Hi Paul "Constant acceleration" can only be constant in one of two ways - The acceleration remains constantly the same magnitude and its time plot (with time on the horizontal axis) is a straight horizontal. The resulting velocity plot is a straight slope The acceleration increases/decreas...

Hi Paul I am tempted to say it's your best work yet! I think I understand both your Aerial Single Spey permutations. In some scenarios, more snappy waypoints are just the ticket for more precise outcomes. And those do seem to provide more resistance/stability. In other cases, such as the steeple cas...

Hi Gary That's a great example! Humps, snaps, pre-stroke mends, waves in a dry fly pick-up, what else? To me, they become waypoints when I employ them to achieve two things - 1) For the line on the fly side of the waypoint bend to first head there (as with your popper), and 2) for the line on the lo...

Hi Paul Back when I first used the term , I defined it as "A bend in the line, purposely placed before or during a stroke to influence the line's flight path to benefit the cast". I would nowadays add that a waypoint’s timing precedes a stroke acceleration. Playing with Torsten's reference...

Thanks for the video, Lasse. Hoping to see some more as time goes by. Henry is the one on the left, in the shorts?

Still so chuffed, John!

Real chuffed for John!

Does anyone have footage of the men's trout distance finals? I am particularly interested to see Henry Mittel's (USA) technique.

All the best,
Dirk

Hi Vince I don't know how Tracker calculates velocities. I do know you need at least three points to get a single reading. The values I showed on those plots are velocity magnitude, as I haven't found a way to set the reference axes such that Tracker views movement to the left along the X-axis as po...

...The fly line acceleration at the end of the cast has been forecast by models and measured on here as well and occurs when the tip of the line is going into the loop. I don't have the footage, either Graeme or Dirk did the analysis with Tracker. Although the tip of the fly ine does turn over fast...

a nominal MOI value for 30 g of line Hi Gordy That line weight is equivalent to 30 ft of about a AFFTA 13 weight. I wonder what is the gram weight of a MED at say 80 ft of carry. Its first 30 ft is 9.1g. Trident's Spreadsheet has some measured MOI values of various rods, for what it's worth. At 57g...

Thank you Nick. I'll keep practicing