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Okay, when we made a loop at the end of knot using the figure eight, you notice we had
access to both sides of the rope, or to one side of the rope. If you ever need to make
a loop in the middle of a rope, same thing kind of applies. You can use a figure eight
just by doing that, but that's really not the best way of doing it because of the way
the figure eight is structured. It's not the safest thing to do. And the overhand knot
rule still applies. It's going to be tight, hard to untie and not, not the best knot.
But there's a knot called the Alpine Butterfly. To start, you go through this way and I'm
going to show you with just using the ends of the rope just because it's easier to tie.
You can actually twist it around like this and get what you need this way, but for, it's
much easier to see if you just wrap it around. You start with your rope over this way, wrap
one end around, and then you take this and, and you kind of pull it back under this other
side and create an X with the first side of the rope. To complete this knot, you take
this end and just pull it through this way. And that makes your loop. Now you just kind
of pull it through now, and tighten it and get it situated. And as you can tell, the
rope as it goes through, it ends up on the same way like to where it's parallel to the
other rope entering. If you were to use the overhand or the figure eight for this, you
wouldn't have that result.