Hi Graeme,Graeme H wrote: ↑Tue Oct 03, 2023 3:34 pm But waves are waves, and grouping like entities enables consistency and efficiency in a lesson or discussion. Traffic on a freeway consists of motor vehicles. We don't need to say the BMWs, Mercedes, Skodas and Fords move with certain speeds in certain lanes. We can group them and call them cars, since they all behave the same way on the road. Singling out individual cars with a brand name has purpose but saying the Ford is not a car is incorrect.
Nothing bad in your way of teaching in my point of view. Sounds fine to me and you did check the outcome many times and got proved to be on a successful track.
The above translated into what we have:
We have different fly line labels like RIO, SA, barstool, CORTLAND. Each label has different line series like Outbound short or outbound long. Same for your car label examples. The overall term like cars is fly lines. Now you can talk about cars moving in waves over the freeway or fly lines move in waves. I bet it both holds true to some degree, but no more than that, I think.
Problem may start when one student has studied physics and connects lots of formulas with the term wave. Sure you can handle this well though! I prefer to stick with the term loop only.
Thanks for all your effort to explain your thoughts!
Cheers
Bernd