Lasse Karlsson wrote:
What I don't like about the stop, is that for many it implies that we stop hard, abruptly, to let the spring throw the line. Great way of making tailing loops for most. Not a great way of making nice loops! Basicly that teaching works best when the student doesn't do exactly what we tell them to do
Hi Lasse,
watching a lot of great casters (you are one of them) "abrupt" or "crisp" are words, which (for me) match pretty well with how I saw them stopping their rod in most of their casting.Watching them in slow motion didn't change my expression either. Using those terms in my teaching led to the results in my student's casting I was looking for. Tailing loops never have been an issue here at all.
If our students do exactly what we tell them or not, depends on how exactly we understand/define what "abrupt/crisp" means of course.
I like to give my students a small exercise:
1) Try to stop the rod too abrupt.
2) Try to stop the rod really soft.
3) Try to stop the rod abrupt.
3) usually (almost always) leads to what I want them to show up with.
Hearing other instructors talking about "stopp-less" casts or a "smooth stop" in my experience often resulted in long discussions. I think Gilly's post (58) is a great example. I fully agree with her post and like the way how she describes her method of teaching.
Anyway I am pretty sure we all agree on acceleration and deceleration of the fly rod being essential in fly casting. If "abrupt" or "crisp" does not match for the decel. part of the stroke, then what term/wording would do a beter job?
Greets
Bernd