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all right let's learn some knots shall we?

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now if you are one of these people

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who cannot remember how to tie knots and

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when to use which knot good news I

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gotcha in this video I'm gonna show you

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the most essential knots that can get

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you out of any situation and techniques

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how to tie them super fast and in a way

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that you will not forget how it's done

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alright let's begin if I would ask you

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to tie the most simple knot you can on

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the Rope you would do something like

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this

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and if you tighten this you will get an

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overhand knot

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now if you would do the same what we

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just did

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and wrap the tail once more

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you get something like that and if you

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tighten this and dress it well

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you will get a double overhand knot

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which is also known as a stopper knot so

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this is the knot that should always live

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at the end of your rope and it's

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obviously used

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to stop your rope from slipping through

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your bling device and dropping your

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climber to death or yourself alright

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let's continue

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make a gun with your right hand and

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place the Rope like so where the gun is

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pointing towards the end of the Rope

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now take the rope and wrap around your

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fingers like so and make an X here

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wrap the Rope again

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and put the tail through the X

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like so

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so now if you look into this you will

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notice that on one side we have two

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parallel strands while on other side we

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have an X and the Rope is going through

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the X if we tighten this we get a double

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overhand again or a stopper knot again

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so in full speed it looks something like

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this

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and if you would want a triple overhand

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you make an X and then you make one

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extra Loop

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kind of like extra X and put the detail

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through

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both of them

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like so

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so you would get that triple overhand

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knot

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okay let's make a gun again and

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previously we had the gun pointing

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towards the tail this time we flip it

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around the gun points away from the tail

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and we will tie the same knot as before

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where we go once make an X

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and now we make a byte and put this byte

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through the X

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like so

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if you tighten this

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you should get exactly the same knot

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which has two parallel strands on one

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side and an x on the other side so this

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knot is a sliding knot if I load it it

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slides

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until it cannot slide anymore so this is

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really great knot if you need a tight

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connection to some object for example in

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rope axis it's very commonly used to

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hook to the carabiners it prevents the

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Carabiner from flopping around or cross

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loading plus this knot is very very

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small and compact so this might be very

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useful in certain rigging situations

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where you need to get very close to your

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Carabiner now one really important

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aspect about this knot is that it's

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pretty much impossible to visually check

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it that's why you have to do a function

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test meaning take your load line and

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pull

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the loop should get smaller and the knot

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will tighten if you tied it incorrectly

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as you pull on the load line this is

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what happens

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the tail will slip out

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and this is called the death knot for a

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reason and Def not basically happens

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then during the tying if you point your

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gun towards the tail so instead of that

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as I showed you before you point away

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from the tail and then you will get a

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knot which functions properly

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but always always function check now to

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tie this knot around an object take the

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tail and then you start wrapping this

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tail around the Rope like so so you go

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once

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and then when you go second time you

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form an X here and now you want to take

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the tail and pass through the X

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as always

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tail goes through the X and since this

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knot consumes very little rope I like

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using it as a stopper knot tied to my

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red end of my row bag

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so a great little knot

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but the biggest disadvantage of it is if

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you load it really hard you will have

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really hard time untying it in this case

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when you have a carabiner it's okay

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because you can unclip from Carabiner

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and then it's much easier to untie

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however if you would tie onto some

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object

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then it's another story alright let's

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make another stopper knot but this time

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don't make it tight leave a little hole

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here so you can stick your finger

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through however instead of sticking my

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finger through I'm gonna stick another

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rope through now I'm gonna tighten the

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orange knot a little bit

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and now here is the trick notice the

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last strand on the orange knot on the

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right side so it's this one and it kind

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of goes that way

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so the trick is to start tying the green

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knot the same direction if I go the

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other direction it's not going to be

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good so I go the same direction I cross

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over itself

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which forms an X as always and then I

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put the tail under the X as always

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so if I tighten the green knot

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I tighten the orange knot

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and now if I pull them together we come

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together

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and form a knot which looks like this

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where I have four parallel strands on

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one side and if I flip it over I have

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two x's one

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two so this knot is called double

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fisherman's knot and it's because

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fissures use this knot to join their

