Gordy and Troy:
Thumb on top I would say is the most used grip but for others such as
myself with thumb weakness, I use the three point grip as my default grip, shown
to me by Jason Borger. Others may use finger on top or a grip unique to
them.
All well recognised grip
styles G.
If we use the pointing of the thumb, are we teaching an effective use of a
particular style of grip?
I think we could look at it that way,
Jerry G.
When I practice, particularly on the back cast, I concentrate on
pointing the rod tip to the target which at the same time, I think, serves
as an indicator on effective use of my wrist. I do love the
blaze orange and have that in my bag of tricks for those who cast with thumb on
top.
So my question is this: when teaching folk with a grip other than thumb on
top how do you teach the same thing as you would with the blaze orange on the
thumbnail?
I will practice this week with the orange sticker placed on bottom of the
V between thumb and index finger to see if it serves the same
purpose. Just being inquisitive.
I never thought of that ! May just
work. Placing the orange marker on the index finger nail might work
with folks who cast with that finger "on top of the cork".
G.
Thanks,
Jerry Puckett
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Variation on a theme by Al Crise .... from
Texas ( Which is now part of the U.S.A, according to some )
:-
Howdy Gordy & Gang
I will offer this on straight lines
When I mow my Casting Venue I mow in Straight lines that will be the
Casting Lanes. This way the students can see if the line is straighting out
behind just by letting it drop. The mower make great wheel marks and enough of
them so whether side arm or over head there is enough makes to show the effect
of a swing / obtuse in the back cast or a acute angle. This has helped
many of my students to see just what happened.
Of course here in Texas we have room to make lots of casting lanes.
ol
Al
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Al ... "Lefty's
Line" can be any straight line on the ground. Yours is a clever
one.
Bob Andreae and I have practiced over the
double lines at the side of a local tennis court.
I wrote an article on the technique of teaching
the straight line path of the rod tip (which is a meaningless string of words to
the early student caster) for the LOOP a couple of years
ago.
We use this line and then doubled it, making
parallel lines of ropes stretched out on the ground.
We first layed them out 6' apart and taught the
student to make loops of that size keeping them between the lines for both
forward and back casts.
Then we progressively narrowed the space
between the ropes until the student could keep ever smaller loops between ropes
only 2' apart. We increased the timing so the student could do it without
actually touching the ground at each loop width interval.
Once repeatedly achieving 2' loops between the
ropes, we went "airborne" until the student could make effective small loops
with a casting plane at 45 degrees from the ground and
greater.
To accomplish this, it was necessary for the
wrist to avoid twisting, and the thumbnail (for the "thumb-on-top'ers") to be
directed to and from the targets at either end of the
course.
Worked well.
Gordy