Everyone has those little tricks that make life so much easier. This little knot is one of those that I always go back to and comes in handy for everything from rock climbing, to hanging a clothes line, to putting up a tent, to tying stuff down.<\/p>\n
<\/a>[Standard way of tying a prusik. Illustration credit: Western Safety<\/a>.<\/em>]<\/small> <\/p>\nA prusik (prussik, prusic) knot is a friction knot that allows you adjust it along a line, but it remains taunt under a load. It is often made by taking a loop of knot and passing it through itself. That is a helpful technique, but at times not feasible. Often you need to be able to tie a prusik on the end of a line. That is when you need to be able to tie it in an alternate way.<\/p>\nI used this knot on a kite I recently created<\/a>. In trying to illustrate my technique, I looked all over the internet to find instructions, but couldn’t find them so I decided to create a how-to video explaining the process. Hopefully this is helpful, and you can add it to your own bag of trick.<\/p>\n\n<\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone has those little tricks that make life so much easier. This little knot is one of those that I always go back to and comes in handy for everything from rock climbing, to hanging a clothes line, to putting up a tent, to tying stuff down. [Standard way of tying a prusik. Illustration credit: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[530],"tags":[635,636,633,632,248,634,38],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-friction-knot","tag-how-to","tag-knots","tag-prusik","tag-rock-climbing","tag-rope","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
A prusik (prussik, prusic) knot is a friction knot that allows you adjust it along a line, but it remains taunt under a load. It is often made by taking a loop of knot and passing it through itself. That is a helpful technique, but at times not feasible. Often you need to be able to tie a prusik on the end of a line. That is when you need to be able to tie it in an alternate way.<\/p>\n
I used this knot on a kite I recently created<\/a>. In trying to illustrate my technique, I looked all over the internet to find instructions, but couldn’t find them so I decided to create a how-to video explaining the process. Hopefully this is helpful, and you can add it to your own bag of trick.<\/p>\n\n<\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone has those little tricks that make life so much easier. This little knot is one of those that I always go back to and comes in handy for everything from rock climbing, to hanging a clothes line, to putting up a tent, to tying stuff down. [Standard way of tying a prusik. Illustration credit: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[530],"tags":[635,636,633,632,248,634,38],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-friction-knot","tag-how-to","tag-knots","tag-prusik","tag-rock-climbing","tag-rope","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Everyone has those little tricks that make life so much easier. This little knot is one of those that I always go back to and comes in handy for everything from rock climbing, to hanging a clothes line, to putting up a tent, to tying stuff down. [Standard way of tying a prusik. Illustration credit: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[530],"tags":[635,636,633,632,248,634,38],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-friction-knot","tag-how-to","tag-knots","tag-prusik","tag-rock-climbing","tag-rope","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>[Standard way of tying a prusik. Illustration credit: Western Safety<\/a>.<\/em>]<\/small> <\/p>\n