Loop control / terms

Walter & Group........

From Bob Rumpf :

Gordy & Group,

 

Gordy, you just hit the nail on the head. I could not agree more with the content of your last message. In reality what we ask of our students to do are actually unusual physical movements that require considerable practice to do even close to correctly and then only after properly explained and/or demonstrated. Realizing this is the primary source of my understanding and patience with new students who often look at me blankly after their first few attempts at trying to keep a straight line path of the rod tip. It is also the reason that I stress that I cannot "make" the student a good caster, I can surely help them on their way, but to become truly good casters they must practice to accustom their muscles to what they are asking them to do.

 

I have always also assumed that this is why the back cast is such a difficult maneuver for most people to master, because it is pretty much of an unnatural movement not used in any other sports that come to mind. Although many sports require a back stroke, I personally can think of none requiring power.

 

Bob Rumpf

 

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Bob...    Joan Wulff used to point out in her instructor courses that as far as she knew, fly casting was the only sport where one must learn to throw backward.   That is one reason for difficulty in teaching the back cast.  Two other reasons are:  1.) Our arm muscles are not as well designed to throw in the back direction as they are for throwing forward.  2.) The student caster cannot see what is going on as he/she learns to back cast.  Negation of that element is what we try to do as we teach both the back cast and the relationship between the back cast and the forward cast by having the student do false casting in the horizontal rod plane.  (First slowly on the grass, then faster cadence, later above the ground and (finally) higher using an off vertical rod plane...... one way of doing it.)

 

Gordy

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From Peter Lami :

Gordy,

Or as Dusty Sprague once put it, “A straight line path of the rod tip is achieved by matching rod bend (stroke speed/power) with rod arc.  Too much rod arc for a given amount of bend in the rod produces a convex tip path.  Too little rod arc for a given amount of bend produces a concave tip path…tailing loop.”

A nice simple answer.

Peter Lami
 

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Very well put !      Gordy

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From Robert Shigley    (On choice of words re., "overpowered" and "underpowered" casts:

Hi Gordy;

How about "High Power" and "Low Power"?

robert
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Robert:   May well be a good choice.                Gordy

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