Paul Arden wrote:Great. Please tell Lasse
You really do see what you want to see and hear what you want to hear. As Lasse has pointed out the train is a bad analogy.
Since you like talking about little balls lets go back to the bead chains and the huge number of videos that have been posted where someone lays out a loop of bead chain on a table and then pulls on the "rod leg". There are three possible outcomes:
1. The fly leg moves in the same direction as the rod leg. If you can ever remember seeing this happen in any of the videos than I recommend that you stop drinking now and return to this post after a good night of sleep.
2. The fly leg basically does not move. The fly leg is pulled into the loop and into the rod leg but the fly end of the chain remains stationary until just before turn over or near turn over. The loop moves in the same direction you are pulling on the rod leg. If you can remember seeing this happen in some videos then your memory is at least partly in tact and you can read on to the next scenario.
3. The fly leg moves in the direction opposite the rod leg. Usually there is a bit of a pause during which the fly leg does not move but then it begins to accelerate into the loop. The loop basically remains stationary. Again, if you remember seeing this in any of the "form a loop in bead chain and pull on one end videos" then your memory seems to be working. Good for you.
Let's concentrate (if you can) on what makes the difference between 2 and 3. What do you think it is? Why don't we see only 2 or 3 in 100% of the cases? Think about tension, the kind that results from a force applied to one end of a long chain of tiny little balls. What causes that tension?
I'm sure you will ignore this but I thought I would try one more time.
Cheers
"There can be only one." - The Highlander.
PS. I have a flying tank. Your argument is irrelevant.
PSS. How to generate a climbing loop through control of the casting stroke is left as a (considerable) exercise to the reader.