scouts and guides and knots whipping-1

You Need : A piece of rope and a piece of string or chord 12 inches long. Use brightly colored string to decorate your jump rope or on a drawstring bag. Make a loop with one end of the string and lay the loop along the rope with the ends of the string hanging off the end of the rope. Hold string in place with your left thumb. With your right hand, wind the long end of the string tightly over the loop and around the rope. The short end will be left hanging. Wind the string around the rope for at least an inch. Wind firmly and closely but do not overlap. When you have wound far enough, tuck the end you have been winding through the loop. Hold it with your left hand thumb so it does not loosen. Take the other end and pull slowly. The loop will disappear under the winding. Pull until the loop is halfway under the winding. Trim the ends to make a neat finish. If you whipping slips off the rope, you did not make it tight enough. Practice until it holds when you try to push it off. AMERICAN WHIPPING Make a loop in a 3-foot length of twine and place it at the end of the rope with one end of the twine pointing in the same directions as the rope end, the other pointing the opposite way. Wrap twine tightly around rope stating about ½ Inch from the rope end. Continue until a whipping is as wide as rope is thick. Pull the two ends out to either side, Cut off ends of twine near whipping.