German Fetish Ball Weekend, 2009

May has become a month of extreme’s for us, mainly me. On the high, a lot of great events that we have been to and on the low an annoying stomach fly during one of these events. And this is the event that I want to give you a short review of, the German Fetish Ball Weekend (GFB).

Unfortunately for me a few days before we had to leave to Berlin, where the party weekend was held, I got sick, really sick and until the end of the last day that we had to leave I had a fever and diarrhea. Since I already was feverish for a few days I assumed it should be over any day. So instead of cancelling the event I decided to gamble the fever would be gone the next day.

Cancelling would be bad for us, but not in the least for the GFB, RopeMarks was booked for the two day fetish fair for a number of shows and demo’s and we were booked for the the Ball (the big party of the weekend) to be the main act on the main-stage. This main-stage show was not just us, it was together with Kumi Monster and appropriately titled “Kumi vs RopeMarks”. More on that later.

As you can imagine the six hour trip to Berlin became a almost nine hour trip because of the numerous pitstop we had to make because of my diarrhea. You do not want to know how dirty some of the toilets are that you find in parking-places next to the German highways; and, you don’t want to know how dirty some were after I was finished there 🙂

The next day my gamble turned out right, the fever was gone, only my diarrhea was now in the way of completely enjoying the event. With good hope (and a roll of toilet paper 🙂 we headed to the fetish fair. As usual with buildings that host events in Germany they are beautiful and usually very characteristic, so was this. I won’t try to describe it (I can’t), just check the GFB site for pictures. The fair itself was a big three floor event that had everything you can expect from a a fair and as extra an outside barbecue and bar.

Our shows/demo’s were in a big “pit”, surrounded by windows for people to enjoy the going-ons. On the first floor the people could look down into the pit to enjoy the show, and the brilliant thing, there was a fully operational electric industrial sized crane that reached all the way up to the high arched ceiling of the first floor. If I had to guess that would be 15 meters up, if not more.

For our first demo we decided on something simple, but as often happens, once I get started with ropes and props I can’t seem to stop myself 🙂 The result was a very cool play session with one of the highlights Chantal hanging upside-down about 5 meters of the floor. One other interesting thing we found out is that Chantal is not that comfortable with big heights, her screaming through her panel-gag that I should not go higher made that very clear 🙂 Our second demo of the day was more technical, where I made Chantal “roll around” in the air, going smoothly from position to position.

That night the GFB Weekend had a few parties, we were guests on the Play Party in the Avalon location. Again a beautiful location. We did go but left very quickly, I just was not up to it yet.

The second day I woke up feeling very good and it looked like my bowels passed its content at a more regular speed now. Being bold we went to the fair without an extra roll of toilet paper 🙂 but first we had to stop by the location of the Ball to rehearse for our main-stage show with Kumi. Actually I should say, Chantal rehearsed with Kumi since in this particular show I was not needed on stage. After rehearsal we went to the fair to perform our last show for the fair, did some shopping ourselves, enjoyed the sun on the outside terras and watched people dressed up in rubber parading around. Life’s good.

In the evening the big Ball of the German Fetish Ball weekend took place in the Matrix, another beautiful and perfect location for a versatile fetish event. When we entered the first thing that we noticed can be described in one word; SHINY! We were quite late, there already were a lot of people wearing a big variation of rubber clothing and they were all super SHINY, it was a beautiful sight 🙂

After the fashion show it was time for “Kumi vs RopeMarks”, the main show with a “paintress”, her “annoying helper” and bondage. Without giving to much away, it was one big mess and I know at least a few people were careless enough to unwantingly participate in the show 🙂