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Cross-loading of (eye) knots

Your video showing some light jostling of a bowline by gentle, cyclic ring-loading of the eye is rather beside the point : you need to show both simple versions of the bowline (tail-inside (usual) & tail-outside ("Dutch/Cowboy")) and then some HEAVY steady loading, maybe preferably with a dropped weight (dynamic loading), showing how the former, usual bowline can just SPILL ! What you show is more germane simply to the lack of slack-security of the bowline, a separate issue.