Thank you for making a proper teaching video. You showed the thing you're teaching, the "final product" as it were, as the very first thing. Then... you showed how it is done. So many people get this wrong; they just start showing you how to do something, but they have not even shown you what it is they're trying to teach you.
I have been tying my bowline knot exactly like this for years. We had to do breath holds and swim down to tie knots in SCUBA (Military) school and I like to breath. So, I quickly taught myself the fastest way that would allow me to go back up for air. This is the first time I’ve seen anyone else doing it this way. Way to go!
When I used to be a tree surgeon, a running bowline was the bread and butter of the job. It was a long time ago, and I've forgotten most of the knots. This inspired me to re learn them.
One handed bowline is the best. “Why would anyone need a one handed bowline,” I asked my scoutmaster. He said, “You don’t want to let go of whatever you’re holding onto on the side of a cliff.” I still remember that knot 40 years later.
Except rock climbers almost never use a bowline - or any knot for that matter - in a situation where you need to hold on with one hand. We only bowlines when setting up a top-rope anchor from a tree. When setting up an anchor while lead climbing, the most we'll be tying is a figure-8, clove hitch, or simple overhand knot.
@@danstheman33 I've seen it used, doubled, by climbers while lead climbing, tied to the harness instead of the figure-8. As they say, less safe but way easier to untie.
Nephew in cub scouts learning this. I got to impress him with the one handed bowline. Basically your body takes the place of the tree in this video and you kinda wrap your arm around the line to make the knot. I'm sure there's a video out there. Damn I miss the days where all I had to worry about was tying knots lol
When I was working towards my ordinary seaman's ticket. The bosun wouldn't sign our ticket unless we could tie a bowling with our eyes shut and behind our backs !
The lightning method is great, especially for non-critical applications, but it's very easy to get an 'Eskimo bowline' or a 'left-hand bowline' (or both, a 'left-hand Eskimo bowline') depending on the exact orientation of forming the initial loop and bight. In fact, you're more likely to tie one of these variations, which all still work but are often less ideal, than the standard bowline. So if you want a standard right-hand bowline, often the lightning method will just waste time and take longer. And again, I say that as someone who loves the lightning method
Bowline = The Nautical Line will break before the Bowline Knot gives out and the Bowline Knot can be taken apart easily, after high pressure load (Nautical Line) has been put on it.
This is the “self-centering” variety. I used to tie this, but often i would end up in an odd position and would get a bit turned around and i was shown a better way. I start by tying an overhand knot and pulling on the dead-end. Then i just go around the running end and back through opposite to whichever way the dead-end passed through. I never get confused like that.
This method is good. However in a lot of situations on boats the end of the rope/line you showed making the first loop with your two fingers would be under load. Hence your fingers would either be severed at that point or it wouldn’t even be possible. Correct me if I’m wrong.
The guy who showed me this method called it an equalizing bowline, because you can slide the knot back and forth along the line to center it over a bucket or scaffold hitch before rolling over the last step to complete it. Local 7 Boston
The more specialized the military units I served in the more knots I had to learn until it's a competition between the old timers who knows more knots. I forgot them all
fun fact. the bowline is the same knot as the sheet bend, and so it can be used to tie two lines together. it's also the same knot used to make shrimp nets. you tie it from the other side so it's different how you do it but the result is the same knot.
If you're saying that for a proper bowline the loose end points back in the same direction as the other end, nope, you're wrong. That's either a different knot, or an enhanced bowline with an added knot of some sort.
That's pretty elegant, but I learned a faster way as a young apprentice in the Navy. Too bad I can't show you, but basically you tie an overhand, and in a blink, a bowline.
It has to be backed up with a a second knot or it will untie. Its obvious in the pic. for years it was the standard tie in for climbers, with a back up knot. Now a figure 8 is used.
Was a staple in the fire service until they changed to the figure 8 knot…..was told the Bowline loses up to 50% of its strength at the knot…..I don’t know, but the bowline was much quicker and easier to do
The retraced figure 8 on a bight is faster for most people to tie than a bowline, and it has the added advantage of being able to attach a human to it without killing them. A notable upside over the bowline ;-)
Not "the quickest". I saw a dude who could hold the rope in one hand, slap the post, and a bowline would be tied around the post. No idea how it did it. It was like a magic trick.
I've seen a method called a flying bowline, but it isn't a true bowline. The flying version is harder to untie under load, and tends to jam. A bowline is as easy to untie as it is to tie.
