Having a couple of party tricks up your sleeve can often lead to getting to know who is who in a gathering. Certainly an innocent demonstration of a neat quick knot in a bootlace (which you just happen to have in your pocket) may later bring a stranger quietly to your side to pursue the subject further.

In other social circumstances, a hint of a coiled cord half out of a pants pocket can be sign enough. When the short rope is strung from your belt in a bar, the implications are a more open invitation.

With some tricks, Magicians often say "Don't try this at home". I say the opposite.
Opportunity to practice is what makes rope-work swift and efficient - and rope-tying practice sessions can sometimes be more fun that trying to sustain a hot encounter while fumbling with ropes.

PHOTOS
CORD SHOWING HALF IN AND HALF OUT OF JEANS POCKET
ROPE HANGING FROM WAIST BELT OF LEATHER PANTS

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Friction Loop:
(This is easier to illustrate than describe - so a set of photos needs to be taken)

It involves twisting the centre of a length of rope (1.5 to 3 meters) in
two directions at the same time.

Picture holding the rope, horizontally across the front of your body, it resting on the palms of your two hands, each palm flat under the rope - BUT one hand is placed with fingers pointed away from you, the other hand flat under the rope with fingers pointing towards you
(this position is not comfortable but is held for only seconds).

By now twisting each hand (inwards) to point fingers in reversed directions, two loops dangle between the hands. Now place these two loops side-by-side.
This produces a circle of double rope, inter-twined at the bottom.

As a demonstration, someone is invited to place both wrists side-by-side through this single loop. When the rope ends are pulled to reduce the loop size, the cross-over in the double rope holds by friction and the loop stays small. Invited to loosen the binding, the captive’s wrists are able to work the loop slightly bigger. It is then easy to quickly bring the two separate ends of rope up on either side between rope-circled wrists to form a square lash. By grasping close to the wrists the two hanging ropes, the lash remains secure. Keeping control by sustaining some tension, it is then easy to make off the lash in several ways described below (see ‘Additional moves’).

(2) Both ends are then taken under and over and dropped between wrists again - before being tightened. This should allow the rope to cinch between wrists, leaving an oval of double rope around each single wrist - and with the rope between wrists separating them slightly. (3) Make off rope.

ADDITIONAL MOVES

Wrists tied parallel in any of the ways described above allow for immediate further development. Having made-off the rope ends with a half-hitch or full reef knot the wrists are secure (this lash should not be too tight at this stage).
The tied person can then be further immobilised quickly and simply.

Three useful alternatives when hands are tied in front are … to pass rope ends either …

1 - Under crotch and tie off on the back of pants waist belt ... or …

2 - Take one rope end around each side of waist and tie off tightly behind, or …

3 - Lift bound wrists over the victim’s head and tie off in front of his throat (this is not dangerous unless an attempt is made to force wrists from behind the head).

All alternatives require additional rope.
Tying the hands with a three meter rope allows enough extra for any of the following.

3 - A more challenging development is to haul the tied hands over the prisoner's head, bring the rope firmly down behind his neck.

To tie this off infront of the throat is not as dangerous as it might sound.

 

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