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Hang time and center of mass

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Walter
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Re: Hang time and center of mass

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Pixies in your running line will be consumed by the mermaid in your creel.

Adding to the idea of how ignoring center of mass can be misleading



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"There can be only one." - The Highlander. :pirate:

PS. I have a flying tank. Your argument is irrelevant.

PSS. How to generate a climbing loop through control of the casting stroke is left as a (considerable) exercise to the reader.
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Re: Hang time and center of mass

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I guess it’s a good job that we don’t have any discussions about casting in space to cloud the issue :p
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Re: Hang time and center of mass

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Another demonstration of center of mass

"There can be only one." - The Highlander. :pirate:

PS. I have a flying tank. Your argument is irrelevant.

PSS. How to generate a climbing loop through control of the casting stroke is left as a (considerable) exercise to the reader.
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Re: Hang time and center of mass

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One more because we like to talk about tension

"There can be only one." - The Highlander. :pirate:

PS. I have a flying tank. Your argument is irrelevant.

PSS. How to generate a climbing loop through control of the casting stroke is left as a (considerable) exercise to the reader.
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Re: Hang time and center of mass

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One more. Tension comes into play in this one.

"There can be only one." - The Highlander. :pirate:

PS. I have a flying tank. Your argument is irrelevant.

PSS. How to generate a climbing loop through control of the casting stroke is left as a (considerable) exercise to the reader.
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Re: Hang time and center of mass

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Walter wrote: Fri Dec 08, 2023 11:00 pm One more. Tension comes into play in this one.
That's one of my favourite demonstrations of this concept.
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