Traditional Archery YouTube Channel Spends 45 Minutes Explaining Something That Takes 30 Seconds to Do

A new YouTube tutorial on tying a timber hitch to a bowstring, a procedure that takes approximately thirty seconds in practice, has clocked in at 45 minutes and 22 seconds, making it the longest timber-hitch tutorial in the platform's history.

The video, posted by channel Ye Olde Bowcraft (14,200 subscribers), opens with a twelve-minute segment on the history of the timber hitch, tracing it from neolithic Europe through the medieval period and into what the host calls 'the timber hitch's golden age, which is now.'

This is followed by a nine-minute sponsor segment for an artisanal bow wax company, during which the host applies wax to his forearms 'to demonstrate absorption,' and an eight-minute philosophical meditation titled 'What Is a Knot, Really?'

The actual timber-hitch instruction begins at the 37-minute mark and lasts approximately ninety seconds, during which the host ties the hitch correctly on the first attempt while saying 'and that's really all there is to it.'

The remaining seven minutes consist of b-roll footage of the host walking through a forest, set to acoustic guitar music, with occasional title cards reading 'THE BOW REMEMBERS.'

Comments on the video are divided. 'Finally, a comprehensive timber hitch resource,' wrote one viewer. 'I skipped to 37:00,' wrote another, who received forty-seven angry replies about 'disrespecting the craft.'

The host has announced a follow-up video on nocking points, estimated at ninety minutes.