Bet you think you are pretty smart with that huge day rate?

[darrenb]

knotty

Goon: How many years experience do you have tying your shoelaces?
Me: Well, let me see, I spend about two minutes a day on it... multiply by ten thousand days... um, very nearly a whole month's experience I bet! That's pretty good!
Goon: I'm sorry, our client is looking for twenty years experience with KNOTS.
Me: You don't understand! That's not the core skill! That part of the job description is trivial like reading email or writing HTML.
Goon: Er, is it? Sure, ok, I know that, but it's not about what I want. It's what my client wants. How many years experience do you have reading email?

[xoggoth]

As a kid I was taught that method shown in video and thought it was daft. I have been doing it my own way ever since. Double both ends equally, tie those loops with normal knot. Simples.

[scooterscot]

Too hot for shoes, i'm wearing sandals.

[TykeMerc]

For an absurdly dull subject that was entertaining, good find.

[doodab]

You can achieve the same effect by reversing the direction of the initial intertwining of laces. I thought everyone knew this.

[TimberWolf]

I appear to be tying the strong form already. I make the first bow on the right and the loop around that in a natural way. This knot stays transverse with the shoe when stressed. Whereas if I continue starting with the right bow as before and instead loop around it the unnatural way round, the knot goes to tulip and rotates to the longitudinal direction when stressed.

[SimonMac]

I'm wearing slip-ons

[fragglerock]

but there is a good chance you are tying your shoe laces wrong!

YouTube - ‪Terry Moore: How to tie your shoes‬‏