On the 18th of August 2006 I found Ian's website and decided to go with Ian's Secure Knot. I'm a long time sports instructor and was in the army for about 6 years. I've done triathlons and was a long distance runner for about 15 years. In the 10 years that have past since I've used Ian's Secure Knot I haven't had a SINGLE untied shoe lace! Not during any of my runs and not during any time in the woods when I was in the military. It has gone so far that I bet my students that I can show them how to never have an untied shoe lace ever again. My daughter is 1 and I have a son on the way. I can't wait until they are old enough for me to teach them how to properly knot their shoe laces! Ian, you have changed my life!

Having had very little parental help growing up, I taught myself to tie my shoes 40 years ago. Four years ago, I finally admitted I taught myself incorrectly (as they endlessly kept coming undone). My search quickly led me to your site and this knot, in particular. Since tone is absent via this medium, I'll say it clearly: thank you, Ian, for your website and your efforts. Thanks to you, I've learned to tie my shoes the best way possible and to re-lace my sneakers/trainers, boots and shoes to better suit their respective purposes. Sincerest best to you and yours.

Where has this knot been all my life

31 years old and learnt this knot just now. I’ll list it as one of my life regrets not learning it sooner😅 Thank you, Ian!

I've been doing this for the past 6 years or so since I discovered your wonderful site. And let me tell you sir, on my son's 5th birthday I showed this to him and he got it on his first try. Core father and son memory. Thank you! Blessings to you and your loved one's!

This Seemännische Schuhbandschleife is fantastic. I've been using it for years and never once has a shoelace come undone. Thanks for introducing me to it!

Love your work, Ian! About 15 years ago I stumbled on your site when I was looking for a way to use up some extra lace length on my office shoes because they were flopping around and coming undone all the time, and that was the day that I discovered that I'd been unwittingly tying granny-knots for 20-odd years. I fixed that AND I switched to a fancy lacing pattern that used up enough length to stop the ends and loops wouldn't get wet from flopping against the ground. I couldn't believe my Dad (who's been sailing small boats his whole life) never picked up on my knots being grannies, and let me be annoyed by it for so long. Anyway, I've been using this knot for my children's soccer boots for a few years now. It makes a huge difference! Every game we go to, at least one player loses a shoe in an enthusiastic kick, and four or five need to stop to tie their laces, but never my kids! I'd always used what you call the "Standard Shoelace Knot" and found the "bunny ears" method awkward, so I followed where the laces were going and adapted my Standard Shoelace Knot technique to produce a very similar knot. I've just discovered today that my adapted method for tying this knot looks a whole lot like the Berluti Knot instructions on your website. Are there any differences between this and the Berluti that you can see? When I'm doing this knot, I like to pass the end through a second time so that the starting knot has a second twist. I don't know if it makes it more secure, but it adds a bit of extra distance between the two loops around the middle and makes it look really neat.

Wow thank you. Sixty-six years old and finally learned how to do it securely. Excellent exposition. Thumbs up

This is my favorite knot! I've been using them ever since I've learned them on your website, and it has never come undone. Truly a great knot!

Thank you so much. I was considering getting new shoelaces for my shoes until I tried this knot. Absolute game changer. In fact, I switched to it so thoroughly that I genuinely don't remember how to tie the knot I used to do!

I've learnt this knot a few years ago, in my early 30s, from some youtube video that I can't even remember. It has solved the chronic problem of laces coming undone, once and for all. This knot has never failed me, not once. It should be taught in primary schools before numbers and letters.

Looks much better than the regular double knot i've been using my whole life. Thanks for posting this!

Seven years ago but relevant till we no longer need shoe laces. Love the clear and visual instructions, ignore negative comments because they only have two left feet. I also find going twice around instead of once at the start (left over right and left over right) holds in place for a firmer grip.

That detail at 2:02 is SUPER important. I always start right over left so reversing everything fixed it. Thanks this is great!

Thank you, professor! Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I've had these Salomon backpacking shoes for a bit over a month now and I've walked dozens of kilometers in them. Well, _something_ happened about two weeks ago and the laces would come undone every 100m or so! You can imagine my frustration! After consistently forgetting to google for a secure knot for days, I did it today and found your website. I'd been there before, but mostly for the novelty. Well, after a 12km walk during which my laces not only did not come undone but also remained as tight as if I'd just tied them, I have to sing your praises!

