[SPAM] "PUSH" VS. "PULL" in Flycasting

I personally like this topic. Here are my two cents (as some who is not an expert in biomechanics). I don't completely agree with the statement "One person's "pull" can easily be the next person's "push"." I do agree they are imprecise terms, and it it is partly a style thing. I think the push vs. pull is not so much relevant to the physics of the rod as to the biomechanics of how the body imparts the rod movement. And I'd think the biomechanics is not strictly all pull or all push. But by strictly or emphatically pushing (translation) the hand forward, you cannot effectively hammer a nail, throw a baseball, or load the rod into the butt. Depending on style and the length of the casting stroke, we mostly pull with the shoulder (some combination of translation and rotation) at the beginning of these motions. If you are primarily pushing forward, or punching, and I've seen students do this, you are only going to load the rod tip at best. I'd say pulling is largely shoulder rotation (and some translation) typically associated with leading with the elbow first and sustaining that into the rod rotation. Its a way to smoothly preload into a later and increasing rotation. I think it is good to describe the motion both in terms of how the rod should be moved and how the body is doing it. At least for me, as a former "pusher", the idea if pulling was very intuitive and a revelation.