and Yukimura styles. In 2018 came a workshop on vertical bamboo ties, and in 2019 and 2020 workshops at Muganawa on structures, the Naka Ryu takate kote and hair ties. Later steps were an intensive at La Quarta Corda (2021), a Yukimura Ryu workshop with Harukumo and a Yagami Ryu workshop with Ludvig Rigger (both 2022), workshops with Andrea Ropes on strappado and floating bamboo (2023) and a neck-rope workshop with Petr Soptík (2024).

Invasión Panda

In May 2024 Valls launched Invasión Panda, a rope jam combined with tips on tying with bamboo, first held at Shizen Studio. The format is explicitly not a closed workshop but a participatory, playful and didactic jam: it opens with safety concepts and basic tips for starting with bamboo, moves on to advanced tips and questions, and then leaves around two and a half hours for participants either to pick one of ten challenges graded from beginner to advanced or to explore bamboo structures freely while Valls gives individual advice. It closes with optional photos of the results and a shared round of ideas. Basic shibari knowledge is recommended, and bamboo suspensions require prior experience with ordinary suspensions.

The Madrid studio Honne Dojo, near Cuatro Caminos, has hosted the format as a four-hour session, with Valls sharing tools, proposing challenges and giving personalized advice within a group dynamic meant for learning, creating and sharing.