10 USES of the BOWLINE KNOT 

Easy to tie, very strong, and easy to untie. The bowline knot comes in handy in so many situations. If there is one knot to know, it's the bowline.

I was very pleased to see you teach the method of tying the bowline around your waist for Rescue. If you're in cold water and your fingers are numb or cant 't see the rope due to darkness or smoke there is an easy way to tie it, even one handed if necessary. I used to teach light Rescue in the Army when Moses had the measles, and I've even taught my grandchildren how to do it, in case they should need it to save their life. Simply, pass the running end behind your back and out to your front, the running end and your wrist, is then passed over and twisted under the standing end ,never releasing the running end and comes to the inside of the loop that's around your waist, and there should now be a small loop around your wrist with the running end still in your hand. With your fingers, pass that running end beneath the standing end, and pull it back through the loop around your wrist as the loop moves forward and off your wrist and finger tips. pull it taught, and you should have a bowline around you that people can use to haul you in. It can actually be done one handed should your other arm be disabled. Most easy if the rope is a polypropelene floater. I know this sound complicated, but the knot can be tied in about 3 seconds flat, once the rope is around your body and again to the front.

You learn something everyday 😊

Love the way you explained. From Pakistan.

The only video that demonstrates the uses...Great video!

This video really is going to be hanging out in my mind, great video.

Great knot tutorials! Would love to see tutorials on other types of knots as well

Great video and the video for fastest way to tie a Bowline. I'm off boating for a week and think this will come in handy for mooring with stakes. Thanks for taking the time to logically walk through the process.

Very helpful. Thank you for the video

The first person view as you call it is a gamechanger when practising this .Thank you.

Outstanding bowline demonstration. Subscribed.

whoa, first time seeing a much easier way of tying the bowline, which is otherwise a fairly tricky knot to tie right.. and I didn't realize some of the uses either - great video!

I have forgotten how to tie a bowline so many time I can't count them. The way you showed me is unforgettable. Thanks

many knot tying videos, nice to see one showing the application of the knot

No one ever gives you uses aside from a Ridgeline. Good video

Great tips!

That's why it's the king of knots

very great video series around the boline. well done

very powerful examples about bowling,thanks

Thanks Mike👍

Really learnt a lot. Thanks sir!

Yes that has definitely happened to me haha so thx for this video! 🤙

super great video, Im subscribing

Thanks for the first person view, much appreciated.

Wonderful! This video made a subscriber out of me!

really good tip! so much faster!

Very good! Thank you.

It is good information !

But can you do it one-handed since your arm was injured and you’re in the water? And since you don’t know what arm would be injured you have to be able to do with either hand. You’re a good teacher.

I was hearing about this knot in every reddit post as a useful skill to learn i went and bought a rope just to keep practicing and master it. But now that i saw it in actual use. i never in my life been in a situation that was in need of a loose loop. All my uses of a rope is to put tension around multiple things. Every situation, i have a long rope to pull things tight together and tie them with tension and I don't like to pull the whole length of the rope through each loop.

i guess i missed something i didnt see how you jumped from the knot itself to the tree anchor. I feel like i missed a step being explained.

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Could you use a larger caribiner in place of the stick when going around the tree ?

under over round and out

Bow as in Wow and Line as in Mine. Bow Line

Is this not just a noose minus the loops?

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why not overhand knot ?

For rescue situation regular bowline knot is not safe. During the rescue there will be a lot of rope yanking which can make bowline undone especially on larger diameter ropes climbing ropes. For rescue it is better to use Yosemite finish or make Scott’s lock. Both approaches take just few seconds on top of the regular bowline tying and it is not worth risking someone’s life just to save some extra seconds.

Double sheets bend.

Practising as much as I can….It’s such a cloudy thing for me to tie…Once I go to apply the knot I blackout. It’s critical for my job on the water. I’ll keep practising

Tension knot for tent stakes, not bowline

Not close enough

Slow Down!!!

Info for everyone, ropes and water combined are extremely dangerous. Always work with a clean line principle in mind, this means nothing on the rope, knots, bags, people, nothing. Never tie in to a rope whilst in water. If you’re swimming and the rope gets caught, you’ll get pulled to the bottom and won’t be able to untie or slip it off your body.

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