Rickard wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 6:35 pm I would give a brief explanation that straight tracking is a foundation then some drill that forces accuracy. Hoops or Joan Wulffs picking leaves for example.

I do something similar myself, I don’t make long winded explanations. How do you enforce accuracy on the back cast?

Regards

Vince

Torsten wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 5:40 pm Well I've heard these silly arguments often enough, casting sport is not like fishing blah, blah .. mostly by people not involved into the sport.

Nobody has ever told me not to haul a delivery stroke while I’ve been fishing. If they did I would probably have ignored them

Rickard wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 5:25 pm To be accurate things must be straight. And we cannot get away from that our stroke must be straight in fly casting.

How do you teach people to cast a straight stroke?

I don’t ever ask them not to watch Paul. As they move through the learning continuum they are required to pay less and less attention to their back cast and have cognitive capacity to take on other tasks such as watching moving fish. If they are not performing the skill adequately, it will likely en...

For me I think there are many situations where we need an excellently positioned backcast but we absolutely cannot take our eyes of the front target. SW shots is an obvious example. The fish are moving and if we look back then when we turn around again more often than not they have disappeared! I c...

I got these from googling sport technique. " the specific way in which a sports skill is performed" and "In sports, technique refers to the specific way in which a sports skill is performed" Maybe you have another, I haven't got another definition John but would have answered si...

Interesting question John, what do you mean by technique?

Regards

Vince

It may be a minor nit picky kind of point on my part Paul but that is not competition accuracy and it is not a passing performance in a CI test. I don’t think that it is a nit picky point. If the objective is learning instead of performance then the solution is highly likely to be different, the co...

For coaching more advanced students I think Accuracy Targets are good because the game has a clear objective, it’s measurable, it’s addictive to many people and if we enjoy it and spend hours playing the game we will see improvements in our fishing. I can attest to that personally and I know I’m no...

So there is an optimal cast for sure. There are an infinite number of them! There are also an infinite number of sub optimal casts. Assuming they are all done safely, optimal casts achieve the objective efficiently, sub optimal. I would not teach a competition or assessment accuracy technique to an...