FASTEST WAY TO TIE A BOWLINE KNOT // 3 Quick & Easy Ways to Tie a Bowline Knot

1 and 3 are fine. Your number 2 is terrible. After you rotate your hand, the top of the rope/knot is off the camera, so you can't tell what's just happened. It's inexplicable

wow, the last method is the best by far of these three... I like using the "turn the ignition on" or "turn ignition" off motion analogy for creating the initial bite on the first two methods...

Good instructions. Too much history

Thanks this is the definitive how to tie a bowline video

Eight minutes to show something short? I am discombobulated.

Watched several videos to learn how to knot the bowline knot, your explanation about making the Bowline knot was the best. Thank you so much!

Very nice presentation. #3 has always been my favorite. I call it the "Collapsed Slip Knot Method". Can also be used to form a Sheet Bend, which is the heart of the Bowline.

I like the video!
I find it funny that all demonstrations I've seen today are l tying the knot "upside-down" that is, with the rope facing away from you.

Isn't the purpose of a bowlin to tie off onto a hard point? Wouldn't you be approaching the post head-on rather than trying to reach around and tie it on the other side?

Its just an observation.

The first couple of ways were good, but that third way knocks it out of the park!!! It also makes it easy to determine the size of the loop you need before pulling it tight. Fantastic.

hahah hahah then you couldn't find a thinner string

These are also majic tricks! Awesome! Sometimes I have to transport people in my trunk, these are very useful! Thanks.

I'm pretty OK tying a bowline. Tried with just a rope (3/8") wrapped around nothing and pinching the working end as shown + pulling the standing end...it closes the loop instead of cinching the knot. However, when the rope is around an object like a tree, post, furniture leg etc., then pinching the working end does cinch.... Is putting the rope around an object how it was also done in this video? I can reproduce the closing loop 100% of the time when it's a "rope only" knot.

I liked the 1st and 3rd examples. #2 ties my brain into a pretzel.

Thanks sir

With method 3 you can fold one last bight in the running end before you put it through the loop, and create a quick-release. Very convenient.
You can also tighten the loop up almost completely, then take your time positioning your running end around whatever object you have, before finishing it off.

I've only been practicing for an hour or so, and I've already gotten very fast, using a twisting method similar to the one-handed tying version to create the loops.

Just made a loop knot that didn't just slide out of itself for the first time, because now I actually understood what to do and more importantly why it's done that way. Thank you❤

Method 2 is the best for me, lets you exactly measure the size of the loop you're making.

I work around boats and the woods. I use the bowline most, then the sheet bend, the clove hitch, and the timber hitch. That's about it. I never use a square know because I don't always carry a chain saw with me to remove it.

How often does anyone tie rope to something from the perspective of the object being tied? The viewing angle should have the rope originating from the bottom as we often times are looking head on at the object we are tying rope to...

None of those methods is the fastest method. The fastest method can be done with one hand, in one big motion, and takes less than 2 seconds. You can tie it around yourself with one hand and save your life.

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I am the INSTINCT fan, if you remember.
Very good presentation and it makes it look easy for beginners.
I love the pinching. Neat.

I have a 4th method that I came up with by myself during the free-time practice (I have a piece of rope with me when I travel)
And this has become my most frequently used method.
I can humbly share it with you some day.

Not interested in facial recognition!

Useful knot!

I like the video

Which is the best knot to tie a rope around the waist to hang weights for pullups or dips?

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wonderful video.
Good teacher skills.
Thank you for your efforts.

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looks like he went in the hole to me

Nice video, so cool watching another person’s version! Thanks for sharing with me!

Thanks for video

Do you know there is an inside bowline which is the one you tie. An outside bowline which the end is on the outside of the loop and a double bowline which you make two loops then feed the line through.

i love learning how to teach my son is in scouts and he loves it!!

Lay the running end over the standing end. Push the running end down, rotating the hand with the running end. This forms the loop with the running end inside. Pull the running end up and around the tail of the loop and return the running end down into the loop and fair the knot.

Forget all that rabbit nonsense

Yeah, method 3 definitely, so easy and failproof, I adopted it permanently, no more rabbits holes and trees and other questions such as ''clockwise or anticlockwise'' etc. Thanks a lot!!!

Finally did it hooorrrraaay! Thanks so much.

What’s a lin

Rabbit comes out of the hole, around the tree and back down the hole…PULL the three T’s. The “T”ree and both the rabbit “T”racks 🌲 🐇

Love the "p" method the best. Simple. Thanks

Thank you for this useful and clear tutorial video. Please can you show a video on kalmyk knot and the difference between it and a bowline ?

Way to much talking at the first of it don't need a history lesson just show how to make the knot

I have literally scoured the internet for methods to learn this knot- yours is by FAR the most well explained, easiest and straightforward explanation and demonstration. I cannot than love you enough - I was close to searching for “hangman’s noose” 🥴🥴🥴.

Awesome short instruction. Wish I'd had this tutorial in my fire academy class! Firefighters and instructors totally over complicate the Bowline...(and clove- hitch). I didn't even have anything nearby to practice with and was able to "visualize" and follow your video with an invisible rope. I would get confused and reverse / flip the P order. I have struggled with Dyscalculia. The not so well known cousin of the NCLD of Math comprehension. The term did not exist until mid 2000. So many people have it. Fractions, percentages, decimals, adding subtracting in your head..figuring out tips for servers, stock market. Impossible. I have described it to special ed teacher friends as memorizing Arabic and Mandarin combined. For me Ropes class was like HS Algebra class and I would nearly breakdown in tears from frustration. Your quick and simple explanation was easy for someone (like me) to comprehend and also a great refresher for sailing and boating. No extra words and hand gestures kept to a bare minimum. I used to tease my instructors by tying a PERFECT Tiffany Bow from our hosestraps for levity in the classroom. Mahalo!!

Thanks a lot for making this video! I didn't know how to tighten up the knot and this was the only video that taught me!

quick and easy, but after a history lesson.

Line, it's a bowlinE like the word line with bow in front of it