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Gordy, et. al.
Something that would be especially meaningful in this discussion is empirical measurements of hand speed in hauling. For those of you with cameras and experience in using them it seems like it wouldn't be difficult to generate data -- just take a rod with or without flyline and mimic the motion. The 30 fps camera should be adequate to capture and resolve hand position and reel position adequately to compute an average speed. Has someone done this and have the information readily available??
Also Jerry's E-mail is a little confusing to me because I don't know what the term "leverage" refers to?? Basically in hauling two things happen. One is that the line is directly accelerated in a significant way by the line hand for really a very brief portion of the haul motion. After that (after the hand has some speed) the role of the hand is to maintain speed relative to the reel during the period rod loading and unloading occurs. This is a component of what I would call a "base motion" effect. I don't see "leveraging" for either of these effects. The effect of hauling on rod loading is momentary and thus the significance of timing is crucial.
We have some data relative to hand speeds but God only knows when time will permit reducing the data. So I hope someone has taken a look at this with their home camera. I wonder about this effect because I have noticed the nuances of the beginning of the haul having a strong effect on the power in the cast. MY tentative conclusion would be that acceleration is rather important. On the other hand, if you could maintain a hand velocity of 30 ft/s during a haul (5 ft haul implies duration of .17 seconds) then that would be huge. Actually that sounds very optimistic because as I conger-up what I think happens in my cast I try to time the haul to start at the start of power through the end of useful unloading and this is at least .25 seconds and possibly .3 seconds. At the later the indicated speed is 16.5 ft/s which is still a hefty edition to line speed. At .3 seconds a home camera would have 9 distinct frames during the haul.
Hope someone can add some quantitative information.
Regards - Server
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