How to Tie a Double Overhand Knot

Video Transcript

"Now say you need a larger stopper knot. The easiest way to do this would be a double overhand knot. A double overhand knot is just like your simple overhand knot but it makes a nice bigger bulkier knot. So what we're going to do is take our length of rope that we have here. We're going to take our working end and we're going to pull out a little bit here so we might need a little bit extra and we'll loop it over like so. Then we'll twist it under once, so we have our one twist. Then we twist it under a second time. As you pull these knots together you see this will go into a nice figure 8 which means it's going to be a nice clean thick knot. You might have to help it along a little bit. There you go, your double overhand knot. This is a great stopper knot if you need to pack things with you know objects with bigger holes in them or whatever. So, let's do this one more time so we have a good grasp of what we're doing here. Take our length of rope, pull it out, loop it over, bring our working end under our loop once, bring it under our loop a second time and just pull and you can see the figure 8 appearing once again and we push these two ends together. Like with every other overhand knot, the more you pull on it the tighter this knot would get. So there's no fear of this knot actually slipping or coming out of the rope."