@@rong1924 I just looked it up, and wow, that's it. Thanks for sharing. So I guess you're doubling down on the magic one handed bowline eh? Well that sounds pretty impressive. You should have shaken the secret out of him. :-)
King of knots? Nah. But a great useful knot, for sure. For a loop knot i would nomiate the alpine butterfly. I would call this the capsize method, as you form the basic configuration then capsize it. Only works around an object though. There are many other ways to tie this. Some i have mastered. Some, like the flying (tugboat) bowline i have not. 1:04
This method is not good enough. Everybody can do a bow knot on land, without tension, without mouvement. A good method must be possible in all condition of sea, of mouvement and when the rope gives shocks.
@@elimanjarrez5250 Yes but it's not easy to explain! Usually I show it. And when sailors see it they adopt that way of doing. To give an idea it happens in three steps, the first is to be ready, the 2 and 3 being quick. Imagine the standing end coming to you from the mast, a bollard, from nothing... You take it in your left hand. the rope turning in front of your belly, and going away from you in your right hand. The first step in just to put that running end on top of the standing to create the size of loop you need. The second step is difficult to explain but basically it's to have your right thumb under the crossing point and rotate your right hand of 180 deg, your thumb finishing on top. This create in a fraction of second the "well" and the "snake" getting out. Step 3: going on with the mouvement the running pass back of the standing and back in the "well". Long to describe but a second for doing. The big advantage is that you don't have to wait with the "well" in one hand with the rope having tension or mouvement . When it's the right moment, it's a 1 - 2 quick mouvement and the knot is done. Hope it's clear (enough) ;-) !
@@elimanjarrez5250 I found a video, but youtube cancel the url in an answer, so don't do a simple copy paste, add dots and remove the blanks! www youtube com / watch?v=ozskWrDM-F4 It's at 1:45. 👍
Great knot and great video BUT far from the king of knots. They loosen in strong gusty wind and are very difficult when completely frozen. Not for rigging sling loads with😅 rotorcraft
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Thank you for making a proper teaching video. You showed the thing you're teaching, the "final product" as it were, as the very first thing. Then... you showed how it is done. So many people get this wrong; they just start showing you how to do something, but they have not even shown you what it is they're trying to teach you.
That's a pet peeve of mine - like how do I know I want to watch your video if I don't know what it's about?
I have been tying my bowline knot exactly like this for years. We had to do breath holds and swim down to tie knots in SCUBA (Military) school and I like to breath. So, I quickly taught myself the fastest way that would allow me to go back up for air. This is the first time I’ve seen anyone else doing it this way. Way to go!
When I used to be a tree surgeon, a running bowline was the bread and butter of the job. It was a long time ago, and I've forgotten most of the knots. This inspired me to re learn them.
One handed bowline is the best. “Why would anyone need a one handed bowline,” I asked my scoutmaster. He said, “You don’t want to let go of whatever you’re holding onto on the side of a cliff.” I still remember that knot 40 years later.
Except rock climbers almost never use a bowline - or any knot for that matter - in a situation where you need to hold on with one hand.
We only bowlines when setting up a top-rope anchor from a tree.
When setting up an anchor while lead climbing, the most we'll be tying is a figure-8, clove hitch, or simple overhand knot.
@@danstheman33 this is more of an emergency situation. Slip and slide down a hill / cliff / etc. not a planned expedition
@@danstheman33 I've seen it used, doubled, by climbers while lead climbing, tied to the harness instead of the figure-8. As they say, less safe but way easier to untie.
learn something today. I've always tied this knot the old way I was taught. Thank you for simplifying this.
Best video on this I’ve ever seen. Mine are done in a rather mechanistic and less efficient fashion. This is my new way of tying them!
Nephew in cub scouts learning this. I got to impress him with the one handed bowline. Basically your body takes the place of the tree in this video and you kinda wrap your arm around the line to make the knot. I'm sure there's a video out there. Damn I miss the days where all I had to worry about was tying knots lol
Love this. Very elegant method. And fast as hell.
I've never had the bowline click till I saw this!
That’s a great knot option. The first loop is what I use for a truckers hitch. This can work well at the dead end.
I'll stick with how I learned it in the Navy. Can't teach an old dog new tricks. LOL
I still like my rabbit coming out of its hole, running around the tree and back in method…
Depending on the situation. This is good for climbers.
Brilliant, I’ve used the rabbit line but sometimes get it wrong… this is more intuitive to me, switching methods immediately, great tip, thanks!
