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citriccenobite
@citriccenobite

15 minutes ago my sister came up and was like "hey you wanna see me tie my shoes cool" and then showed me this web 1.0 ass site this dude named ian has been running for 20 years. he invented his own shoelace knot. dudes fucking ROCK


wavebeem
@wavebeem

my shoes used to come undone all the time and i hated tying and lacing

knots

ian's secure shoelace knot

so easy and so sturdy. shoes do NOT come untied with this style

lacing techniques

over under lacing

it's like standard lacing but looks a little cooler and works a little better

straight bar lacing

this is how you make your sneakers look sick as hell

double helix lacing

this is so nice for boots


WobblyPython
@WobblyPython

Oh you like to wear your shoes slip on style? How about lacing up a SICK PENTAGRAM?

DO IT. IAN WILL TEACH YOU.


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in reply to @citriccenobite's post:

haha, holy shit, I've been using "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot" for the past 15 years, ever since I got that pair of boots where the laces were a bit too long and a bit too slippery and kept on undoing themselves.

I think this was the website that also taught me that I was just plain tying my shoelaces wrong for more than a decade - the bow should sit horizontally across your shoe. If it's diagonal or vertical, you've done part of it backwards, and it's a much weaker knot.

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