How to Tie a Monkey Fist Knot

Keep your hand wide open. The process for making the monkey fist knot begins with your open hand around which you need to wrap the rope.To do this, use your non-dominant hand, and wrap the string with your dominant hand.Hold your hand out so your fingers are straight and slightly apart, and grab a little rope with your other hand.

Wrap the rope three times. Wrap the rope around your fingers, from little finger to index finger, making three turns, so that with each turn the rope is placed parallel to the others, without overlapping.This is the structure that the knot is based on, so this is when you can remove your hand from the coiled rope.Be careful to hold the rope steady as you proceed.

Repeat crosswise. Pass one of the ends through the three turns of rope made in the previous step, and wrap them making three more turns, perpendicular to the first three.Hold the rope so that the rope remains wide and wide enough, so that there is enough space in the center.

Repeat for the third time. Thread one end of the rope through the last set of rope turns you just made (but not through the first set), and wrap it perpendicularly again.This means that these three turns will have to be in the same direction as the first series, but you must wrap them so that they fill the spaces left empty in the first series, in order to create a three-dimensional shape.

Fill the middle part. A monkey fist knot requires a small hard object to be placed in the center of the knot, so that the knot is stable and heavy.The simplest method to achieve this is to tie the knot so that one of the two ends of the rope is very short, then make a pretzel knot with the other end and insert the end itself inside the monkey's fist .If you prefer to use another object, you can use a glass marble or any other spherical object of similar size.

• At this point, the central part of the knot will not yet be able to adequately lock the object you have inserted, since it has not yet been tightened.Hold the item in place and perform the next step to tighten the knot around it.
  
  

Tighten the knot. Now that you have a core inside the knot to tighten it around, tighten all the loops by pulling on the ends of the rope in turn and pushing or guiding the still loose loops into place.In the end you should get a knot with a spherical shape and a similar appearance to that of a volleyball wrapped in rope.

• If you used the end of the rope to tie the core of the knot, don't thread it all the way through, but leave some of it out so you can tighten the knot.When you have completed the operation, thread this part of the rope left out using the pretzel knot.