Criss Cross Lacing Tutorial – Professor Shoelace
- Posted on 18 October, 2012
- Lace Closure
- By Anonymous
How to lace shoes with “Criss Cross Lacing” – probably the most common shoe lacing technique. The laces simply criss-cross as they work their way up the shoe.
0:00 Introducing “Criss Cross Lacing”
0:17 Demo on “Ian's Shoelace Site”
0:33 Lacing a real shoe
1:24 Finished lacing tied with my “Ian Knot”
1:34 Link to website
More info plus animated diagrams and step-by-step instructions on “Ian's Shoelace Site”, the Internet's #1 website about shoelaces:
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/criss...
G'Day everyone “Professor Shoelace” here.. This is the first of what I hope will be many shoe lacing tutorial videos., Of course, we're gon na start with the most basic shoe, lacing method of all, which is called “Criss Cross Lacing”. So named, because the laces simply criss-cross, as they work their way up. The shoe. Now here's how Criss Cross Lacing, looks on my “Ian's Shoelace Site”.. In fact, I can animate the diagram and you can see how the laces simply criss-cross as they work their way up the shoe. At each eyelet pair. They go under the sides and out through the next higher eyelet.. So let's see how that looks on a real shoe.. I'Ve started with the lace running across the bottom and out through the bottom eyelet pair.. Now, each time take one end, feed it under the side and out through the next higher eyelet. Same with the other, forming one crossover. Again feed under the side and out through the next higher eyelet. Same with the other side.. Now this series of crossovers is ... fairly efficient because the laces run diagonally. And the ends are crossed in the middle of the shoe. So there's not much in the way of pressure points, because it's not sort of pressed down by the sides of the shoe.. So it makes it fairly comfortable as well. When you hit the top of the shoe, you can tie it with your favourite knot, which of course in my case, is the “Ian Knot”, the world's fastest shoelace knot.. So there you have, it Hope you enjoyed it., That's “Criss Cross Lacing”.. If you want more information, you can go to Ian's Shoelace Site www.fieggen.com/shoelace.
Comments
potato man: I understand this is a little over 2 years old, but wanted to comment and say this helped a TON, as I bought pink shoelaces to support breast cancer and couldn't figure out how to install them in my shoes. Thanks a lot for this!
andrea g.: I finally learned how to get these things back on after washing them, thank you for your service professor!
dani: thanks for this simple and easy to follow tutorial! I took the laces out of my shoes and forgot how to put them back in so this was helpful
Suresh Kumar: Thank you so much. I tried lacing my shoe for the first time after watching this
cheese whisk: Thank you for teaching me how to do this! It's taken me twenty years of my life to finally learn how to do this on my own
Yasmin🌸: Thank you for this simple straightforward tutorial x
Precious: Thank you so much! It's so easy and simple to follow :)
SMB Collector: I laced up my shoes and then realized how wrong it looked so here I am. Thank you for such a quick, easy, no-frills video explaining this.
Immanuel S: Ayo thanks a lot for this tutorial! I can finally put my laces on my shoe by myself after washin them! Much appreciated
Devananda MS: Thank you! It helped me really well than the other videos
Maryonn Grace: Thanks professor! You helped me a great deal.
AndrewJay1325: Thanks so much!! I'm very excited to wear my new boots and this helped a lot.
Nama Zuberi: It is very simple and amazing style.. thanks for this video
D K: thank you professor for sach a nice teaching in very simple way
Jeremy Gilmore: Incredibly straightforward! Thank you :)
Guilherme Mendes: Thank you for your tutorials, been saving me for years!
Scuba Man: Thank you very much! My mom forgot to wash my laces so I had to take my laces from another shoe and put them in the shoes I'm wearing now (to go laser tagging ) and me not knowing how to put laces in this saved my life! So thank you
Hi Stranger •••: Thanks the instructions are so clear!♥️
Brian Hayes: probably sounds sad but I had no idea how to do it so thx it helped a lot
Luke Ford: Thanks! This is so helpful! I really needed this! :)
Todd Davis: THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! I've been trying to repair split seams on the leggings of my pants and I thought I'd just do that easily but after 5, (and it did work but so sloppy) I was about to give up completely. Thank you for giving an idiot a second chance!
stormlord121: Did it and it looks great! Thank you for the video!
Arlene Graham: Thank you for this easy way ..I learnt it quick !! God bless u..
LyndsayT99: Thanks so much! This was really helpful
Reem ?: thank you soooo much it actually helped, shared it with all my friends:)
Sandhu Saab: That's really amazing and helpful to me,,because i was looking for this for hours and finally I get it,,, this is the easiest way I found, and helpful to everyone ,,thnxc
Nishchaiy Dakhane: Thank you sir. Very informative
Kainat Abbasi: Thank You for teaching me how to do it. ♥️
FollowersofDamu: I am amost 30 and I just learned how to lace my shoes! Thanks Ian!
Stevie Flann: I like my laces this way too. It's efficient and very simple. Of course, when buying new footwear with laces, they always come the 'other way' so need removing and then criss-crossing. Personally I find this method to be superior and prevents the laces from becoming too loose.
Danika: Was completely clueless. This was straightforward, thank you!
