How to Tie a Bar Tie on Skating Shoes
Skating shoes have become more and more popular, not just among skateboarders but young people at large. If you wear skating shoes with normal laces tied in a criss-cross manner, you're making a major fashion faux-pas. Skating shoes must always sport a "bar tie." A bar tie means all the laces are tied in a flat, bar-like manner, that never cross but are parallel to each other. Once you get used to bar tying, it will become second nature to you.
Instructions
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Insert the aglet, or tip, of your shoelace down through the top left hole of your skating shoe. Pull it through a few inches.
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Run the shoelace through your fingers to make sure it's not twisted. Take the other tip of the shoelace and put it through the top right hole. Pull it through the hole a few inches.
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Hold both aglets in your hand and pull them towards you as much as you can. This motion should create a flat bar made of shoelace at the very top of your shoe. The right and left ends of the shoelace should be of equal lengths. Adjust them if they're not equal.
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Take the right end of your shoe lace and push the end of it up through the right hole that is second from the top. You should thread the shoelace through the hole from the bottom up.
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Run the right end of the shoelace through your fingers to make sure that it is smooth. Pull it across to the hole that is directly across from the one you just pulled the lace through. Insert the tip of the right end of the shoelace through the hole that is second from the top on the left side. Insert the shoelace from the top downwards.
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Take the left end of your shoelace and insert it into the hole that is third from the top, threading the shoelace in the hole from the bottom up. Pull the entire left end of the shoelace through your fingers to make sure it is not twisted.
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Pull the left end of the shoelace across to the hole that is directly parallel to the hole that you just pulled it through. Insert the tip of the shoelace into the hole that is third from the top, going from the top of the hole down to the bottom.
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Insert the tip of the right end of the shoelace into the hole on the right side of the shoe that is fourth from the top. Pull it through this hole going from the bottom upwards. Pull this length of shoelace across to the hole that is directly parallel to the one you just pulled the shoelace through.
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Insert the tip of the right end of the shoelace through the hole on the left side of the shoe that is fourth from the top. Insert the tip going from the top of the hole downwards.
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Take the tip of the left end of the shoelace and push it through the hole on the left side of the shoe that is fifth from the top. Insert the tip through this hole so that it is going from the bottom upwards. Pull it through.
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Run this end of the shoelace through your fingers, making sure that it's not twisted. Pull it across to the hole on the right side that is fifth from the top. Insert it through this hole, going from the top downwards.
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Adjust and tighten the bars of your shoelaces as necessary. insert your foot into the shoe, Take the remaining ends of the shoelaces and pull them tight. Make them into a loose knot and tuck them under the tongue of the shoe.
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References
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