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Never hold your laces? Then you tie the wrong knot. That is why millions of people stumble over their own feet. They are the perfect shoe grinding techniques easy to learn. Mathematicians have the best researched.

 

This sight will never forget Paul Ives - he was too funny: As the Briton last August from the work came home, was chosen as the ground-floor window of his cottage in the tranquil British Dartford a man over the head, at the laces of his sneakers, which is on the outside of the window had caught. The man hanging in the living room had a hammer in his hand and swore to the police summoned "
I have a burglar prosecuted. "Two months later the burglar was convicted. The" BBC "headline"
Prison for the laces burglars. "

One should recall the well-tie shoes is just as burglars.

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The shoelace-burglar is one of many messages on the side of Ian Fieggen, an Australian scientist who has been against the wrong moment in the opening shoe grinding fights. Some of the shoelace-related accidents in Fieggens Archives are absurd, tragic many people are drowning, are over, with their race cars in the building - all because of shoe loops that are in the wrong moment to open.

This happens fairly often - for some shoes to me several times a day, other Leidgeplagten more frequently. A shoe grinding victims complained in
Web: "At work, I am almost the whole day on the road and every 20 minutes for a return to the shoe laces open." Then the cry for help: "I really belligerent as soon as the crisis. Did someone have a hint that the laces keep getting better?"

Ian Fieggen had a few. The 46-year-old programmer analyzed by its own since 1982, different methods for tying shoe grinding, looks the most comprehensive website on the topic and has one of the standard works on the topic were published ( "Laces: 100s of Ways to Pimp Your Kicks").

Slippery standard grandchildren

One reason that some of the grinding shoe straps always come up: the material. Fieggen: "This is much more prevalent, as many synthetic laces are very slippery, especially in nylon." Helmut Farnschläder, President of the Confederation of German shoemaker craft, observed mainly in the standard shoe-tapes: "The vast majority of all the shoes have laces from their factory that does not consist of pure cotton. The more synthetic share, the worse the nodes hold. The companies that replacement grandchildren offer this note. "

But even with such raunchy Standardsenkeln can be a fairly safe seat loop tie - with the right technology. Shoe grinding expert Ian Fieggen explains: "The fact that loops are solved, there is usually at the nodes. I know this because I use a special node and my shoe grinding never easy so work out."

The Indian is too loose knot

The most common error when tying shoe: the people actually want a loop with a cross tie knots (which would be quite safe), but make a habit of Indian nodes, which is much easier to solve. The mathematician David J. Green, with the knot theory, explains: "The Indian Reffknoten and the knots look very similar, but different. The conventional shoelace knot is a Reffknoten with two loops. Some people have learned by mistake an Indian instead of a node Reffknoten to bind. "

Ian describes the difference Fieggen on his
Bootlace Web pages in great detail. On charts look very confusing at first node, but the difference is actually quite simple: When Indian nodes the first node has the same orientation as the second, at the junction nodes are antithetical. What that mean is, do you recognize a little self-observation. I tie my shoes for examples intuitive way: Left laces on the right, then an over-hand knot, then the left and right loop straps around the back to show them.

But this is the perfect Indian knots - twice the left instead of left and once again right. The solution is simple: When the first node on the left not the right laces basket, but vice versa. Ian Fieggen, at its Web site all the methods, an Indian to tie knots, and lists suggestions for how many years this day antrainierten flows through a minimal change can correct.

That one years is not, as a child the wrong loop technique learned to have astounded many visitors from Fieggens page. Some write it then
E-mails like Martin from the Netherlands, which loops the shoe-side in a mountain biking forum discovered: "What kind of enlightenment, I'm 31 and my shoelaces are now steadily risen. Now I know why."

Ian Fieggens super-node

For a long antrainierte Indian node-up routine, you have a few days, very slowly and deliberately tie his shoes. Who wants this effort may also invest in a completely different loop knot to learn. Ian Fieggens focuses on some of its pages to choose from, even more can be found in the book, "A Mathematical Guide to the Best (And Worst) Ways to Lace Your Shoes" the mathematician Burkhard Polster.

Ian Figgiens schnürt his shoes for years with its own development, "
Ian node. Figgiens the node that is one of the safest, looks neat and symmetrical from, claimed the material and can be less - once learned - much faster than traditional tie shoe loop. Figgiens: "I need a third of the time as a ordinary nodes. "

If that is true, it brings the rest of his life about the time certainly loose again, you need to listen to the Ian Knot anzutrainieren - this is more difficult than an Indian abzugewöhnen nodes. But after a few days does it almost with the same routine, with one years too loose shoe has tied loops. A bad habit that you should necessarily get rid of.

For whoever wants to, at some point in the unpleasant situation, the museum open on his shoelaces to stumble and three Mingvasen to
smash.

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