Hi John, exactly, we cast the line, not the rod. That's unlike other sports you have mentioned, a flexible level between you and the "projectile". Principles apply only partially, mechanics is quite different IMHO (as Merlin has pointed out in a different thread). Greetings, Torsten Hi Joh...

Hi John,

is your objective distance fly rod throwing?

Greetings,
Torsten

John Waters wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 3:07 am However, the principal of using kinetic chaining to create energy and transmit it to the rod is the same as is used and instructed in other sports to create energy and transmit it to a ball, discus or javelin.

Hi, good question, I'm guessing Lefty meant SW gear (8-11) and normal WFs with something like a 40' head. Absolute distances make only sense with the context. For instance even world's best fly casters don't average 110' under controlled conditions (indoor, ED5) - see for instance the swedish study ...

Hi Paul, You have time to rebuild his stroke. You’ll get 10 lessons say and 80-100 hrs of training. .. I don’t know about cost/benefits but most of my students are SW anglers. That's something like 1k€ for these lessons? Sounds like a great business if you can sell it via remote teaching, so no trav...

Wow, 5K USD. Nils, in my opinion this concept is totally unattractive unless you're member of a sponsored team or rich and famous. Another blocker is in my opinion that you need to take a full week off, not that easy for working people. Maybe the complexity went out of control? For comparison, data ...

Found on the ICSF page

The official invitation WC fly casting
https://www.icsf-castingsport.com/uploa ... tation.pdf
Cost of participation 5 500 SEK per person

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Results from Vicenza
https://www.icsf-castingsport.com/news/ ... a-results/
92 participants, 23 fly casting sport

Hi Paul, Merlin/Gordy were faster, alternatively you can derive it this way: PE= 1/2 * k * x^2 combined with Fs = -k * x (Hooke's Law) -> x = - Fs / k -> PE = 1/2 * Fs² / k and this means if we assume Fs (the load) is constant PE ~ 1 / k PE is inverse proportional to k Ah yes. Because PE= 1/2 k.x^2 ?

AFAIK it was ~20m for the long and ~10m for the short one; my premise was however to keep the fly/rod leg straight. When it's warmer I can try to repeat the experiment, perhaps I'm getting a different impression. a short and a long shooting head and I've described my findings in #33 How long is a lo...

When we simplify the rod as a spring, the softer rod stores more spring energy for the same load. Sorry in that last sentence I should have written “bend” not “load”. You are correct George. I believe that stored elastic energy would be the same between softer and stiffer rods under the same load. I...

Hi, in my case was it a 18g casting plug, a short and a long shooting head and I've described my findings in #33, also somewhere in the archive is the discussion. I've snapped often enough casting plugs, usually this happens after non-smooth acceleration or if you forget to release the line :) My gu...