How to tie into the harness with Perfect Figure 8 knot every time

In this video we are going to learn the fastest way to tie the rope to the

harness

using the

figure

eight

knot

and this method is great because it will always end up in a

perfect

figure

eight, as such, ta-da, which will never have . any overlapping thread and it will be in the version that is easy to untie if you missed this video I showed you that there are two figure eight

knot

s, two versions of the same knot that look very similar but load completely different during the fall and One of They are easier to untie after a hard fall and then I got a lot of questions, but which version is stronger, so you will see a little later, but first let's learn how to tie the good version in case you stay. with your hand, you might want to mirror

every

thing that I'm going to explain, so when I say right hand you use the other right hand, okay, let's start grabbing the rope with the right hand and extend it to the side and with the hand left you will measure. the amount of rope you will need, this measurement will eliminate the problem of not having enough rope to finish the knot or having too much rope which will end up with a very very long tail and this is bad because during climbing you could accidentally grab it and try to trim it to solve this problem.

You will see people tying a stopper knot or a double fisherman's knot or some even call it a safety knot and you should know that this knot adds absolutely no security to the figure eight. It doesn't need any extra backing, it's a secure knot on its own and then the second problem with this is that it gets in the way if you're getting close to yourself, so if the quick knot is here, you'll grab the rope and then the knot will go away. It gets stuck in the fast drill if you are unlucky, so it is better to remove this tail completely and have a tail that is short but not shorter than 10 cen

time

ters, which is about the width of your palm, so in my case I have one. and a half now where to measure depends on two things the thickness of your rope and of course the size of your body so personally for me with a 9.5 millimeter rope I measure up to this point if the rope is thicker I go further and if the rope It's thinner.

Of course, I go less, so just do a couple of figure eights and then you'll figure out what works for you. Okay, now you're going to need to do a little multitasking at the same

time

when your right arm goes to the side you need to. your left arm in some way, but with the palm facing the same direction and the thumb facing down, then you place the rope on top of your thumb and make a little loop like this with your index finger to extend it, you measure the rope and then the next step is to twist your wrist like this and then you have this loop where you put the tail through and pull up, twist and turn and then thread the tail through the top loop at this point don't let the knot fall like this.

This is bad because you will lose the measurement you took. Instead you hold the lasso with your left hand and pull the tail up so that you slowly extend, measure from waist to waist and the tail goes over the top and the full speed version extends and rotates. twist it, so if you did

every

thing correctly you will have something like this, the figure eight sign, but if you get this, then you didn't twist it enough times, okay, and now we pass the rope through the

harness

, most of harnesses have three loops, one two three, the leg loop, the waist loop and the middle loop that connects these two and the middle loop is called the safety loop so you want the rope to go through the leg loop and then through the waist loop, like this.

Now a fun question, do you think this will hold up? For me or not, it already connects to these two, so it should hold, so the answer is yes, it will hold you, but that's why you don't want to. Use your safety loop to attach many things like your sling and a belay. device, as you can see this can be very crowded and uncomfortable to work with and the second reason is because the leg loop and waist loop have extra protection to protect you from the rope when using the harness quickly. Well, then another question. Can you do this where you are tying? only in the leg loop is it connected to everything, it has additional protection, so in this case the answer is no because when you fall, your legs will be loaded more than the waist and you will have a tendency to turn upside down, so the ideal en I want your rope to go through the leg loop and the waist loop and I've probably heard some sentiments from experts right here who will say that going from bottom to top is wrong, which we'll say you should go from top to bottom like this and The only reason this is because if you go from the bottom up and somehow manage to miss the waist loop, you will end up only on the bottom loop, which is dangerous; conversely, if you go from top to bottom and somehow miss a hole, you'll end up with the top loop and the waist loop, which is fine, so if you're a person who can easily miss a hole , then it's better to go top down, but for the rest of you, bottom up is more convenient and that's what most people do.

A little pro tip. As you feed the rope through the harness you have the safety loop in your way so you will have to choose whether you want the rope to go this way or that and in fact going this way is easier than going this way. you have the safety loop on the right side of the row you can also go that way, but then you have to take the right side with your left hand, which is not as convenient but it works, then you would have the safety loop on the right side of the row. left of the rope, but I prefer to go to this side, because it is faster, next you need to trace the original figure 8 with the tail and this is where most people make mistakes and in fact, you can blame many climbing trainers and video tutorials for this because all they say is to follow the instructions. make a figure 8 with your tail and you'll be fine, but there are many ways to do this following and most of these ways lead to a really funky knot, so just follow what I'll do very precisely and you won't have any problems.

First of all, make sure this line goes to the right side. If I flip the knot over, now this line goes to the left, so you want your knot to look like this, then you put your tail between these two strands so Make a little bit of space here and push your tail out. At this point you need to bring the knot closer to your harness and this is very, very important. If you don't do this, you will end up with the big bow in front of you. knot and this is dangerous because it can get stuck somewhere on the rock or you can even accidentally snag it on the quick draw and I have seen this happen well and then you continue tracing the original figure eight by putting your tail on top.

Then it goes into this hole like this, then it goes around and ends up in this hole like this and the only thing left is to tighten the knot, so I like to grab the whole nut loosely with my left hand and grab the tail with my right. hand and pull and push at the same time like this and then change the right hand to another tail and repeat the process done if you want the knot to be even tighter you can grab this pull the switches on the left hand pull the switches on the right pull switches left pull This will make the knot even tighter, but usually this and changing this is enough, so if you did everything correctly you will have one, two, three, four, five parallel threads on both sides of the knot and none of these threads cross each other and if you make a mistake.

If you stick with your original measurement and your tail is a little too long, you can still tie a stopper knot by going around and pulling the tail through itself like this and making sure it's close to the figure of eight, so This is the end result, but as I already said that this knot doesn't add any security, it's just to prevent the rope from hanging, so it's much better if you have something like this where the tail is short and you don't even need this knot to start, so repeat this. process a few times and then you'll develop muscle memory where you can do it blindfolded in case you get stuck in the dark and need to strap on your figure of destiny, which will probably never happen, boom like a ninja and like a real ninja.

You should know what not to do with the figure of eight. The figure of eight is designed to be dragged along this axis. Never cut and pull this way. This is called cross loading and will cause the knot to slip and do all the weird things. You could even undo the extra time at the beginning of the video I told you that there are two figure eight knots or two versions of the same knot and one of them is easier to untie, but the question is which one is stronger so let's find out. The line goes on the top here, the load line goes in the middle, so let's figure out which one is stronger.

So you think I'm that crazy for doing this? Well, yes, no, no, I don't want to risk some projectiles flying at me. van, instead I called my good friend Ryan from the YouTube channel, how can I not highlight where he makes things crazy and welcome to my garage, where we have a loose fit machine, it's a big giant rectangle, let me show you how it works and so after it broke. a lot of knots, the results were that all of them were much stronger than any climbing drop you can find, so don't worry about that, but if you want to know which version is stronger, watch Ryan's video now for real , look at this.

On the guy's channel he does a lot of cool stuff, breaks a lot of climbing gear and even pulls out real rock cams and trends to show how much we endure and if you like what he's doing don't forget to support him. and the same don't forget to support me because you like my videos right, that's it, ah, now I'm going to steal Ryan's exit, it's that simple if you take 20 minutes and try to

perfect

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