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How to Tie a Prusik Knot

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Summary: Learn how to tie a correct Prusik knot for hiking, climbing, or sailing in this free knot tying video clip.

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How to Tie a Prusik Knot

I'm going to demonstrate the Prusik knot right here. This one is used by mountaineers. I'm not really a mountaineer my self, so maybe more mountaineers could explain this better to you. If you look right down here, you can see that I have a line here that I'm going to use. And I'm going to take it. Now this normally would be a rope. But because of ease of instruction, I'm going to use my wood here. And I've got my line here and I've tied it into a knot here into a loop. What we're going to do here is we're going to take it, and we're going take it over and through. And basically pull my line through. Creating something, something like this, just a hitch. But then I'm going to pull this loop out a little bit more. I'm going to wrap it around again, like so. And what this is going to do is it?s going to provide an extra strength here. You pull on it like this. Now what you would normally use this on is this would be another rope. But, like I said, for ease of instruction, I'm going to show it to you like this. So there you go a nice good Prusik knot. And we'll do this one more time. Untie it. And there you go, and I'll just take my line here. And this time I'm just going to do it under. Under and over. Slip my line through. And instead of tightening it down, I'm just going to go ahead and bring it back over again to my starting part. My starting, and there you go. You want to make sure that it doesn't cross like this. It would be better if these knots looked like this. You want a nice clean knot when you do a Prusik knot.

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