FASTEST WAY TO TIE A BOWLINE KNOT // 3 Quick & Easy Ways to Tie a Bowline Knot 

After watching a plethora of bowline guides, this is bar far the best. No awful music, calm instruction and even a bit of history, but definitely the best 3 ways to learn ... thanks

Best demonstration yet

Yeah, method 3 definitely, so easy and failproof, I adopted it permanently, no more rabbits holes and trees and other questions such as ''clockwise or anticlockwise'' etc. Thanks a lot!!!

That third method made tying a bowline much much easier for me. It's just easier to visualize, and hard to get wrong.

With method 3 you can fold one last bight in the running end before you put it through the loop, and create a quick-release. Very convenient. You can also tighten the loop up almost completely, then take your time positioning your running end around whatever object you have, before finishing it off. I've only been practicing for an hour or so, and I've already gotten very fast, using a twisting method similar to the one-handed tying version to create the loops.

The first couple of ways were good, but that third way knocks it out of the park!!! It also makes it easy to determine the size of the loop you need before pulling it tight. Fantastic.

I found the loop plus rabbit runs most helpful and taught me in under a minute what several other videos could not! Thank you!! (The explanation on loose / running ends will be useful in onward learning, thank you.)

These are also majic tricks! Awesome! Sometimes I have to transport people in my trunk, these are very useful! Thanks.

I always watch your video, practice it. And when the time comes to use it, can't remember... I'll keep a piece of cord with me and keep practicing hoping to internalize it. Yours is the best explained one, great work!

Just made a loop knot that didn't just slide out of itself for the first time, because now I actually understood what to do and more importantly why it's done that way. Thank you❤

Thank you for this useful and clear tutorial video. Please can you show a video on kalmyk knot and the difference between it and a bowline ?

Love it on my hoodies & sweatpanrs!

I like your way, No.3 the best as I’m very familiar with the marlin spike hitch. Thanks for sharing

Love method 3, so easy to follow - thank you!

Very nice presentation. #3 has always been my favorite. I call it the "Collapsed Slip Knot Method". Can also be used to form a Sheet Bend, which is the heart of the Bowline.

wow, the last method is the best by far of these three... I like using the "turn the ignition on" or "turn ignition" off motion analogy for creating the initial bite on the first two methods...

Love the way you explain. The rabbit helps me. Thanks

Finally did it hooorrrraaay! Thanks so much.

Awesome short instruction. Wish I'd had this tutorial in my fire academy class! Firefighters and instructors totally over complicate the Bowline...(and clove- hitch). I didn't even have anything nearby to practice with and was able to "visualize" and follow your video with an invisible rope. I would get confused and reverse / flip the P order. I have struggled with Dyscalculia. The not so well known cousin of the NCLD of Math comprehension. The term did not exist until mid 2000. So many people have it. Fractions, percentages, decimals, adding subtracting in your head..figuring out tips for servers, stock market. Impossible. I have described it to special ed teacher friends as memorizing Arabic and Mandarin combined. For me Ropes class was like HS Algebra class and I would nearly breakdown in tears from frustration. Your quick and simple explanation was easy for someone (like me) to comprehend and also a great refresher for sailing and boating. No extra words and hand gestures kept to a bare minimum. I used to tease my instructors by tying a PERFECT Tiffany Bow from our hosestraps for levity in the classroom. Mahalo!!

Watched several videos to learn how to knot the bowline knot, your explanation about making the Bowline knot was the best. Thank you so much!

Perfect. Thank you!

Number one brother!

I liked the 1st and 3rd examples. #2 ties my brain into a pretzel.

Thank you! Love method #3!

Thanks a lot for making this video! I didn't know how to tighten up the knot and this was the only video that taught me!

Best video on how to do a bowline!!!!

Oh wow, the last way is not only easier, it also makes it easier to adjust the size of the loop before tightening.

I get the last one it was better for me to understand 😅 🙏

Love the "p" method the best. Simple. Thanks

Good stuff as always. Hoping to see some instructions for the similar and highly useful "bowline on a bight" knot. Happy Adventuring.....

Loved your video. Thank you for sharing it. 👍

quick and easy, but after a history lesson.

That 3rd method is great. I never realized that a bowline is literally a Truckers hitch with 1 extra step to make it not a quick release loop

Nice video, so cool watching another person’s version! Thanks for sharing with me!

Best video in the bowline I have ever seen and I have seen a lot.

I vote for #3.

I have literally scoured the internet for methods to learn this knot- yours is by FAR the most well explained, easiest and straightforward explanation and demonstration. I cannot than love you enough - I was close to searching for “hangman’s noose” 🥴🥴🥴.

Thank you! Thank you for thinking about us beginners and explaining the different terms. You made learning this quite easy!

Useful knot!

