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Tracking and Loop planes
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Re: Tracking and Loop planes
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Re: Tracking and Loop planes
Too early in the season to get a proper rise
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Re: Tracking and Loop planes
What you think is the cause for loosing distance, when the rod-leg points off to the side due to moving the rod in after the shoot is launched?
About the wind I have a different view. Add a lot of tail wind and you see very few, who can handle the wind in their back cast. That is, because their line does not travel close enough to straight and unrolling gets slown too much to then have a perfect start for the fc.
I think close to straight is always important in heavy wind, in no wind and everything inbetween.
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Because a loop that is not vertically stacked has tracking errors resulting from gravity. A tail wind will assist the loop unrolling on the forward cast. If the wind is flat calm then these deviations will remain.
Not being able to carry the head with a tailwind is a separate issue.
Not being able to carry the head with a tailwind is a separate issue.
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Paul,Paul Arden wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:49 am Because a loop that is not vertically stacked has tracking errors resulting from gravity.
Having watched a fair number of distance experts casting the MED 5 none of them had the fly-leg and rod-leg both moving in vertical plane. There was always significant deviation. Also none had the rod moved in vertical plane, but slightly off to the side.
I don't understand this to be a tracking error, nore would I blame gravity to be the cause for any casting error.
That aside, I thought tracking was defined about tip path upto loop formation, not post it.
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As I wrote previously the biomechanics of moving the rod, as well as the haul, need both to be considered. It’s a compromise of line speed against loop orientation.
One thing at a time.That aside, I thought tracking was defined about tip path upto loop formation, not post it.
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