I’ve been tying my work boots together like that for years now. I love seeing someone else come up with a solution I thought was unique. Usually means I’m onto something lol
I have tried to learn your new way of tying the bottle knot from 2 different videos of yours, but for the life of me I can't figure it out and it has never worked. Your video from 9 years ago titled "narrated bottle knot", however, is completely clear to me and easy to follow. Funny how I seem to have a mental block for the new way.
I'm also having a LOT of issues with replicating the "New" way. I think I've gotten it kinda down, and the biggest issue with me was that (I think) there's an action that's not explicitly said (but shown in the video) during the "reversal" of the knot. Starting at 5:53, the reversal is done pushing the bight into the "window" (5:57) BUT THAT'S NOT THE ONLY THING THAT HAPPENS! in seconds 5:58-5:59 keep an eye of what happens around his left thumb/left middle finger: as he's pushing the bight through, he's bringing a loop BACK towards the ends, so much that it slips OVER another loop. It's not really visible, but It seems he's doing the same with his right middle/ring finger on the other side of the knot (You can catch a glimpse of it around 5:59-6:01. My main mistake is ALWAYS that I think the knot ends with the "reversal" but I miss the two-loops-inversion part, ending up with something that looks NOTHING like what he shows in the end. Pointers about what I keep getting wrong one time or the other: 1. The "window" to push through is not necessarily the first "crossing" of the string I see. It's kinda hard to explain, but the back of the knot (where you'll have the window) has a couple point of crossing. Try to track them and trial-and-error your way into using the correct point to open your "window". I tend to open it too "high", thus creating a failing knot 2. The knot is NOT symmetrical! It has two sides (the ones on the two sides of the bottle cap) and they look REALLY alike, but they're not identical. I've mistakenly started again expecting to end up with a perfectly symmetrical knot more times than I want to allow myself to admit (It's probably mirrored, but it's too late here to really be able to tell someone with certainty...) 3. While reversing the knot and pulling tight, remember to ALWAYS hold the bight (the one that will become the handle). I've had a couple failures where I was just about to get it right without a bottle to cinch onto and... I just pulled the bight back through and undid the knot.
@@TanakJuka WOW WOW WOW! I watched the video again at exactly the spots you mentioned and saw exactly what you described and then tried it myself and I did it right THE VERY FIRST TIME! I can't thank you enough and I hope other people who are having trouble doing this new way read your comment! Your observation of what happens during the inversion step with the 2 loops slipping over the other loops was KEY. Great observation and explanation. This has made my day :)
Years ago, I was in a store where scores of display TV's were all tuned to a hockey game; and as I walked by the camera zoomed in tight a face off... six skates filled the screen... those of the two centers & linesman. Couldn't help but notice that all six had grannies tied in them. Guess you had to be there :)
A neat way to tie the loops into the shoe laces is after the first overhand, make 2 bights: one whose working end is folded towards you and the other away (depends on how you did the overhand). Now, tuck a bight in each working end through the other's bight we flipped with and cinch it down. This gets to be really fast when you get use to it and you don't need toss as much cord around.
But have seen and used different way to tie shoe lace knot called fisherman's? I think you do a barrel knot when lacing. Since using this, I haven't had my shoelace come undone, but I'm not a runner/jogger.
Question: what do I do when I have a day where I only need that one notebook or I wanna sit to rehearse/do exercises on only one of them and don't want to carry around triple of the size and weight? From my school days I recall my problem wasn't keeping them together but minimizing the number and cumbersomeness (also I'll just vent it out here, I hated the notebooks with the coil back, they twist and bend and get stuck to the paper and even scrape your hands, on top of not sitting flat on the surface). Also damn, I thought your daughter was still a little kid from other videos, but I guess you've been doing this for years and kids grow really fast. I think asking her to assist in demonstrations on this one brings more weight to it, that knots are not only the old folk's outdated thing, that every teenager can find a use for a good knot or two just as well. I know my life would've been easier if I knew some of the knots and their applications when I was a teenager. And for sure they helped a ton now that I started growing food in the balcony. Or when I started pole fishing. Or had to transfer an extra pair of sneakers when the backpack was full. Funnily enough just yesterday I was practicing along with your bottle knot video for school start. It's fascinating how you regularly bring a new way to tie a familiar knot or adapting it to another application, combining with other knots. I was thinking I'd perhaps make an alpine butterfly on the loose ends of the bottle knot, tying it around a belt loop or something, just because I like the knot and being able to tie alpine butterfly anywhere on the rope, in the middle or loose ends, and being able to quickly remove it from the belt loop as well. And it's so easy to tie too (I prefer the double twist, figure 8 like method). Currently some of my favourite knots are those that lock in place but are adjustable like taut-line and farrimond friction hitch, they become really handy for being adjustable. Setting for example a bowline to the other end. I actually snapped a towel's hanging piece and for a moment was upset, but quickly realized that the knot world can help me. I just grabbed a shoe lace and made a farrimond's to one end, sheet bend to the other end and decorated it with iron tie with the leftover. I like it better now than as original. So thanks, all the content is very useful, I can't wait to finally have an opportunity to use automatic trucker's hitch one day, that was one of the first ones I really liked. The only problem for me with the gym shorts knot was when the rope is unorthodox in shape and also how it leaves a long tail hanging, I couldn't figure out a neat looking way to clean it. I have a suggestion, hopefully you can innovate and prototype some before it's go time: gift package ties. When christmas comes, I tie some easy normal stuff and curl the ends, but there has to be decorative knots that are really nice and work for gift packages. I'm thinking of that gift strap like flat colourful stuff, not just old twine, although twine could make a really nice theme with some old looking wrapping paper.
