How to Tie an Overhand Bend Knot

Video Transcript

"Now the overhand bend, is often referred to as the tape knot. It?s a common knot used a lot in caving and climbing. And it?s basically simple. It?s taking two ropes and attaching them together with simple overhand knots. But it?s not the same as a double overhand knot. Because it?s not, both of your ropes would be going the same way in that way. And you want to create ropes going this way so the tension is pulled in one direction. You are not actually pulling on the rope from two different directions. Causing your knot to accidentally slip. What we're going to do is, we're going to take the length of the rope that I have here, and you can see that I already have a simple overhand knot started here with my piece of a rope that I've got. What I'm going to do, is I'm going to take my piece of my rope that I've got. What I'm going to do is I'm going to take my other length of rope and I'm going to follow the path that I've all ready created here. And I'm just going to loop it around. Let's get that loop out of it there. Loop it all the way around as I complete my secondary overhand knot in my other rope. Now as I pull these two knots together, you can see that they are both pulling together in the same loop. And what this is going to create is a single tension going in one direction with my two working ends right here. And now this is going to create a nice secure knot, to fasten two ropes together. Especially if you're going to be hanging from this."