How to tie A Ball Knot
Detailed Tutorial On How To Tie A Monkey's Fist Knot
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let's have a go at tying a monkey's fist
let's tie this knot first of all I want
to put a stopper knot on the end of my
rope and I'll do that just by tying and
overhand knot just pulling it tight and
work it as close to the end of the rope
as you can and then we just want to lay
that across our palm with they're not
facing down here and we're going to take
three and a half wraps around our palm
three and then a half one two three and
this is our half wrap I've just tuck
that between my index finger and my
middle finger and if I rotate it to the
knuckle side I want to tuck this down
through those loops and just pull it all
the way through now I want to start
wrapping in the opposite direction so
that's going to come back through my
index finger in my middle finger so it
should look like that and I'm gonna
gently take this whole bundle off my
hand
careful will not interfere with the
wraps and I'm gonna take three more
wraps going this way working from left
to right that's two that's three
just count the reps one two three and
now I want to rotate this bundle 90
degrees so the stopper knot faces you so
there you are stop a knot from beyond
the bottom left now and I want to take
the end of my rope
and I want to tuck it up through this
bottom loop here but I don't want it to
come out that bottom loop I want it to
come out this top loop here so it's got
to run diagonally through the bundle
through the bottom one about the top
tear diagonally going through I just
want to pull that all the way through
and now I want to take three wraps
around these three strands not the whole
bundle just these three strands and I'm
going to work from right to left in this
case so I'm going to dive back down
through that loop and then up again
through the top loop here and a way our
first wrap and just be careful not to
cross strands up when you're working
through here because it's going to be
very difficult to uncross them later on
when you're trying to tighten the whole
knot up so this is our second wrap see
that we'll make a cross band I want to
take that over to the other side then
this is our final wrap and come up
through the top here and that is
basically our monkey's fist done in its
loose form now we want to rotate this
bundle until the stop I'm not is at the
top
just like that and you'll see there's
our original four wraps one two three
four or the three and a half and now
you'll see where that half wrap
disappears because I'm gonna push that
knot through and tuck it into the center
of the bundle there so that's where that
half wrap disappeared to and now I just
want to pull or start pulling this whole
thing tight so just notice whether or
not went and then follow that strand
along and just start pulling it tight
follow it along and pull and just keep
following this whole thing along make
sure that none of the strands cross as
you gently manipulate this knot tight so
after we've done our first three you
notice that it won't exit out this
bottom thing because it dives through
the knot and sometimes you can't really
locate it very easily just give it a
gentle tug and you see it's coming out
here so I want to pull it from that side
the opposite side of the knot now we can
do the same thing tighten up the next
three loops and this this time we're
working from left to right to tighten
these up
and then
again this is gonna dive through the
center of the knot so I just give it a
gentle pull and find my exits which is
over here and then pull that through
make sure it's nice and neat and then we
can continue along tightening the last
three loops up always making sure that
none of the strands cross almost there
just type this one up that's the last
one then you are you should have you
finished monkey's fist
