Vinciens

Vinciens is a rope teacher in Vienna and a licensed instructor of Osada-ryū, the tying system developed by Osada Steve in Tokyo, and a co-founder of Kinbaku Studio Vienna (also known as the Hasenstall), where Vinciens teaches. Most public information comes from the studio’s own pages and from those of the Swiss Osada-ryū dojo Secret56.

Kinbaku Studio Vienna

According to the studio’s home page, Vinciens and Kenyade founded Kinbaku Studio Vienna in 2011. Belial_X teaches alongside Vinciens, supported by volunteers and long-term students; the studio’s team page says Belial_X first came to rope at the studio in 2011 and names Vinciens as one of Belial_X’s two teachers. In the studio’s classes Vinciens teaches Osada-ryū content, while Belial_X teaches Barkas Kinbaku, and the studio says it is not dogmatic about style. Its regular program includes the weekly Kinbaku Tuesday practice evening, rope jams and private lessons, and Vinciens teaches the four-hour beginner partner module “First Contact”, which introduces the history of shibari, anatomy and safety, rope handling and a first set of Osada-ryū ties, and which the studio runs regularly.

The official Osada-ryū dojo list names Vinciens’s Shibari Dojo Vienna, licensed since 2011, and describes it as offering individual coaching and group training. On the studio profile, Vinciens names Osada-ryū as the style chosen for tying and teaching, and describes it as a reproducible system that breaks apparently complicated ties into simple, reusable basic forms, lets practitioners compare their skills through graded certifications, and places as much weight on how one treats the partner as on technique. The profile divides it into two main strands: semenawa, focused on precise execution, and shūchinawa, focused on evoking emotions in the partner and responding to them. The workshops are taught in groups of at most six pairs or one to one.

Approach

The profile frames shibari as a way of communicating with another person through rope rather than simply restricting movement, and lists caressing, protecting, decorating, causing pain and carrying emotion among the things Vinciens does with rope. Besides teaching, Vinciens offers private rope sessions and photo shoots, for which the profile says models, photographers and studios are available.

Role in Osada-ryū in Europe

Secret56 near Zurich describes Vinciens as the highest-ranking and oldest Osada-ryū instructor. Each year Secret56 and the Aijo Dojo hold a joint Kyu examination day; in 2026 Vinciens led it as chief examiner, setting the tasks, with Jack the Rigger and Ibinuphis also on the examining team. Ibinuphis, who now leads Secret56, names a 2012 workshop with Vinciens as one of two that set Ibinuphis’s direction. Kinbaku Studio Vienna and Secret56 also host a joint monthly online meeting on Zoom about theoretical and historical topics around tying.