How to tie A 5 Turn Grinner Knot
How to tie a (UK) Grinner knot or Uni knot
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hi I'm miles from Karp school and I'm
going to show you how to tie the grin or
not in the rest of the world they call
it the universal knot or uni knot
because you can use it for a really wide
range of uses tying lots of different
materials from super thin braid all the
way up to really thick mono so I'm going
to show you here with a piece of thin
braid sort of 20 pound the kind of thing
we would use for a hook link great knot
for tying swivels on for your hook links
and so on alright if we use in braid you
can add a bit of extra strength to this
knot by actually going through the
either swivel twice with mono I wouldn't
recommend that it tends to kink the kink
them on up a little too much there we
are so we're going through twice when
you're learning these knots it's well
worth giving yourself lots of tagging to
to play with it it will make life a lot
easier as you get better you'll waste a
lot less but let's give yourself good
tooth well three or four inches there
for tying this knot okay
form a loop hanging down with the tag
end that's in my left hand here the tag
end closest towards you so not not that
way around but that way okay so the tag
end is closest towards you and pinch
that between your thumb and your
forefinger in your right hand
the swivel is sitting nicely out of the
way dangling my hand down there forgets
all about it okay
take the standing line the remainder of
the hooklink
and pull that up behind this loop and
pull it up into the pinch behind that
your that's holding onto the loop there
so that's coming around behind and
pulled up into that pinch and pull it
out straight bahut away to the left
tying knots in this way and forming a
good method that you do every time will
really really help you tie good strong
consistent knot okay we're going to take
the tag end and take it away and over so
we're coming over the over the loop that
we've formed as well as the line that we
get that we're joining on to the swivel
so that's going to come over and back
through
the loop we're going to do that once
twice three times four times five times
you can see this finger is helping to
push that little tag in through so
you'll end up with that situation there
all right always wet the knot and then
pull it down semi tight so that the
barrel that so these rolls form like
that they're not kinking over each other
but don't pull it down tight at this
stage pulling it down tight here will
make all the rest of the line really
kinky sometimes when you tie bad knot
you end up with your line coming coming
away really curled up that line has been
damaged and you've weakened it so don't
pull it down too tight and then slide it
on down slide things slide nuts down
slowly I see so many guys just giving a
good old quick pull and it slides down
too fast that creates friction and that
weakens the line okay so we're going to
pull that knot down to the swivel okay
do it nice and slowly gently then give
it a good firm pull on this standing
line not on the tag end and pull it down
like so all right and you end up with a
nice neat knot two pieces of material
over the iris we're all about spreading
the load a great deal more than just one
all the barrel rolls are neatly sitting
over each other and we're going to trim
that tag end off nice and neatly don't
leave long tag ends they tend to hook on
pieces of weed and so on and the idea
that they give you a margin of error if
the knot slips is completely incorrect
if a knot slips it will weaken it and
will probably then break so you should
have pulled it down good and tight in
the first instance and then trim the tag
end off that is the grin or not
