Bootblacking 101 with Panda

The smell of polish, the feel of leather in your hands, feeling your most Leather self while engaging in kinky community care…these and more are the things that motivated panda to begin learning leather care more than a decade ago. In that decade, it has worked with bootblack mentors, practiced on the leather of friends, served on bootblack teams for local, national, and international events and taught bootblacking at several conferences. While it has this depth of experience now, it began primarily through self-teaching via YouTube videos and what it could glean from internet sources. That fueled the motivation to create this course - to have the accessible, clear, queer and neurodivergent informed content that it couldn’t find when it was starting out.

So - have you been itching to start caring for your leather, but don’t know how to get started? Anxious to enter the Leather scene due to fears of not being good/experienced enough? This class has been made for you! With HypnoStory behind the camera and panda teaching, this course covers everything from building your first kit to working with specific skills, working on bootblack stands,bootblack-client engagement and etiquette, nerdy information on leather, a little history and the gentle, encouraging call outs and calls to action that only a panda can provide.

What’s inside:

• 5 hours of bootblacking education broken into 15 video lessons
• Professional quality video with closed captions and full text transcripts
• 3 bonus videos
  • A kit tour of what is in panda’s personal bootblack kit
  • A video on bootblack stand etiquette as a client that you can share
  • Bootblack “Bear” Minimums (panda’s quick start guide to leathercare)
• A list of recommended video, digital and written resources, with links sending you to those sources

Ready to order?

Because we believe in making education accessible to the larger community, we are offering the series on a sliding scale basis.

The price levels are:

• Contributor (allows us to offer the financial need rate) - $160
• Standard (most people should pay this) - $110
• Financial need - $60