New and Improved Tie-in Knot: The Sooooper 8™®

If you've ever gotten the sinking feeling in the middle of a pitch that maybe your knot might not be secure, this is the knot for you: The Sooooper 8™®
Four passes through both tie-in points with a triple retraced figure-8 knot with 3 extra passes followed by a 12-wrap safety knot and finished by a three-wrap monkey puzzle stopper knot. For extra added safety, I have included a three wrap prusik attached to the belay loop with opposite and opposed lockers ('cause you never know...)

-loads of safety!
-takes a mere 23 minutes to tie/untie!
-replete with awesome redundantness!

Please offer improvements if you can add any.
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just need to back up those tie in loops

Yer gonna die. What if your harness breaks? You really should be using two harness, with seperate and isolated ropes.

Your knot looks decent though.

Very elegant - what happens when your quick release harness fails though?

The fact that you think its acceptable to not be using a quarter rope system is very sad. I imagine that you left the other 3 ropes out to make your knot clearer but someone with less than 25 years experience is going to see this and the blood will be on your soul.

andrewc wrote:The fact that you think its acceptable to not be using a quarter rope system is very sad. I imagine that you left the other 3 ropes out to make your knot clearer but someone with less than 25 years experience is going to see this and the blood will be on your soul.

Maybe I should add a disclaimer or perhaps a EULA-type legal waiver when you click to view the larger image.

If the knot gets ½Nelson's approval, I'm using it anyhow.

Being skeptical, I'm still doubtful about overall safety.

Now I know why 70 and 80 meter ropes came to the market!

Your stopper knot isn't snugged all the way up to the triple retraced figure-8.

YER GUNNA DIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!

OMG....MY EYES... MY FRIGGIN EYES

the monkey puzzle protects you from primates, too.

and the ability to breed with other human primates, also

After considering the legal ramifications of someone using this knot, maybe I should replace the original photo with this one. That should clear up any confusion/improper use.

I dunno.. I'm still a bit skeptical. Maybe you could show us a pull test at FF3?

are those speed buckles?!

Good...but it wouldn't hurt to leave a little more tail at the end. Knot creep...and stuff. As previously mentioned I'd probably back up that rappel loop too and instead of the prussik I'd probably just attach a mini trax or two above the knot. SAFER that way.

Can't ever have too many tools in the tool box. Great climbing content!

Now it looks like you blurred a picture of your weiner.

Just sayin'!

Woodchuck ATC wrote:Being skeptical, I'm still doubtful about overall safety.

I agree, what if you hit yourself in the face with than monkey puzzle knot! I think that you need a fully integrated face shield and likely a neck protector to protect you from your safety knot.

Also, what about a full body harness and added parachute... just in case.

I lied about the monkey puzzle stopper knot: It's actually a very compressed full body airbag. I'd explain how it works, but I signed a non-disclosure form....

I've been using that knot for years, but added one more keeper sling prusiked slightly above your purple backup knot that automatically deploys my parachute when it goes taut. I only use this knot for multi-pitch clearly.

One more extra wrap on your prussic and isolate the strands by cloving them to the individual biners and I'd say you are just about done.