I would be willing to bet money that there are hundreds of videos on RU-vid about how to correctly tie a bowline! Yours is the VERY BEST! It turns out right every single time.. In 3 seconds! Yours is still the WINNER!
@speedpaintanimations4126 you're lucky. It took me a lot of sorting through stupid rabbit ran around bush and up a tree to pee. BS.... These RU-vid shorts make cool stuff a lot easier to find....... and to the point
Tip: Put a quick release loop in the last pass. If your doing something with a heavy, heavy load, that bowline is impossible to get out without pliers.
This is the best bowline tutorial I've seen..... I don't have the kind of brain that has whatever traits are required for tying knots and can only remember the 'how to' for a short time.....THIS video somehow is easy for me to remember ....Thanks very much.
The knot that saved my grandfather’s life in a storm at sea. Tying a bowline with one hand is even faster than this. The one-handed bowline was a self-rescue knot used by sailors for centuries. My father taught me how to tied it when I was a young boy. Impossible to explain in words, it was an emergency knot used when you had to hold on to something to keep from falling overboard and tie the bowline with the other hand. One end of the line is already anchored to something like with halyards and sheets. The other end is free so that gets whipped around your waste and the bowline is tied with one hand in front of you, creating a loop that won’t slip. It takes some practice but in the first day of practice, most people can do it in less than 3 seconds. I still tie bowlines this way since the conventional way takes too long and requires both ends of the rope.
The one-hand method is better for when you are physically on the opposite side of where this guy is standing. You can still do it here, but you have to position yourself differently. Also if the standing end is not anchored, you still need to use your other hand or a foot to anchor the standing end.
@@jakemccoy , Exactly. I would have to get behind the pole to do this one-handed, and the standing end would need to be anchored to something to provide enough tension for the knot to be tied that way. But using two hands I still do the same knot this way since my muscle memory is programmed to tie it like this and it’s still faster for me. 🤙🏼
@@Woodstock271 The one-hand method is the only method that stays in my memory after months of not practicing. An awkward method I can remember is better than a cool method I cannot remember.
@@jakemccoy , Same here! I originally learned the bowline in boy scouts and maybe you learned it the same way. The rabbit comes out of the hole, goes around the tree, and back in the hole. Ridiculous. And it takes both ends of the rope to tie that way, while you wrestle around trying to adjust the loop size. Once my father showed me the real way to tie it faster, I abandoned every other method I’ve seen. Now it’s just etched in my head and there’s no other way.
@@Woodstock271 Exactly, every knot that has stayed in my memory has a simple rule that is impossible to forget. The rule could be muscle memory, like the one-hand Bowline. The Trucker Hitch is another big one. It must be a series of knots that I will definitely remember. Knots have been a hobby of mine for the past 15 years, and I can quickly identify a knot tying method I will remember forever and a knot tying method I will forget. People who make knot videos should talk more about the memory aspect of knot tying.
Ha! This video made me realise just how easy this knot is. I thought something looked familiar about it then twigged what you’re doing by rolling it over and over at the start is just forming what I call a slip knot to attach to my crochet hooks! I don’t roll, just make a loop and bring the tail behind, then it’s just a case of doing the over and under bit. Yay! 😊
Thank you! I was doing it the slowest way until I saw this video, quite useful knot at work to tie taglines to crane loads, this is the fastest and easiest way to do it.
I once watched a Greek Fisherman tying up his large boat to an harbour post. He simply: Put the rope around the pos,t returning over the standing part, tthen up through loop formed. By pulling on the working end, he capsized the hitch, such that the standing part was now wrapped around the working end. The Bowline was then quickly finished, by routing the working end under the standing part ( the tree ), Then finished of by inserting it through the loop, to lay on the inside of main loop. This was extremely quick and simple. I have used this technique, ever since, for all my Bowlines onto a post, spar or ring etc. Many may possibly find the above difficult to follow, but I'm certain you will easily follow the process.
Instead of “rolling” by which was meant ‘twisting’ the rope, just do the first part of the marlin spike hitch. It’s also the first part of the truckers hitch. Knowing these three knots as well as the Farrimond hitch and the Siberian hitch was life changing for me. But none of these saved as much time of my life as the Ian knot. Ian’s the man
I have to ditto what others are saying here.. Technique is super easy to follow and replicate. I always love the knots that are basically a twist in the rope so you showing me how to do such a good knot in a technique I love to do means I will definately be using it more often now.
This technique is really cool for people who can remember it after several months of not practicing. I am not one of those people, and I know because I used to know this technique. There is a lot of visual memory required, as opposed to muscle memory. I would rather have a technique that takes 6 seconds but is locked in memory. The speed advantage is gone if I have to look it up or retie it because I got it wrong.
Great method. Similar to the one I learned. That bunny around the tree stuff .... naw. I just saw a video where sailors on a boat were trying to tie bowlines with their eyes closed. Seriously. Sheesh. I made sure of that before my first 101 lesson. And that's the first thing I was asked. Not if I could tie it instantly with my eyes closed but just if I could tie one. Something I learned after three months of daily sailing. My rolling hitch (fenders) and cleat hitch were still unreliable. So daily, frequent application isn't going to cut it. I hadn't practiced enough because I didn't have a railing or life line, or a cleat, handy. Deliberate isolated focused practice is what builds knot skills. So I bought a plastic cleat screwed it to a piece of 2x4. A few days and it was solid. So sitting there watching RU-vid, TV, sitting on the boat hanging out, practice your knots. I can tie a bowline one handed with my eyes closed but it's not that useful. I do the method where I make the loop and then pull down the upper line into the loop.... If you pull up from the bottom instead you make an Inuit Bowline. This is a bit less likely to slip, but it can be harder to undo.
At 0:17, I prefer to just insert a bight from the standing side through the center making a slipknot. Then there's no need to weave the working end over-under-over, you simply insert the working end through the loop of the slipknot. The ending is the same but I think this method is even a bit faster.
In the 1960s I learned a technique to tie a bowline with one hand as the other hand takes the strain off the rope, for example if needing to secure oneself to it while climbing.
A professional sailor told me that if you were in the water it was possible to catch a rope and tie a bowline around yourself one-handed. He did a demonstration but I have forgotten how he did it - any ideas?
Ok, but that's the 'scout' bowline. Much easier and less likely to come loose is the Dutch Naval Bowline, almost the same knot except the free end is outside the loop. The DNB is also the cowboy/rodeo bowline as used, among other things to make a 'lasso'. And none of that rabbit/tree/hole nonsense. DNB is less likely to trap your fingers if you are securing something and the rope snaps tight while you are working it.
@@dmitripogosian5084 True, but you are preaching to the converted, I sail, I climb, I am a roped-access technician; I could talk you to death about ropes/knots and their use. :-) Peace.
Bad video, the angle of view is wrong and at the 47 second mark it goes weird yet he was too lazy to re shot it. Also at the second demo he does way, way, too much 'magician hands' finessing to keep it clear. Thumbs down for me.
