Today I’m showing you a video on how to store your rope in such a way as to snap it out dramatically just before you play.
This is a reasonably quick way to store your rope; and it’s a fun way to get your rope out again for when you go to tie someone up. The other useful thing about this video is that it also shows you an easy way to mark your bight – this means when you untie your rope, you can quickly mark the middle and then toss it aside. Makes it easy for if you want to use that same rope to tie again.
Enjoy!
Protip: If you have one set of ends shorter than the other after you’ve created your hank, that’s actually an advantage.
The reason is, when you go to “snap” out your rope, you need to grasp the correct set of ends in each hand. If one set of ends is much shorter, and one is longer, then you hold the shorter ones in one hand and the longer ones in the other. This prevents fumbling and messing up, and makes the process appear much smoother and more awesome.
Additional Tip: if you leave your rope stored in a hank for awhile, the tension eventually relaxes and it gets looser and messier. It’s a good idea to re-do your hanks as part of your prep for a hot rope bondage scene, so they’re tidy and will function the way you want them to.
The problem with marking your bight is that with use the rope will stretch and not necessarily evenly. Just saying. Darn that bight it moved to the right…… 😉
Absolutely that can be a problem – and of course how you use your bight determines how much wear it’s going to take. The best solution that I’ve found to that is to trim off an inch or two from one side of the rope in order to “shift” the bight. Eventually your rope is going to be pretty short, but that will take awhile and hey. We don’t expect rope to last forever.
I agree with what you have said. I gave up marking my bight like this a long time ago as in addition it can also cause an annoying kink in the rope right but the bight which can make things difficult when working at speed. We damage the bight of our rope enough without adding to it.
Thank you for your contribution. In your experience, which activities cause the most damage to the bight? I can make some inferences, but it’s always better to check my assumptions and actually ask what it is that other people are doing.
The quick release when rolling up your ropes. While the rest of your rope is nearly relaxed by comparison, the bight is crinkled in tension. Any twisting on this can also lead to this region being unwound making it more vulnerable to damage. Then when the rope is in use, it is once again the certain part of the rope to be twisted into a bind, favouring tension close to the bight for quick releases or extending.
Any area of the rope which gets repeated rubbing or wear is going to be an area that breaks down sooner. Some people use the bite in tying a pulley style wrap (rope on rope) – when doing that it’s best to maneuver the rope to create a second Bight simply by working with working ends
That’s pretty much what I expected. When you use the bight that way it is really rough on the rope. There’s a neat trick where you can use a captured loop knot to do that second bight you were talking about – it really deserves a post of it’s own at some point!