I like your videos and have a lot to learn from you. But the second way of tying the Alpine Butterfly that you show here is wrong, it does not actually produce an alpine butterfly. You only get a slipped overhand knot with a half hitch on top. There is a different way of tying the butterfly that I prefer, but this is not one.
im disabled i twith alot and so can drop things. my phone has a cord round it very similer to this. the back crosses a little diffrent as my camara is in the middle on the front the cord just overlaps the corner. dose not get in the way of using the phone. it kida hides the hours for the clock as thats on the top left of the screen can see the minutes it hides the percentage sign for the battery but i see the numbers still. so like (hidden 11:) 58 ______________ 99 (% hidden)
Best way I've seen to do the bottle knot.
I’ve been tying my work boots together like that for years now. I love seeing someone else come up with a solution I thought was unique. Usually means I’m onto something lol
Keep making videos! Thanks Brent!
awesome
per usual
This video is so useful-compiling some of the most practical, functional knots in one go. Thank you!
AMAZING !!!
Thank you !!!
AWESOME as usual! Thanks very much Sir. Greetings from Frace ^_^
I have tried to learn your new way of tying the bottle knot from 2 different videos of yours, but for the life of me I can't figure it out and it has never worked. Your video from 9 years ago titled "narrated bottle knot", however, is completely clear to me and easy to follow. Funny how I seem to have a mental block for the new way.
I'm also having a LOT of issues with replicating the "New" way. I think I've gotten it kinda down, and the biggest issue with me was that (I think) there's an action that's not explicitly said (but shown in the video) during the "reversal" of the knot. Starting at 5:53, the reversal is done pushing the bight into the "window" (5:57) BUT THAT'S NOT THE ONLY THING THAT HAPPENS! in seconds 5:58-5:59 keep an eye of what happens around his left thumb/left middle finger: as he's pushing the bight through, he's bringing a loop BACK towards the ends, so much that it slips OVER another loop.
It's not really visible, but It seems he's doing the same with his right middle/ring finger on the other side of the knot (You can catch a glimpse of it around 5:59-6:01.
My main mistake is ALWAYS that I think the knot ends with the "reversal" but I miss the two-loops-inversion part, ending up with something that looks NOTHING like what he shows in the end.
Pointers about what I keep getting wrong one time or the other:
1. The "window" to push through is not necessarily the first "crossing" of the string I see. It's kinda hard to explain, but the back of the knot (where you'll have the window) has a couple point of crossing. Try to track them and trial-and-error your way into using the correct point to open your "window". I tend to open it too "high", thus creating a failing knot
2. The knot is NOT symmetrical! It has two sides (the ones on the two sides of the bottle cap) and they look REALLY alike, but they're not identical. I've mistakenly started again expecting to end up with a perfectly symmetrical knot more times than I want to allow myself to admit (It's probably mirrored, but it's too late here to really be able to tell someone with certainty...)
3. While reversing the knot and pulling tight, remember to ALWAYS hold the bight (the one that will become the handle). I've had a couple failures where I was just about to get it right without a bottle to cinch onto and... I just pulled the bight back through and undid the knot.
@@TanakJuka WOW WOW WOW! I watched the video again at exactly the spots you mentioned and saw exactly what you described and then tried it myself and I did it right THE VERY FIRST TIME! I can't thank you enough and I hope other people who are having trouble doing this new way read your comment! Your observation of what happens during the inversion step with the 2 loops slipping over the other loops was KEY. Great observation and explanation. This has made my day :)
can you tie a knot big enough for bobber stoppers on a 10lb mono fishing line ?
