Sorry in that last sentence I should have written “bend” not “load”. You are correct George.

I believe that stored elastic energy would be the same between softer and stiffer rods under the same load. I don’t know if or how the dynamic loading changes this.

Cheers, Paul

I normally fish the fly in close when fishing, so have to work the line out again. I think it comes from the big spring idea, that the road loads more with a heavier line, which is true, but this extra loading actually slows the stroke. It’s obviously not what we do when we want to generate high lin...

Task 6 in section 2 is to teach one of the CCI casts to a candidate, which can be any task including task 8 or the CCI test. Personally I’ve always thought that half the MCI test should be teaching CI candidates and the over half teaching and demonstrating the additional MCI requirements. Slow to Fa...

Hi Vinny, Grand slam is .75 heavy. From SA site: “ Overweighted by .75 sizes to load rods quickly”* Ballistic pro is bang on, AFFTA. GS head weight 300 Grains I don’t know the head weight of Ballistic but it’s 210 at 30’. There is a rear taper in there to make it sixty feet so it’s unlikely to be 42...

I suppose it’s Part 2 Task 6. I’m not mentoring, just giving my thought on the videos that I’m being sent Actually that task is the best one and should be most of the exam IMO.

Cheers, Paul

For sure. I believe that the total head weight of a MED5 is 19.4G, which is heavier than a 10WT shooting head. It certainly feels a lot lighter in the air to me.

Yes it was very revealing James. Hope you’re having a great week!

Cheers, Paul

It is perfectly possible to go through a lesson without ever giving a body centric instruction. I’m not sure it’s totally desirable but, once you get the hang of it, it’s not at all difficult. Yep I agree and mostly my beginners’ lessons are not focused on the body at all nowadays. At least not fro...

Hi Mark, Of course, but when you are the boss of a company manufacturing a product and it fails, then it’s your responsibility even though technically it was a worker on the assembly line! (Boeing) I’m not saying we can always avoid it. I think it probably happens to every student at some point. I’v...

Mark’s “walking while casting” can get a similar unfreezing result. What I have been playing with is the order that we introduce things. Obviously it makes sense to introduce the Jump Roll before the Single Spey. It makes sense to do backhand shots before the 170. But it doesn’t seem to matter if we...

There is a huge risk in teaching where when trying to make minor (or subtle) changes to an ingrained stroke, it results in the caster overanalysing his or her movements, they then become robotic, everything looks forced and what we thought was a minor change becomes a road block of immense proportio...