Cesar Aguilar: Wow, thanks man you saved me. My shoelace ripped and I bought new ones and completely forgot how to put them in.
karthikeyan: Super it's very easy ... Thanks for your idea
Siya Raghavan: Thank you sir, it helped me a lot
Faisal Khan: Thanks a lot man. Works great. You earned a subscriber :)
Nisarg Chauhan: thanks a lot for this helpful video solved my biggest problem✌
ghostrider437: thank you for your teaching, shoelace senpai
Kaniska Sarkar: THANK YOU VERY MUCH PROFESSOR SHOELACE!!!!! THIS VIDEO HELPED ME A LOT!!! I had to wash my sneakers so i had to unlace them and now i could'nt lace them back and was getting frustated.. and then i watched this video.. THANKS A TON!!! C: C:
Umar Muhammad: brilliant thanks man really helpful you are really a professer
Adi Adrian: Great video and very usefull ! :)
Faraz Ali: This type of video help us in doing things properly thanks for this video
Cheyenne Dooley: Thank you very much!! Very helpful
P Kekulawala: Thank you so much my shoe was perfect after this And my sis was so jealous.. I did not tell that I watched a YouTube video And she did not have the brain to watch one Thank you again
Sonny Whitt: Thanks! Helped so much!
Damian Kisiel: Oh god. Finally tutorial for me. Thank you so much !
khushi shah: OMG! thank you so much i am going camping tommorw and need to do it and thanks to you i did it and can go!
avocado lover: thank you sooo sooo much man. omg i was so scared i would mess up but this guided me through, very, very well.
ronenfe: @ProfessorShoelace thanks. and how do you decide which lace will be on top of the otjer when they cross each other? do you make it symmetric with the other shoe?
Misbah Shaikh: Thank u so much...I wasn't having Idea how to do it...& With the help of u..I did just in a minute... thanks once again
nicktjacob: Great video! Much appreciated.
Big Blob Blob: Thank you helped so much!!
TheVinylBinge: Saved my shoe life thanks a ton!
Mire: Very good video! Thanks a lot :)
R1 Snkrs: Used this video to lace up my Jordan 1s. This is a certified sneaker head classic
Jade Garcia: I watched this video because I had to tie some shoelaces for my Lego shoe, that I was making and this helped SO MUCH
Resmi D.N: Thanks a lot sir.......for this video it was super easy
Nicole Chan: great video! thank you so much im 18 and still dont know how to install my shoelace lol haha
roxamine: thanks, this was so helpful :))
Purnima Puri: At last I found this..! So I managed to tie my shoe lace:)
Lauren Michelle Jauregui Morgado: omg thank you SO much, my mom kept ranting on about my shoes that kept coming undone bc I had them uneven lol, THANK YOU
Lavanya B: Thank you so much. That was very helpful
Kitty Ferocity: Thank you! I watched this on my phone and I was getting so frustrated because I couldn't lace my shoes. (I unlaced them to wash them.) After you helped me, I had to log into youtube on my computer to give you my thanks. You saved my rear!
Michael Underwood: Amazing job very straight to the point.
Alviya shaikh: thank u soo much u actually solved my problem in just a minute thank u soo much !!
vagish kumar: Nice instructions. Thank You for the video
a: Thank u so much really helped ☺️
Flytvguy7: Thanks! :) I kinda forgot and this tutorial helped!
ProfessorShoelace: @Huzaifa Ahmad - At the end of the lacing, I always do my "Ian Knot", the world's fastest shoelace knot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O-xaJrao1w
Antonio Burritomaker Jimenez: thanks bro I'm 17 and I had no idea it was my first time you deserve a sub!
Domenico Renzi: When I buy a pair of shoes I always watch your videos to fix them, now I bought some Adidas Superstars! Thank you Ian ;-)
Karen Engelhardt: Thank you i was running late for school and i didnt know to to put it back on
Sam Rad: Thank you you're a life saver ! 23 yo and I still don't know how to do it shame on me
Sam2Sam's Rc's: Thanks it helped me a lot
BERU: Thanks for your help
Rana Assad: Thank you professor!
glitCh_STitcH👽🤖: Thank you .. really helped
Marine Jewel: I love how everyone here is talking about how helpful this video is with their real shoes while I’m here trying to learn how to fix a toy shoe
sc.willis: Thanks, man. I appreciate it. ✊
Dylan Kelk: Thanks for this my man! :)
Giorno the Pasta Boss: Thanks m8. My old show Leases were spaghetti long but these new ones I bought are perfect thank you
Zeest hassan: thank you so much... I really appreciate it...!!!
Chan Shen: simple and looks pretty damn cool
DTay45: This helped man thank you
Vinayak Parab: Thank you very much. That worked for me
juxtatortoise: Thanks I usually ask my parents to do it for me
Amit’s Formula: Thanks a lot!!! It helps.
Shristika Rai: thank you so much!! now finally i can go to the party. ;)
Anastasia Christodoulou Anastasia Christodoulou: Thanks i spend like an hour trying it and all i had to do was watch this video and it was the simplest thing that i hadnt tried (stupid me)
DSR-115: This helped alot :)
Istiak Abir: Thanks man, God bless you
Sidney: I like this method best, and I think it looks neater than starting over rather than under because the lace is less visible at the bottom. But why are most shoes I buy laced (or started to lace) the other way--over the tops at the very bottom? Why do they assume we want it that way?
m3m3_depot: I forgot how to lace my shoes this way thanks
Ramgharia girl: Thank you so much sir
Rhyan Codrington: Thanks much appreciated :)
Sister Daniel: Forgot how to lace my shoes, and this saved me
jimin's tiny hands: i got a pair of shoes that were a size to big while straight laced, so this saved my life omg thanks!
IAmBrandon: Thanks, I really needed this video
Debashis Karmakar: Thanks sir... It really helps me...
ObscurousX127: What is the difference if you go over the eyelet and then underneath to the next? Every time I buy a pair of shoes, it's 50/50 of if they started the lace one way or the other. Should I completely redo the laces if they are opposite from this video?
Rajmohan M: Easy to understand, man... Awesome