When you get to the end of one rope, don’t fret. Here we are at the end of the beginner section and to move on you’ll need to know how to connect two ropes together while doing a tie that involves more rope.
Because of this technique, bondage tops don’t typically worry too much about how long the rope they are using is. Although you can pay attention if it is a 8m, 10m, or 12m rope, you really don’t have to, because you can always connect more rope to the end of another rope when you need more.
One thing to note here is what it means to have extra rope: That’s when you’ve done the tie completely but you have more running end. In these cases, we call using up the running end “burning” the rope. You can use a few strategies to burn rope, but generally, it’s best not to have too much rope to burn.
So when you get to the end of your tie, you might want to ask yourself, do I need a 6m, 8m, or 10m rope last? The reason that’s important is that you want to try to finish the tie as close to the end of the rope as possible, so you don’t have too much left over.
Lark’s Head Connector
Take another rope, fold it over, forming a new running and bight end, and connect it to the running end of the rope already on the sub’s body.
This way, you always have rope. We’ll call the rope on the sub’s body the old rope and the extension you’re adding the new rope to. The two will come together with a square knot, but we won’t form it using the traditional square knot technique above. Instead, we’ll use a lark’s head.
Here, the old rope is red, and the new rope is beige. Notice that we’re connecting the running end of the red (old) rope to the bight end of the beige (new) rope.
On the new rope, make a lark’s head:
Put the two strands of the old rope through the lark’s head:
Then carefully spread the lark’s head like a butterfly. Notice that in this photo I’ve turned the rope over so you can see the lark’s head spread like a butterfly:
The next part is deceptively simple and takes a little practice to get right. You’ll pull the end of running end of the new rope and the bight end of the old rope together, forming a square knot:
The “trick” is shown right here, and is that the bight end of the old (red) rope go together with the running end of the same rope (the red rope):
Finally, finish in a square knot:
