How to Tie a Zeppelin Bend

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Now the the zeppelin bend starts into a series of a family of knots that uses the overhand bend. Now, a bend is a way of tying two ropes together and so you can actually loosen them up, so the cords don't bind. Because in the old days, cords were very, very rare, and it's something that you really wanted to keep. So what we're going to do here is I have two ropes here to demonstrate my zeppelin bend. What I'm going to is I'm going to take these two ropes. And in my hand, do it like this, I'm going to create a loop with both of them. Now- oh, I'm sorry. Let's just do it like this. Let's create a bend like this. And we'll just start with one. And what we're going to do is we're going to wrap it around both and create just a single overhand knot such as this. As you can see here, just in the red line, just a simple overhand knot. Now, what we're going to do is, we're going to take the standing end of my blue rope and pull it over. What we're going to do is we're going to wrap this around like this and create a overhand bend as it loops through both of them again. As you can see, both of them have looped through each other, to create two overhand bends in separate knots. So what we're going to do is we're just going to pull these together, we'll tighten them up, pulling both sides together. Might be simpler if I start with my working end, my standing end, working end, standing end. And there we go. Now the best way to show this knot is to make sure that all the knots come out in a ninety degree. And there you go; you can see this is a nice zeppelin bend. And easy to pull out of your rope.

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