Okay, there are a lot of ways to tie a knot, but this is more for me so I don’t forget how I tie a knot that I like.
A good knot, my cousin once told me, will never unravel but is easy to take out. As a sailor, he should know a thing or two about knots.
I needed a way to tie a long rope to a lamp post just outside my house. I wanted to be able to walk around and train my dog to look at me while I did my stuff without the risk of having him run away and also to give him the illusion of freedom that a long rope only could. It also let him run outside the house and get more exercise, without me having to actually run with him.
But my problem is that the rope I tied usually came loose after some pulls.
So my cousin taught me this one knot, easy and tight as hell and easy to take out. But after some months of not tying the knot, I actually forgot how to do one. So after some revising, I got the knot right again and have decided to document how to tie it.
First you put the short end of the rope around whatever you want to tie. In my case, it’s the lamp post. The long end of the rope, you make a loop as above.
Now, pull the short end over through this loop.
Pull the short end under now.
And back over and under again.
Pull everything tight.
My dog has never broken free since.