Docvale

Docvale (he/him) is a rigger, rope bondage instructor and co-manager of Atelier Simonet in Paris. He started to perform and teach shibari in France and internationally in 2012. The psychological aspect of kinbaku being at the center of his practice, when he discovered Naka Akira’s semenawa, he decided to dedicate himself to it. Thanks to an assiduous practice with his partners, he managed to find a way towards his own style. The challenge for Docvale is ambitious: to reclaim the values and aesthetics of his predecessors while bringing his own singularities. To synthesize his vision of kinbaku, he likes highlighting the following issues and desires: revisiting the roots of kinbaku, always searching to deepen the intimate and emotional dimension while at the same time integrating and developing more contemporary techniques on security and anatomy. Today, his kinbaku is constantly evolving but always centered on his desire to better perceive and understand others. During his courses, Docvale likes to show how intense communication in ropes can be. In his teaching, he likes to think of the technique as a toolbox that must be mastered to the best of our ability in order to use it to understand our partners and communicate our emotions and intentions. Since 2018, he has been running the Atelier Simonet in Paris, recognized in 2019 as an official Naka-style studio by Naka Akira.