Very nice video Ian. I also "reinvented" (or discovered on my own) this knot over 20 years ago while I was on active duty in the USAF. I however perform the tying a little differently in that I do a double starting knot to hold the beginning extra tightly. Then I do a "Bunny round the tree" but I go around the tree twice. The end result looks the same as you have demonstrated. I have used this knot with great success on my boots, shoes and runners (as well as those of my 10 children). Thanks for the informative video!

how crazy with one exception this is how ive always tied my shoes. ive only ever put the right loop through the center i guess i never thought to do both loops through the center. thank you for completing me haha

You are Amazin....Finally got it after trying it almost 30 times!!!!.......Thanks a Lot!!!

Very interesting art and one of the best practical projects! Thank you for sharing! Keep it alive!

Thank you sir, this knot will significantly reduce my entire life's stress. May you live long and prospering life.

hey ian, another happy viewer here. it really helped. no more re-do every 10/15 minutes. i wish i found this tutorial sooner. cheers mate.

You just taught an almost 19 year old how to tie their shoes

Thank you Ian, great demonstration! Mr P.

I learnt this knot a couple months ago, since then this is my go to knot is so secure and awesome thank the one who invented this knot

This is the best method for shoelace tying! Works with longer laces, as well as shorter laces!! I wish I could better keep the starting knot taut as I approach the second half of the tying process, but you can’t have everything! Overall, this knot is just somehow better than anything else.

Thanks alot! Now I dont have the trouble of stopping in the middle of a basketball game just to tie my shoes😁

Thank you! Amazing technique, the look is also fine on plenty types of shoes.

You have just changed my life forever... To the better of course.

That’s a very secure knot, it will save me from a lot of frustration. Thank you sir - from Vietnam

pls. more shoelace stuff i love it. I love the Ian knot!

Hello, Professor Shoelace! You have NO IDEA how many imposters their are out there who have essentially bogarted your reinvented Ian Double Secure Shoelace Knot. It’s actually… quite interesting to see how far they’ve gone with it… Anyways, your knot still reigns supreme. Cheers, love!

I'm going to use this knot for the rest of my life. Thank you.

thank you so much sir! now I can tie my shoes properly :)

HI Ian! Switching to this secure knot from your "fastest" knot that I use now. This is taking only a little longer. I live in Mumbai and travel on crowded trains everyday - security of shoelace knot is of importance paramount!

What a beautiful explanation

Thank you so much before I found this video I had no idea of how to tie my shoelaces so you have really helped me

Lovely video!

That is a great knot, Thank you so much.

So basically which ever method right over left or left over right you do in the first step you do the opposite in the second step. Correct?

thank you that helps a lot with my slippery laces!!!

Looking forward to trying this, thanks Ian.

I have a pair of dress sneakers that I like to wear but they have slippery shoelaces that were always untying until I tried your secure shoelace knot. I tried some other knots that I found on KZfaq but my shoelaces would still untie. Your knot works! Thank you.

thank you for this video even if it was posted a few years ago really helped me learn easily as I couldn't do other knots.

Thank you Ian! I often go hiking in various terrain and got frustrated about untying shoelaces. Now I use secure knot and can walk withouth worrying. :-)

Dziękuję ślicznie, ułatwił mi Pan życie.

Thanks for your help!!

Love your vids!!👍

Nicely demonstrated! Thanks. - from India

This is great, I've NEVER had this knot come untied while running after several years now

Great video! Thank you so much

life changing is an apt statement for this sorcery

My favorite shoelace knot! When the knot is completed I take the long loose ends remaining and feed them through the laces to the bottom of the shoe to hold them down so they dont flop around as I walk about.

I keep hearing "insecure shoelace knot" 😅. But thanks, this is what I was looking for as my shoelaces always come off during my runs

If my shoelaces don't come undone when I'm walking anymore then you will go down as a legend!

So much easier to learn from Ian than from the LLBean website where I first heard about this knot.

Omg thx this really helped my soccer so I don’t take forever to tie it

man that is soooooo cool! nice one. been looking for a way to get rid of the dreaded big phat knot on top of a usual double lace tie and this is the one 😀

What do you do with the long bits that are left over?

Great knot! My right shoelace is ALWAYS coming undone for some reason and after tying it with this method, it hasn't come undone once and feels VERY secure. Thanks for the video!

Very similar to the berluti knot. Thanks for sharing.

thanks it works super well. Subscribed and likrd

So all i ever needed was to do a 2nd knot..... my life is saved.

