Gordy, as I couldn't track the stripper guide well enough, I used the high contrast point between cork and reel seat to get the haul speed. At the high-haul-speed stage, the hauling hand, reel seat and stripper guide were roughly in line.gordonjudd wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 4:00 pm Did you compute the haul speed by taking the derivative of the distance between the stripper guide and the haul hand?
Upon your question, I did try again to track the stripper guide and was debatably able to do so on the "late release" cast. It made a slight difference and shifted my call on max haul speed to earlier than halfway between MCL and RSP.
The video I downloaded had progressed motion only at every eighth frame, so calculating anything close to true velocities doesn't help. Lasse rummaged for the original clips but couldn't find them yet.
All the best,
Dirk