How to learn knots

[TBONTB]

I it's time for me to start to learn knots. There are so many things a person needs to learn or find in this process

I have a joist I think might work for an anchor point. I'd like to test it again a couple of times, but in the meantime..the knots

I will need one knot for the anchor point. This might be a bowline? And one knot for the noose, seems to be a noose knot with a stopper. I can spend you tube time with these..brain stretch for me. Any comments welxome

But, I don't know how to sequence these. It seems hard to tie two knots in the same rope. Is it better to start with the bowline and leave enough length for the noose? Or should I tie the noose and then keep threading it through as I tie the bowline? I have never had great spatial abilities

 

[JesiBel]

I plan to tie the rope to the anchor point first (because it is quite high and I find it more comfortable to have that knot ready first), then I'll tie the ligature.

For the ligature I will use: Noose knot with stopper knot (also known as Arbor knot)





For the anchor point I will use one of these: Overhand loop knot (very easy, my first option), or: Bowline knot, Anchor hitch knot.

 

[AreWeWinning]

I can spend you tube time with these..brain stretch for me. Any comments welxome

Regarding learning the knots, it's like learning any new skill. Imagine learning how to drive. At first, it seems hard. But even just a few hours of practice could get you from A to B. Practice it a bit more, and it becomes easy.

Don't try to create your full setup straight away. First, just sit down with a piece of rope, open a YouTube video or some step-by-step tutorial, and get familiar with the knot. Tie it around an object in the exact same orientation as shown in the tutorial. Practice it until you can do it on your own. Then, rotate the object, and try to do it at a slightly different angle. If you can't do it, go back to the previous step. Repeat.

Don't stress about it. Just practice a few minutes every day or a couple of times a day for a few days. You'll get good at it pretty fast.

 

[Gustav Hartmann]

Basically you only need to know one knot, and I am shure you know it already. If you wear a bathrope you usually have something like a cotton belt around your weist. You normally close this belt/rope with a simple double knot in front of you. Now imagine your waist is a horizontal beam, this is how you fix the rope at your gallows/anchor point. Than imagine your waist is the rope that you want to use to hang yourself, this is how you form a noose.