For some reason I thought the tackle knot was more intricate, your explanations are always top tier though so thank you
Now do the knot that only Scouts learn, the sheepshank. And maybe some work-alike knots!
Years ago, I was in a store where scores of display TV's were all tuned to a hockey game; and as I walked by the camera zoomed in tight a face off... six skates filled the screen... those of the two centers & linesman. Couldn't help but notice that all six had grannies tied in them. Guess you had to be there :)
Wooow thats awesome, where did you learn that? In the marine? Wooow
Thanks for your knowledge
Would you have a solution for tying tennis shoe strings that are so long they barely clear the ground?
A neat way to tie the loops into the shoe laces is after the first overhand, make 2 bights: one whose working end is folded towards you and the other away (depends on how you did the overhand). Now, tuck a bight in each working end through the other's bight we flipped with and cinch it down.
This gets to be really fast when you get use to it and you don't need toss as much cord around.
Or just do an Ian Knot
@@paddor Ya, I didn't realize what I described had that name.
He has a video about it
For the cell phone knot, what is the knot you tie the two end strands together?
Love these vids, amateur he ain’t! But, why do my shoes still untie even though I’m doing this knot? Can we have a double knot version too plis? 0:00
But have seen and used different way to tie shoe lace knot called fisherman's? I think you do a barrel knot when lacing. Since using this, I haven't had my shoelace come undone, but I'm not a runner/jogger.
Question: what do I do when I have a day where I only need that one notebook or I wanna sit to rehearse/do exercises on only one of them and don't want to carry around triple of the size and weight? From my school days I recall my problem wasn't keeping them together but minimizing the number and cumbersomeness (also I'll just vent it out here, I hated the notebooks with the coil back, they twist and bend and get stuck to the paper and even scrape your hands, on top of not sitting flat on the surface).
Also damn, I thought your daughter was still a little kid from other videos, but I guess you've been doing this for years and kids grow really fast. I think asking her to assist in demonstrations on this one brings more weight to it, that knots are not only the old folk's outdated thing, that every teenager can find a use for a good knot or two just as well. I know my life would've been easier if I knew some of the knots and their applications when I was a teenager. And for sure they helped a ton now that I started growing food in the balcony. Or when I started pole fishing. Or had to transfer an extra pair of sneakers when the backpack was full.
Funnily enough just yesterday I was practicing along with your bottle knot video for school start. It's fascinating how you regularly bring a new way to tie a familiar knot or adapting it to another application, combining with other knots. I was thinking I'd perhaps make an alpine butterfly on the loose ends of the bottle knot, tying it around a belt loop or something, just because I like the knot and being able to tie alpine butterfly anywhere on the rope, in the middle or loose ends, and being able to quickly remove it from the belt loop as well. And it's so easy to tie too (I prefer the double twist, figure 8 like method). Currently some of my favourite knots are those that lock in place but are adjustable like taut-line and farrimond friction hitch, they become really handy for being adjustable. Setting for example a bowline to the other end. I actually snapped a towel's hanging piece and for a moment was upset, but quickly realized that the knot world can help me. I just grabbed a shoe lace and made a farrimond's to one end, sheet bend to the other end and decorated it with iron tie with the leftover. I like it better now than as original. So thanks, all the content is very useful, I can't wait to finally have an opportunity to use automatic trucker's hitch one day, that was one of the first ones I really liked.
The only problem for me with the gym shorts knot was when the rope is unorthodox in shape and also how it leaves a long tail hanging, I couldn't figure out a neat looking way to clean it.
I have a suggestion, hopefully you can innovate and prototype some before it's go time: gift package ties. When christmas comes, I tie some easy normal stuff and curl the ends, but there has to be decorative knots that are really nice and work for gift packages. I'm thinking of that gift strap like flat colourful stuff, not just old twine, although twine could make a really nice theme with some old looking wrapping paper.
For the mobile phone knot.
You should put in a warning not to wear around the neck.
As if someone did and got it caught on something, it could be bad.
Insta-click, insta-like.
I like your videos and have a lot to learn from you. But the second way of tying the Alpine Butterfly that you show here is wrong, it does not actually produce an alpine butterfly. You only get a slipped overhand knot with a half hitch on top.
There is a different way of tying the butterfly that I prefer, but this is not one.
Ditto. I came here to say the same thing.
You never got my e-Mail did you?
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im disabled i twith alot and so can drop things. my phone has a cord round it very similer to this.
the back crosses a little diffrent as my camara is in the middle
on the front the cord just overlaps the corner. dose not get in the way of using the phone. it kida hides the hours for the clock as thats on the top left of the screen can see the minutes it hides the percentage sign for the battery but i see the numbers still.
so like (hidden 11:) 58 ______________ 99 (% hidden)
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