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Corrections to knot technique come first

TyingPoint describes knots that people tie in boats, on crags, up trees, and on loaded trailers, so a wrong instruction here is not a typo — it is a hazard. If any step, dressing note, strength figure, or caution on this site looks wrong to you, that is the single most useful message you can send, and it goes to the top of the pile. Say which knot, which step, and what you believe the correct version is. If you have a reference — a testing report, a training syllabus, a standard, a published manual — include it, because that is what lets a correction be verified rather than simply swapped for another opinion.

Corrections are checked against real sources before anything changes. Where the honest answer turns out to be that a knot’s behaviour is genuinely disputed or depends on rope construction, the page is edited to say so plainly instead of picking whichever version sounds more confident.

What else is worth sending

• — A knot that is missing. Useful requests name the job it does, not just the knot, since the whole site is organized around tasks rather than names.
• — A diagram whose drawing does not match its written step. The two are authored together, but a mismatch is exactly the kind of error that is invisible to whoever wrote it.
• — A page that reads as though it were written from a template rather than about that specific knot. Every page here is meant to be written from that knot’s own history and mechanics.
• — Anything broken: a dead link, a diagram that will not step through, a page that renders badly on your phone. Include the device and browser if you can.

What this form is not for

It cannot tell you whether a particular knot is safe for a particular load, anchor, or rope in front of you right now. Nobody can answer that from a message, and a confident reply from someone who cannot see your setup is worth less than no reply at all. For anything load-bearing — climbing, rope access, rescue, arborist work, or rigging — get qualified in-person instruction. That is not a disclaimer to move past; it is the honest limit of what a reference site can do.

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One person reads these. Expect a reply within a few days for anything that needs one, and no reply at all if you would rather not leave an address — the email field is only there so a correction can be followed up.