Walter & Group....
Gordy -
I think this is one reason why Bruce Richard's talks/teachings about using the minimum amount of power required for casting is so important. If you can learn to do that it makes it easier to switch combinations.
There are other advantages as well - it requires less energy, you tend to make fewer casting errors as well, and students find it much easier to see what your doing.
Cheers
Walter
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Walter...
Yes. I look at it as the use of OPTIMUM power for the job at hand.
The use of low-energy slow casting with perfect loops is, as you point out, a good way to make certain the student can see what you are doing as you demonstrate. This is one reason plus the fact that it demonstrates good control, that on MCI exams the candidate is usually asked to do this..... really well controlled loops of different sizes while casting very slowly. Nobody does this any better than Bruce Richards.
Ed Jaworowski make a big point of this principle in his teachings. He'll coach a good distance caster...not to try to get him to cast farther, but to gain the same distance with half the effort.
A great teaching concept.
In line with that is Lefty's teaching for a student or caster who is using more force than needed and having a less than perfect layout on the presentation. His advice: "Use no more force for your presentation cast than you used for your last false cast....just increase the speed of your haul a bit.".....Usually gets good results. The caster doesn't work as hard, he/she uses the line hand to do a bit more of the work of the rod hand, and the layout improves. Sometimes the distance actually increases, too......but Lefty purposely does not make a point of that because he feels that as soon as you have the caster, "try" for more distance the application of power increases beyond what is needed......until perfect timing and technique are reached.
With the same idea in mind, Lefty teaches that student not to, "throw" the line at a target, but to UNROLL THE LOOP TO THE TARGET. Good teaching word picture, I think.
Gordy