Walter & Group...
Some of you had trouble finding the pages behind the cover when you tried to access Dan Lagece's article on teaching yourself how to cast with either hand in Pat Damico's attachment.
Once you have the cover page, note the little icons in line below the page. (27 of them) Hover your curser over the 14th one from the extreme left. This is a blue > in a box. It should read, "Next page (page down"). The pages will come up with each click.
Lewis Hinks did it by saving it and opening it up using a different program.
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Pat Damico asked the question : "Is there a disadvantage in learning to do this ?"
Frankly, I can't think of one.
I did find that overlining the rod for teaching yourself to cast with your opposite hand helped just as it does when teaching students to cast with the primary hand. I think this is due to the fact that it allows one to feel the rod load better.
Gordy
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Another thought ... from John Bilotta :
Gordy,
John
Bilotta
John....
I hadn't thought of that. Speaks to the idea that what works for teaching to cast with the dominant hand will also help when teaching to cast with the other one.
Gordy
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From Jim Chestnut :
Gordy,
You wrote this commment in the "non-dominant hand" discussion:
"I'm old enough to remember a time when mothers were encouraged to insist
upon their young children using the right hand even though they began to
appear to be "left handed". Makes me wonder whether some of our students
who do better than expected with the left hand even though they have been
"right handed", may have been brought up that way."
I think you are absolutely right, Gordy, judging from my experience with
my daughter, who is left-handed. When she was very young, I made her a
right-handed golf club, and used to play wiffle ball with her, she batting
right-handed. I anticipated she would take to tennis and was not mistaken
- she loved it from a very young age.
The reason I changed her golf and softball swings to right-handed was to
give her backhand a huge edge over her competitors' backhands which are
nearly always the weakest part of their games.
As she grew older, her tennis coach dropped the 2-handed forehand to a
one-handed forehand - retaining the two-handed backhand as most women
tennis players do.
Since her left hand is the dominant one, her single-handed, left-handed
forehand developed unbelievably fast, in fact years faster than it took
her competitors to develop a reliable offensive backhand.
I taught her to double haul a few years ago, and the next thing I knew she
was doing it right-handed almost as well, and trying to sucker me into a
contest - me left-handed against her right- handed.
Cheers,
Jim
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Liam Duffy comes in as a real live left hander :
Hi
Gordy,
As a "kithoog" as we say in Ireland (a left landed person and survivor of
the Irish Christian(!!!!) Brothers) my method is to give the student a rod (same
action and AFTMA rating)in both hands and go through the casts with
both hands. Then after a time take away the rod from the dominant hand. It
works!! (muscle memory has been implanted in the "non dominant" hand/arm) hope
this helps.
Best Regards,
Liam Duffy
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Liam, Did the Brothers try to convert you to right handedness as a youngster ? If so, and you are still a practicing card carrying "kithoog", perhaps it didn't work ! ???
Gordy
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