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>From Mike Heritage :
"The proper application of power is a constant acceleration with a delayed rotation during the "stopping sequence", sometimes called rod unload."
Can someone explain this please. Why delayed rotation? The majority of acceleration is made during rotation so why are we delaying? What are we stopping, the rod or the hand? Come to that what is stopping, the hand or the rod? Obviously the rod doesn't stop after the hand does, it unloads. Are we now saying that if we choose to drift the rod immediately after we have stopped that now constitutes a part of the stroke and not preparation for the next stroke?
If we focused the stop on the hand instead of the rod it would help students to understand that the rod still has some work to do. Telling them to stop the rod makes them think that that is the moment the loop forms, when they see it doesn't they continue the stroke in an effort to throw the line.
Mike
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[GH] Mike,
Good call !
The passage you quoted was from Peter Lami.
Peter called me a few minutes ago telling me that he had revised his statement in a new message :-
[PL] Gordy,
Here is my revised Essential Rule ==> The proper application of power is a constant acceleration with a continued rotation through the "stopping sequence", sometimes called rod unload.
I LOVE IT! We are making history here, IMO.
Peter
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[GH] During our phone conversation, Peter made it clear that he didn't intend to use the word "delayed" to apply to the rod rotation which occurs during the "stopping sequence".
He is fully aware that we usually use the term, "delayed rotation" to mean the rotation leading to peak rod load.
In the past, using field observations along with Casting Analyzer results, Bruce Richards has pointed out that when rotation (which is primary in yielding rod bend / load) is delayed .... or not started too early, that casters exhibit smaller loops and more efficient casts.
Gordy
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Bruce Richards replies to Mike Heritage's message with a comment on delayed rotation : -
*****As I've stated before, good casters always rotate the rod at the right time. That may be a bit later than lesser casters, so delayed could be used to describe it in comparison, but in reality, the lesser casters usually rotate too early to get the best result. And, of course, you can't positively accelerate the rod during the "stop", which is a deceleration. The rod can't accelerate and decelerate at the same time. I find it easiest to talk about what the rod does rather than body parts as that takes most style issues out of the discussion.
With most students, if they understand what the rod should be doing they can figure out how to make that happen. But of course, the casters body dictates what the rod does, if the caster doesn't use his/her hand/wrist/arm to accelerate and decelerate the rod, it won't. Whether drift is part of a casting stroke or not is a matter of definition. It makes most sense to me if it is not in the casting stroke, just as creep shouldn't be in the stroke. Both are slow rod motions and will not yield a loop alone which should be the distinction, in my opinion.
******Students learn in many different ways, whatever works is what we should use. Some seem to understand stopping the rod, others respond better to stopping the hand. Something to remember, hand motion can be both rotation and translation, if a student stops translation but not rotation they might think they have stopped the hand, but a problem will obviously remain.
Bruce
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