Shoe Lacing Methods

I actually received this guy's book as a gift and it's been quite the cool "life hack" to be able to tie my shoes with superhuman powers basically. And also to understand what someone is doing wrong by looking at their knot. And to browse through a catalog of lacing techniques each time I get new shoes and pick an optimal one.

I use the knot he calls the "Ian Knot" and after about 7 years it's come untied maybe twice.

The easiest thing to learn is, on the "typical knot" most people learn at childhood, if your "loops" stick out up and down instead of at the sides, then you're doing it wrong (tying a granny instead of a square knot) and need to reverse half your technique. Since the first "X" is simpler, the easy path is to just reverse the X you normally do and proceed from there. Suddenly, your shoes will come untied much less.

I can recommend the Altra Alternate method (which I don't think is on Ian's site) (although the newer Altra shoes have stupid webbing loops instead of holes which make it impossible to do the bottom gapping.)

https://www.altrarunning.com/run-better#lacing

Thoreau's journals removed a good deal of low-level daily frustration from my life. At one point, he and a friend decided to change the way they began their knots, and found it much better. I decided to try that, and my laces quit untying themselves.

If you have foot pain from feet that don't match the standard shoenshape, try gap lacingm