Great! I’d look at 3 things.
1. I would make the first backcast a blocked Open Stance Distance backcast. This just keeps the first backcast loop under control. Going straight into a 170 means that you are tying to get control over the loop, instead of starting with it under control.
2. Your back haul is inconsistent and rushed as a bounce. Haul to a straight arm and hold it straight while the loop forms. I know it’s been taught as down-up but with a long line it is down-pause-up. Accelerating to a straight hauling arm will allow you to carry more line.
2b.
This is going to take some work but you are not sighting your back target. You should look, cast, look cast. Head should turn first, sight your target and then cast to it. That will take a few weeks to ingrain. You need to walk slightly down the tape and look back along it to find your back target. Then when you cast, sight it first. Now I would really work on that first, ie lengthening up your carry. And that really involves firing back a long line under control. I spend 2/3rds of my time working on carry and 1/3rd working on the launch.
3. On the launch you want to drive upwards. So aim at a target above the horizontal. I look at a target 15 degrees up. To do this you must sink the back leg on the backcast, so that when you come forward your whole body is driving up. You want to twist the torso so that the rod hand is in front of the line hand (you are doing this!) and then hit it later. You are a little bit early. You want to feel that you are underneath the rod, the rod is turning over and then you launch up from the front leg to launch the rod tip over the target you see in the distance. I look up to see the top (third section) of the rod coming through to time the hit. If you hit it later, and rotate as you hit it, then you can hit it as hard as you like.
I hope that helps! It’s lots of fun
Cheers, Paul