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fishing lines however in fishing lines

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since they're very skinny and slippery

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we often use triple or quadruple version

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of this knot while in climbing it's

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obviously a great knot to join two ropes

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it's really secure you can use different

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diameters of the ropes however one

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disadvantage of this knot is that same

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as with scaffold before if you load it

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really heavy it's gonna be hard to untie

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and of course there are other knots for

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joining two ropes that are even better

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in certain situations I will cover them

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in future episodes but for the basics

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double fisherman's is what everybody

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should know okay next is the king of the

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knots a figure of eight and there are

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two versions of this knot

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and if that's something new for you I've

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already made a video showing you my

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ninja method how to tie this knot in in

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a way that's easier to untie now if you

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know how to tie figure of eight into

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your harness you also know how to tie it

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into some other object so you follow the

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same procedure of follow through

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so in case you don't want to use a

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carabiner here this is a great option so

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the method where you tie into your

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harness or you tie around some object is

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called the figure of eight follow

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through however there is another way to

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tie a figure of eight when you want to

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do this in the middle of the rope and as

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you can see this method is really fast

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okay so this method is actually easier

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to show and to explain but I will try to

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do my best so I have a loop here with

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the tail at the bottom of my poem it's

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not here it's here

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like so and now I will have to whip this

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tail

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and this is how it looks you whip like

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so

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now at this point notice the hole where

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this thumb is poking through

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and use the left hand to take this tail

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under and through that hole where the

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thumb is poking through and I use my

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index finger of the right hand to come

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and help to pull it through

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pull it through

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and at this point this strand which goes

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to the tail sometimes wants to be on

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this side but actually it needs to be on

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the other side

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now if you tighten everything

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so the tail strand needs to come

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kind of on top

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this is bottom it needs to come on top

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if that's the case you will get a

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perfect figure of eight which is also

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going to be easy to untie because the

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load line this line

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goes in the middle

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so real live speed looks something like

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this

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where I just need to fix this strand

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sometimes a little bit

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so this way of tying figure of eight is

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called Figure of eight on a byte

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so basically you need the secure

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attachment point on the Rope figure of

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eight

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now when it comes to safety you don't

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need any stopper knots for figure of

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eight but this tail should be at least

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10 centimeters long so basically one

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fist or longer

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in my case I have two and a half fists

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so it's more than enough and if you

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would have a thinner rope you can

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obviously proportionally have this tail

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shorter alright now let's learn about

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hitches now if you're wondering what's

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the difference between a hitch and a

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knot and not can hold its own shape

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without any external objects needed like

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figure of eight while a hitch

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cannot so this is holding me but if I

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remove this external object from the

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hitch the hitch will fall apart okay

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let's start with the cloves hitch take

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the rope with the right hand like so now

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the left hand crosses under the right

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hand and takes the Rope legs so notice

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that the thumbs are pointing away from

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each other and I have a little bit of

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rope slag between the hands now at this

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point uncross your arms and you will get

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something like this

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now the right Loop goes in front of the

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left one like so

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so once again I cross my arms I uncross

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them and then the right Loop slides on

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top of the left one and then you clip

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this to your Carabiner or any other

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object

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so and then you can pull on the ends to

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tighten it

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now what's great about this hitch is

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that you can pull on either side of the

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rope and it's gonna hold and if you want

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to adjust

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you loosen the belly in the middle of

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the knot

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like so let's say I want to stay at this

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length so I'm going to pull the other

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end now like so

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and I'm secure so this cross and

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uncrossed technique works really well

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when you have two hands

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and if you don't have two hands

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available this is what you do you clip

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the Carabiner as always normally now

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since the gate is pointing to the right

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I'm gonna use my right hand and I'm

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gonna flip it upside down with the thumb

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pointing down and take the other rope

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which is behind the Carabiner at this

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point I'm gonna untwist my hand and clip

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it to the gate

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and screw the carabeter

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now when the gate is pointing left you

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need to use your left hand so the same

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flip it upside down with the thumb

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pointing down grab the Rope untwist your

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hand

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and clip it to the gate

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and cloveshitch is another great knot if

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you like playing with sticks

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it holds really well

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I guess this will get a lot of comments

