Tying the the bowline knot. You want to put the working end between two fingers,
come over the rope, and create this here. Now what you want to do is you want to take
that same working end, come around, and then back through the hole. You're
creating a little mini bight here. So you grab both,
pull, and there goes your knot. Now there's another option to tie the bowline, it's called a
snap bowline. So you take that same working end, you create an underhand loop, just like
that. You want to reach under, pull the working end. You don't want to pull it all
the way through just enough to make a little loop. You want to grab the
standing end of the rope, stick it through that hole, pull it back to where
you create like a little mini bight with itself, grab both, grab the working end,
snap it. There goes your snap bowline.
Before you go, I want to teach you some rope terminology that will assist you in
tying your future knots. So let's start with this rope. The we begin to start
our knot on that's known as the working end or running end. The opposite end is
known as a standing end. Now you may also hear the term loop and there's a lot of
confusion with a loop. So here's the loop. This is an overhand loop
because the working end is over the standing end. Now if you reverse that,
this is known as an underhand loop because the working end is underneath
the standing end. You may also hear the term turn that means you're just
going over an object like this, you're not going completely around, you're just
kind of like a bend over. That's a turn. Now if you go all the way around an
object and you create that loop there, that's called a round turn. Another term
you may hear is a bight. That's pretty much when you take one part of the rope,
and you touch another part of the rope. That's a bight. A bend is just simply a bend.
It's not a bight, it's a bend.