I wouldn't fail anyone casting 2,5 cm under the requirement, wouldn't be able to tell anyway. 2 feet, thats a different thing, and thats what I meant with 6'1" ....Stoatstail50 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 5:33 pmI can’t measure it…don’t know anyone who can. If I could I’d have to be some sort of nit picking sociopath to fail someone who was casting an inch under 8’.
How do you measure 7'11" ? You just told me no one measures...
if they give me 6'1" which is damn easy to see, I would have to fail them.
If the request is for a 6’ loop then 6’ 1” is a pass. The issue is whether the assessor and the candidate can tell the difference between 6’1” and 5’9”. If this is a distinction which is easy for you too see I’m assuming you have special powers.
See above....
If they can't tell the difference between 8 feet and 6 feet in real time, I really don't care if they are professionel or not, they volunteer to assess someone paying 450 dollars and should take it seriously, but I get the feeling I am very alone in that take on things..I don’t believe I said it’s unacceptable, I think I said it’s impossible in real time. You can do as much jiggery pokery with video post performance afterwards as you like but that’s not available to assessors or candidates in the actual assessment.
Now you tell me no one measures, and its unacceptable to ask that someone does. Seems very unprofessionel, but thats clearly just me.
With respect to those people standing in casting assessments being “professional” I believe the process is overwhelmingly carried out by volunteer amateurs.
Na, if I can do it, you should be able to too... not that I like that specific brainfart, but it's in there and majority must like it, since they jept it through recent adjustments of the test.I’ll give you that. It is an arbitrary point in the process. You’d have to have eyesight sufficient to spot electrons in motion to get that nailed accurately.
Otherwise why specify a certain point in a cast to measure?
Yeah, about that, I asked what the two of you observed when you went out after the rain and tried the task back when you got called to talk me down by the commitee, not what you see in a test or mentoring. I'd like an answer to that, but I suspect you never went out and tried, am I right? It was in October, so you might have forgotten. What I see is I get two big enough loops, almost none loops, and then theres so much slack that I tick tick tick, or I have to speed up, and then the loops morph to 6 feet or less. I had really hoped that you had gone out and tried, I really did.You’ll have to ask Mike what he sees, I usually see really big almost non loops then smaller better controlled medium size loops then even smaller ones. For most SL casters a 3’ loop isn’t particularly narrow.
Thought it was 2...Having said all of that due to Covid lockdowns etc I stood in only one MCI test since 2020. I will not stand in another one.
Its ok, I won't stand in any test or mentor anyone, so I'm one up on you
Cheers
Lasse