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>>mhb+(OP)
I discovered this site two decades or so ago. I used it to teach my then young son—whose name is, appropriately, Ian—how to tie the fast Ian Knot. My spouse, a kindergarten teacher, used it to learn how to tie student's shoes with Ian's Secure Knot which has been very helpful as kid's shoes with conventional knots tend to come untied on the playground.

It is sad to see that Ian is struggling to fund the site: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/support.htm

>>Wistar+Gt
As a U10 soccer coach, using Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot kept my players in the game much longer.

>>SamBam+vM1
I'll have to give that secure knot a try. My son keeps getting his shoelaces undone, and we tend to solve it with just an extra knot on top, but maybe there's a better solution.

I've been tying my shoes for a couple of years now with his "Ian Knot" method, and it works very well. I never mastered the asymmetrical single-loop method, so all my life I'd been doing the bunny ears. Maybe the asymmetrical method doesn't make sense to me for a symmetrical knot. The Ian Knot makes more sense and is easier and faster.

Others in the family tried it too, but I don't think it stuck with them.