Why YSK is to prevent your shoes from coming untied, creating a tripping hazard (plus it looks better).
Hello there. Please don’t forget to include “Why YSK:” in the body text part of your posts :)
Done! Thanks for the reminder.
Ian’s Shoelace Site has 25 different ways to tie your laces. I’ve been using the eponymous Ian knot for years.
Bookmark worthy. Thank you, wise internet stranger. May your laces never come undone
Yes. Ian knot hasn’t failed me yet. I didnt know there were more, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqXZHA46wTU A very fast way of tying your shoelaces.
I tied mine wrong for about 45 years. I use a variant of the strong knot he demonstrates here. It’s a game changer. My shoes never come accidentally untied anymore.
I use this method. Took a second to learn but now it’s insanely fast and easy. I used to tie and leave tied, but now I don’t have to
The real trick is to reverse how you do the first part of the knot instead of trying to do your loops “backwards”
I just stick with Merrell slip-ons, no need for laces and you don’t feel like a child with velcro.
I’ve never even heard of the way that he’s calling wrong. I’ve always tied my shoes with the bow going across the shoe.
I just do the former but tie the bows together to “lock” the instant “pull to untie” feature of the knot, then treat them like slip-ons. The “lock” don’t bind so they’re not hard to remove if I have to.
I just make them loose enough to be able to slip on/off with minimal hand use but fit enough that they won’t come off in normal circumstances.
I can tie a noose a little faster than my shoes so I guess I’m just bad at tying shoes.
i tie my laces the fancy pants way Kirby Allison demonstrated on his you tube channel. sorry im new here and dont know how to link things get. the basics are instead of one time around the loop you go twice around and then proceed as usual. since i started doing this my laces have never come untied by themselves. to release the knot just pull both tails at the same time
Lemmy seems to support markdown. You can link things by putting the text between square brackets and link between parentheses, what I actually put above was
[markdown](https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax#links)
thank you
Didn’t know I needed this