Hi Bernd Maybe Frank would rather not be back. Thing about the CA and constant acceleration, Bruce claimed to have found constant acceleration was common to sample casts from expect casters. Then we opened one of the expert samples used by the CA and found the acceleration was not constant, that the...

Hi Bernd Would you like me to argue with that? :) We had a fair few threads where constant acceleration was argued about long before that one Bernd. Back when the CA was new, and when we were working on definitions. Including early thread(s) where Bruce defended his claim that smooth acceleration is...

Bernd The term "stopless" was born, because some people realized that some casters were using a wider arc as that old arc being recommended in many old books (10/2). That term was probably coined on SL. As far as I can remember it was a description of how the casting action felt/feels. Pus...

Hi Vince How do you do that in a rotating butt model? See there you go again, wtf does that mean? Have a look at this hand path that flattens and lengthens the path of the rod tip. (Btw arguably this was the caster who set people off in the direction of the 170 stroke.) You want a super example of t...

hi Merlin/Walter/Bernd Apologies for going quiet, I'm trying to beat off some man flu I still do not see this an appropriate analysis for a fly cast. Following a demo by Snake Pilskn, I incorporate this rotating arc into my practice sessions as part of loop control. The tip speed does not translate...

Vince I have stuck some labels on a (indicative only) spring response graph: Could you be a bit more exact about what this means? I read that as "I have drawn up a fictitious graph and faked some points on that graph to create a contrast which seems to support my case" If you want to convi...

...to fool a creature with a brain the size of a pea... Sometimes I wonder if fish are the only creatures with pea-sized brains :) I suspect you miss the point of fly-tying as a hobby, which is fair enough. I'm reviewing Bob Wyatt's book What Trout Want at the moment, along with two tying DVD's - g...

Hi Walter We can also show that a slp is better than a convex tip path for transferring energy to the line with models. Super....again years after the idea was developed and adopted by casters and instructors. The latest round of discussions about the SHO and how it relates to rod action will probab...

Hi Walter Ok I've calmed down a little. Yes I recall some of the debates before (and since) Grunde's intervention with the car-spring-brick model. Paul certainly needs all the help he can get - no argument there. Here's the thing, when I first met Paul he was a committed Flip-Flopper - an interestin...

Hi Walter

Sooooooo...the plot thickens...Vince has a Low Fidelity model which gives results according to the caster's style? Or the models based on the SHO don't apply if you cast with a 170 style?

Walker you're teasing me

Magnus