Hi Gordy,
Short answer to address video questions.
Taking the assumption of a 15-30min coaching session stream side.
A. What would you begin with?
Show low rod- no slack and lift to end of fly line.
Show 'educated wrist'/ power snap from end of fly line to leader.
Coach them through motion until decent back cast.
(keep line hand at chest)
B. Why I start that way?
They will feel water tension and pre load, see visual aids for each movement
and have only 2 things to think about while setting up a good back cast.
C. What next?
Work on timing often best done by telling them to move his hand back one inch
after the power snap. Slows down the anxious caster and adds to stroke length.
Then for the forward cast; Show him the proper arm/rod and hand position for
that amount of line. Then do several casts together until the get the motion and tempo.
I went through this exact exercise yesterday with 2 casters on the river and had
great success. (30 yr. old girl and 60yr old guy, both new to the sport, in my meet up group)
Gotta run,
Nice to have you back Gordy.
Rene
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[GH] We'll sneak in one last one from Lyth Hartz :
Hi Gordy,
I want to weigh in on this one before I read the others that have been submitted so that I can get a reading on my own observations.
#1) There is way too much slack in the line when he starts the cast. He needs to keep the rod tip low when starting the back cast and to have the line straight. Then he needs to do the #2 suggestion.
#2) The line had a very wide loop on both the back cast and the forward cast. That is caused by the rod tip traveling in a windshield wiper type of path. That path I think is caused mostly be the caster using his wrist too much to make the cast with very little backward and forward movement of the forearm and upper arm. I would suggest that he use his wrist much less and move his arm, both the forearm and the upper arm to move the butt of the rod in a backwards and forwards motion. He needs to have more stroke in the cast. This should help him to have a straighter path of the rod tip as there is too much rotational (circular) movement and not enough translational (linear) movement in his cast.
These two items would fix much of the casting problems that I see him doing but he also needs to correct the slack problem in the back cast by better timing. The arm movements described in #2 I think will help also with the timing because his arm will be in a better position to make the forward cast especially if he watches his back cast to help with the timing.
This is a very good exercise. Thanks for sending it out.
Lyth Hartz
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