Foot lock

From Silkworms

foot lock:

(figure eight foot lock, foot stand, foot knot, foot wrap, lace lock)

the standard foot lock starts with the fabric wrapped around a leg as for basic stand. then you need to somehow get a loop of slack in the fabric above where it's wrapped around your leg, lift your wrapped leg higher than the loop, and step the wrapped leg's foot forward into the loop. we first learned a very formal way of tying it where you start from a basic stand, keep your legs straight and drop your butt down 'till you're piked, so you're hanging from the fabric in a "triangle position," with your body making two legs of the triangle. then take the free foot and press the hypotenuse of fabric out a little bit-- you can also slide the wrapped foot down slightly while you do this-- to get some slack. this is the "loop" that you're going to step into, although from this position it feels not so much like stepping as like wrapping your foot once en dehors. then come back up to standing.