|
Walter & Group.....
[GH] From Mike Heritage (as he refers to my message, yesterday, on testing.) :
''This helps relax my candidate as I try to get the best out of him''
I'm not so sure about that Gordy, if I was the candidate and I had just realised I had given you the opportunity to dig a hole for myself I would be far from relaxed.
I have always understood that in the case of this particular task that 'stroke' was the only time that it is interchangeable with 'arc'. It is certainly the only time I would mix these terms, mainly because those are the words I would use to a student to get them to understand the concept, and, to be fair, most students increase translation automatically as they open their casting angle.
I moved over to using casting angle rather than casting arc when I was working up for my CCI, however, I have recently been hearing casting arc used quite a lot and I am a bit confused as to which one I should use in conversation (or writing, come to that). I think casting angle is more accurate because when asked by a student what casting arc is I would have to explain that it is the change of angle of the butt through the stroke anyway.
Mike
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[GH] Mike,
It must be done carefully. with a clear understanding by the candidate that we are going to take a momentary break to expand upon his answer which will not count toward the outcome. I try to get on the candidate's wave length early in the game and won't do this unless I think he can handle it to advantage.
Though hard to imagine for some examiners, I actually try to make my exam a pleasant experience as possible.... even punctuated with elements of fun.
The feedback I get from even the candidates I have to flunk is gratifying and tells me that this method works. Win or lose, they all learn and are not lost to our CICP program.
The wording on the exam does suggest that arc and stroke are the same. Perhaps we should change that. During the casts made for this demonstration, however, the casting arc and the casting stroke overlap inasmuch as they are occurring almost during the same time interval. For efficient short to medium distance casts, for most casters, both should increase as the distance of the cast increases.
I think it is technically more correct to use the term Casting Angle .... but without an agreed upon definition, this could be interpreted in many other ways. Like it or not, "Casting arc" has crept into our lexicon and understood as being described as an angle by many if not most of us. even though it is an angle which subtends the portion of an imaginary circle which we call the "arc".
Putting it differently, I see the arc as the segment of that circle. I see its measurement as being made in degrees of angle. The very basis of trigonometry is an expansion of elements of that "unit circle" which are measured in degrees. It was this which lead to the design of the modern nautical compass card layed out in degrees.
Gordy
|