{"id":9449,"date":"2022-11-26T22:55:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T04:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/decideoutside.com\/?page_id=9449"},"modified":"2022-11-26T22:55:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T04:55:19","slug":"how-to-tie-the-prusik","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/decideoutside.com\/knots\/how-to-tie-the-prusik\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Tie the Prusik"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is an abbreviated how-to–if you want to see the complete how-to including variations and untying instructions and more, check out my knot course, here.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How To Tie the Prusik Knot Video Instructions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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How To Tie the Prusik Knot Picture Instructions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Step 1:<\/strong> Use a loop of rope (sometimes called a sling) tied in a strong bend (such as the double fisherman’s knot). and place it with the knot side down over the rope you want to tie the Prusik to (I’ll call it Rope A in this example). <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Step 2: <\/strong>Take the knot of the sling and take it behind Rope A and bring it over<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Step 3: <\/strong>Take the knot of the sling and wrap it in the same direction around Rope A while keeping the top of the sling in the same place with the other hand.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Step 4: <\/strong>Wrap the sling one more time around Rope A<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Step 5: <\/strong>While keeping the ropes all arranged parallel without letting the ropes cross, Begin to pull the bottom of the sling. The top of the sling should come down in a kind of smile formation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Step 6: <\/strong>Continue to pull the knot end of the sling to tighten while keeping all the lines parallel. I admit that this knot is a bit fiddley, and you have to mess around with it to get it right.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Step 7: <\/strong>Continue pulling the knot end of the sling until all the slack is gone from the top of the sling. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9279,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Peter","author_link":"https:\/\/decideoutside.com\/author\/outsidedecider\/"},"comment_info":0,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decideoutside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decideoutside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decideoutside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decideoutside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decideoutside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/decideoutside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9504,"href":"https:\/\/decideoutside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9449\/revisions\/9504"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decideoutside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decideoutside.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}