How To Tie A Honda Knot - Page 2 of 2

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It will take several seconds before your rope and honda look like the photo above. See the instructions below...

Pull slowly and gently on your rope as shown by the blue arrows (you will be pulling in opposite directions), and push up where the red arrow is pointing. It will take several seconds of pulling and pushing, then your rope and honda should begin to take shape and look similar to the photo.

Do NOT pull things tight yet, just get them barely snug.

During this step you will need to do some shaping and adjusting. Go ahead and shape the honda with your hands, and if it isn't the right size adjust your knot to increase or decrease the size. When the honda is the right size, go to the next step.

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After you get your honda the way you want it, you will continue to shape the knot. You did a little of this in the previous step when you pushed up on the part of the knot that the red arrow pointed to. You're now going to do more of the same.

Use your thumb as shown above to make sure this part of the knot (this is the same place the red arrow points to in the previous step) is level from left to right. See the next photo (photo 7) to see how it should look.

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Your honda if finished! The blue circle is showing the part of the knot that should be level from left to right. You should now pull your honda as tight as you can get it.

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Remember, our demonstration rope is just a soft household-use type of rope (soft ropes are easy to practice tying knots with). When you tie a honda in a rope you intend to actually rope something with, you will need a knot in the tail of the rope. This missing tail knot is shown by the red circle above.

Why do you need a knot in the tail of your rope? A honda without a knot in the tail of the rope won't stay tied when pressure is put on it during roping - the tail of the rope will simply slide through the honda knot and the whole thing will come untied.