How to Perform the Impossible Knot Trick

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Harold Winchester, and today I'm going to teach you how to do the Impossible Knot Trick, which is actually a misnomer, because if it was impossible, you couldn't do it either. So what we've got here, is I have a length of rope laid here on my table. And basically what I'm going to do is, I'm going to cross my arms. You know, just kind of make sure that you have, you know...the...'cause basically what you're doing is, you're forming a knot with your arms. And then you're gonna, you know, transfer that to the rope. So if I grab this end here with this hand, and of course, my hand down here, grab this end, and just pull my arms apart, it's going to be a knot. And of course, if I had a shorter length of rope, this would actually be a full knot here, but what I've made is a slip-knot loop. Let's do that one more time. Take the rope...here, let's do my arms backwards, like so, there we go. Pick up this end here. Then come over here. Pick this one up. And, without tying yourself up, pull your arms loose, and there you have it. Your impossible knot trick. And you can just pull it out like so, and that's it. My name is Harold Winchester, and that was the Impossible Knot Trick."