Vertical caving terminology and methods > Knots > Common knots
Common Recommended
A coil used to bundle ropes up for storage, transport or drying. Uncoils without twists, and rarely causes tangles. A few different variations for how to tie the loose end, usually started with a doubled rope. Some start with the two ends of the rope in your hand, some start with the middle of the rope in your hand. Some variations allow the coil to be worn as a backpack, some allow it to be hung on a peg, others use the final turn to bind the coil, leaving the binding around the coil without an obvious tail. The "wow" coiling method starts with a single strand, and normally allows the rope to be used without uncoiling, as it normally pays out like a flake (but sometimes it does not, so it cannot be relied on).
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