Slowly
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For about half a century I have been tying my shoelaces in a certain way and then retying them as, all too soon they become undone - even with ugly double knotting of the loops
Recent press coverage of this paper http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/473/2200/20160770 and subsequent correspondence in one of the newspapers made me try a suggestion from one writer which was simply to do two turns rather than one before passing the second loop through to lie opposite the first. It is a little fiddly at first (unlearning those tens of thousands of times one has done the normal bow). From my limited testing it seems to work very well and looks OK. Essentially it seems that the more cross-overs the more friction between the two laces and hence the greater resistance to coming undone.
There are, of course, websites devoted to the topic... it is the "better bow" in the following site https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/knots.htm
So, we've had a lawnmower thread, now how do you tie your shoes?
Recent press coverage of this paper http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/473/2200/20160770 and subsequent correspondence in one of the newspapers made me try a suggestion from one writer which was simply to do two turns rather than one before passing the second loop through to lie opposite the first. It is a little fiddly at first (unlearning those tens of thousands of times one has done the normal bow). From my limited testing it seems to work very well and looks OK. Essentially it seems that the more cross-overs the more friction between the two laces and hence the greater resistance to coming undone.
There are, of course, websites devoted to the topic... it is the "better bow" in the following site https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/knots.htm
So, we've had a lawnmower thread, now how do you tie your shoes?