How to tie Bowline survival knots - a better method

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The Prepared's survival expert Jessie Krebs picks the top 3 knots you need to know for survival. #1: Bowline. This is an alternative way to tie a Bowline that Jessie prefers. The common way is: • How to tie Bowline sur...

[@SpiningChocolate]

I've been tying bowline for years in the military, and this... this method blew my mind! it's so much more simple and quicker than the "rabbit hole" method!! Amazing.

[@barlow2976]

Thanks for that, I can tie a bowline around myself eyes shut- that stuck in my memory from scouts, but I've been looking for an alternative to the 'rabbit comes out of his hole, round the tree etc'. This is dead simple, like all the best things in life. Merry Christmas from Wales. (That's part of the U.K if you didn't know- the land of dragons!)

[@lurchie]

Oh my goodness! I've been practicing the bowline forever and this is the BEST way to tie it around an object! Thank you!

[@Chillimonz]

I saw this method on one of your other videos months ago and been using this way since. I much prefer this method to what the boy scouts are taught. I find this easier to remember too.

[@viridian_calx]

Best method on the internet

[@NotSure304]

I want to thank you for this video, well all your videos really but, this one in particular because it showed me a nice little short cut that I didn't know. This really does make bowlines easier to tie. Thank you.

[@tomsmith125]

Saw some of your survival skills master class videos while flying on Delta Airlines. They were good.

[@PrideofPitchers]

Thank you for explaining so clearly! This is the simplest method I've found.

[@maryerb6062]

Thank you for the vocabulary. You are thorough about that! I never went camping and I am learning some knots!

[@WillN2Go1]

Good video. A few thoughts. I've been using this basic technique for about five years. I found a video about it and practiced it until I could do it automatically. It's a terrific method.
First of all. the benefit of this bowline method is you can form the set-up as your boat approaches the dock, then you run the end around a post or piling. Then, as you show, you run the end through the set-up, over - turn it to form the knot. It's so useful because you do most of the work in advance.
Second, including yours, I've seen two videos new videos showing this good method, but to me they seem left - handed. I'm right handed and form the set-up with my right hand - so all my left hand does is hold the set - up. I think for right handers I'm correct. (The left hand just holds the set-up, the right hand does all the manipulating). Maybe I'm not correct, bt just used to my method. I do think that this method of tying a bowline is so good, so automatic once learned, that it's worth figuring out the absolute best method and to teach it to everyone, probably in the 2nd or 3rd grade.
I'm a nerd with 99 percentile spatial ability, but knots have always baffled me. You know the book method, A, B, Z!; make a loop, make another loop, then turkshead. Huh? Until the Animated Knots website I wasn't much better than the average hack. This video fifteen years ago would've been a revelation, a million views - now it's just another really good video on tying a knot. Good work and things are getting better.
The reasons we all should learn a few basic knots are these: first, knots and lines are really useful (I lost a nut on a luggage cart in London, but the time I got to the airport with a piece of string tied around the bolt threads I had my cart working again.) Second, good knots hold better and are easier to untie than those nasty knots everybody uses. (If I'm ever kidnapped and tied up, I hope it's by sailors.) And third, knots and lines are part of our human heritage, when we tie good useful knots, it's like visiting a museum, we're sailing with out ancestors or sitting around the campfire with them. In total how many knots do I have? Not too many: bowline, square, fishermans (loop loop loop ) alpine butterfly (it's a better loop on a line that you run the working end through for mechanical advantage), overhand (the most common) with a loop (so you can pull out the end to untie). When I set up a tent or fly, I don't do all of that this and that. It's loops, bowline, half-hitches, done. Instead of adjusting the length of my cord, I'll move the stake. It would look inept compared to a boy scout, except it's fast, efficient and works. I've set up poles, and 6-9 stakes on my rain fly without tying or untying a single knot. Thanks for making and sharing this video.

[@condor5635]

Great technique as well. I almost always use a slip knot/bight on the last part just so it is easier to untie. Love the videos!

[@onolicious9147]

Really love this method. Thanks for demonstrating it!

[@ziggle314]

Excellent tutorial. Thank you.

[@leeedmunds2539]

Cool method! Thanks

[@michaelmartin5995]

Excellent!

[@Thyme2sea]

Merci beaucoup !

[@AlexanderSiassi]

Great method but I did notice 1 thing. This ties the bowline in an upside down configuration. For general knot tying this is fine... but perhaps for rigging where you need to rethread the knot... this might be a little more of a hassle.