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by John Waters
Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:28 am
Forum: Teaching
Topic: Movement Skills Overview
Replies: 403
Views: 8181

Re: Movement Skills Overview

Thanks Vince, very much enjoy reading about trout and grayling rivers in UK. You've copped a lot of rain in the last year but the chalk streams will benefit and you should look forward to some good fishing this summer and autumn. We're the opposite unfortunately.

My thanks and appreciation,

John
by John Waters
Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:16 am
Forum: Teaching
Topic: Movement Skills Overview
Replies: 403
Views: 8181

Re: Movement Skills Overview

No worries John, good luck with the lesson. I have my small stream bamboo guy next week and an upstream change of direction demonstration and lesson to work out for a chalkstream class. There will be more patterns than an Isle of Arran knitwear factory :) Regards Vince Hi Vince, It was fun casting ...
by John Waters
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:09 pm
Forum: Teaching
Topic: Movement Skills Overview
Replies: 403
Views: 8181

Re: Movement Skills Overview

Hi John It’s simply that maximising hand speed on a curve cast is not optimal for most fishing objectives, I believe that you are using the term “optimal” incorrectly. If we take this statement for instance: optimal distance requires optimal speed, less than optimal distance requires less than opti...
by John Waters
Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:36 pm
Forum: Teaching
Topic: Movement Skills Overview
Replies: 403
Views: 8181

Re: Movement Skills Overview

To be honest John, I don’t see how you can define optimal independently of the objective. I wouldn’t consider maximum hand speed to be the optimal performance criteria for an underpowered curve. If we draw an analogy with a car, defining the optimal speed profile for the longest duration, highest a...
by John Waters
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:44 am
Forum: Teaching
Topic: Movement Skills Overview
Replies: 403
Views: 8181

Re: Movement Skills Overview

Hi John For short line casts, maximum hand speed is not a requirement of performance, shoulder, elbow and wrist rotational movement being the focus. In that case those joints provide the structure for a sub-optimal hand speed requirement. Why sub-optimal? Surely, optimal is that configuration of va...
by John Waters
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:09 am
Forum: Teaching
Topic: Movement Skills Overview
Replies: 403
Views: 8181

Re: Movement Skills Overview

Hi Paul,

It's different form what I have ever considered to be correct casting technique. Would love to have you spend a day in the lab in Melbourne sometime.

We're just throwing,

John
by John Waters
Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:11 am
Forum: Teaching
Topic: Movement Skills Overview
Replies: 403
Views: 8181

Re: Movement Skills Overview

It is Paul and I have more data to collect this year about joint and musculature movement in casting, then it all needs to be the documented the year after. One thing I have found with my own casting (competition not fishing) is the importance of linear acceleration via stepping. I’m of the opinion ...
by John Waters
Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:14 am
Forum: Teaching
Topic: Movement Skills Overview
Replies: 403
Views: 8181

Re: Movement Skills Overview

Hi Paul, For long line casting, I want the caster to achieve their maximum linear joint velocity and maximum angular velocity of their rod side and also their haul hand. Key joints are hip, shoulder, elbow and wrist, each are key determinants of line speed. For short line casts, maximum hand speed i...
by John Waters
Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:30 am
Forum: Teaching
Topic: Movement Skills Overview
Replies: 403
Views: 8181

Re: Movement Skills Overview

Thanks Paul, I now use the same drills and movement for both. I used to increase the hand speed for the MED but no longer do. I would for very short head lengths, but that is now the exception for my drills. Increasing the hand speed for the MED meant I was generating less than optimal speed for sho...
by John Waters
Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:56 am
Forum: Teaching
Topic: Movement Skills Overview
Replies: 403
Views: 8181

Re: Movement Skills Overview

That’s an important teaching drill Paul. Using progressive hand speed is good for skill retention. I agree with you that you learn movement patterning best at sub-optimal speed. When fishing I don’t maximise my hand speed, but do so in casting, so I need drills that train for that 100 % outcome. Do ...

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