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right

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a great visual check if you did it

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correctly both strands that exit the

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hitch need to exit from the middle of

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the knot so we are both kind of squeezed

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inside

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and we're exiting on the opposite sides

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there is a rope between them okay next

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hitch starts exactly the same as before

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but at this point instead of sliding the

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right Loop over the left one imagine

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that you have a book in front of you and

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these Loops are kind of like pages of

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the book and you want to close the book

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like so

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so here is another angle I cross my arms

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I uncross and then I close the book now

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what I'm doing here I'm twisting this

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like so before I'm clipping to the

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Carabiner and the reason for this twist

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that I did is to keep

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the brake side of the Rope this one away

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from the gate so that this rope when

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it's running it's not running over the

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gate

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so when I load the knot will flip this

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is totally normal and then I can go down

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like so

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and as you might have guessed this is

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the knot or the hitch that you would use

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in case you would drop your billing

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device and now you need to go down so

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take a bit of Slack

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like so

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now one thing to know about this hitch

0:14:52.260,0:14:54.720
is that the most breaking strength it

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has when this

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Trends are parallel to each other it's

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not down here like on normal billing

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devices it's actually up in the case of

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the repel like so

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so

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like so and then you can lower yourself

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down

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so hopefully you will never need to use

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this but in case you do close your book

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or pray that's also a good way to

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remember you can also belay a climber

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using this one thing to know about that

0:15:26.940,0:15:28.920
is that when you're switching between

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giving slack and taking slack the knot

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will flip upside down this is totally

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normal

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so it keeps flipping every time you

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switch taking slack to giving Slack

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that's how it should be another very

0:15:44.820,0:15:47.220
critical thing to know is that it will

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twist your rope like crazy so this is

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not the best knot if you want to repel a

0:15:54.000,0:15:56.579
lot a lot a lot you will have a lot a

0:15:56.579,0:15:59.040
lot a lot of tangles in your rope so in

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case of emergency once again cross your

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arms uncross and then pray

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and before you go down don't forget to

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test it before you unclip any other

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protection

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all right moving on to friction hitches

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these are special hitches that can slide

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on the Rope but when you load it it

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bites and this is super useful in wide

0:16:28.139,0:16:30.480
variety applications from backuping your

0:16:30.480,0:16:33.540
bling device to rigging something where

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you need to tension the Rope more or

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rescuing somebody or yourself and I'm

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gonna show you three most common hitches

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but don't worry they're kind of similar

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so I'm gonna explain the differences so

0:16:45.899,0:16:48.060
you can understand in which application

0:16:48.060,0:16:50.820
which one is better all right let's

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start with the prusik the first thing I

0:16:53.459,0:16:56.040
do when I type prusik is move my Loop

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to the side a little bit

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then I pass the knot through itself like

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so

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and make it tight again

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then I pass the note one more time like

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so notice that I'm keeping these coils

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coiling inwards towards each other like

0:17:15.480,0:17:16.380
here

0:17:16.380,0:17:19.860
and then pass a third time

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like so

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now at this point I want to pull on one

0:17:24.900,0:17:27.419
of these strands to offset the knot so

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I'm gonna pull on this strand

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while maintaining

0:17:32.160,0:17:35.960
the knot neat

0:17:41.520,0:17:43.860
and the result now to double check the

0:17:43.860,0:17:46.980
prusik you can kind of see a big smiley

0:17:46.980,0:17:49.440
with the tongue and all the coils are

0:17:49.440,0:17:51.480
nice and parallel to each other there is

0:17:51.480,0:17:53.400
nothing overlapping here

0:17:53.400,0:17:58.620
and you can clip it to yourself like so

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and it should hold you

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now prusik are not releasable under

0:18:04.799,0:18:06.240
tension

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and when you load it hard it might be

