26/08/2026
Escaping zip ties with your hands restrained behind your back is a completely different problem.
Limited visibility. Restricted movement. Difficult access. Awkward body positioning. And significantly less control over what you’re doing.
That’s exactly why restraint-escape training has to include different positions, limitations and circumstances.
Here, I’m demonstrating the shoelace friction method with the hands restrained behind the back.
Is it fast? Not necessarily.
And it doesn’t have to be.
The important question is not simply “How fast can I get out?”
It is whether you have the knowledge, opportunity and ability to create an escape when circumstances allow it.
This technique will not fit every situation. Nothing will.
It is one tool, for one specific problem, within a much broader restraint-escape framework.
The objective is not to learn a trick.
The objective is to build options.