How To Tie A Honda Knot In A Lasso Or Lariat - Page 1 of 2

Just a couple of things before we get started...

• Tying a honda knot is often just called "tying a honda" (without the word "knot").
• The honda we're going to tie is a right-handed honda.
• For the photos, we're using a soft, household-use type of rope. Soft ropes are good for knot-tying practice. Even though the rope is not a lasso or lariat type of rope, the technique is the same.
• We took the photos from the side so you could see how the honda was being created and tied. However, you probably shouldn't hold the rope sideways like shown in the pictures when actually tying your honda. Holding the rope sideways causes some people to accidentally fight the natural twist in the rope and they wind up tying a crooked honda. Try to get into the habit of holding your rope straight out in front of you, and not sideways as in the photos, when tying your hondas.

Above: Photo of a finished honda knot .

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Begin with tying a simple overhand knot. Just take the tail of the rope and follow the arrows above. Do the red arrow first (under), then the blue arrow (over), then the green arrow (under).

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Your overhand knot is complete (it's inside the red circle, above). Make the loop created by the overhand knot fairly small, a little smaller than shown in the photo (we left ours big to make the photo clearer).

The blue line in the photo is indicating the part of the rope that will become the loop of the honda. Go ahead and make this part approximately the correct length right now. It should be long enough that when if forms a loop it is about the size you want your honda to be.

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Do NOT take the tail of the rope through the loop as indicated by the blue arrow in the photo above. This is a common mistake.

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Instead, push down as shown in the photo above, and take the tail of the rope through as shown by the red arrow.