This is cool, but I've found the Parisien knot to be very secure as well. Your knot is like a simplified or half Berlutti knot, which is the most secure and elegant looking knot for dress shoes.

Thank you!!

Thanks 🙏

I learned this knot while backpacking in the Rocky Mountains with the Boy Scouts. We called it the turquoise tortoise. I have no idea where the name came from.

Thank you, Ian. I used to use a regular knot and it was getting embarrassing how often it would come undone, often at work.

>Greetings from Germany;) Nice VIDEO!

THAnk you!!!!!

There's a way to improve this knot which, even though is pretty good, still comes undone. In this leather lace knot, called by various names, the bunny ear loops generally hold fast. rarely a problem. It's the shoelace ends that get pulled through usage, unraveling the knot without one even aware. The fix is to secure the loose ends with a square knot, such that when either loose end is tugged on doesn't budge and the loops don't. either. One can test this: tie the seaman's shoelace and then pull on either bitter end. The knot will unravel. Tie the seaman's shoelace knot and now the square knot. Pull on either bitter end or loop and none will unravel. I call it the Fed-up-with-constantly--retying-the-Moccasin knot-Knot.

Thanks

Your very helpfull...thnx...very much...

Also have a great life u da best man

Professor, I love this knot. Wish I knew about it when I was a young man playing sports. Now what do you do with long laces and have plenty of lace left over?

You should do this with shoe pointing in a position as if you were actually putting it on

Ian's Secure Knot (which this is starting at 3:09) is good for too-long laces because you can shorten them by making the *first* knot (before you form the loops) double or even triple. The Berluti knot is similar but a little more complicated, but I think it looks neater.

Hello Mr Ian of the famous Ian Knot. I've been using the famous Ian Knot for a good while now, I can't remember when I first discovered it, but lately hit a problem. I have some sports shoes and they seem to have the very issue that these skating shoes have, they are a circular lace and seem to have some sort of coating on them, I imagine to repel water but it also seems to repel the famous Ian Knot as well. The Ian Knot works well day to day on regular laces but I'm thinking this here may be the solution for my sports sessions. I shall give it a go. I was also going to ask what you recommend for teaching kids but have just found the page on your site. Many thanks for all of this knot help.

This rocks..

Super

I had major problems with the shoes to the point I would remove the laces and replace them with rubber hooks so I don't have to tie them, thanks for the pro tip

If in a regular bow knot, you let the rabbit run around the tree twice before it goes down the hole, your shoes will almost never come untied. And it still unties like a single loop knot vs. a double knot, assuming you don't intertwin the loose ends through the loop.

very useful.my daughter's shoelace will not loose easily.

Excellent instructions Prof. One thing, why did you place the shoe toe forward? We do the laces up with the heel nearest to us. I have to watch this vid upside down.....thank you.

Can you do this from the other direction, so we can see it from the wearer's perspective?

at 2:43 when he says you can let the other parts go, he actually doesn't. You will see his pinkies are still holding the ends of the laces.

What do you do with the remaining yards of lace.

Is it cris cross lacing or any other? I mean lacing on that shoe

Would it still be secure even if i don't pull tightly on the last step?

I am not sure what I am doing wrong, but both my ends seem to be sticking out the middle inside the two knots... it hold rather well, but it just looks a bit off.

What do we do with the ends that touch the floor so we don’t step on them or get them dirty 😭😭

Now for the whole thing

how do i do the the quad loop shoelace

I use your fast knot, learned from another video of yours. Do you think I should switch to this instead?

Would there ever be a reason to use the Mega Ian Shoelace Knot? As in, would there ever be a time when even this knot wouldn't hold together?

how does this knot compare to the berluti knot? the two are definitely very similar. the berluti knot is also very secure, but seems to be typically used on dress shoes for its aesthetic qualities.

Would have been useful to do a filming from the other side, and also one where you do it in normal speed as someone who's used to it.

Finally

This is kind of like a simpler take on the Berluti knot. I actually prefer your technique as it is still quite secure, but you don't have to fuss with sticking the tails in simultaneously with each loop. More about the knot: www.berluti.com/en-us/editorial/learn-to-tie-your-shoes/

Ian, how should you lace your shoes so that you stop feeling as if your heel is slipping out of the shoe? It really bugs you, this sensation of the shoe sort of slipping out at the heel.

one thing not less important about this knot: it is symmetrical so no side is above or below the other.