Walter & Group:
From Jim Valle, MCI.....Part of his teaching style :-
Gordy, Rick and
Group,
I agree it is all too
common to see excessive wrist on the backcast.
I tried the firm wrist
routine and found it didn’t work too well.
Now with beginners
before they ever attempt a cast I demo that the path of the rod tip is
most important and that the movement of the arm is compound and includes hand,
wrist, forearm, upper arm and shoulder and that they should only be focused on
the SLP of the tip from stop to stop.
I do demo large loops
by wristing and forearm swings (firm wrist and pivot at the elbow) only… as what
will happen if you put too much wrist etc in the
cast.
This has been working
very well. Students seem to grasp the whole concept much earlier.
So I try to stay away
from too much discussion of the wrist too early as it almost always causes the
student to focus way too much on the wrist.
When I have a student
crash the line into the tip I explain “that’s a good thing” because you are
making such a straight line path.(Note: This happens a lot when doing the
horizontal exercises because they are concentrating on casting along a straight
line) If I make a correction at all I say “squeeze your thumb nail a bit at the
stop”. (a variation on Lefty’s tip) and we move on.
Jim
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Jim...
I like your last paragraph. In line with that is Floyd Franke's word picture: "SQUEEZE TO A STOP". That was particularly valuable for me to learn as I was trying to improve my accuracy casting back when I was preparing for my MCI exam. (Floyd gave me a pre-test).
Gordy