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G'day everyone, Ian Fieggen here,  also known as "Professor Shoelace".  Today's video is about Straight Bar Lacing,  so named because it forms a series of  straight horizontal bars across the shoe.  Although some people think it's like the  vertical bars of a prison cell, but,  you can make up your own mind about that.  It's also known as "Lydiard Lacing",  named after the legendary running coach  Arthur Lydiard, who recommended it for  reducing pressure on the upper ridge of the foot.  In fact, if you compare it to something like .  Straight European, which also has straight sections,  but it's got this underlying zig-zag,  now those underlying bits are obviously  what's going to be pressed into the foot.  So . having . no underlying sections  makes it a bit more comfortable,  not to mention looking more uncluttered, it .  a lot of people use this on  dress shoes or, just on sneakers, 'cos,  hey, it look pretty cool! So .  That's what it looks like, let's see how it's laced.  I've got us set up here on a simple sneaker.  And . you can see I've started already  with the lacing running straight across  the bottom and in through both bottom eyelets.  Now we begin with one end. I'm taking the left end  and running it straight up the inside  and out through the next higher eyelet.  Then I continue straight across the shoe  and in through the adjacent eyelet.  Now the idea is we've got both ends on the same side  and we can run straight up the inside,  straight across the outside,  straight up the inside, straight across the outside,  and so forth if you've got more eyelets.  So I'll take the lowest end,  go straight up two eyelets,  and out through the first . vacant eyelet.  Again . this one goes in through there, so up two,  and again, out through the first vacant eyelet.  Now we run straight across on the outside,  and in through the adjacent eyelet.  Again, straight across the outside,  and in through the adjacent eyelet.  I'll just neaten that up there.  Now here, we once again go  straight up the inside,  and out through the first vacant eyelet.  Again, straight up one . two .  out through the first vacant eyelet.  Straight across on the outside,  in through the adjacent eyelet.  And now that we're at the top of the shoe,  we can simply complete it by .  straight up and out through the top eyelet.  Here, I'm tying it off with my  world's fastest shoelace knot,  but you can use any knot you like.  And that's it Straight Bar Lacing.  Now you'll notice - see how I've got quite a long  loose end there?  In fact, if I compare it to Criss Cross Lacing,  the ends are . substantially longer.  I usually find the total end length is about   or  percent longer on typical shoes.  So it's something to bear in mind  when you use Straight Bar Lacing,  it uses up less shoelace than Criss Cross Lacing,  so you'll end up with longer ends.  That's great if your normal ends are a bit too short,  you can simply re-lace it with Straight Bar Lacing  and you'll have slightly longer ends.  Now, a couple of other points.  I'll just show you this on my . Windows .  on my website. This is Ian's Shoelace Site,  which, if I animate the Straight Bar Lacing,  you'll see it goes straight across,  straight up,  straight across,  straight up,  straight across,  straight up,  straight across, and finish.  Now that's on a shoe with eight pairs of eyelets.  Here it is on six . four .  or two pairs of eyelets.  And the reason I haven't shown it on  any ODD numbers of eyelet pairs . is .  that that's a real problem.  Here's a shoe with seven pairs of eyelets,  and . you can see that when it's finished,  well, what have we got? We've got .  both ends sort of ending up at the same point.  So, do we . run a diagonal or do we  run that and then . they don't meet?  Here I'll show you . on my iPhone app,  I've got a few workarounds.  So this one I've just simply decided, look, let's .  forget the bottom pair of eyelets so we'll  pretend it's only a shoe with six pairs of eyelets.  Here we've actually run a single diagonal across the bottom.  You can do that at the top as well.  Here we've got a single crossover . at the bottom.  Here we've cut the lace at the bottom  and got one end tied off at the bottom-left (oops!)  and one end tied off at the bottom-right.  Here we've got . two passes across  the second-from-bottom eyelet.  And again, a double-pass with this one  sort of looped under before it proceeds up.  This variation has both ends coming out through  the top-left eyelet and then across the top.  When you've got that tied you'll effectively have  a double-pass at the top there.  And this final variation,  what I've done is simply laced with  Straight Bar Lacing for the first six eyelets,  and then finished at the top with  what we call "Lock Lacing".  Lock Lacing's a special technique for  additional tightening, so,  if you're a runner and you want that additional tightening  well you've got a . a solution built in.  Anyway, that's Straight Bar Lacing.  Hope you enjoyed it!  And if you want more detailed instructions,  diagrams, animations, you name it,  you can go to Ian's Shoelace Site https://yaahshoes.com/best-casual-shoes-for-men/