Ian Knot (2003)

I'm a big fan of Ian's secure shoelace knot, which I use all of the time on my hiking boots and hockey skates: http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm Easy to tie, easy to untie, and I've never had it slip or come untied on its own.

Many years ago I tied my shoes with something called Perry's Perpectual knot[1][2], and then haven't had to retie my shoes since. At worst the knot will get a bit loose from time to time (like maybe once a year), and then it takes a few seconds to tighten it again. I expect my shoes will fall apart (they're already pretty old) before this knot unties. [1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20051203081429/http://web.ukonli... [2] - http://i.imgur.com/mzyXuet.png

Perhaps he is the inventor of this knot in the same way I was the inventor of short division in grade school--I thought I had invented it since no one had taught it to me, but I had just rediscovered an existing technique. Since that was the way my dad learned how to tie his shoes from his father before Ian was born, I think the furthest one could say is Ian is _an_ inventor of this not, not _the_…

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