You’re Super! I follow all your knots, very good presentation!
Awesome! Thank you!
Pretty neat, pretty neat. But the ominous music makes me feel so bad for that stick, poor thing never saw it coming.
When I was working towards my ordinary seaman's ticket. The bosun wouldn't sign our ticket unless we could tie a bowling with our eyes shut and behind our backs !
If it’s behind your back and out of sight anyway, isn’t it even harder to do with your eyes open?
Eyes closed and behind your back seems redundant, no?
As junior seaman, we were taught to tie a bowline in the dark and with our hands behind our backs .
That is awsome!
It will be difficult to forget the “out of the hole around the tree and back in he hole”
The lightning method is great, especially for non-critical applications, but it's very easy to get an 'Eskimo bowline' or a 'left-hand bowline' (or both, a 'left-hand Eskimo bowline') depending on the exact orientation of forming the initial loop and bight.
In fact, you're more likely to tie one of these variations, which all still work but are often less ideal, than the standard bowline.
So if you want a standard right-hand bowline, often the lightning method will just waste time and take longer.
And again, I say that as someone who loves the lightning method
Nice. I use a variation on that that's about as fast. I've never liked the rabbit method.
Bowline = The Nautical Line will break before the Bowline Knot gives out and
the Bowline Knot can be taken apart easily, after high pressure load (Nautical Line) has been put on it.
The Beatles for always! That is, Ashley with his book of knots.
This was life taking!
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This is the “self-centering” variety. I used to tie this, but often i would end up in an odd position and would get a bit turned around and i was shown a better way. I start by tying an overhand knot and pulling on the dead-end. Then i just go around the running end and back through opposite to whichever way the dead-end passed through. I never get confused like that.
thank you so much! i saved it in my favorites for future use
quick & easy way even I can remember now👌
Very useful
Glad you think so!
This is how I learned to tie a bowline. You can also pull the slack off before tightening the knot.
me just learning to tie this knot, stumbles on this video 'what witchcraft is this?'
I suggest practicing the "beginner's way" first. This way it's easier to follow and understand what it should look like.
Working bridges you have to be able to whip a bowline on yourself quickly and with one hand. Anyone have a video of that?
Very good, thanks!
I do enjoy the snap bowline.
About to tie a few myself, once I have all the camping gear packed
I've seen a few videos on this and this one works AND is easy to remember!
Very interesting technique. What type of rope is used here?
This method is good. However in a lot of situations on boats the end of the rope/line you showed making the first loop with your two fingers would be under load. Hence your fingers would either be severed at that point or it wouldn’t even be possible. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Only a problem if both ends are under load. As long as one end is free, you can make this know like this.
Very easy knot to do ➰
Yes it is!
The guy who showed me this method called it an equalizing bowline, because you can slide the knot back and forth along the line to center it over a bucket or scaffold hitch before rolling over the last step to complete it. Local 7 Boston
Yes, brother. Used it as a firefighter when tying various objects to hoist up onto a roof.
The more specialized the military units I served in the more knots I had to learn until it's a competition between the old timers who knows more knots. I forgot them all
i like it .
mind blown
I saw an oil rig hand that could tie one quicker with a one inch rope. Hell i still cant tie one right most times.
Thats a great way to do a bowline faster, however how conducive is it with a longer rope ? Example (5-6ft
fun fact. the bowline is the same knot as the sheet bend, and so it can be used to tie two lines together. it's also the same knot used to make shrimp nets. you tie it from the other side so it's different how you do it but the result is the same knot.
Brilliant ❤
kinda like what I did for sapper school. Them SI's never seen anyone tie a double loop fig of 8 like me. Trust
Well that works well
Liked and subscribed!
Proper bow the loose end comes back toward you !
If you're saying that for a proper bowline the loose end points back in the same direction as the other end, nope, you're wrong. That's either a different knot, or an enhanced bowline with an added knot of some sort.
Proper bowline is exactly as shown in the video. If you want the "loose" end coming toward you, stand on the other side of the tree after you're done.
Love that. You can do it with your eyes shut.
That's pretty elegant, but I learned a faster way as a young apprentice in the Navy. Too bad I can't show you, but basically you tie an overhand, and in a blink, a bowline.
How do you undo it?
Turn it over, and break/ snap the loop backwards.
now that's the way i might actually remember
It has to be backed up with a a second knot or it will untie. Its obvious in the pic. for years it was the standard tie in for climbers, with a back up knot. Now a figure 8 is used.
