How to tie 7 Basic Knots
How to Tie 7 Basic Knots
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what's going on everyone this is Brett
McKay from The Art of Manliness calm now
a handy skill every man should have is
the ability to tie a few basic knots you
never know where you have to tie knot
whether it's tying to canoe the top of
your car or say your buddy falls down a
ravine while you're hiking a mountain
you have to rescue him you want it not
that you know it's secure it's not gonna
slip when you're hoisting them up to
safety but unfortunately today a lot of
men don't know how to tie knots and when
they do have to tie something they just
kind of make a bunch of loops and passes
a jumbled mess until they've got
something that feels secure but they
find out it isn't secure when the canoe
comes flying off the top of the car so
to help you not let that happen to you
we're gonna show you seven basic knots
that every man should know let's get
started all right so this first now
we're gonna do is the square knot our
British and Australian friends probably
refer to it as the reef knot now the
square knot is just your basic knot is
essentially the knot you tie whenever
you every time you tie your shoes it's a
good knot to use when you're tying
packages together or bundles together
but other than that it's not a really
strong knot it comes loose very easily
so I just limit to those kind of basic
household uses so let's get started on
the square knot all right to tie the
square knot just remember this one
little phrase right over left left over
right so what you're gonna do is you can
take the ride into the rope and you're
bring it over the left in the rope and
around like so so yeah something that
looks like this and you're gonna take a
left into the rope which was once your
right end and you need to go over the
right end of the rope and bring it under
and around and then tighten your knot
and you got your square knot and it kind
of looks like a square
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all right so this next night we're gonna
do is the bowline on the bowline knot is
a loop knot that's extremely extremely
secure it's it can withstand a large
amount of pressure because of this it's
a great knot to use if your mooring a
boat to a dock or if you're lifting a
buddy out of a ravine and you don't want
the knot to slip and him to go tumbling
back down so let's get started on the
bowline knot alright to get started with
the bowline knot the first thing you're
gonna do is you take one in the rope all
right you're gonna make a small loop
like so and when you make the loop you
want the standing part of the rope this
part to be underneath the loop so it
looks like that alright what do you do
now is you're gonna take the other end
of the rope up and you're gonna bring it
up through the loop like so you go
around the standing part of the rope
like that and then you go back down the
loop you just came up then you're just
gonna pull it tight like so and as you
see we have a really secure knot that
can withstand a lot of load and you have
this nice loop at the end now a cutemon
on monadic device mnemonic device that
you can use to remember that how to tie
a bowline involves rabbits all right so
what you do is you make your rabbit hole
with the tree like that this Endon is
your rabbit and so the rabbit goes up
the up the rabbit hole runs around the
tree and back down the rabbit hole about
it being you got a bowling that all
right this next now we're gonna look at
is the two half hitch knot it's a really
basic knot and it's a knot you want to
use if you're just securing a piece of
rope to pull or to a tree or to a stake
so let's take a look at it right now
alright so to get started with you half
hitch knot what we're gonna do is we're
going to wrap the rope around this
lamppost that we're going to imagine as
a mighty oak tree alright so we'll do
that and what you're gonna do now see
this is the working part of the end of
the rope and this is your standing in
the rope you're taking the working part
of the rope and you're gonna bring it
underneath the standing in the rope like
so and you're gonna make your first half
hitch by going around and down through
this loop here okay and then you're
gonna tighten it to the pole like that
and we're going to do now is you're
going to make your sec
half-hitch by bringing up bringing the
rope back around and over the standing
in the rope and down through this loop
that you've just created like that and
then tighten it like so and there you go
you got two half hitches alright we're
gonna take a look now at the top line
not taut-line knot is a neat knot
because it allows you to shorten or
lengthen a piece of rope depending on
what you need I use this knot all the
time when I'm out camping specially when
I'm tying down rain flies or dinner
flies because I've noticed in the middle
of the night your rain fly can get kind
of loose so instead of having to move
the stake in order to tighten the rope
you can just slide up your taut-line
knot and you got a nice tight line for
your for your rain fly so let's get
started with the taut-line knot alright
so we're back to our imaginary tree here
and for now we're going to imagine this
lamppost is a tent stake okay so we're
going to take the rope and bring it
around the tent stake like so so we have
our working in the rope in our left hand
and the standing that our oh and our
right so we're in take the working in
the rope and we're going to bring it
underneath the standing into the rope
like that so it looks like that and
we're going to take the working in the
rope and we're gonna bring it down
through this loop between our fingers
and the pole so we form one coil so it
looks like that we're gonna do now just
repeat that take the working end and
bring it down through this loop and form
a second coil what we're going to do now
is we're going to take this working in
the rope and bring it back towards us
and underneath the standing of the rope
like that and so you're gonna form a D
alright so you have a loop here on to
the right you take the working in the
rope and you're gonna bring it back
around and down through that loop that
you just created so now you have three
coils so just all you have to do now is
just tighten it up like so and you got
your taut-line knot and so I'd like as I
said in the intro you can slide it up
you can slide it down to tighten or
loosen depending on your knee
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all right this next night we're to look
at is the clove hitch knot it's the
clove hitch is another knot that you can
use the secure rope to a tree or to a
pole or whatever by itself it's not a
really secure knot I can't take
withstand a lot of you know heavy load
but it's an essential not to know to
begin lashings which we'll talk about in
a future video so let's get started with
the clove hitch knot okay so start off
with the clove hitch you're gonna take
your rope and bring it around the pole
like so you're gonna take your working
end and bring it underneath the standing
end just like that okay so you should
look like that you're gonna take your
working in and bring it up and around
the pole again and what you're gonna do
now is you're going to take the working
end and you're gonna bring it down
through this top loop right here okay
just like that and then just pull it
through and pull it tight so what you
should end up with is an X like that
with the rope coming out perpendicular
like so and that's a clove hitch all
right now we're gonna take a look at the
figure eight knot now the figure eight
knot is what's known as a stop or not
and what do they mean by a stop or not
well it's not that you use at the end of
a rope that you tied to ensure that
things don't come off the rope that you
might have on their figure eight knot is
also a basic knot that all mountain
climbers need to know it's what you use
to secure yourself into your carabiner
so if you're gonna be mountain climbing
you need to learn how to tie this knot
so let's get started with the figure
eight knot so to start off with a figure
eight knot what you need to do first is
make a loop like so so that the standing
in is on top of the working end your
take the working end and bring it around
the standing in like that and then
you're going to bring it up through this
hoop loop right here and then you pull
it tight and as you can see you have
kind of what a knot that looks like a
figure eight hence the name figure eight
knot and again that is a stopper knot
that you can use to ensure stuff doesn't
slide off at the end of the rope
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all right this final knot is the sheet
Bend not the sheet Bend not is and not
you used to tie two ropes together of
unequal size so let's take a look at the
sheet Bend right now all right so we
have two pieces of rope we're gonna
imagine that this rope is thicker than
this rope okay so to make a sheet Bend
you start off by making a bite or just a
loop with the rope that's thicker so
yeah something that looks like that
alright and what you're going to do now
is you're going to take the smaller rope
and you're going to bring it up through
the loop here like that and you're going
to bring it around the two ends here the
shorter end of the longer end of the
other rope okay and what you're gonna do
now is you're going to take the working
end of this rope and you're gonna bring
it back through this loop that you have
right here and then you just tighten it
up and then you have a sheet Bend
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