Yup...I have.

It still depends. If it's a mental strap then I'll certainly try and dislodge it at some point. They're always mental straps I think.

If it works, do you change it?

It depends

I’d take the strap off if that’s what you mean.

Quicker than I thought 🙂 First big difference is that, in the teaching framework I like to use, there is no model cast. I certainly have learning and performance objectives and I totally accept the idea of general patterning but there is no model cast. This is because there is no model cast that mee...

This could get philosophical 😁 Is competition and angling technique, instruction and training similar or dissimilar? It’s dissimilar. How and why? John Let’s have a look at similarities first. I think we could agree that A 100’ cast with a 5# bears some similarities to a 30’ cast with a 5#. The proc...

Let’s say it’s someone who watched the FFI instructor workshop

It’s dissimilar.

Our caster has duck taped his rod butt to his forearm because he couldn’t afford the strap. Are we cool with this? No. What about if he’s casting like that but without the duck tape? It depends. Who is this person?, what can he do already?, what is he trying to improve? Is he freezing? Why does he ...

Our caster has duck taped his rod butt to his forearm because he couldn’t afford the strap.

Are we cool with this?

No.

We can respectfully agree to disagree on that view. We could I suppose but if these statements are true then we don't disagree at all. I would suggest all the high jumping coaches in Paris later this year would not teach the Fosby flop to cross a fence, but they all teach it to jumping athletes who...

Why should the evolution of what we teach differ from the evolution of how we teach it? I contend it is the same pathway for both and that shared evolution should have the same benchmarks. Technology now allows for data to be collected in a laboratory or in the field. How that information should be...