I mean sequencing of lessons.

Distance casting goes “Target, Rod, Loop.. Target, Rod, Loop”. Most people don’t have a target, this I’ll agree with!! I’ll agree with this too 🙂. Most commonly the most desirable target is real….something tangible, something you can see to aim at. This is completely consistent with good cueing whi...

Personally I would be teaching in a position where they could choose to look if they wanted. For all the reasons I’ve explained before I avoid a blind position for teaching purposes. Particularly if this is the old hard way position a caster was originally taught in…I’m not going to take them back t...

if you have someone who has gone the hard way around and learned to cast loops by not watching them, then turning to watch them puts their body out of position. They are not using the 45 degree or more shoulder alignment to watch their loops and have to learn it, just as those casting 45 degrees al...

I admit I teach and practice looking at the back cast... while practicing. When fishing, I advise to never take eyes off of the target, I don’t think you have to “admit” anything Gary, this is in line with good teaching practice and a calculation that the advantages of looking are outweighed by the...

So…someone who has learned to produce CI level loops by not looking, loses the loop when they look and the solution is to go back to not to looking? even though we think the best way to learn to control the loop….is…to look 😐 I have experienced lost loops many times with non CIs who have a single on...

…of course you need to learn loop control first. That's the same for commercial instruction and casting sport. Unfortunately often teached with the clock face, I'd favor an open stance, side cast first, so that you can observe the backcast yourself. The obvious question is why, if we believe that l...

I’m not teaching shots the way you do Paul. I haven’t had a caster in the last three years that could do that. However, it is common, I agree, for people to exercise less control over their bc when they’re not looking at it. The issue…in this thread anyway…is one of lesson sequencing. I think a cast...

These threads get very weird sometimes. 🙂 I think you have to master some basic skills too Torsten, whether it is for casting sport or for fishing. I think John has tried to make this point…you can’t do either without the basic skills. In page after page and thread after thread on here the differenc...

What you are describing Paul is a very good example of a drill being good for improving performance ie, FC accuracy but being bad for learning bc loop control.

From a lesson sequencing point of view I think you would schedule work on loop control first. I would anyway.