6 Rock Climbing Knots you must know! | StoneAgeMan

This is the first of our "outdoor skills" series and we're starting with a knot video. In this episode we're looking at some of the essential climbing knots for alpine environments.

These include:
Alpine Butterfly:
Threaded 8
Clove Hitch
Italian Hitch or Munter
Standard Prussik
French Prussik

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[iwatchedthevideo]

Sailor here. If there is one crowd I'd take knots advice from, its the climbers. Well done!

[zraybroske]

Always extend your rappel device and attach auto-blocks to your harness loop. Don’t attach your auto blocks to your leg loop. That is an old way of doing it that’s led to many deaths when the leg comes up and contacts the belay device. Notice how he even has to re-adjust it in the video because it comes too close to the belay device.

[FrederikAggeRonex]

This helped me become a better insctructor:
I actually did not know about the italian hitch, but it is so great that you guys showed it.
Things makes a lot more sense now, as several times when I have to check people´s clove hitches, it just looks wrong and does not really work as intended, I have struggled to pinpoint why and what went wrong, and often times when I have them show me, they do it correctly while I watch.
I now know that they accidentally folded it with an extra twist and made the italian hitch by mistake.

[danielgockerell]

Great vid. I don’t ever repel or belay directly off the harness in the event that the prusik can reach the repel device or when belaying risk getting caught up in the system when it is loaded. I belay off the anchor and always use a repel extension. Outside of those two critiques awesome video and Thankyou so much for sharing.

[luis.borges]

you should revise the prusik part there are a couple of mistakes potencially deadly

[ricardocastillo]

Very simple and explicit demonstration about knots👍🤝👍

[Chitario]

Some advice on the prusik/rappel situation:
You might want to extend the tuber away from your harness using a dyneema sling etc. and put the prusik onto your belay ring in the harness. That way, the prusik can not be sucked into the tuber device. It is also not recommended to fix it to one leg loop as you showed in the video.

[szymmarcinkowski]

11:14 Actually he would fall to the ground. His blocker is too close to ATC and that causes blocker to not work.

[andrehedger]

Like the setting and the great clarity of creating the knots

[PetterLyngeng]

Thank you. Many of these I did knot know before watching.

[jodywatkins]

Best knot video I have seen in a while! Great job!

[briancross]

Very good instruction and excellent camera work!

[mountainslovermanoj]

I like your way of teaching Italian clove hitch

[OneBliever]

That was awesome, thank you and the team.

[vincentlu]

when you demonstrate the standard prusik, the double fishermen's knot is right at the bridge part of the prusik, will it affect how the prusik perform?

[luigibenignochiappero]

Congrats Very good teacher!!!!
Best wishes.

[martinmartin]

I really like how you slowly show how to do it.

[dereke]

You should show how to tie a stopper knot after attaching to the harness with a figure 8.

[paulroskosky]

Awesome thanks for your knowledge and patience is a great thing and always remember safety first and foremost

[joseantoniosanchez]

I wouldn't put the prusik on that loop and I also wouldn't put it right before the belay device like that.