Bowline does not need to be backed up
After watching this several times, I've decided to give up trying to understand it.
great
We need a knot-tying speed Olympic event.
What's the "rabbit goes around the the tree and back down the hole" version called?
so good
What is the name of this type of rope? I want to buy it.
Pretty much the one handed bowline we used climbing.
Insane!!!
It's certainly faster than the way I do it ... sending the rabbit around the tree and all.
I am still stuck on the old “rabbit ran out of the hole, around the tree and the back in the hole” method.
Was a staple in the fire service until they changed to the figure 8 knot…..was told the Bowline loses up to 50% of its strength at the knot…..I don’t know, but the bowline was much quicker and easier to do
The retraced figure 8 on a bight is faster for most people to tie than a bowline, and it has the added advantage of being able to attach a human to it without killing them. A notable upside over the bowline ;-)
Serial killers: "Mmmhh! Interesting."
😂 how did u know.
Hi
Nice - now let me see you do that to a 5” rope
need a loose bowline? Just tie it this way around your foot :)
Little brown eel swims into the hole…
Why call it the “King of knots”?
Not "the quickest". I saw a dude who could hold the rope in one hand, slap the post, and a bowline would be tied around the post. No idea how it did it. It was like a magic trick.
I saw a bloke who could make coins disappear right in front of your face. No kidding, he was a consultant to casinos.
I've seen a method called a flying bowline, but it isn't a true bowline. The flying version is harder to untie under load, and tends to jam. A bowline is as easy to untie as it is to tie.
@@atrowell I believe the flying bowline is a “perfection loop”.
ABOK 1017
@@rong1924 I just looked it up, and wow, that's it. Thanks for sharing. So I guess you're doubling down on the magic one handed bowline eh? Well that sounds pretty impressive. You should have shaken the secret out of him. :-)
I did too, his name was Macgyver.
Where are your people now?
Not the quickest, I do it quicker with a different method 🤷🏾♂️
King of knots? Nah. But a great useful knot, for sure. For a loop knot i would nomiate the alpine butterfly.
I would call this the capsize method, as you form the basic configuration then capsize it. Only works around an object though. There are many other ways to tie this. Some i have mastered. Some, like the flying (tugboat) bowline i have not. 1:04
Prussik ftw. Or the sheep shank.
wrong....
The Bowline is a very handy knot suited to particularl tasks but it is a weak knot and has severe limitations. Certainly not the king of knots.
HAHAHA. So many experts on here. Get a clue nerd
No no not the quickest, too confusing and complicated.
This video is the tits!! 👍🏻
Not the quickest.
Hard disagree. Going kalmyk loop all the way. The bowline places the tag or tail directly into the work zone or into the loop.
Most of the time the tail is. But as he just showed. You can do the left handed bowline. And keep the tail out
This method is not good enough. Everybody can do a bow knot on land, without tension, without mouvement. A good method must be possible in all condition of sea, of mouvement and when the rope gives shocks.
Do you have a recommendation for a better way?
@@elimanjarrez5250 Yes but it's not easy to explain! Usually I show it. And when sailors see it they adopt that way of doing. To give an idea it happens in three steps, the first is to be ready, the 2 and 3 being quick. Imagine the standing end coming to you from the mast, a bollard, from nothing... You take it in your left hand. the rope turning in front of your belly, and going away from you in your right hand. The first step in just to put that running end on top of the standing to create the size of loop you need. The second step is difficult to explain but basically it's to have your right thumb under the crossing point and rotate your right hand of 180 deg, your thumb finishing on top. This create in a fraction of second the "well" and the "snake" getting out. Step 3: going on with the mouvement the running pass back of the standing and back in the "well". Long to describe but a second for doing. The big advantage is that you don't have to wait with the "well" in one hand with the rope having tension or mouvement . When it's the right moment, it's a 1 - 2 quick mouvement and the knot is done. Hope it's clear (enough) ;-) !
For anyone wondering, the word “mouvement” is French for arrogance
@@elimanjarrez5250 I found a video, but youtube cancel the url in an answer, so don't do a simple copy paste, add dots and remove the blanks! www youtube com / watch?v=ozskWrDM-F4 It's at 1:45. 👍
So post a video….
it's amazing to notice how many times people loose the opportunity to keep their mouth shut
Great knot and great video BUT far from the king of knots. They loosen in strong gusty wind and are very difficult when completely frozen. Not for rigging sling loads with😅 rotorcraft
I’m afraid knot 🪢 😳😳🫠🫥✨