Archive for March, 2010

With Jay Wiseman and his lovely assistant at Master/slave conference in Silver Springs, Maryland in September 2009

It’s been a world wind six months since I last updated the Website with Bitty. We are together today in Montreal looking at all the pictures from the awesome recent events I have been to all over the United States.

Last September, I attended the the Master/slave Conference 2009 in Silver Spring, Maryland where I had the privileged of contributing to the community by being auctioned off to give a self-defense class to a small of group who pooled their money together to donate 1000$ to the Master/slave education scholarship fund. Jo was an auctioneer extraordinaire!

Pussy Dave was an excellent demo assistant at the Center for Positive Sex Culture in Seattle, Washington last October where I taught self defense and four other classes.

I was fortunate to attend Jay Wiseman’s class on non-violent communication. As usual, it was an excellent class for an excellent educator who draws upon first hand knowledge and experience. Bitty and I also loved the class he did on Breath Play at Floating World. Jay Wiseman is very gifted at leading and educating the attendees from basic easy to understand legal and medical fundamentals of breath play and building to an advanced higher-level of understanding. I recommend it to everyone even if you are not into breath play just so that they can have an understanding of breath play and it’s potential consequences as it also applies to many of the things that we do in BDSM.

In October, I was invited by the Center for Positive Sex Culture in Seattle, Washington. It was a busy 3 days with 5 workshops. I was surprised how well attended all the classes were. While I was there, I stayed with Marquessa, the event organizer and also, VividConfusion, provided a great service to her community by making sure that all the details were ironed out and that I was at my best to present all the workshops. I plan to return to Seattle this Fall.

After a small break over Christmas I spent a few days in Manhattan in January to do martial arts training. This event coincided with Impact, a monthly NYC staple and Rubber Ball where I ran into old friends and made new ones.

Then it was on to Dallas, Texas in February to attend South Plains Leather Fest which was great as usual. After the conference I was fortunate enough to teach a self-defense class in concert with the NLA to benefit Dallas Aids Committee. It was wonderful to teach self defense to both men and women in the dynamic LGBT & Leather community of Dallas and I look forward to returning.

I am currently in Montreal with Bitty after 4 days of intensive Martial Arts training. I have been teaching in Montreal since 2006 and always enjoy seeing the friends I have made here over the past 4 years.

During the past year I have been education coordinator for the local Master/slaves Together International local chapter and this has kept me quite busy in addition to finally finishing some big renovations on my home. More and more, I dedicate my time to the continuation of my martial arts training and as such have been leading a local practice group. I will be on hiatus for a few months as I continue that and will return to teaching classes in the BDSM community at Floating World ‘10.

Hope to see you there again this year!