Shoelaces
A while back I saw this video and started to tie my shoes this way:
I decided to look up a better way to tie my shoes recently because my shoes would get really tight at the bottom and way too lose at the top. I would keep adjusting my shoes but it was a never ending battle. Eventually I found this website that has collected a ton of shoelace information in one site. I would say that I’m surprised to see how much time someone spent putting up all this shoelace information, but when you consider how many pictures there are of things like kung fu cats you realize that the shoelace site is par for the course on the internet.
I’m currently trying out ladder lacing shown below:
I would recommend giving lock lacing a try.
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For a while there I was tying my shoes like that (the Ian knot). I did tie my shoes really fast most of the time, but the variance was unacceptably high. Although I was pretty good at it, occasionally I’d get befuddled somehow, like my finger would get tied into the knot or something. It made me look and feel super cool when it worked, but it wasn’t worth feeling like an idiot when it didn’t.
That ladder scheme looks like it would require considerably longer laces.
Also, since I’m on the subject, when I tie my shoes as above, they end up backwards; that is, they look as if someone standing in front of me had tied my shoes in the standard way, or as if I were left-handed.
This would not be a concern, except in some Law & Order episode, the crack detective inferred that the body had been dressed after the murder because of the way the laces were tied. Imagine if I were murdered and the detectives were led astray by my backwards laces!
Yeah. My current shoes have laces that are really long so the ladder scheme helped shorten them up a bit.
I must admit that I had not considered what the detective of my murder would think. Hopefully the detective is smart enough to read my blog.