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Reading this 2-1/2 years after posting, I went digging for better understanding of vibration in materials since I am not an engineer, to say the least, and need a foundation. There are some good videos on YouTube that have been helpful to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIlBI6nrnRc https://www.y...

Will the glossary have links to, say, masterclass content? That might be helpful. The search feature is helpful and I wonder if it would be even more helpful to have an option of basic versus in-depth discussion -- although I have no idea how that would done nor how any existing discussion could be ...

It likely won't fall off until you're mummified. Thanks for this post. As mentioned in FB, my mind is opening to the realization that the 5Es are exactly what you say they are, a matchstick framework. Heck, Gammel admitted later that he would now include STOP as an E. As such, they don't include eve...

I recently saw a short video of Lasse casting while balancing on a single foot atop a peaked rock in the water. Prior to that was a video of Paul balancing on a log while casting. I can barely brush my teeth standing on one foot with my eyes closed (I try this every night for 2 minutes to practice b...

I’ve fished in Siberia! It was warm. Unfortunately it’s getting warmer. The Dolores River Anglers chapter of Colorado TU in SW Colorado had an environmental study done on their waters about four years ago. It was estimated that in 17 years (now, 13 or less), there will be no trout below 9,000'. One...

We justify a lot of things. For instance I can't eat legumes at all. So I eat chicken, some whey and nuts and seeds for protein. Although we're going to try Beyond Meat this week. And we live in friggin' Siberia, so we use more resources to stay warm. Overall, though, not having kids means there are...

As for seeing the back cast, there are different things I do. The primary one is to use a completely open (sideways) stance, which is how I can tell when the loop is weak (lack of sufficient tension). Another is video, but I'm having trouble finding a good place to do it where I can see the loop, so...

Financial incentives may be the best way in countries where you are taxed. The more kids you have, the more you get taxed. In some Catholic cultures, a big family is the norm. My ex came from an Irish Catholic family with five kids. After we divorced he married a woman from India and they had four k...

For me, it's been not getting enough tension on the back cast. The loops have gotten better, and if I were an owl who could turn my head 180 degrees, I probably never would have struggled so long with this. Where I find the biggest problem is on non-viscous surfaces where the back cast loop does not...

And yes, one can make it completly different on grass than on water, but the key here is to make it as much as possible the same. Rod load is a dark and dangerous road to travel down, filled with myths of big springs and better rods casts further and makes their own coffee, very nutty coffee that i...