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    Group....
     
    This is a good one from Tom White which I dug out from '03.  Something about which you can wrap your thoughts.
     
                                                                                           Gordy

    Gordy & Jim;

    One of the tasks we have on the Instructors test is:

    With 35-40? of line out, throw narrow to wide loops, using only the rod hand.  

    Then, with the same amount of line out, demonstrate the double haul. (I am kind of giving you the Readers Digest Version)

    What we are looking for is:

    When you are using only the rod hand, you are generating just enough line speed ? and rod loading ? to produce good loops.

     

    Now???. When you introduce the haul on each cast, you are introducing a tremendous amount of extra line speed and rod loading to the cast, with the same amount of line out. If you don?t ?Back off? on the energy from the rod hand, you will collapse your rod ? thus showing the efficiency of the haul. We want to see the caster compensate for this.

     

    An illustration I use is:

    When you are using only the rod hand to cast the 40?, I use the example of using 10 lbs of force ? this is only for illustration purposes.

    When you introduce the haul in your cast, you are exerting another 10 lbs to the cast, WITH THE SAME AMOUNT OF LINE. Now you are using 20 lbs. to cast the 40?, when you only need the 10 lbs. total.  Ease off on the casting hand to 5 lbs ? which shows efficiency ?and ease off on the hauling hand to 5 lbs. Now you can cast the same distance with ½ the effort.

     

    Just a thought.

     

    Tom White

     

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    Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 2:58 PM
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    Subject: Re: Yard

     

    Jim...

     

    I'd welcome suggestions from others in the group....particularly those with more teaching experience than I have.  How about it, Floyd, Dennis and Dusty??  (He'd posed a really good question.)

     

    We have seen students who change their rod arm stroke as they introduce the haul...that just might be one of the problems.

     

                                                                                                         Gordy

    ----- Original Message -----

    From: James Penrod

    Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:13 PM

    Subject: Yard

     

    Hello Kirk and Gloria,

    I am sure that my neighbors danced, clapped and turned flips as I spent about four hours working onour yard last Saturday.  It actually looks half way decent.  Sometime I will have to get Carol to take a picture so that you can see some of it.  We have close to 1 and 1/2 acres of grass and then of course the state lake behind us which grows wild along with the alligators.  No I would not swim in it if I could-too clogged with growth right now and I do not have a canoe anymore. 

    I got four rods, reels, and lines from SciAngler for teaching purposes.  They are the 6 weights like the one you have.  Bruce Richards was quite helpful in pushing this through for me.  Total cost per rod, reel and line for an instructor is $46.  I thought that was a really good deal.  I plan to get them rigged for a class this weekend. I have not checked to see how many students I have yet.  My max is 8.  I remain open for any suggestions for perfecting (?? well as best as I can) my casting.  I did about twenty minutes today in the time that I had at lunch just casting about 40 feet of line with one hand and with hauling.  My critique is that I throw tighter loops when I do not haul.  That should indicate that my speed up to a stop is over a greater distance in order to open the loop a bit but I am having trouble figuring how to keep the loop just as small when I haul. Any suggestions?

    Jim