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Slipping Shoelace Knot Testimonials
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I just realized tonight that a family member was tying their shoes with a granny knot, and that's why they keep
coming untied. I wondered how many people trip and fall over loose shoelaces because their granny knots untie.
I think public education about shoe tying is a neglected necessity. Your website is really excellent both
artistically and technically. Thanks for making it.
(Brett H., USA)
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I stumbled upon your site because my shoes always came undone lol and i could never figure out why. Thanks a million.
No more tripping over my laces again!
(Abeer K.)
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After tripping over my loosened shoelace(s) for the nth time during hiking, I decided to look up the methodology for
creating a fail-proof knot. Thanks to your informative site, I now have the know-how to make a secure knot and the
scientific reasoning behind the elusive slippery knot that keeps falling apart. Will definitely use the secure knot
on my next outing in the mountains.
(Jack L., Los Angeles, USA)
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And thanks to you, I realize I've been tying my shoes wrong for nearly 40 years. No wonder the damn things were
always coming undone.
(Rob D.)
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I am a Kindergarten teacher in Summerville, SC. I spend my entire day tying shoe laces it seems! The shoes laces in
the shoes they have for kids are a JOKE!!!! they are not made to stay tied. I am looking for a solution! I may have
to buy lots of pairs of the old fashioned type and replace all of them! LOL
(Judy, SC, USA)
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What they had learned at school was looking extremely complicated to her. And the knots of one of her boys, she has
twins, was always loosening. So we analysed what he did and he made the same complicated end knot his brother made,
but started with a different start knot. Bingo, slip knot!
(Tonny V., The Netherlands)
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Recently, from some dark corner of my mind, came a weird suspicion that although I had been tying my shoelaces for
decades, I may have been tying them incorrectly. I was tying them the way my mom taught me when I was a child, but
they kept getting undone and thought she may have taught me the "little kid" version of shoelace knot, then forgot
to update me as I grew older. Plus the knots looked somehow "wrong." Or inept. Anyway, I was ashamed of my shoelace
knots!
I didn't think I'd come up with anything by Googling "tying shoelace" but that's how I came across your site.
Amazing! Although I'm seriously "spatial perception" challenged, I've mastered Ian's Knot, and even Ian's Secured
Knot and now walk about in utter confidence. Ian's knot is quite good looking and makes the bow lie side-to-side.
(Doug M.)
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It's amazing that the slip-knot problem isn't better known. I was looking for a web site explaining this, and found
yours. The illustrations are a great help.
(Eric S.)
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I bought some new boots and was struggling with the lacing (I had them "shoe shop" - impractacle as well as
unattractive). Turns out I am a classic passive slip knot merchant! I have adopted "over under" with the Ian Knot -
I am sure this will save me future back pain - the ammount of time each day I would bend over for a quick re-tie!
(Alan C., Oxfordshire, UK)
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Because of your site, I soon realized that my shoes coming untied often was not a result of slippery shoelaces, but
rather because I was infact tying my shoes in slip knots. My whole life (practically) I've been tying my shoes in
double-knots (tying the loops of the bow into an extra standard knot) to keep them tied. It's been a little
challenging to unlearn how I've been tying my shoes (I'm 23, so that's a long-term bad habit that I'm trying to
break), but I just had to laugh at myself for not ever bothering to figure out why my shoes would come untied if I
didn't put them in a double-knot (which is a pain to get untied), and how simple of a solution it is. It's kind of
funny, my little brother (10 yrs old) is often in trouble for walking on his shoelaces because they come undone so
often that he usually stops trying to keep up with them. Next time I visit my family I'll definately have to watch
him tie his laces - more than likely, like me, he is tying slip knots.
(Russell H., TX, USA)
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I discovered that I had been tying my shoelaces wrong all my life - 51 years - using the Granny Knot. I've just
learnt the Ian Knot from your crystal-clear instructions and will use that in future. I've re-laced all my shoes
using the Over Under cross. Fascinating site.
(Peter F.)
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But things came to a head this month when I brought a new pair of shoes with extra long (and extra smooth) laces.
The laces kept coming undone with frustrating regularity and alarming frequency. Worse, since the laces were extra
long, their long ends had a habit of getting under my feet and trying to trip me up when I tried to move after
standing around for a bit.
[snip]
Anyway to cut the long story short, the scales fell from my eyes when I went through your instructions. All my life,
I had stolidly and determinedly gone around tying the "granny" knot. Basically, somewhere along the way I had been
taught to form loops with both the left and right lace (after the starting knot) and to wrap them. Since the
initiative for wrapping for both the starting knot and the "finishing bow" was, in my case, taken up by the more
uncoordinated left hand, I had simple mindedly chosen to repeat the exact same wrapping motions in both cases!!
Naturally, I ALWAYS ended up with a granny knot.
[snip]
Enough rambling. :-) Your site is a God-Send - It is well-maintained, thoughtful, empathetic. I thank you for
putting it up.
(Girish B.)
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It wasn't until viewing your site that I realized I was tying my shoelaces incorrectly throughout my entire life.
Yes Ian I was tying a slip knot. Anyway not only do I now know to tie a reef knot from now on but I also know how to
tie a reef knot very quickly.
(Fred T.)
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So then I found the page about slipping knots. This is when I had my "wow" moment! I realized that I have been tying
my laces wrong my WHOLE life (I have no memory of who taught me!)
[snip]
My daughter was interested in the picture showing how if it's crooked then it will slip so we went thru the diagrams
together and I made sure she did the first knot the correct way to match her natural right loop she was already
doing. She figured it out within a few minutes and was all tickled with herself after I told her I'd been doing it
wrong all my life and she was like "mama, I'll teach YOU how to tie your show perfectly straight" LOL as I'm typing
this she just brought me her shoe again and said "see mama, PERFECTLY straight"
(Then, in a subsequent e-mail)
I was reading thru your feedback section and saw about the woman who used the Ian knot to tie her daughters' dresses.
Another lightbulb moment! That is why their bows never look good LOL. I was doing THOSE wrong too!
(Stefanie, USA)
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