How to Tie a Blood Knot

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Now we're moving into a blood knot with a loop bend. Now, blood knots are my favorite. My personal favorite, not because of the name blood knot. Its kind of misleading. Blood knot or barrel shaped knot as they are more commonly referred to. Blood knots evolved as a common angling knot they use. And blood knots are great, because they are usually a 95% knot. Most knots will cause a rope to weaken. But blood knots usually keep that tension and that strength of the original rope without a knot in it. So if we look at the table here we got, go ahead and demonstrate this blood knot with my inward coil. I've got two ropes coming in the opposite sides of each other. And I'm going to go ahead and pull a little bit more on both of these, on my working end so I have something. Now all blood knots pretty much start the same. I'm going to take this coil and I'm going to bring it over like this, as I hold these two together. Its going to come down and its just going to wrap. And its going to wrap again and again. And I'm just going to put, I'm going to put three full loops in it. Three nice full loops. And what I'm going to do, is I'm going to take my working end and I'm going to put it, place it between both ropes. Now what I'm going to do here, I'm going to do the same thing on the other side. I'm going to pull a little bit more here, I'm going to hold my two here and I'm going to wrap it. It doesn't matter which direction you wrap it, and you can wrap it in opposite directions as the previous knot. Or you can wrap them both in the, excuse me, same direction. I'm going to wrap it once, twice and a third time. And instead of having both ropes come through in the same direction, we kind of want them to be opposite of one another. So that opposite tension can pull against one another. And as we slide these two together, as you can see they are actually coming out of the same hole, and that's really not preferred in the same direction. So I'll loop it through here. Now as you see, I have two loops here, and four loops here. And it doesn't really matter, its all the same as long as you have multiple loops. And as you pull it tight, you can see these two knots bunch up together really good and tight to create a nice tight blood knot that will not weaken your cord.

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