{"id":9341,"date":"2022-11-10T10:19:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T16:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/decideoutside.com\/?p=9341"},"modified":"2022-11-10T10:21:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T16:21:05","slug":"how-to-learn-knots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decideoutside.com\/how-to-learn-knots\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Learn Knots And Actually Remember Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you’ve ever tried to learn knots before, it can feel overwhelming to figure out all the overs and unders and wraps and on and on. Sometimes watching videos doesn’t even help! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t worry. I’ve been there, and I’ve got what you need to learn the secret of how to learn knots. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 Tips For Learning Knots<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here are 5 essential tips for learning knots:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Most Important: Learn the Knot Foundations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The trick to learning your knots is to learn the knot foundations.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learning the knot foundations will accelerate your knot learning as well as help you remember your knots for much longer because you understand how the knots work. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are the knot foundations? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Knot Foundations Here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, I’ll show you the fundamental knot formations so you can rocket your knot learning forward–you might want to bookmark this page. And also, make sure to visit our rope glossary<\/a> if you see a term you’re not familiar with.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Learning the knot foundations<\/strong> will accelerate your knot learning as well as help you remember your knots for much longer because you understand how the knots work. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

2. Get A Knot Book That You Can Reference<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In this day and age where they have videos for everything, you might wonder, why would you get a book? Well, the truth is that a book doesn’t run out of battery and that can mean all the difference in a situation where you need to tie a knot you can’t remember. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my favorite books I used while studying books is “The Field Guide to Knots<\/strong>“. (see on Amazon, here<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Field Guide to Knots has every type of knot there is and has decent pictures (although some of them are hard to see what’s going on), so you can take this with you on an adventure and reference it to figure out lashing for example. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Take A Knot Course<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Courses can be super helpful because they can walk you through the entire process of learning–so you’re not jumping into an advanced knot without knowing the fundamentals–it’s easy to get lost in the learning process unless you have a guide to walk you through from beginning to end on how to learn something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I actually created a knot course for just this purpose, you can find more about it, here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n

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4. Get a Practice Rope By Your Desk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You’d be amazed at how much dead time there is in a day. I work a desk job and there’s a lot of time where I’m just waiting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your job is on your feet, you may not have that opportunity, but you still probably have a TV at home–if you leave a practice rope by a place where you hang out, you can just move through the knots you’re trying to learn while you listen or watch something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Practice rope on the desk (notice all that dust on the keyboard… gross)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now, while you’re waiting for your computer to do its mandatory updates, you can practice your knots with your rope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Learn the Knots Backwards and Forwards, Upside Down and All Turned Around<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When you’re learning your knots it’s easy to feel like you knot a knot if you can follow an example in a video or in a book when all the rope is lined up exactly as you saw it in the tutorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what if the thing you’re tying a rope to isn’t anything at all like the tutorial?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To really understand a knot it helps to tie it up, and down and all around. Flip your perpective (if you’re tying to an object on the right, try tying it to something on the left). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This may be overkill for some knots, but I’d say to learn at this level for critical knots like the figure-of-eight knot, the clove hitch, and the bowline. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knot Foundations (How To Learn and Understand Knots)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you’re like me when you tried to learn knots, tying things was just a matter of memorizing how ropes go under and over each other. But this isn’t true! Knots follow basic patterns that are built on each other. Once you get a feel for these patterns, you can use these patterns to break down and understand what you’re doing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rope Formations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It all starts with understanding the basic shapes of rope. Let’s check these out. (Also, I put this concisely in my Rope Glossary<\/a> if you want a cheat sheet to refer back to)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Basic Rope Terms<\/h3>\n\n\n\n