A hard thing ?

[Bernd Ziesche]

OSD = Open Stance Distance?

Accuracy style isn't squared stance, but open? So you have a twist in your hips = not having feet and shoulders naturally aligned?

[Paul Arden]

Sorry mate, I have no idea what you mean.

[Bernd Ziesche]

That’s because we teach OSD differently. I take the vertical Accuracy stroke and add weight shift and torso twist. Your open stance utilises the same shoulder movement as the side cast.

OSD I take it means open stance distance.
In your accuracy you cast in an almost vertical rod plane in a squared stance as far as I remember watching you.

I dont understand what add weight shift means for stance. By torso twist you mean that you teach to not keep the right shoulder above the right foot and the left shoulder above the left foot (like typical in open stance), I assume. Instead you more and more twist your upper body forward in the fc WHEN changing from side casting to a more vert plane?

I indeed prefer to keep stance and just change rod plane for a start. And this isn't hard....

[Paul Arden]

Yep OSD is open stance but with weight shift and torso twist so that a) the hand travels through the shoulder position on the backcast and b) on the forward cast the rod hand is in front of the hauling hand for the launch.

That has the same extension/flexion movement of the shoulder as closed stance accuracy.

Cheers, Paul

[Bernd Ziesche]

Ah, ok. Now I got it.
What is the hard part about it, where people struggle most?

[Paul Arden]

We are discussing taking the horizontal “triangle method” to the vertical plane.

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