0:18:09.120,0:18:11.520
hard to release and to help to release

0:18:11.520,0:18:13.980
you kind of want to open that mouth that

0:18:13.980,0:18:16.380
I was talking and that helps to loosen

0:18:16.380,0:18:19.799
up the prusik so prusiks are very

0:18:19.799,0:18:22.200
strong and they work in both directions

0:18:22.200,0:18:24.720
so if you're not planning to move it

0:18:24.720,0:18:27.480
much in certain rigging situations this

0:18:27.480,0:18:30.660
is great all right next one is the Klemheist

0:18:30.660,0:18:33.780
for this one I like to offset the

0:18:33.780,0:18:36.120
knot from the beginning and then take

0:18:36.120,0:18:39.240
the other end behind the Rope kind of

0:18:39.240,0:18:42.720
measure one finger here and then you

0:18:42.720,0:18:46.500
start rolling around or wrapping around

0:18:46.500,0:18:49.380
or coiling around this is much easier

0:18:49.380,0:18:52.860
than original prusik and at this point

0:18:52.860,0:18:55.740
you take the knot pass through the upper

0:18:55.740,0:19:00.860
Loop like so and pull it down

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so again it's important to make it very

0:19:05.880,0:19:10.140
nice and tidy and also to make sure that

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this Loop that you just passed your rope

0:19:12.419,0:19:15.660
through is not longer than entire length

0:19:15.660,0:19:16.919
of the knot

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of course when you're gonna load it it's