I’ve been tying bowlines for on the job for over a decade, but I just saw someone tying one in a weird way which is the third way in your video. It was helpful. Thank you. Your second method however could use some work and become faster. You place the running end over the standing end. Then you grab part of the running end closest to you and form an overhand loop over the running end. You end up with the standing end already through your overhand loop. Then you just finish as you do in the first and second methods. Maybe you would consider that a different method.

thank you

5:40 Best

Very good

I don't know why everyone ALWAYS demonstrates tying a bowline knot "upside down"; it should be demonstrated with the rope going AROUND a fixed object, and tying the bowline TO the fixed object; that would mean the knot would be demonstrated at 180 degrees from what is shown; "THAT's" how a person should learn to tie a bowline; ... sheesh-ka-bob!!

Super useful knot.. I'm horrible with remembering knots so I'm downloading this and keeping it on my phone!

Awesome video! You do great how too’s

Thanks this is the definitive how to tie a bowline video

Rabbit comes out of the hole, around the tree and back down the hole…PULL the three T’s. The “T”ree and both the rabbit “T”racks 🌲 🐇

i love learning how to teach my son is in scouts and he loves it!!

I think I found another way to tie a bowline . Super simple and I wanted to find out if is truly a bowline .

Thankyou for the sharing

Awesome

Great 👍

5:40 at last a method i understand and i can tie with eyes closed! thank you!

Good sir! I practiced tying this knot for about 30 mins last night and just couldn't figure out why it wasn't quite right. Your tip to pinch the running end and pull at the 3:40 mark was exactly what I was missing.

I should have been patient. You explained it later, thx

Thanks sir

Thanks for video

Should show the one-hand method of making the bowline knot, such as learned in boy scouts for use when the left hand is hanging onto the line, right hand free to do the rescue method.

I like the video

I got a faster bowlinee knot just like your method 2 a little diff

How often does anyone tie rope to something from the perspective of the object being tied? The viewing angle should have the rope originating from the bottom as we often times are looking head on at the object we are tying rope to...

Method 2 is the best for me, lets you exactly measure the size of the loop you're making.

Line, it's a bowlinE like the word line with bow in front of it

🛫📖🛬 wonderful video. Good teacher skills. Thank you for your efforts. 🛐✈️

I like the video! I find it funny that all demonstrations I've seen today are l tying the knot "upside-down" that is, with the rope facing away from you. Isn't the purpose of a bowlin to tie off onto a hard point? Wouldn't you be approaching the post head-on rather than trying to reach around and tie it on the other side? Its just an observation.

Do you know there is an inside bowline which is the one you tie. An outside bowline which the end is on the outside of the loop and a double bowline which you make two loops then feed the line through.

I am the INSTINCT fan, if you remember. Very good presentation and it makes it look easy for beginners. I love the pinching. Neat. I have a 4th method that I came up with by myself during the free-time practice (I have a piece of rope with me when I travel) And this has become my most frequently used method. I can humbly share it with you some day.

What’s a lin

I'm pretty OK tying a bowline. Tried with just a rope (3/8") wrapped around nothing and pinching the working end as shown + pulling the standing end...it closes the loop instead of cinching the knot. However, when the rope is around an object like a tree, post, furniture leg etc., then pinching the working end does cinch.... Is putting the rope around an object how it was also done in this video? I can reproduce the closing loop 100% of the time when it's a "rope only" knot.

I work around boats and the woods. I use the bowline most, then the sheet bend, the clove hitch, and the timber hitch. That's about it. I never use a square know because I don't always carry a chain saw with me to remove it.

Lay the running end over the standing end. Push the running end down, rotating the hand with the running end. This forms the loop with the running end inside. Pull the running end up and around the tail of the loop and return the running end down into the loop and fair the knot.

4:18

Why is this knot so hard? All i get is either an over hand knot or a prussik loop .

Never heard someone pronounce it like this, but good vid nonetheless.

Video starts at 1:56

Just show us how to tie the knot. All that talk makes me want to change the channel

I met this slimebag once who taught me to tie a bowline in about one second.

I'm confused you call it a Bowlen Knot, at least that's how you pronounced it, but the title shows "Bow Line" as in drawing a line. Which is correct? If it's just your accent throwing me, I apologize, but I do want to know the correct name

Two minutes and no tying. I am out.

Good instructions. Too much history

Way to much talking at the first of it don't need a history lesson just show how to make the knot

I'm inclined to think that the term comes from bow line, for tying the bow of a boat. Ye Olde English spelling is probably just the way they spelt words in those days!

you could have done this video in five seconds not 8

None of those methods is the fastest method. The fastest method can be done with one hand, in one big motion, and takes less than 2 seconds. You can tie it around yourself with one hand and save your life.

Forget all that rabbit nonsense

Eight minutes to show something short? I am discombobulated.

Takes way too long to get to the point

1 and 3 are fine. Your number 2 is terrible. After you rotate your hand, the top of the rope/knot is off the camera, so you can't tell what's just happened. It's inexplicable

hahah hahah then you couldn't find a thinner string

How to hold it - 30 minutes. THEN THROUGH UP AROUND DOWN PULL DONE - 3 sec. This knot will remain elusive to me.

Not interested in facial recognition!

Dude, such an annoying video. You spend over a minute slowly describing the knot's history then you finally get to the knot and tied it super fast that I can't follow along. Why bother if you're going to do that?