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Re: Ian's Shoelace Site

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Post by rahimnathwani »

oldandboring wrote: post #54
AndrewHampton wrote: post #39

Back in 2004, while bored in my college dorm, I learned the Ian Knot from this site. I've used it ever since. A few weeks ago, my 10 year old decided it was time to learn how to tie his shoes "dad's way". I was pleasantly surprised to see the site was still up, so I used it to help teach him how to do it.

I also learned it back in 2004 and it was one of the single most useful skills I have ever acquired. My shoes never come untied anymore. Coaching baseball, when a kid's shoe comes untied, I re-tie it for them with the Ian knot. Life changing skill.

The Ian knot is just as likely to come untied the knot formed by the regular method or the bunny ear method. Because all result in the same knot.

If you noticed a change after you switched knots, you might have been inadvertently creating granny knots:

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm

Re: Ian's Shoelace Site

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Post by SoftTalker »

AndrewHampton wrote: post #39

Back in 2004, while bored in my college dorm, I learned the Ian Knot from this site. I've used it ever since. A few weeks ago, my 10 year old decided it was time to learn how to tie his shoes "dad's way". I was pleasantly surprised to see the site was still up, so I used it to help teach him how to do it.

I've tried a couple of these "better" shoe tying knots and have never had the patience to learn them to the point they become habitual. So I can spend 2 seconds tying a shoelace the way I learned when I was 5 years old, or I can spend 5 minutes fumbling with some other knot. I go with what works for me. Optimizing the time I spend tying my shoes just isn't anywhere on the radar of things that would have a worthwhile ROI.

Re: Ian's Shoelace Site

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Post by emsixteen »

avanai wrote: post #60
AndrewHampton wrote: post #39

Back in 2004, while bored in my college dorm, I learned the Ian Knot from this site. I've used it ever since. A few weeks ago, my 10 year old decided it was time to learn how to tie his shoes "dad's way". I was pleasantly surprised to see the site was still up, so I used it to help teach him how to do it.

Same. I also use Ian's Secure Knot in places where you'd use a double-knot https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm

This is the one I use, too. Learned this and the near-instant one, but this is actually really practical and produces a nice and even knot. Winner!

Re: Ian's Shoelace Site

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Post by SoftTalker »

GuB-42 wrote: post #46
squiggy22 wrote: post #43

you lot are obsessed. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...

Optimizing things that people do even think about optimizing and showing off the "better way" is completely in the spirit of Hacker News. That's the reason I am here ;)

This also from the group that likes to preach about "premature optimization"

Re: Ian's Shoelace Site

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Post by Sparkle-san »

AndrewHampton wrote: post #39

Back in 2004, while bored in my college dorm, I learned the Ian Knot from this site. I've used it ever since. A few weeks ago, my 10 year old decided it was time to learn how to tie his shoes "dad's way". I was pleasantly surprised to see the site was still up, so I used it to help teach him how to do it.

Amongst all of the technological advances available to us, tying my shoes using the Ian Knot is the one thing that will get people to accuse me of witchcraft.

Re: Ian's Shoelace Site

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Post by windthrown »

zkmon wrote: post #36

Why isn't all internet like this website?

If you read his support page it's apparent why not. This is a labor of love which he can still hardly keep afloat after trying a variety of income sources such as ads and direct sponsorships.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/support.htm

Why Support Ian?

I've devoted two decades of mostly altruistic labors to the niche topic of shoelaces. I spend probably 60 hours a week continuously improving this website, answering visitors' questions, solving their shoelace problems – even granting permission for my material to be re-used by other educators.

All of this effort earns me less than 1/5 of the Australian National Minimum Wage.

I'm thinking of calling this my “Million Dollar Website” – not because it's worth a million dollars but because it has cost me a million dollars compared to what I could have earned at a regular job (based on an average Australian annual wage of $50,000 × 25+ years).

Any support that you can give will be gratefully accepted and warmly appreciated.

Re: Ian's Shoelace Site

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Post by apparent »

ndr wrote: post #28

If you have trouble with toe nail trauma (all chipped for instance) check out heel lock lacing. It will prevent your toes to hit against the front of the shoes. One example here [0] for running shoes but it's useful also for normal walking. Ian of course has his own entry about this [1] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBbc6TackDQ&t=68s [1] https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/locklacing.htm

I found this to be incredibly helpful for blister prevention. Only downside is your laces have to be pretty long since this takes up a couple more inches on each side.

Re: Ian's Shoelace Site

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Post by jimmydddd »

SoftTalker wrote: post #62
AndrewHampton wrote: post #39

Back in 2004, while bored in my college dorm, I learned the Ian Knot from this site. I've used it ever since. A few weeks ago, my 10 year old decided it was time to learn how to tie his shoes "dad's way". I was pleasantly surprised to see the site was still up, so I used it to help teach him how to do it.

I've tried a couple of these "better" shoe tying knots and have never had the patience to learn them to the point they become habitual. So I can spend 2 seconds tying a shoelace the way I learned when I was 5 years old, or I can spend 5 minutes fumbling with some other knot. I go with what works for me. Optimizing the time I spend tying my shoes just isn't anywhere on the radar of things that would have a worthwhile…

I've been 100% slip-ons for years.
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