Originally Posted by
cmoulder
One thing I discovered about Blake's early on is that it works in both directions. When I was first trying to learn to tie it, I tied in reverse — the Anti-Blake's, if you will — and like a blissfully ignorant dumbazz used it successfully in the wrong direction for quite a while, several times in some quite strong winds. It never slipped a micron.
This fortuitous error taught me something; instead of having only half the available distance for adjustment, I could slip that loop around the stake and proceed to cinch the loop right down to the ground.