0:19:19.320,0:19:22.380
gonna stretch and that's okay but if you

0:19:22.380,0:19:25.500
make it too long you will have way less

0:19:25.500,0:19:29.820
friction all right the Klemheist

0:19:29.820,0:19:33.720
same as the Prusik it's very strong and

0:19:33.720,0:19:36.480
not releasable under tension however

0:19:36.480,0:19:38.460
unlike the Prusik

0:19:38.460,0:19:42.480
well tight Klemheist should be easier

0:19:42.480,0:19:45.840
to release and similar to prusik when

0:19:45.840,0:19:48.440
you want to release it you want to open

0:19:48.440,0:19:52.020
this lip that you passed your tail

0:19:52.020,0:19:55.140
through that helps to loosen it up

0:19:55.140,0:19:58.919
now unlike Prusik, Klemheist is

0:19:58.919,0:20:02.520
single directional so it works best if

0:20:02.520,0:20:05.220
you pull it downwards in my case it kind

0:20:05.220,0:20:07.799
of works if you pull up as well but it's

0:20:07.799,0:20:09.480
not designed for that and it's going to

0:20:09.480,0:20:12.120
be much weaker so due to the fact that

0:20:12.120,0:20:13.740
it's a little bit easier to release

0:20:13.740,0:20:17.640
sometimes and it's holding very strong a

0:20:17.640,0:20:20.100
lot of climbers prefer this knot over

0:20:20.100,0:20:22.740
the prusik when you need to ascend the

0:20:22.740,0:20:25.320
Rope so you can move it easier up and

0:20:25.320,0:20:27.780
then load it move it up and then load it

0:20:27.780,0:20:30.360
all right and the last one is an auto- block

0:20:30.360,0:20:32.880
it starts similar to the Klemheist

0:20:32.880,0:20:35.460
I like to offset this knot a

0:20:35.460,0:20:39.059
little bit and then start wrapping

0:20:39.059,0:20:42.120
around like we already did before

0:20:42.120,0:20:45.720
and now at this point instead of putting

0:20:45.720,0:20:47.880
the knot through the loop what we did

0:20:47.880,0:20:49.980
with the Klemheist you want to take

0:20:49.980,0:20:52.080
both of these loops

0:20:52.080,0:20:56.360
and clip it with the carabiner

0:20:56.960,0:21:00.600
so once you load it it's gonna look a

0:21:00.600,0:21:03.539
little bit funky but it should grab and

0:21:03.539,0:21:08.280
auto block is commonly used as a backup

0:21:08.280,0:21:11.700
for your blade device and extended repel

0:21:11.700,0:21:13.620
situation

0:21:13.620,0:21:18.179
so since it doesn't bite that much

0:21:18.179,0:21:20.760
it's still okay because you don't need

0:21:20.760,0:21:22.740
that much force to hold the brake side

0:21:22.740,0:21:25.320
of the Rope however the ability to

0:21:25.320,0:21:28.740
release this not under tension is what

0:21:28.740,0:21:32.580
it makes it great option for repelling

0:21:32.580,0:21:34.740
so here's another demonstration auto

0:21:34.740,0:21:37.320
block although being the weakest out of

0:21:37.320,0:21:39.539
the three it still can hold my weight

0:21:39.539,0:21:43.140
however if I pull on it from top down it

0:21:43.140,0:21:45.539
will out now the great thing about this

0:21:45.539,0:21:48.120
Prusik that we can be made simply out of

0:21:48.120,0:21:50.880
the accessory cord tied into the loop

0:21:50.880,0:21:53.400
using double fisherman's knot one thing

0:21:53.400,0:21:56.159
you need to know is that your cord has

0:21:56.159,0:21:58.860
to be at least three millimeters thinner

0:21:58.860,0:22:01.740
than the Rope you're gonna be using it

0:22:01.740,0:22:04.440
on and in general the thinner the chord

0:22:04.440,0:22:07.740
is the stronger the Prusik is gonna grab

0:22:07.740,0:22:10.260
and for climbing applications the good

0:22:10.260,0:22:12.360
diameter is between five and six

0:22:12.360,0:22:15.299
millimeters now other things that affect

0:22:15.299,0:22:18.480
how strongly the prusik is gonna bite is

0:22:18.480,0:22:21.059
the amount of Loops you're gonna make so

0:22:21.059,0:22:23.520
with every Prusik you can Loop it as

0:22:23.520,0:22:26.039
many times as it's needed there is no

0:22:26.039,0:22:28.980
hard rule usually you start around three

0:22:28.980,0:22:31.500
and then you have to test it to see if

0:22:31.500,0:22:34.200
it's strong enough but not too strong so

0:22:34.200,0:22:36.480
it's great idea to test on your own

0:22:36.480,0:22:39.419
ropes because it also depends on the

0:22:39.419,0:22:42.919
stiffness of your cord and on your

0:22:42.919,0:22:46.440
slippiness of your rope and if your rope

0:22:46.440,0:22:49.799
for example is wet or Frozen it's gonna

0:22:49.799,0:22:53.280
be even slippier so you might need more

0:22:53.280,0:22:56.280
wraps

0:22:56.419,0:23:00.299
also you can tie Prusik on two ropes

0:23:00.299,0:23:02.400
for example when you're repelling the

0:23:02.400,0:23:04.320
thing you need to know is that two robes

0:23:04.320,0:23:06.840
have more surface for the Prusik to

0:23:06.840,0:23:08.760
bite and usually the pressure will bend

0:23:08.760,0:23:12.059
harder so you might need less reps so

0:23:12.059,0:23:14.820
very budget friendly and super useful

0:23:14.820,0:23:16.140
thing to have

0:23:16.140,0:23:18.960
but you can also buy already pre-made

0:23:18.960,0:23:20.760
Prusiks they are even better because

0:23:20.760,0:23:22.559
they are more friction resistant they

0:23:22.559,0:23:24.780
are softer and it's easier to tie them

0:23:24.780,0:23:27.780
however make sure to not buy too thick

0:23:27.780,0:23:29.640
one they're used for other applications

0:23:29.640,0:23:31.440
you need a thinner one for sport

0:23:31.440,0:23:33.659
climbing and in the case you get stuck

0:23:33.659,0:23:35.460
on the route and you want to escape but

0:23:35.460,0:23:38.400
you don't have a prusik well maybe you

0:23:38.400,0:23:40.919
have shoes with laces that you can make

0:23:40.919,0:23:43.740
your project out of and here I forgot to

0:23:43.740,0:23:45.720
mention one very important thing about

0:23:45.720,0:23:48.419
Prusik but you should not rely on

0:23:48.419,0:23:51.419
them fully you always have to have a

0:23:51.419,0:23:53.640
very very solid backup

0:23:53.640,0:23:56.400
all right so of course there are many

0:23:56.400,0:23:58.559
other knots but to keep your brain from

0:23:58.559,0:24:00.539
melting I'm gonna keep them for the

0:24:00.539,0:24:03.120
future episodes and for now I want to

0:24:03.120,0:24:05.640
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so bad in these outros

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I'm gonna leave it like that