How to Tie a Square Knot

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Here is another great classic knot. This is a square knot, otherwise known as the reef knot. If you look down here you can see that I've got two lines that I'm going to be using here. I got my red and my blue, and what I'm going to is I'm going to take my blue line, and I'm going to wrap it under like so. Creating a bite here that is going to encase my line, my red line within it. And I'm going to take my red line, and I'm going to bring it over, I'm going to bring it under both of these lines, like so. There we go, and what I'm going to do, is I'm going to take this and loop this back. Pull out a little bit more length here, lets keep this part right up here, and this down. Loop this back over, like so. Now what I'm going to do, is I'm going to take this line here, and its going to come over both of these and then back through. As you can see I've created like a little cross here. And X. And it kind of weaved in together with one another. And as you pull these, you'll see it will come together rather nicely. This is your reef slash square knot. Now what's really great about this knot, is you can take this even further if you're so inclined. And you can take it, wrap this rope over that one. This rope over those two, my line back over these two. And bring this one back through here and create another square knot up on top of this. Now this has gone past what this would have been used for. The square knot right here would have been used initially, say if you had a bath robe, and say if you just had your lines coming around your waist, then you would just tie your square knot. But if you're doing this right here, what you're going to end up doing, is you're going to end up weaving this into a line. And I'll show you what I'm talking about, this line right here, was weaved, starting with our square knot. And just weaved all the way down creating this nice thick rope that we have here. Now this one doesn't really have a lot of practical purposes being this big, but if you do it on a smaller line, this is a nice great weaving here, something that you can trust and put a lot of weight on.

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