How to Coil Any Kind of Cord

Make sure that the medium you are coiling is clean and ready to be put away.

Your dominant hand will be the coiling hand, your non-dominant hand will just hold the coil. Take one end of the cord or rope into your non-dominant hand. Have the end fall about an inch out of your hand either towards you or away from you. This will determine whether the line will be coiled clockwise or counter-clockwise.

If you are holding the line in your left hand (you are right-handed) and the end is facing towards your body, this means that you will be coiling counter-clockwise. If the end is facing away from you, the coiling will be clockwise. The opposite will be true for left-handed coilers.

Run your coiling hand (the dominant) along the line from your holding hand until you have both arms spread wide (an wingspan of rope).

Bring your dominant hand toward your holding hand and use your index finger and thumb to twist the line in the direction that you want the coil to go (usually a 180-360 degree twist does the trick).

Lay the rope into your holding hand and you should have the first of many neat, non-kinking coils.

Repeat 4-6 with the next arm lengths of rope until you reach the last arm length.

With this last length of line you can finish the coil in a variety of ways. One simple way is to take the last length of rope and wrap it three or four times around the outside of the coils that you made, then thread the end through the upper of the area between the coils and pull it tight, the coil should now be secured and you can use the extra length to tie the coil to something in order to store the line.

Done!