Bob...
You have demonstrated the need to customize our teachings when we have students with special problems......Good show !
This also demonstrates some of the latest discussions on the idea that one does not absolutely have to have a true STOP for all casts.
As Joe Lebieu has pointed out, however, teaching the concept of going for a crisp stop IS the way to go for most casts, even if it's not fully achieved. As such it is at the least a good teaching tool. For competition distance casting, I suspect that the closer the caster can get to a true stop, the more likely he/she is to obtain winning distance.
Gordy
From: "ROBERT TABBERT" <rtab@xxxxxxx>
To: hillshead@xxxxxxx
Subject: Teachin casting to beginner with two artificial shoulders.
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:11:56 -0500
Hi Gordy, Greetings from south Louisiana, just finished teaching an evening fly casting course out of 'Gumbo U', U of Laf adult edu program. They let me use one of their big, football field size, lighted, horse barns, high ceiling, good lighting, and no wind to teach the evening course. One fellow showed up with two very painful shoulders, both recently restored, rebuilt, ex pro football player, big fellow, strong but not interestred in trying to 'stop' the rod, the 'stop' movement was too painful. So,after some head scratching I taught him the oval backcast with a lobbing type of forward cast with a short haul...this worked around the crisp stop and saved his shoulders. It wasn't classic casting but it worked for him. he was happy as he could be and with some practice he made some decent casts. He didn't like the roll cast, the stop hurt his shoulders. For their final exam I took them out to a private bass pond and they all caught and released some nice fish on their fly rods. 3 of the members of the class joined our local FFF club, so some progress was made! Head up to northern Wisconsin next month. Have a day planned in July with Bruce Richards at Schmidt's Lodge to take Bruce's Advanced Fly Casting School, with the Sage analyser and video camera, should be interesting, I know that I will learn a lot. Just standing around near Bruce Richards is a learning experience. Thanks again for your excellent study group, it has made a world of difference to my progress in understanding casting. I still have cold feet! Bob
Robert L. Tabbert
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