THE VIDEO SHELF · climbing knots
Why Figure 8 knot is NOT hard to untie!
Hard Is Easy runs experiments to show that a correctly tied figure 8 knot is not hard to untie after loading. He shows how two knots that look similar can behave differently depending on how they are dressed.
Why HN readers recommended it
Cited in climbing knot threads to counter the claim that figure 8s jam, by showing the correct tying method.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Hard Is Easy
- Topic
- climbing knots
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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This is a great video. A summary for those who don't want to wade through it: The main message is that if the knot is slightly loose, or messy, the strands pinch unevenly in a fall, and it can be really hard to untie (depending …
imurray on Hacker News · 2022-08
In Essential Climbing KnotsApparently there is a wrong way of tying a figure 8, that leads to a version that is much harder to untie. Personally I've never had issues untying a figure 8, so it might just be that my default way of tying it happened to …
roessland on Hacker News · 2021-03
In Learn How to Tie Knots
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