The Blake's Hitch & The Closed Climbing System | Arborist Knots

[Music] good day three mugs here I wanted to show you how to tie the closed climbing system with the Blake's hitch so when I talked about getting back to basics this is pretty much as basic as it gets in terms of climbing so all you need for this setup is one rope and one and traditionally over the past 25 years or so this has been the go-to not for beginning climbers principally B just because it's so simplistic and it requires very little to get started so I'm going to show you how to tie this so it does take a bit of tail here on your line so first of all you need to take your rope up and through a crotch and back down to you so this is a doubled rope or moving rope climbing system and it's closed meaning that it has to go through a crotch first before you can tie it so you're going to take about four feet of tail so one two three four so I'm going to tie a mid line clove to get started and I'm just going to pop my gainer onto there and then I'm going to hook myself up and then I'm going to tighten that mid line clove and I'm going to paste out about a foot from there so how I tie it is I take my thumb and I rest my thumb on the standing end of the line here and I'm going to take the working end here I'm going to pass it once on my thumb twice on my thumb and then once above and twice above so four wraps total two on my thumb two above I'm going to take the tail pass it in front of itself and then it's going to pass behind the standing end and then it's going to poke up through the hole where my thumb was that what I'm going to do is just dress and set this get this all nice and tighten like that and then usually what people will do is throw a stop or knot onto the end of this so I'll just throw a little figure eight on there so that is your basic set up here you have a midline not a Blake's hitch and a stop or not so we refer to this as this portion here is the bridge so one reason I really like the the midline clove in this application is it makes it easy to adjust the length of your bridge so let's say I want to make my bridge a little bit longer here all I have to do is to push some slack into it from this side and then just redress and set that clove very easy to do and to adjust that and now I have a bit longer of a bridge so the way that you climb on this to ascend you never have to reach above the hitch you just grab here you pull and then you slide your knot up like that and then to defend you reach above the hitch and just pull slack and you can descend like that so that is the closed climbing system with the Blake's hitch so I'm going to show you one more time there's a lot of things going on here and it is actually easy to tie it and set it up wrong so let's look at it one more time so first of all you're going to take about four feet of tail maybe a little bit more four and I'm going to tie a midline clove just in behind that like this you don't have to use the clove you can use a lot of people like an anchor hitch in this application I just happen to prefer the clove okay so I'm going to snap that onto myself now I'm going to tighten that clove up okay now now I'm going to determine the length of my bridge I'm going to make it about a foot long here so I'm going to set my thumb on to the standing end and then the working end sits on top of my thumb so I'm going to do one that's one wrap there I'm going to do one more wrap on my thumb so two wraps on my thumb and then two wraps above my thumb like that and then I'm going to take from the top it's going to pass on top of itself like this and then it's going to pass behind the standing end and then it's going to poke up through that hole where my thumb was like that and now you're going to tighten all this up so that's your Blake's and then as I say usually you'll throw a little stopper knot on to the end of that so again in terms of getting back to basics that's about as basic as you can get that is the closed climbing system with the Blake's hitch [Music] you [Music]

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Id: NDjCFjw8tFg

Length: 6min 8sec (368 seconds)

Published: Wed May 24 2017