Climbing How To: The Best* Way To Tie a Bowline. *Maybe! #Shorts

It's my favourite way, but remember to comment below if you want to see what knot I actually use...

[Robert-yszy]

I really appreciate your delivery of knowledge.
Keep up the good work!

[doughobbs]

Tied it this way for years, very fast and kool isn't it! 😎👍

If you bring the rope end into the loop the other way you put the tail on the inside of the knot, your way puts the tail on the outside.

[davidsimpson]

for Single pitch I always use a double bowline, multipitch its the fig. 8

[grigorbrowning]

I converted to a fig-8 with a Yosemite finish after watching your video on it. Took a good few sessions for it to genuinely feel absolutely 'normal' but since then I've not looked back. For me it's been the comfortable middle choice between a standard fig-8 vs moving to a bowline. Thanks again!

[vbregier]

Note that if you don’t like having the end of the rope coming from the top of the knot, you can also have it on the bottom.
To have this, start threading the rope through your harness from top loop first then bottom loop, instead of bottom loop first then top.
In my opinion the end of the rope is slightly less in the way this way.

[jimcross]

What a cool way to tie a bowline. Sweet

[hydrosmerc]

A version that is about the same complexity and speed is the simple lock bowline! Same way to tie, instead of finishing with a stopper knot you rethread :P Its really easy to check since it ends up with a nice cross shape.

[christiangraves]

That's pretty sweet i use a double Bowlin pretty much all the time (don't tell the gym staff 🤣)

[eloimauri]

I prefer the rethreaded bowline, it seems a bit safer to me

[PeteMP]

Do you realise you managed a video shorter than a minute 😆

[edenundo]

I had to turn my phone upside down to get the best perspective 😂

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Just for information, the knot you've done isn't a "standard" bowline, it's what we called a "cowboy" bowline. You can do the standard bowline by passing the end of the rope behind the loop and not in front of the loop. There is an eternal debate on which knot is the best for climbing and I don't know the answer but I just wanted to add this precison.

[KubaClimbsRocks]

I just got asked about my bowline the other day and I am definitely the rabbit/tree's kinda guy but THIS has got to be the slickest way to tie a bowline!

[robertkavanagh]

Good video, under a minute. What is the way you tie in? thanks.

[mattbaker]

Is this the same as a Dutch Bowline? The tail exits on the outside and is supposedly better for an outward/wide angle pull, so a good choice to tie off on a tree, for example. Nice short Jez 👍

[markdemmery]

How easy is that, is this knot safe when using a tree anchor for a group bottom rope set up?

[stefanofalero]

just blew my mind. a slip knot, thread the other side of the rope, pop out the slip

[TonySpinach]

Isn’t the tail on the outside in the way you tied it?

[edwardpszczolkowski]

Nice and fast! So for the sake of conversation and at risk of sounding like a pedant, I think what you tied is technically a cowboy bowline. This has the working end finish outside the loop compared to the standard bowline which finishes on the inside. Some conjecture on the cowboy bowline being weaker, but I don’t think there is data to back that up. Anyway, keep up the awesome content (:

[MMReleese]

Isn't it a bit unsafe to tie a single bow line even with a stopper?
You could just retrace the first bow line to have it super solid
Atleast that's what I learned from climbing instructors in germany