Month: October 2024
10/26/2024 Recap
We had a great class today. In the beginner section we went over Square Knot vs. Granny Knot, The Summerville Bowline, Double Columns and leg ladders, and how to extend your rope using a Lark’s head. In the intermediate section, TickledKink showed us how to tie a nice clean leg ladder and improved an attached hand tie. We…
10/12/2024 Recap
Today, we had a nice big group and could split into beginner & intermediate sections. The beginner section reviewed the running end and bight end, the overhand single columns, and the Sommerville Bowline The intermediate section did various things including a quick upper body chest harness (the two-band simple one from Tiziano’s book) as well…
Clove Hitch
A clove hitch is one half-hitch followed by another half-hitch, but that description is deceptively simple. In this example, we’re making a half hitch onto a suspension line. The line we’re making the hitch with is called our running line. Since the suspension line is perpendicular, the running line will form either a 4 or…
9/27/2024 Recap
We reviewed the Summerville Bowline and single/double column ties. We looked at a couple of Shibari books for inspiration and then ended with a review of the spreader bar technique 🙂